Thought more like 4000 at the Derry game. Ground pretty packedQuote:
Originally Posted by Candystripe
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Thought more like 4000 at the Derry game. Ground pretty packedQuote:
Originally Posted by Candystripe
Crowd still staying alright so far which is nice to see
574 at Limerick v Longford.
Also, I hate to be one of those people, but the attendance at Limerick v Salthill ended up being 509, not the 468 on here. There was a problem with scanners on a batch of tickets or some nonsense...
Galway United's biggest competition for support is not from Salthill Devon nor Mervue United. It is from Connacht Rugby. The floodlight pylons at the Sportsground can be seen from Terryland. Many floating/fickle supporters will chose one over the other when both are playing at the same time. Next Friday, Connacht host Edinburgh at the same time as Sligo Rovers are playing against Galway Unitd in Terryland Park.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony Soprano
Theoretically, Salthill Devon and Mervue make it difficult for Galway United to sign local players but ultimately both clubs are nurturing players. This will of course stop if Galway United were to be relegated and/or Salthill/Mervue were to be promoted.
Interestingly, on Monday 28th March, all three Galway LOI clubs will be at home at the same time in the EA League Cup. This is a further testimony to the craziness.
And just to put you in the picture, the Galway GAA footballers were at home in the 30,000 capacity Pearse Stadium a few weeks ago in a relegation dogfight. The attendance, according to a local newspaper, was a mere 600.
Will that actually make any difference? If you follow GU, you're gonna go to the GU game. Same for Salthill and Mervue..Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
Overestimating by 20% is the norm - put 4 into the record PS!Quote:
Originally Posted by Acornvilla
It probably won't make a difference. It's interesting though that we're all playing teams from the north west (Cockhill, Harps and Derry).Quote:
Originally Posted by poster
minimum of a difference, there is a lot of gufc supporters from mervue and salthill, some of them will support there housing estates footbal club, others will follow gufc. Attendance at these matches will be very poor tonight anyway as will all ties in the competition at the very early stages.Quote:
Originally Posted by poster
457 at UCD v Bray per the Irish Times.
Really poor attendance there, have UCD any involvement in the community? How many from Bray?
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Originally Posted by Red Army
It's hard to tell, the seating wasn't segregated, so most of the stand was a big mixture.
I think UCD could do more to promote the games around the campus. I met up with two mates who both study there before the game, neither of them knew UCD were playing. One of them didn't even know they had a team in the PD.
not sure if i am allowed to post in this thread but figure of approx 1875 mentioned on the board for the Galway game.
Very poor attendance against Portadown as expected, state of the setanta cup.
Very poor attendance? 1100 on a Monday night, after being at home on Saturday and heading for Galway on Friday? i think not. It's not so long ago that we wouldn't have had that for an FAI match.
Yeah, thats a decent crowd, considering its a dying competitionQuote:
Originally Posted by avvenalaf
In comparison to our usual crowds it is very poor, I understand why its poorer crowd but still doesnt change the fact its a poor crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by avvenalaf
I'd say there was about 150 bray fans or maybe even a bit more in ucd, crowd was mainly made up of the kids playing at half time and their parents..
I think thats a bit harsh thats its dying, maybe from some of the Northern clubs point of view, but we have certainly enjoyed it so far. Also if we make the final and lose it, we`ll pick up more money than comign 3rd ion our own league, so its also a very worthwhile competition for us, marginal travel costs too, actually I`d say we`ll make more money from Setanta this year than one game in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by WindmillWarrior
Attendances are always going to suffer a little due to the Monday night games, but I really hope its continued for many seasons to come. I think Wed nights would suit better, what you`ll lose with any clashes to Champs lge on TV etc, you`ll more than gain for having it on the better night.
Yeah, but you're the only club to have embraced it this year.
Rovers have got well over 5,000 to each league game and got 750 at a cut price Setanta game. Sligo's crowd was halved for their Setanta game. Pats crowd was less than half.
The competition really lost its momentum when they start fiddling about with dates, and when the TV company lost interest in it, that was that.
I can't see it lasting beyond this year. Shame as it started off so positively
I really think that by over milking the competition they bled the interest.
Seems more like a chore than a novelty anymore.
Like Dodge said it is a shame because it started off so well and had lots of potential.
Replace the respective league cups with a all ireland league cup might give the whole thing a boost the only issue would be having linfield traveling down to a first division club who wouldnt be accustomed to large away crowds never mind a big security headache like them but the idea has merit.
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Originally Posted by Dodge
Funny thing was that crowd trouble was the biggest perceived threat to the future of it before it had begun.
1836 in Terryland tonight
There was bewilderment in our section of the ground when they read that out, didn't look to be anywhere near that. After the game a few lads were saying that we must have misheard and it 1080.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufc2000
I wouldn't have said that myself, but not far off it I'd say. Ye had a nice crowd down, our part of the old stand had a little more than usual, and the new stand seemed a bit more full than normal aswell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strawberry
2006 at Turners Cross tonight
Bohs brought a good crowd to Richmond tonight, I'd say there was about 2,300 at the game
In and around that figure seems to be the estimation on our forum as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
Not many in the Carlisle tonight, 600 tops, I'd say. Maybe 50 from Derry. Disappointing turnout for us, to be honest.
Dundalk are going 1950 .
Big crowd in new stand (which holds 1700), 400 Sligo supporters, and maybe 200 outside the main stand. We have approx 600 season ticket holders.
1736 nor 1836 as announced
What was the attendance at the Connacht - Edinburgh game last night? Just out of interest
Their website says 1500.They are spending big bucks promoting the games and have Connacht Flags all over the town. They used to play on saturday afternoons,then switched to 6.30pm on fridays and for their last 2 games have gone to 7.45pm .All they are doing is making their own crowds smaller.Fantastic crowd last night biggest in nearly 3 years.We are only learning everything being done is voluntary so our administration costs are zero.
Apologies the crowd for the egg chasers was 1200 approx.Their prices are between €8 to €13 higher than ours & our family tickets and Accompanied U12'S getting free entry have made a huge difference.
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Originally Posted by gufct
Are they doing this to deliberately target GUFC's crowds, or are they just being daft?
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Originally Posted by geezer
Is that you Nick ?? !!
As I said before I'm sure it was a good crowd for you but nowhere near 1800 there
We have all our season Tickets Barcoded and all are scanned plus we have to count everyone coming in for Health & Safety. We also cross check our cash with tickets something which i hear sligo have a problem doing :)
Not having a go about crowds if you read the posts.We are concentrating on increasing ours whats wrong with that.