Should be a minimum of 3500 in Finn Park tonight, hopefully more but the mid week fixture could reduce the numbers as alot of Harps and Derry fans live in Dublin and Belfast.
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Should be a minimum of 3500 in Finn Park tonight, hopefully more but the mid week fixture could reduce the numbers as alot of Harps and Derry fans live in Dublin and Belfast.
drogheda and dundalk are 15 mins away from each other .Thats our derby game .How could shamrock rovers , a team from south dublin possibly be a derby for us ? no history to it whatsoever .Bohs has become a bit of a grudge match i suppose but not a derby by any stretch .
shocking attendance at ucd this evening, i would probably say no more than 200 with probably more bray fans at it.
Cobh v Finn Harps 985 official attendance.
Could almost swere that there was more than the Galway game and that was 395. 200 is definitely too low anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Green&whitearmy
Official crowd will be posted in due course anyway.
About 5000 in Finn Park tonight for a great game of football.
savage crowd, how RTE did not show that and showed ireland B rugby against a pub team is beyond me
320 official. About half and half, I thought. Biggest Bray crowd I can remember in fairness. Given they had about ten in the singing section in March, I don't know where the rest came from!Quote:
Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge
On a related topic, can anyone explain why we have a 16-week pre-season and then have midweek games which seem to affect every club's attendance by 25-50%? Seems a bit silly.
About 4,700 for Harps V Derry
About only 1,300 away fans. It was a tues night.
1,500 Drogs v Sligo
Local paper has an official attendance of 779 for the Utd-Cobh game
Oh dear... That was a crucial game aswell - pity to see Galway doing so bad, theyve got so much potentialQuote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
Great crowd as usual. Dublin derbies, how are ya'.....? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Candystripe
To be fair Derry win every game.Either can win Shams v Bohs and there is more hatredQuote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
How many were at the Pats Bohs game?
i saw somewhere that there was 2000 people at it...
Heard a figure of about 3500 for Harps-Derry.
WAY more than that, the ground can hold around 6000, the 3 opened sides were full and only behind the goals at the river end was empty (which would hold around 1000) so general maths would suggest different to 3500 imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
This is a game that traditionally has a one-sided result, and less "hatred" (?) than the supposed big Dublin derby ?Quote:
Originally Posted by deecay
Yet the attendnace at Harps-Derry still always wipes the floor with such Dublin derbies, that would appear to be much more attractive fixtures (not to mention in a much bigger population).
Thank you for proving my point.....
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What surprises me about the LOI is how bad the derby crowds are.
LOI get more support than the IL, that is fact and I accept that as fact. But your derby crowds are not great at all.
In a league match between Linfield and Glentoran would get the very minimum of 6,000 and that would be a very bad crowd. In the last few years, there has been 14,000 at the Oval on the infamous Morgan day and Boxing day always gets 5 figure attendance regardless of league situation and recently there was around 10,000 at Windsor and factor in that Glentoran has a massive ticket problem and thousands where unable to get tickets, we would have had a far bigger crowd at Windsor.
Coleraine vs Ballymena regulary get 3500+, Portadown vs Glenavon would get more and in the past have got upwards of 10,000 (and I’m not talking 20 years ago).
Derry City vs Finn Harps, get 4000 – 6000. Which is good, but this is by far and away the biggest attended derby of LOI. Which is poor.
Anyway, the whole point of this post isn’t to be a WUM, I do have a genuine question behind all this.
In Northern Ireland there are many people who are fair weather supporters, who do have an interest but do not go to the bread and butter games. So the potential is there to expand, it’s just whether we can tempt them to come to every game.
Do the LOI have the same sort of interest? Or have you got the majority of people who are interested going to games? Do you feel there is a lot of interest for the league but just don’t go? (similar to IL)