Percentage of tickets away fans are entitled to?

**Rovers Maniac** · 19/02/2009, 4:35 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar

Rovers is now our closest away game and we'll have a very large contingent intending to go. 150 tickets will not be close to being enough.

If you play them early in the season 150 will be the very max i'd say you wil get. We could be getting as little as 75 which will cause up roar if we get that. Don't know why they just did not build an open terrace. Surely they are handy enough to get do one ala Harps.

**redobit** · 19/02/2009, 4:36 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar

Rovers is now our closest away game and we'll have a very large contingent intending to go. 150 tickets will not be close to being enough.

Same as that. Am i right in saying that behing the goals is being undeveloped for now. If so surely some open air concrete steps would suffice for us lowly away fans when we visit.
And besides that they will loose a serious amount of revenue.

**Dodge** · 19/02/2009, 4:48 PM

They might be losing revenue, but can they justify the extra amount spent on the ground when they haven't got near 3,000 for a game in years and ended last year with regular crowds of under 1,000 (not a knock on Rovers, as a lot of teams were the same)

I think they'll geta fair bump on newcomers and lapsed fans returning at the start but it won't take long for them to driftaway if Rover aren't challenging (and again, its the same with all clubs)

Sligo may bring 150 to the first game but we all know that crowds that size are rare for visiting teams in Dublin. Can SDCC really justify spending an extra €100,000 on a terrace to be used 4/5 times a year? (and I've plucked that figure out of the air...)

**oldyouth** · 19/02/2009, 5:21 PM

I believe UCD fans are restricted to 10% of the available attendance for their home games

**HarpoJoyce** · 19/02/2009, 5:29 PM

Originally Posted by oldyouth

I believe UCD fans are restricted to 10% of the available attendance for their home games

I always wondered about that.
Some of our fans take up two or three seats by themselves. If you include coats (names on back), bags and bicycle pumps, we spread ourselves out pretty well.

**John83** · 19/02/2009, 7:48 PM

Originally Posted by oldyouth

I believe UCD fans are restricted to 10% of the available attendance for their home games

We just pull out the couch if we're short.

**Finlay Harp** · 19/02/2009, 8:05 PM

[QUOTE=John83;1109057]We just pull out the couch if we're short.[/QUOnteenTE]

Or a few seats from the college canteen!

**noisecontrol** · 20/02/2009, 1:30 PM

Whats with all the stupid seat colours in the Shamrock Rovers stand...surely green and white seats were the only way to go...???

**passinginterest** · 20/02/2009, 1:34 PM

Originally Posted by noisecontrol

Whats with all the stupid seat colours in the Shamrock Rovers stand...surely green and white seats were the only way to go...???

According to the architect it makes the stadium look more full when seats are left empty. That's the short version anyway.

**blackholesun** · 20/02/2009, 2:05 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

I think they'll geta fair bump on newcomers and lapsed fans returning at the start but it won't take long for them to driftaway if Rover aren't challenging (and again, its the same with all clubs)

We are going to have a great chance at building a decent support base in a large working class area with a young population profile in a stadium thats easy to get too and has excellent spectator facilities ... something Pats have failed to do or provide since returning to Richmond!

If Tallaght works out, Kellegher will be using that as his excuse to move Pats out to Lucan or Clondalkin or Adamstown. I believe that the new proposed Pats stadium will most likely never be built in Inchicore!

bhs