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Excellent improvement alright. A huge amount of school kids in too. Great to see the next generation of LOI fans in.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Also, fair play to nearly 25 or 30 Limerick fans who made the journey. Two away games well supported inside 5 days is superb support for them.
Some solid attendances this week. Cork of course flying on all fronts.
25 or 30 hardly much of a away crowd ?
On that note what is a good away crowd to bring , how many will cork bring to Dundalk Friday night coming ?
It's difficult to tell. I have a wedding anyway, so won't be there. Our away crowds have been very good of late, although this is on TV.....but it is Dundalk.....somewhere between 10 and 500 would be my guess :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Abbeyman
380 paying punters in Tolka last night out of a crowd of 470.Shocking.
My point was that it was a good away following considering it's two long away trips inside a week. Bray were up a few weeks ago and had half the amount Limerick did and they were second in the table at the time. It's rare to see a whole lot more than 20/30 away fans in Finn Park.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abbeyman
Rovers brought quite a few with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
They kept trying to support their team even though they were being battered at times.
Good banter between the Rovers fans & the Shed end in what was a cracking atmosphere.
450 estimated by ET at Drogheda-Derry. Brutal.
I think that's the same figure that they gave for the Drogs v Bray game, so they may have accidentally repeated it. I was at both games and there seemed to be a lot more there last night than the number that turned out to see Bray. Whatever the case, Drogheda should give out an official figure. These estimated attendances are highly speculative.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
Drogheda are really difficult to get official figures out of. One of the few clubs that I've had trouble with this season.
Dundalk for some reason gave an estimated attendance for the Sligo game a few weeks back, this was 'approx. 3k', absolutely no way that figure is correct, I would go with 2,600 max.
Thought about 2600 - 2700 that night myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Tonight - Longford v Wexford 211 :(
Looked a pretty okay crowd in Cobh tonight from the stream I caught. Really poor Waterford support though considering the short trip down the road on a Saturday night.
By all accounts decent following from Waterford Nigel - 100 or so, not bad for a first division team. The BSC had two buses go down alone. Going from the stream you saw, impossible to base your opinion on that, plus the away support don't always sit/stand in the same area of the ground, always a few spread throughout the ground as well.
100 on a Saturday - 90 minutes away - I don't think many are impressed with that. Everyone in Cobh was saying how dissapointed they were with the away crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by sulywaterfordfc
Would have said around 700 or so in Cobh, poor enough considering top of the table game. About 150 from Waterford. I don't know what Ramblers have to do to get more in, maybe the Munster game and cup final had something to do with it.
First Division yeah, that's a fair enough excuse, but currently around 1,500 going through the gates of the RSC for home games. Less than 10% of that headed just an hour and a half down the road to watch a top of the table clash on a good Saturday evening is pretty poor regardless.
For arguments sake, Harps have been struggling to get 1,000 through the gates lately. We don't have much in the way of bandwagon left. Premier Division novelty has well worn off by now. We're playing Sligo on Friday night, roughly the same sort of distance down the road as Waterford to Cobh. If there's less than 200-250 of us down there I'll be scratching my head wondering why. We had 400 down there this time last season. I would have expected something the same from Waterford last night considering the bandwagon that's in force at the minute.
If you can continue to get above 500 home fans in the gate though, it'll be a marked improvement on previous seasons. Small steps and all that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Comic Book Guy
However, I don't know why Cobh people don't get out more either. St Colmans Park is one of the nicest small grounds in the league, certainly one of my favourites. It's in a good location and a short enough walk from the town. It's got a bar, and decent spectator facilities. What more could you want?
There's 12,800 people in the town as per the 2016 census. Where's the other 12,300?
I wish I knew but I suspect there's a small cohort of people with a big grudge against the club, and in a small town you know that can be pretty damaging. If they can stay in touch at the top of the table then it should improve but I feel sorry for the dedicated group who have done a good job marketing the club on social media, done school visits, summer camps etc in the past few years, they deserve better.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Cobh's mistake is having a ground at the top of a steep hill. Have it down near the train station and people would flow down, and then stay in your bar as it's too much effort to get out.
Agree / the club house stand alone was pretty full and grand crowd on GAA side - deck not 450 - I think you've solved it regarding it being the bray figure they used. It would help if the club put out the official figure - they must have it as they log my season ticket each time I pass through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Straightstory
Why don't people like the club? Surely being the place that gave Roy Keane his break would bring people through the gate? I know if I lived in cobh it would and if I'm ever down there when a match is on I'll go along almost purely because of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Comic Book Guy
isnt there a hatred between cobh ramblers and cobh wanderers?Quote:
Originally Posted by RathfarnhamHoop
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Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Its hard enough to get people out to watch the first division let alone to get them to travel. There's no attraction to watch first division teams. Especially when there's the FA cup final on, that guns and roses gig and as well as that music festival. It's a different case scenario when there's the likes of Dundalk, Cork, Rovers, Bohs to travel to. Big names in the LOI, games people will look to it and pinpoint them as the biggest games in the calendar. And the example being, Dundalk away in EA Cup quarter final on a Monday, it was one of our biggest away followings of the season for a 6-8 hour round trip.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
I wouldn't be worried that we're bringing 100+ every game we've travelled this year. Especially when you consider the club struggled to get 200/300 at home games last year.
There's been many a time over the years we just about filled a 13 seater bus, this year we're filling a coach and bringing a mini bus.
Rome wasn't built in a day folks. Everything will come in time.
Yeah we probably had 150 at the game in Cobh- two buses and plenty driving. It's the second closest away game but still a two hour drive so not much closer than Dublin. I didn't know there was a stream - some friends had been asking - but maybe from where it was shown you could only see the Blues fans behind the goal and not along the side?
I genuinely didn't think so, I'm sure the fact that they're going well (wanderers that is) is having an effect but a lot of people who support Ramblers would have supported them on their recent cup run especially as most of them are ex Ramblers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
More or less done by someone one their phone standing at the wall behind the goal, couldn't see the section of Blues fans on it. Shows how fan we've come in such a short space a time when bringing 100+ to each away game is considered low following, just got over double that at home games last season most of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluemovie
1294 at Waterford v Longford the week before last at RSC.
You didnt miss much, a good chunk of them spent most of their time arguing with stewards.Quote:
Originally Posted by sulywaterfordfc
On average about 3-4% of an area's population attend their local team's matches. Some punch well above their weight, Like Dundalk and Sligo when they've v successful teams, and some punch well below their weight, like UCD. But on average it's about 3-4% so Cobh's attendances are pretty much what I'd expect.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
http://extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/14182/the-hidden-world-of-airtricity-league-attendances/
They are using the admin area for Cork City. Our attendance is closer to 1% than 2.8% in per capita attendance, which, while our attendances are high in league terms, we are probably punching below our weight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
I look forward to John Caulfield asking the media why Cork City aren't marketing their club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar
Longford v Wexford 211
3643 @ Oriel for Dundalk v Cork.
1,441 limerick v Bray
No attendance announced at Tolka and I wouldn't be able to judge the Stand there but 10 minutes before KO I would've guessed around 200 in the ground. SHELS fans saying it was their lowest attendance of the season anyway
Would say 150 or so at Cabinteely v UCD. Excluding those in the bar, cos I couldn't really see how many that was.
3,925 at rovers pats. Don't mean to sound greedy but felt like more. Both fans were in good voice especially in the first half.
I think I saw 1,868 as Sligo v Harps.
Good Harps crowd down, must have been over 300 there at least. Seats filled and another 100 standing.
Amazing what a couple of wins can do.