2008 attendances

[oriel]

Irish Mail reports only 1,200 at Drogs v Derry last week, more porkies down windwill (lane) rd

[Candystripe]

3,100 at Derry V Pats. 3,000 of which were very unhappy souls.

[pineapple stu]

Swopping Linfied for UCD would certainly make the Eircom League more sustainable anyway......!

We're perfectly sustainable, thanks.

When was the last time you saw us needing a major favour from a local politician to avoid bankruptcy?

[dcfcsteve]

We're perfectly sustainable, thanks.

When was the last time you saw us needing a major favour from a local politician to avoid bankruptcy?

Not like you to miss the point Stu......

The league would be more susainable if a club with a positive balance sheet and a relatively large support base (both active and latent) was swopped for a club with a positive balance sheet but a fan-base that could be fitted onto a bus, with seats to spare.

I know your usual pomposity extends to believing you're a mathematical geniius (snigger), so surely you can 'do the math' on the above......

Also - an ability to call in favours from local politicians would suggest the presence of support. A luxury that some clubs struggle to fathom, I appreciate.

[pineapple stu]

Oh, so it's our fault you nearly went tits up?

My apologies.

[deecay]

Cobh v sligo, I would guess about 750 max.

I would have guessed 600,30 Rovers fans

[osarusan]

The league would be more susainable if a club with a positive balance sheet and a relatively large support base (both active and latent) was swopped for a club with a positive balance sheet but a fan-base that could be fitted onto a bus, with seats to spare.

Yes indeed, the extra people (a few hundred, maybe a thousand extra) other clubs will get at one home game a season is all this league has ever needed to put ourselves in a position to dominate Europe.

[dcfcsteve]

Yes indeed, the extra people (a few hundred, maybe a thousand extra) other clubs will get at one home game a season is all this league has ever needed to put ourselves in a position to dominate Europe.

It would certainly have a noticeable impact on Limerick's average attendances anyway.....

[smasher]

How many do they get for every week league games?

The point is Carrick Utd is a JUNIOR club with a support base from a small town. Judging by the attendance numbers I see being bandied about here, I could not see a LOI Division side attracting such a following, even for a cup match.

[GavinZac]

The point is Carrick Utd is a JUNIOR club with a support base from a small town. Judging by the attendance numbers I see being bandied about here, I could not see a LOI Division side attracting such a following, even for a cup match.

I'm confused. You're saying a LOI side couldnt bring 2000 people to a cup final? What was the attendance at the last cup final?

[dcfcsteve]

Oh, so it's our fault you nearly went tits up?

My apologies.

Look to your left, and you'll see 'the point' same way into the distance heading off down the road.

You've missed it again....

[pineapple stu]

You had a point?

Or shoud that be - You had a point?

[pineapple stu]

Been told UCD v Cork was 550 official. Away end must have been a lot less crowded than I thought. If only there was a way of getting rid of Cork and replacing them with, say, Linfield, they might bring a larger away support and generate more interest in the game, and we wouldn't be in the position we're in at the moment.

[gufct]

How do you get away wih your posts they are complete rubbish.

[GavinZac]

Been told UCD v Cork was 550 official. Away end must have been a lot less crowded than I thought. If only there was a way of getting rid of Cork and replacing them with, say, Linfield, they might bring a larger away support and generate more interest in the game, and we wouldn't be in the position we're in at the moment.

Away "end"? There was an away "end"? Looked like an away 'general but unenforced side of the only stand' to me. Besides, we may have only brought about 100 people but that pales in comparison to the traveling attendance in our last game at Windsor. Perhaps people just didn't particularly want to take a half day from work to see us strolling around Belfield? Perhaps UCD should advertise their charity ice-cream sales a bit better, it could have increased the numbers traveling from Cork, or indeed from across the road. Must email that idea to Noel Mooney.

[Paddyfield]

Forgot to post this last weekend;
Galway United v Drogs : official attendance 938

[gufct]

just over 400 at the Bray game about 40 Bray fair play to them.

[pineapple stu]

Update after last weekend. Clubs who give official figures are in bold.


PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,298 (2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340) (missing Sligo)
Bray - 1,500 (1,200; 1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cobh - 1,303 (681 FD; 368 FD; 403 FD; 240 FD)
Cork - 3,661 (2,897; 2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 3,528 (2,614; 3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - 1,925 (1,919; 1,751; 1,682; 1,554)
Harps - 1,977 (1,164 FD; 428 FD; 1,347; 1,106 FD)
Galway - 1,313 (2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Pat's - 1,952 (1,910; 1,342; 1,599; 1,882) (missing Bray)
Rovers - 1,870 (1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - 2,000 (1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 546 (663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 437 (670; 421; 316; 291)
Dundalk - 1,281 (1,406; 1,078; 474; 591)
Kildare - 167 (243; 265; 186; 298)
Limerick - 488 (670; 364; 669; 188)
Longford - 600 (885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD; 1,131 PD) (missing Waterford)
Monaghan - 185 (292; 204; 183; 182)
Shels - 974 (888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Sporting Fingal - 809 (N/A) (missing Kildare and Waterford)
Waterford - 761 (1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD; 1,753 PD)
Wexford - 952 (810)

Premier Division average - 1,966 (1,687; 1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 663 (722; 570; 520; 512)

Overall average - 1,376 (1,235; 1,070; 1,195; 1,218)

FD is an average crowd in the First Division; PD is an average crowd in the Premier Division. I've only put that in where the attendances was when the club was in a different one to their current division.

Estimates in but official figures missing -
Pat's v Bohs

Recent games missing -
Longford v Waterford

[Sam_Heggy]

The point is Carrick Utd is a JUNIOR club with a support base from a small town. Judging by the attendance numbers I see being bandied about here, I could not see a LOI Division side attracting such a following, even for a cup match.

Thats bull, there was easily 7000 maybe 8000 at the game between Harps and Derry early on in the season, there was around 4000 in the return fixture (smaller ground), Dundalk - Drogheda would fetch high numbers maybe 5000 or so, Bohs - Rovers crowds seem to be dropping yet they are still in the region of 3500 - 4000.
Last season for the final league game of the season, we had 800 fans in Kilkenny, for the play-offs in waterford we had the same if not more.

The cup final last season had much more than 2000 fans from either club.

Point is, LOI clubs have their "hard core" of fans and then the band wagon jumpers, I guarantee you if even Monaghan (no offence) were to be in the FAI Cup final, they would be fit to bring that sort of numbers. Junior clubs up here are the same, there was a crowd of around 1500 2 seasons ago for a league game between Kildrum and Fanad, 2 very small villages. If either of those sides (or any other USL side) were to make the cup final they would be able to gather up 2000 folk for it. Its the kind of country we live in.

[Candystripe]

1,800 @Derry V Bohs LC 1/4 final 1,760 of which were very happy souls.