eircom League 2007 Attendances

**NY Hoop** · 04/05/2007, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Only saw a bit of Cork City v Pats on tv this morning & while could not see the main stand clearly enough I would guess attendance about 3000-3500.

Moving game forward a day must have knocked 1000-2000 off the total.

Interesting. Anyone else think that these live Setanta games are taking away from the attendances? We're in Derry monday week for a live game and again that night will take numbers off what the crowd would have been on the friday.

Why cant they show live games on the friday night?

KOH

**Dodge** · 04/05/2007, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Only saw a bit of Cork City v Pats on tv this morning & while could not see the main stand clearly enough I would guess attendance about 3000-3500.

Moving game forward a day must have knocked 1000-2000 off the total.

Main stand just over half full. Playing on Thursday knocked a fair whack off the away crowd definitely. Lennox had a moan about it in the programme

**Pablo** · 04/05/2007, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Only saw a bit of Cork City v Pats on tv this morning & while could not see the main stand clearly enough I would guess attendance about 3000-3500.

Moving game forward a day must have knocked 1000-2000 off the total.

Supposedly the crowd was just over 4,000 last night. People were dissapointed as they'd hope for 5,000+ anfter all the promotion.

**passinginterest** · 04/05/2007, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

Why cant they show live games on the friday night?

KOH

Becuase the target audience is out watching their team playing live.

**Mr A** · 04/05/2007, 11:07 AM

I read a figure of 'just over 500' on the Athlone forum for Athlone V Harps, but it was from a Galway Fan and I don't know where he got it.

**NY Hoop** · 04/05/2007, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

Becuase the target audience is out watching their team playing live.

RTE show live games on fridays. Maybe there's an agreement there.

KOH

**Dodge** · 04/05/2007, 11:26 AM

Setanta show celtic league rugby on Frday. We're behind them in the pecking order while the seasons overlap

**lofty9** · 04/05/2007, 11:31 AM

Derry vs Bohs about 3100. About 500-600 more than whatever you estimated the Derry v UCD game.

**don ramo** · 04/05/2007, 2:26 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Update after week 8.
Cobh - 454 (368; 403; 240)
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was our game Vs shel put in as there was 800 plus at the game

**Olander** · 04/05/2007, 5:04 PM

Originally Posted by Battery Rover

Athlone Town vs Finn Harps attendance was around 450. Nice crowd from Harps down as well. Hope they enjoyed their trip.

Originally Posted by Galway Harps

I read a figure of 'just over 500' on the Athlone forum for Athlone V Harps, but it was from a Galway Fan and I don't know where he got it.

dont think hes a galway fan . ...

**oriel** · 04/05/2007, 8:29 PM

FAO, David, Steve Bruce and BleusAvantout - are there any similar postings for IL games anywhere ? As the 3 of you have been on here quite a lot any chance one of you could give a quick comparison to IPL crowds ?

**Paddyfield** · 04/05/2007, 9:53 PM

Galway United v Derry City - official attentance 2580
City brought about 250 fans.

Our next home game is against UCD. This should bring another massive crowd to Terryland. It's not because De Students are such a big attraction either! Tickets for the Galway United V Sunderland game will go on sale at half time. There will be no other way of buying tickets for the Sunderland game which will take place on Aug 1st.

**DmanDmythDledge** · 04/05/2007, 10:18 PM

Guess between 2100-2500 at Bohs-UCD.

**kdjaC** · 04/05/2007, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

Pats have problems with their ticketing no doubt. 4,000 seems about right.

And Rovers seem to have a problem with the amount of people they can fit into their home stand.

kdjac

**gael353** · 04/05/2007, 10:36 PM

650, sunny weather very warm and good atmosphere

**pineapple stu** · 04/05/2007, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by oriel

FAO, David, Steve Bruce and BleusAvantout - are there any similar postings for IL games anywhere ? As the 3 of you have been on here quite a lot any chance one of you could give a quick comparison to IPL crowds ?

I kept the same thread on ILF for a while this season; it died in part because ILF went down for a couple of weeks, and I never bothered resurrecting it. Had attendances for about 60% of games, but basically Linfield and Glentoran were top half of eL Premier level, Portadown and one or two others were UCD/Longford sort of level and the rest were lower Division One level.

Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

Guess between 2100-2500 at Bohs-UCD.

Wouldn't have put it that high, to be honest. About 1800 tops. Bohs end looked a lot emptier than usual when I wandered up that way.