Only 500 tickets left for the Rovers/Bohs game,great to see!
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Only 500 tickets left for the Rovers/Bohs game,great to see!
With the seat kills needed to keep muppets of both varieties off the pitch and away from each other id be surprised if the attendance is over 7250.
Still a great crowd
How many years is it since Delaney's house of cards fell? Mad how even if little has actually changed when a parasite is done away with things can thrive. It must rankle a tiny bit to see that there was actually LoI potential to be developed and even more could have been siphoned off.
The site crashed this afternoon when Bohs fans were trying to get tickets, problem hasn't been fixed. Last I heard there are 650 away tickets left and they will go on sale at midday tomorrow, another scramble awaits.
Was working today and couldn't make the original sale, so will give it a shot tomorrow.
You'd miss the days when you could just get a proper ticket off the club out of their allocation.
Apparently tey are kept for people who cannot get to the top seats or are afraid to sit in high seats. May not be the case in Tallaght but is in Croke Park and Lansdowne Road.
Drogheda having issues with away tickets for us on Friday also. Future ticketing doesn’t seem to be able to handle any sort of demand in general.
Clubs would probably face a bit of backlash if the 'use your babies as human shields' tactic failed
Identify and ban is the only real deterrent. Stewards seem to just escort them back over the wall or fence to their area rather than heading to the gate. So yeah more and better stewarding for starters. Tbh we all generally know who are the likely culprits, what area of the ground they frequent so where security should be targeted, It's not the occasional attention seeker that runs across the pitch or the streaker we're talking about, its the same shower each time that think they are above the regulations 'cause they think they are essential to clubs. Without realising it they are as arrogant as club directors that sit in their ivory towers making decisions that these fans protest against.
I think the law is the only real way of sorting this out properly tbh. You can identify and ban the knobheads, but then they'll just find a way to sneak back in again after a while. Every steward on every gate can't be expected to recognise everyone who's banned - especially if they come in wearing masks, well wrapped up etc. Plus if you ban the it's really only for home games, leaving them to still cause problems away.
In my view the law should be changed to make encroaching onto the pitch illegal. It's the law in England, and so it;s extremely rare to see anyone on the pitch at games there as a resulr. There is no reason why anyone needs to be on the pitch - especially grown men acting like giddy children who feel it's their right to spill onto it when their club scores. The problem we have in Ireland, however is that the GAA has a long-established tradition of fans being on the pitch at key events - so it's hard to see how you'd get a ban legislated for without expressly stating that it's only for football.
Conversely - Bucking people out of the ground as soon as they go on the pitch would be a good start. Especially if it's a cracking game, you'll feel like a dick being stuck outside when everyone else is inside enjoying it. At an Irish League game I went to in Belfast a few years back, the minute someone tried to step onto the pitch after a goal the stewards grabbed them and marched them straight out of the stadium. No dicking around. All we do is put them back in the stands so they can come back onto the pitch yet again. Buck them out FFS.
Trying to get up to date with attendance figures, so if anyone can help with the following, please let me know;
Bohs v Pats - (Given as 3,000 estimate on here, can't find a figure anywhere else)
Derry v Sligo
UCD v Shels - (1,400 estimate on here)
Shels v Derry - (Both a 2,500 and 3,000 estimate on ET)
Dundalk v Derry
Pats v Sligo
UCD v Harps
First Division almost all up to date, just seeking Bray v Cork figure.
Problems for Shels fans buying tickets at Bohs today,future ticketing might need to invest in their website!
I see the League Cup Final in the north this weekend between Cliftonville and Coleraine has sold over 10,000 tickets so far. It's on a Sunday (extremely unusual for NI) and tickets are £10 for adults and £5 for kids.
I don't think we've ever had a League Cup Final with 10,000 at it ? Not helped by the fact we have no club stadia of that size.
Is our League Cup ever going to come back again btw ?
1,876 at the RSC tonight.
4,240 at the Cross for the first unrestricted Cork Derby in the league since 2008
Around about 1,500 at Finn park.
Not to speak for El-Pietro but I presumed he specified unrestricted to exclude games from last season's Covid-era First Division games.
7448 at rovers, great crowd will be interesting when the 4th stand goes in can we fill 10000 seats
Smallest crowd I’ve seen in Bray for a long time Maybe 400 things seem to be not right at the Carlisle .
945 for the first womens game in the Showgrounds. Amazing turnout.