I'd say about 4,000
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I'd say about 4,000
I'll go with 6,000 on the assumption that
1. most of the irish there on saturday would have bought tickets for both.
2. a few more people will have found out about it after missing saturday
14,000 at game yday surprised by that. Id say that they might get aroung 5,000
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Originally Posted by tiktok
and the winner is ................... :)
heard this morning that the organisers ared giving out about the irish fans not turning out to support their team :mad: . Apparently the attendance at both Irish games combined was less that that at the Nigeria -v- Jamaica game.
attendance for the whole competition:28,000 :eek:
ffs,you would have thought youd get that at one of the irish matches.
yeah if it had been properly organised you prob would have. Maybe if they doing tournament again they should give proper notice of tournament we were not officially announced till a month before tournament hardly loads of notice. Over in london nobody knew about the tournament so a bit more advertising would have helped. The organisers only have themselves to blame. 25pounds a ticket for a friendly cop on !Quote:
Originally Posted by the 12 th man
The whole tournament was a shambols - I was one of those unfortunate enough to pay for a trip from Ireland out to the Nigeria game: I'd have to think twice about doing something similar again.
The public transport to the Valley - which seemed to be located in London's equivalent of the Ballymount industrial estate - was poor.
Ticketmaster UK succeeded in making the FAI look almost competent: the tickets posted out didnt arrive until the day of the match. After ringing them to organise collection at the ground, we turned up at the ticket office (found after several unhelpful resquests to stewards and officials) to discover that they only had 2 tickets (rather than the 3 we found out that had been posted out to us). So, we had to buy another one for the bargain price of €37.50.
I've seen egg-chasing (rugby) pitches in January that have looked better than the one at the Valley - its lucky no-one got injured on that bog.
So, apart from all that, and the worst Irish performance I've ever seen (and I was in Basle), this Unity Cup has been a resounding success!!
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Thats f*cking stupid - reminds me of Homer Simpson (Lisa: "Who are you shouting at?" Homer: "The people who arent here").Quote:
Originally Posted by tiktok
yeah the transport to the game on sat was a joke and to say you were entering ballymun would have been nice to chartlton. Ground was a right kip , tickets were overpriced , pitch was a disgrace and the players showed even slightly less bother than they did in basel which was tough.
All in all unity cup a success !
You'd thought that the FAI were the only people to take a good idea and f*ck it up.
In the organisers defence, ticket prices for an international in London were about right. I haven't been to a game in Dublin for six years but I remember paying about £20 for a ticket against Argentina. How much was the ticket for the Nigeria game in 2002?
Secondly £5 a programme. Pricey but it was for three (well two at least) games so again it's about normal.
As for Charlton, I heard a rumour that Mister Pol - eeees - man wasn't too keen on having the tournament at Loftus road with the Jamaicans and da H'Irish boyz too close to home. Anyway I got an alcholic drink for the first time in years (probably ever) at a British football ground (Reading when London Irish are playing excepted) which I heard someone tell me at my shock that this is now a common occurrence - you can't even get a drink in a Spanish football ground ffs.
As for the organisers being miffed about our attendance, it can't have been bad if we outnumbered 5 - 1 our opponents at both games. I know there's a rivalry between Jamaicans and Nigerians (which can be pretty violent in London) but the organisers should look at their own marketing of the games against the Irish - it's clear that the people thought only one game (as in previous years) was on.
And finally what about us the fans. If we are to complain about the players performance, what about ours. Saturday it was as woeful as on the pitch. Yesterday wasn't match better. Me and a few others tried to get people into a sing song but it was pointless. Too many people think they're at the opera or spend the game moaning. Wise up people!!! :mad:
I personally hope that Ireland will return to play in this or some other tournament again. I just hope that the next organisers will get their act together. Lot's of proper advertising and marketing. Early invitations and contracts sorted in January at the latest not in early May, so that fans in Ireland can snap up the cheap flights. And try to get a ground that isn't dependent on the goodwill of Naitonal Rail not to do engineering works.
At least last night was better than sat , still a joke though , I won't have watched last nights match on tv yet I had already forked out £50 on tickets.The FAI are complaining about it yet they pocketed £200k from the orgainisers , they should of at least taken it more seriously.
Was told by Setanta that the match was on in the Black Lion Kilburn, arrived there at 8pm, it didn't even have a TV.
Then off to McGoverns plenty of people there but they were watching Fair City on RTE.
So next stop the Kingdom they were showing the game but about 3 people watching it. Can now see how this tournament had a problem with tickets, lots of fair weather supporters, you'll always see them at the big games with their Irish or Celtic shirts on.
Anyway afterwards went to a charity do in the Galtymore (didn't know Susan McCann was still alive).
not sure of the point you are making. You tried 3 different pubs to watch the game, then have a snipe at fairweather supporters...am I missing something??Quote:
Originally Posted by Condex
The point I'm making is that the McGverns was full of people while a 100m down the street 3 people were watching the Ireland game.
Yet come the big games the same lot will be out with their Irish/Celtic shirts on. Point made.
Perhaps they were all at the Valley, seeing as the game was being played in the same city as said pub??Quote:
Originally Posted by Condex
They were up the road watching Fair City.Quote:
Originally Posted by Junior
The only reason I wasn't at the game was I'd made prior arrangements. I was there on Saturday and I'll be in Amsterdam next Saturday.
fair play to yaQuote:
Originally Posted by Condex
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Originally Posted by davros
im definitely not biting that worm ;)
Had there not been construction work being done on the tube there would have been no problems what so ever.Work has to be done.To compensate they had special bus services running to the truncated areas and even had announcements at the stations to inform match goers which buses to take.If that was CIE,they'd surely leave you find your own way..Quote:
The public transport to the Valley was poor
If you thought that was bad(I personally thought it was grand) you obviously didn't get the bus to Kidbrooke :eek:,saying that its nothing you don't see on your average Croke Park outingQuote:
Originally Posted by only1Kilbane
I could here numberous renditions of the Fields of Athenry and CoY Boys in Green on the radio,and Saturdays game had more singing than Lansdowne the Thursday before.Wasn't too bad IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lopez
For 6000 or so fans who turned, up the noise they made sure was alot better than at the Romania game. Didn't think much of that bloke on the loadspeaker at half time though. That Hip Hop garb, sure did confuse me :confused:
The atmosphere in Dublin for Romania must have been awful, although like yourself Beavis, it sounded alright on TV. The thing is that singing in Charlton was sporadic. You tried to get people around you going but it seemed that the team had to turn it on for them to respond. The atmosphere in Amsterdam on Saturday was unbelievable for 4.5K Irish fans, but then the boys went for the jugular straight from the start and it was an all round brilliant performance. It works both ways. We need to get behind the team just as much as the team needs to give us something to shout about.
Is that all? Looked more like 15k. Since 10k went over to Poland for a midweek friendly that figure seems very small.Quote:
Originally Posted by lopez
The atmosphere in Holland was fantastic, we got in 15 minute's before kick off and the Ireland end was rocking even then, this was like turning the clock back to the way it alway's used to be, even the two boy's in front of me who smoked all their carry out from the ganja offy even done their best to get behind the team, even though by the 60 minute mark they were to buba cluted to know who was playing. :p
Poland had just 10K attendance. Irish fans were less than 1K there.Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
Which is the way you were later after popping in for a coffee. There should be a 28 day ban for foot.ie posters participating in this sort of thing :D - as you'll be in Rock On mode for 4 weeks ;) - although an exception should be made for Davros who could do with some of that sh*t.Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
I don't know where I got that figure from. Actually, one of the organisor's of the Unity cup was on Newstalk 106 and he said he was expecting more at the Nigeria and Jamaica matches since so many travelled to Poland. I'm not sure if he mentioned a figure though.Quote:
Originally Posted by lopez