Should we expect an attacking approach from City?Quote:
Originally Posted by CityRebel
Or will Cautious Caulfield go with 5 defenders?
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Should we expect an attacking approach from City?Quote:
Originally Posted by CityRebel
Or will Cautious Caulfield go with 5 defenders?
Is 5 defenders not attacking for him?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Only one team in the league has scored more goals than City. FACT
We've scored a lot of goals at home but we have had a much easier run of fixtures at the Cross than away. I'd expect us to try and contain Dundalk and hit them on the break where possible. We've played Limerick, Galway, the weakest Derry team in living memory and Longford at the Cross and Longford were the only team who made things even remotely difficult for us.
We've been away to Sligo, Shamrock Rovers and Pats (as well as Bray and Drogs). Sligo aren't looking like the team everyone expected but we played them day one (in horrific conditions) so hard to read too much into that.
Dundalk at the Cross is our first home test.
Sounds plausible but you didn't put "FACT." at the end so not sure what to believe nowQuote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Conor Winn is worst keeper in league by a mileQuote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Gentlemen, no need to fight. They're both the worst keeper in the league.
Not sure if it was posted but Athlone Town vs Cabinteely 269 official.
Jeepers. I hope that new sponsor is a generous one.
Assume away fans will be fine to buy tickets at the ground, and the near sell out shouldnt effect this, as they will surely be holding back a decent allocation? They'll prob need to hold back an area between away and home support, so that might reduce the tickets Cork can sell also.Quote:
Originally Posted by CityRebel
Dundalk were not sent any advance tickets to sell. We asked last week.
I'm not sure how many Dundalk fans will travel, Id say over 200, maybe, hard to know, possibly more, but what is the expected crowd for this, will you get over 6k?
Anyway, I`m looking forward to heading down, first visit to the cross.
I'd have no doubt about getting over 6,000. There'll be no problems with away fans getting tickets as there will be a 550 capacity section held back.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
As of this morning we have sold 5,300 tickets for this game.
Have ye enough crisps for that many?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar
That could well sell out an hour or two before kick-off so. Fair play to Cork, they've really set the bar for marketing and advertising in the League.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar
Easy to do so when the only team there...yada yada..should be no excuses from other clubs, the amount of advertising that club do across the city is monumental compared to some other clubs who barely draw up a match poster.
As long as there's enough for us travelling down it'll be grand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
No the longford fans cleaned us out the other nightQuote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
It's a shame Drogs aren't sponsored by Hunky Dorys any more. The crisps bantz would be off the charts for tonight's game.
Fairly big crowd expected in Finn Park tonight, as long as the weather holds up. Should hit over the 1,000 mark, which will be nice.
6100 tickets sold now.
That's seriously impressive no matter how you look at it, lets hope it's a good match now, I'd prefer an auld score draw personally, wouldn't want Dundalk to race too far ahead.
Still hoping for a title chrge Acornvilla? That's the spirit :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Acornvilla
Some day, when we rob Stephen Kenny back with our bottomless pit of money! My aim for Town is 8th, think it's manageable, tonight will give us a good indication if it's possible or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by seand
Fair play to the Cork public for turning out in such numbers to see Dundalk play.Quote:
Originally Posted by CityRebel
I always said that the Cork people know their football.
Attendance announced as 6900. Great to see. Must be the biggest league attendance in a good few seasons, maybe since 2005 league decider?
6900 is the "official" capacity ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Rumors of city fans with tickets and season tickets being turned away by the guards as "there was no room"
Strange that. There looked to be a fair few empty seats in the ground. We saw that in the last "sell out" game at the end of last season. Fans don't necessarily go where they are supposed to. Seeing that a lot of fans got into the ground early, surely they could have directed those fans to the empty seats.
A game like that probably would have necessitated allocated seat numbers.
964 official for Harps v Shels, not including around 150 kids and academy players.
Did Cork insist that season ticket holders had to get a match day ticket or did they make an assumption that x% would turn up?
Some Cork fans are insisting that the match was oversold.
yeah definitely a case of people not taking up a seat preferring to stand to the left and right of the donie force stand.. was a little surprised in the middle of the vocal part of the shed in front of me there was about 10 seats empty in a row.. great to see that attendance there and it looked great on tv.. shame we lost on the night thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Guestimate at the Carlisle Grounds, 350ish. Around 60 very happy Galway fans.
Cork v Dundalk - 6,900
Derry v Bohs - 2,000 (Extratime estimate)
St Pats v Sligo - 1,259
Harps v Shels - 964
Limerick v Shamrock Rovers - 564
Bray v Galway - 400 (estimate)
Wexford v Cabinteely - 250 (estimate)
Athlone v Waterford - 225
UCD v Cobh - 126
Drogheda v Longford - ?
our game comfortably higher than all other games combined.. not a bad crowd at the brandywell eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Week 8: (Missing Drogheda v Longford)
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,836 (1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 907 (718; 891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 4,453 (3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 1,502 (1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Drogheda - 838 (1,064; 817; 977; 811; 859; 1,106)
Dundalk - 3,251 (2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Galway - 1,575 (975 FD)
Limerick - 577 (757; 1,649; 734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD)
Longford - 996 (567 FD; 379 FD; 365 FD; 315 FD; 230 FD; 260 FD)
Pat's - 1,252 (1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 3,816 (2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 2,105 (1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 384 (653 PD; 754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Cabinteely - 1,027 (No previous)
Cobh - 365 (223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Harps - 831 (449; 479; 429; 433; 644; 480) -
Shels - 707 (713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
UCD - 217 (397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD; 272)
Waterford - 506 (470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
Wexford - 326 (331; 227; 302; 216; 343; 494)
PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,921 (1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 530 (495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)
OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,432 (1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)
TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 12,688
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 16,957 (55,408)
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 113,356 (297,334)
OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 130,313 (352,742)
How come this page never seems to get the Drogheda United attendances on a timely basis? On a number of occasion we had figures for all games except for those played at United Park.. Was there anybody there?
I'd make a guess on Drogheda game if I could but it's a very hard stadium to judge. 5 minutes before KO the place was empty but decent crowd both sides once it was underway.
Drogheda don't get any official attendance figures until a day or two after the match.
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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Did they give a figure for the recent game v CCFC?
I couldn't find it anywhere.
597 was what I got.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Donie Forde
Excellent, thanks for that. Missed it completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954