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great home crowd so far this season, away support for bray has been the worst i've seen in a long time. But the two home games were against the best two teams in the league (cork + shels) cant wait to see the crowd against home farm are next home match.........................:eek: :eek:
:eek: THOUSANDS BOY THOUSANDS :rolleyes:
About 400 at Finn Harps vs Athlone tonight. Thank God I only have to do that journey twice a year. Next match doin an overnight. It is an ass breaker of a trip
About 30 from Athlone.
semi official figure for Harps V Athlone is 450. Good Athlone support, fair play.
Brutal attendance for Harps.
If there was a good Athlone crowd how many Harps fans were actually at the match? At this rate Letterkenny Rovers wouldn't have to do much work to get an el place and that would surely put Harps out of business.
always thought Athlone supporters had it handy - no local rival nearer than Longford, but on the other hand nowhere's THAT far - think of Derry/ Sligo/ Harps to Cork/ Cobh/ Waterford and vice versa; you're bang in the middle of the country - is anywhere with an EL team more than 100 miles away?Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
1700 i'd say
There big Derby is against Galway.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonofstan
Athlone is the closest EL team to us, which is around 95km away.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonofstan
total distances to other first division teams travelling from Athlone, All taken fron AA Ireland
Finn Harps 127.7 miles
Cobh 139.7 miles
Monaghan 80.9 miles
Galway 58.6 miles
Dundalk 112.4 miles
Limerick 77.1 miles
Dublin 78.2 miles
Kildare 64.2 miles
Kilkenny 75.6 miles
So if it is handy for us then we should be getting loads of away support. Other than Galway, Harps and Rovers that aint goin to happen.
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Originally Posted by Conor H
Taken from the Galway forumQuote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
Think every club would have 1000+ crowds giving out 600 freebies. How many do you think you would get if they had to pay?Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
Update after weekend 6 (2005 and 2004 in brackets). FD and PD indicate average crowd got in a different division to current year.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2183 (1976; 2340)
Bray - 2550 (1550; 818 FD)
Cork - 3100 (3644; 4033)
Derry - 2224 (2698; 1672)
Drogheda - 1733 (1682; 1554)
Dublin City - 333 (175 FD; 592)
Longford - 1074 (1004; 1131)
Pat's - 1797 (1599; 1882)
Shels - 1500 (1949; 2158) (missing Dublin City; have seen it described as "poor", which presumably is somewhere around 1000-1200)
Sligo - 1817 (1794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 563 (653; 306 FD)
Waterford - 1017 (1513; 1753)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 400 (316; 291)
Cobh - 498 (403; 240) (missing Athlone and Kildare)
Dundalk - 325 (474; 591) (missing Kildare)
Harps - 525 (1347 PD; 1106)
Galway - 1072 (566; 571)
Kildare - 675 (186; 298)
Kilkenny - 100 (185; 110) (missing Dundalk)
Limerick - 412 (669; 188)
Monaghan - 380 (183; 182)
Rovers - 1467 (1539 PD; 1349 PD)
Premier Division average - 1593 (1759)
First Division average - 635 (520)
Overall average - 1190 (1195)
Comparisons to 2005 and 2004 -
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohemians v St. Patricks Athletic - 2567 (2005 - no figure; 2004 - 2225)
Bray Wanderers v Cork City - 2300 (1000; n/a)
Drogheda United v UCD - 2000 (1000; n/a)
Shelbourne v Dublin City - no figure (n/a; 1600)
Longford Town v Derry City - 1200 (1400; 1200)
Sligo Rovers v Waterford United 1700 (n/a; n/a)
FIRST DIVISION
Kilkenny City v Dundalk - no figure (no figure; 150)
Limerick v Finn Harps - 604 (n/a; 201)
Galway United v Athlone Town - 1450 (1264; 591)
Monaghan United v Shamrock Rovers - 800 (n/a; n/a)
Cobh Ramblers v Kildare County - no figure (350; 160)
Finn Harps v Athlone Town - 450 (n/a; 800)
Probably to increase their crowd figures so they guarantee their place at the Super Duper invite league next season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
Saucer of milk in the corner Stu.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
As I recall you couldn't even get people to stay in the ground for the duration of the game when you gave out free beer tokens!
Pretty sad lads having a go at us when we're getting way bigger crowds at the moment than UCD and Athlone put together!
Sorry if it came across that way but I wasn't having a go. It was a serious question. How many do you think would turn up and pay €10 if they had to pay to watch First Division football every week especially the rubbish at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor H
Put it this way 1450 at the match.
150-200 Athlone people at the match
600 freebies
So 650 others. Take away season tickets. How many paid in?
Apologies my mistake.
Going on the tripe the 1500 at Terryland had to endure the last night i'd say we'll be doing good to get a 1000 at the next game....unless we beat Cobh and Kildare away.To be honest i really haven't a clue how many would turn up if all had to pay.However most do....it's mainly U-12's who get in free and lets be honest they'll come anyway. If i was a fairweather i wouldnt after last Friday's "football" match.Would you?
I watch rubbish every week. Have done for the last few years and not afraid admit it.
Not a bad figure for us in a way. Is Bray really that high on average, seems a big jump up? Good to know no matter how bad we are on the pitch we are still the biggest team in Dublin ;)
That is really unfair Chippie. How can you just forget about Drogheda?
For Shels V DCFC I'd say there was 1500-1700 present!
are 80 to the match sponsor the rest are u12's who are allowed into our games free.How many u12's at Belfield usually 10 id say judging by the level of your support.There were 750 paying customers plus 156 season tickets there on Friday not bad for a 1st division game considering both teams mediocre start and fair play to Athlone they always bring a great crowd to terryland and made loads of noise.D.C. & UCD have never had more than 15 fans in Terryland for any game.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Well in fairness it is only around the corner for Athlone!
Why is it that when some clubs are doing well on or off the pitch, either it be good home attendances or good travelling support etc.. whatever it may be, that supporters from other clubs have to talk it down? Ye should concentrate on getting your club to equal and then better those clubs and not just moaning all the time.
What part of "Attack the post, not the poster" is confusing you?Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
I think the customary conclusion to a sentence is a full-stop, not an exclamation mark (sorry, but that's been really bugging me for a while...)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogue Trader
I can't do anything about non-factual errors if you don't offer an alternative. Given that Sligo were seemingly one of the biggest overexaggerators on this thread last season (that being the website, not necessarily the lads who posted guesstimates here), I'd be more inclined to think the previous figures were too high rather than this one being too low.
Seeing as I'm getting everything off my chest in one post - I'd say finishing a sentence with a superfluous exclamation mark is number two on my list of things most likely to make me disbelieve a post - only just short of writing "FACT!" at the end. Still, I'll put it in, cheers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raheny Red
I put an exclamation mark at nearly all my sentences for no appartent reason! Just a force of habit really!
Elaine: Well, I mean if one of your close friends had a baby and I left you a message about it, I would use an exclamation point.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Jake: Well, maybe I don't use my exclamation points as haphazardly as you do.
Elaine: You don't think that someone having a baby warrants an exclamation point.
Jake: Hey, I just chalked down the message. I didn't know I was required to capture the mood of each caller.
Elaine: I just thought you would be a little more excited about a friend of mine having a baby.
Jake: Ok, I'm excited. I just don't happen to like exclamation points.
Elaine: Well, you know Jake, you should learn to use them. Like the way I'm talking right now, I would put an exclamation points at the end of all these sentences! On this one! And on that one!
Jake: Well, you can put one on this one: I'm leaving!
yeah, i hate overexaggerators too! a million times more than I hate ordinary exaggerators! and as for exclamation marks!......Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
:eek: !!!! I love these marks :D cannot go a post without one :D
Where do you stand on underexaggerators then? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sonofstan
I think a thousand times less of them..Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Well, the rest of your post certainly proved that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogue Trader
I can't do anything about "It wasn't this". If you want to suggest what you thought it was, that might help.
The crowd at the Bray match was a fairly typical UCD crowd - 5-600. There was no question of 400 coming in late.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogue Trader
Some of the figures on the thread are inflated. With half of Bray's 6,000 capacity being unavailable and there being sufficient room for many of the Shels fans to move behind the goal at halftime, there could not have been 2,800 at the opening match of the season and there were fewer at the Cork match than the Shels match.
Stu, you can calculate the Carlisle capacity for yourself when UCD come.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking alright with regards the Carlisle.
Definitely some of the attendances are inflated. Could easily tell you which ones too. Pain in the arse that the FAI deem attendance figures to be confidential, and that many clubs seem to have stopped giving them out lately as well. Still, I don't pretend the figures are accurate, despite what Genesis say. Can only work with what we get...
About 500 at Pats v Bray tonight. Believe me, that's not inflated. Total madness having it on the same night as a CL semi - what we'll make on hiring Richmond to the FAI for the women's international on Saturday, we probably lost on reduced gate receipts tonight.
Was going to say I'd never seen Richmond so empty on telly before.
Also, I can't believe there were 1500 at Tolka or 2300 at the Carlisle. With the Lego and the Riverside stand closed, there looked to be about 1000 scattered between the other two stands.
Bray looked like about 150-200 behind the Bowling Alley end goal, about 200 around the rest of the pitch (i.e. opposite goal and where the shed used to be), which would leave 1900 to fit into the stand which I think holds 1500?
854 was the official attendance. The FAI women's international was arranged for Saturday before the league even drew up their fixture list and still they managed to put Pats down for a home game on the same weekend. Says a lot really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
Pats wanted it played last Monday instead because of the clash with Champions League and because it was a bank holiday, Pat Devlin refused. 3-0, serves him right!
I did'nt think the away team could object to the day of a fixture unless it is within 48 hours of their previous or next game. Bad night to have the game with CL on tv Monday would have been perfect. I hope Pat's get compensation from the FAI over the loss of revenue as that crowd would easily have been double that figure on a friday evening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stato
Only saw this now. Don't take that as the 'conservative estimate', Pineapple Stu. There were 625 paying customers that night (very disappointing), but that doesn't include season ticket-holders and concessions. Plenty of gaps in the stand, but a few others around the ground so I'd say Partizan's 1000 is about right.Quote:
Originally Posted by WindmillWarrior