Shels season ticket holders go thru a designated working turnstile which counts the total number of people.
As a cross-check the season ticket number is also ticked-off on a simple printed list, with in the case of family season tickets the number of family members attending that night marked off.
Separately in relation to family tickets - do Sporting Franchise count an arbitrary figure of 4, when calculating their attendances, for every one they sell?
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So if you think Bohs are big read this. http://www.astronomy.ie/perpespective.html
I'd say 800-1000 in the RSC last night. About 300 Shels fans included in that I would say too.
Official Dundalk V Drogheda attendance was 3,883.
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What a crock of sh!t. You can either deal with a big crowd or you can't. Imagine the uproar if we charged more for games against Bohs or rovers than we did against Sligo and Galway. It was a sneaky act by Kildare to make more money and they even had the cheek to sell us tickets with €10 printed on them for €15. There was 1000 Dundalk fans there so even at €10 a head Kildare would have taken in 10k so don't try and tell me that that wouldn't cover the cost of whatever security was needed with a small fortune left over to go into the coffers.
A few years ago i ran a food franchise in ucd and i offered free lunch to loi fans wearing their colours or producing a ucd ticket stub from the previos ucd home game,in a one month period i gave away six free lunches 3 pats fans and 3 of my beloved hoops brothers.its a graveyard always will be.
I'd be sceptical of us holding up those kinds of figures. Our first two games were special; the first being our return to the premium/against the champions, and the second being the first proper (non-friendly) louth derby in yonks. Still, I share CelticTiger's sneaking optomism that this could be a good year for attendances. Recessions, ill winds etc....![]()
Traditionally we have had some of the bigger crowds but I am not optimistic for the immediate future at the cross.
Not having a go at Bohs but not sure about the future of the league is so rosy when League Champions only get 2500 home fans for their biggest game of the season.
Around 1600(or 1700) in the showgrounds I'd say. Poor enough.
Of course your`re not!!!!!!. Bohs have a hard core fan base of around 2,000 with a travelling support as good as any in the league. We don`t get the fair weather fans that fleetingly successful provincial clubs attract. Not many neutral domestic football fans in Dublin unfortunately and that isn`t going to change without a significant European break through. I would be optimisic though that MNS and the improved coverage and improved football will bring in improved numbers. I would be delighted if we end up with an average of 2,500 by the end of the season for league games.
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