We have approx 2500 season tickets I believe. If just 10% of those don't turn up that's 250 empty seats. 6 of the 7 league games have been sell outs days in advance as in we have had to turn people away at most games so yes the second stand is very necessary. No doubt the novelty factor will wear off but when the second stand is complete I think we will average around 4500, filling it (7000) for big games and getting 3-4000 for the run of the mill games.
You won't be getting an average of 4,500 any time soon - unless you're genuinely competing for the title.
And even then - you'll get that type of attendance towards the end of the season, not throughout.
I'd suspect the last time an LOI club averaged that sort of figure across an entire season was Derry City about 15 years ago. Maybe also Rovers at the RDS - largely because your early crowds there were big enough to make up for the inevitable tail-off that happened later that season.
150 tickets left unsold out of 3300 capacity. An attendance of around 2800 on a June bank holiday weekend against the bottom team in the league is pretty good. When the east stand opens we will have the room to do all sorts of promotions and offers to get the attendances up.
Feeling the bitterness and loving every minuteTwo Louth teams in four days ,just aswell were away on friday gives us time to steam clean the stadium.
"All sorts of promotions"-a rumour spreading that Madrid are coming to town sounds like an excellent "promotion" for the club.Gets ppl talking anyway
Seriously,have you a source for this rumour??
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
Roy Keane is still a pri*k!
I heard thats what swung it for Florentino Perez, he told his fellow members that if he gets in he can promise that Shamrock Rovers will play Real Madrid,so they all voted for Perez
Guys...you may have to eat your words. This game is in the process of being arranged. Whether it gets the definite go ahead or not im not sure but there is a certain guy involved in arranging the game who is not held in high regard in Abbotstown and this may prove to be a major stumbling block.
Why are people who "need no introduction" always introduced?
Could Rovers not get Barcelona?
It's in The Star and all over the radio stations
Several super powers of world football will be entertained in Tallaghtfornia at under age leval over the next two summers,We are working on a huge senior game to open the new stand end of august ,both Madrid clubs have expressed an intrest as have AC Milan.We have built good relationships at schoolboy leval with these clubs over the past few years and now that we have a stadium beside excellent hotel facilities we can make the next step.How to run a football club properly what can I say.
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