Couple of decent figures for the first night back
3,500 at Derry-Bohs, 1,500 in Monaghan (prob about half of them Dundalk?) - anyone get a number for Drogheda - Shamrock Rovers?
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Couple of decent figures for the first night back
3,500 at Derry-Bohs, 1,500 in Monaghan (prob about half of them Dundalk?) - anyone get a number for Drogheda - Shamrock Rovers?
I counted 158 at mervue -v- longford
1918 Shels v Rovers
Good figures..1,000 @ Mons v Dundalk = 75/25 DundalkQuote:
Originally Posted by freewheel30
Guess*
Where did that extra 200 come from? Or did I miss hear the announcement?Quote:
Originally Posted by OneForTheFuture
200 ST holders were not added from Gate AQuote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Cheers. Was getting worried there.
According to ET the Limerick-Harps attendance was 820.
Athlone Town vs SD Galway 325
1474 at St. Pats and Bray.
Approx 570 in Ferrycarrig park for Wexford v Waterford
Think it was 571 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Youths4Ever
And that's the only stat that was important about that game. :)
3,500 at Derry and 200 still queuing at the one window selling tickets 15 minutes after game started, ridiculous.
extratime said 301, where were the other 150 odd hiding? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Terry
Looked like much more to me, the stand was almost full and there was still about 150 or so standing around the fence. 700 would be my guessQuote:
Originally Posted by Youths4Ever
Looked closer to 700 for me too. Hopefully the result will help get a few more faces through the turnstilesQuote:
Originally Posted by Darkglasses
Good crowd in Limerick. Did they get an official figure? Very high tech ticketing system going on in Jackman with the Ticketmaster tickets and scanning each of them. I had guessed in around 1,000 alright so 820 wouldn't be too far off. Encouraging from a Limerick perspective.
Its not 'high tech anytyhing' its just Limerick and you catching up with the rest of the world .
200 maybe, not anymore at Mervue v Longford. Very dissappointing for a club that would hope to challange for promotion this year.
I dont remember many if anyone else having it last season.Quote:
Originally Posted by bullit
Not that i think its high teach or anything.
you obviously havent been to Cork in the last 5 seasons then, we've had it since 2008Quote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
Bit of time boyyy,sure electricity and the whole lot like .Quote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
Never said other didn't have it i said i didn't remember ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
I was at every game against Cork...This is about our 3rd season having it now.
So they took the actual attendance figure and doubled it basically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry
There were approximately 247,000 Rovers fans in Drogheda last night, with ~700 home fans that leaves the total somewhere in the vicinity of 247,700.
We have ticket scanners in place at the turnstyles.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
The former figure sounds the more likely but the difference is a bit odd considering I believe Terry was the person doing the extratime report!Quote:
Originally Posted by Acornvilla
Good crowd at the Limerick v harps game almost 1000 not bad for a first division game when Limerick go up to premier they will get a couple of thousand handy especially if the club keeps on bringing in the caliber of player that there signing IMO.
Terry isn't even the name of the guy that posts here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Don't get me wrong, extratime is great, but a Mervue official writes the match reports for them. Terry Flaherty's reports are fine, but the attendance figures are ALWAYS inflated. He's doubled the actual attendance this time.
I can imagine the conversation in the clubhouse...
"What was the attendance tonight"
"We counted up the tickets, all the st's we sold, and all the players, officials and a few aul wans that were out walking their dogs... and we got 200."
"Right, add another hundred to that and give it to Terry, but don't give him a round number, because it will sound suspicious."
Is that from Extratime? I wuld say about 1,700 myself. About 50 Bray fansQuote:
Originally Posted by blue til i die
1,400 at Hunky Dory's Park last night according to Irish Times, I thought it was 1,800 myself.
It's the official attendance given by the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
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Originally Posted by Darkglasses
The official attendance given by the club was 571.Quote:
Originally Posted by cornflakes
As League of Ireland fans, we should know that offical attendances can often be substantially different to the actual attendance. Leeson fiddled attendances for almost every match, Mervue have never published a truthful attendance figure since their debut in the LOI.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue til i die
Ah right my apologies to "our" Terry then. I didn't know the other guy was a Mervue official and the poster Terry just seems to be at Mervue games a fair bit. 2 + 2 = 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufcfan
Finally, some closure. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by gufcfan
Official attendances are bar some notable exceptions (and then only when it suits the clubs) absolute nonsense.
Also fans always, always, always, overestimate their own crowds.
This thread, while fun and an indication of overall trends, is, as a guide to the actual amount of people attending LoI games, about as useful as a paper Paul Green.
2 + 2 = 8 would more accurately describe what Mr. Flaherty did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
I agree, although in the case of Terryland the discrepancies were fairly large at times. When GUST took over, the figures were accurate. We scanned season tickets and counted the match tickets (obviously).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
What on earth would be the benefit of 'fiddling' the number attending, especially fi you're underestimating!
This is all hypothetically speaking of course, but say a football club had banking facilities withdrawn from it and its CEO was dealing largely in cash and wanted to compensate himself more than was agreed as per his contract, one way of concealing parts of this would be to under-report revenues. "Fiddling" the attendance figures would be just one way of doing this.Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
"The takings at the gate for this month should have been a minimum of X. Where has the money gone if you haven't paid Y and Z?"
Of course if a person was lucky enough that the people with the authority to challenge you on this never actually ask this type of question, fiddling of attendances to cover tracks might sound unnecessary.
Other inventive ways of under-reporting or indeed complete non-reporting of revenues could include trying to convincing sponsors / makers of goodwill gesture payments to make cheques out to "Cash", offering local businesses opportunities to invest in mutually beneficial events which never materialise or perhaps my favourite, claiming four figure "administrative errors" when challenged about the proceeds of club fund-raising ventures.
The above is just a sample of what can be done, none of which we have any experience of whatsoever in Galway and this is purely hypothetical.