2010 attendances

[Dalymountrower]

How on earth do you work out who's a neutral and who's a UCD fan?

803 was the official attendance. I think the half-time teams and their accompaniment came in the main gate and so wouldn't have been counted on the clicker, but 803's official, so I'll be going with that.

Best is to e-mail the club on the adult/child price issue.

Simple enough, I sat in the segregated UCD section as there were no empty covered seats on the Bohs side. UCD score a peno and no reaction from at least half of the people around me.
Happy to e-mail your club, but would have thought UCD fans would be concerned about families attending being ripped off?

[Dodge]

Exactly, if that was the case the Nou Camp would have an official attendance of about 'zero' every time.

No, in the nou camp, everyone who enters the game has their ticket scanned (be it match or season)

Some LOI clubs do not count season tickets as they enter the ground.

Its pretty amateurish too IMO

[pineapple stu]

Simple enough, I sat in the segregated UCD section as there were no empty covered seats on the Bohs side. UCD score a peno and no reaction from at least half of the people around me.

A foolproof system.

Happy to e-mail your club, but would have thought UCD fans would be concerned about families attending being ripped off?

Of course I'd be concerned. However, what do you want me to do about it personally? Whining on the internet is almost a national pastime here, but if you want to actually achieve anything, e-mail the club with your concerns. That's not passing the buck, that's taking the issue to hand and telling you exactly who you should talk to about it.

And the website comment seems like a bit of a petty jibe for the sake of it, but for what it's worth, I understand the club are in talks with the crowd who do another league website about getting it completely overhauled. There's been a fair few problems with the current company. (The news content is club controlled, the rest is done by a web company).

[marinobohs]

Pass the buck again, good man.

Your website is an absolute joke btw!

To be fair complaining on here about club pricing is not going to change much. If enough people contact the club involved and voice their concerns then there is a chance that the club(s) will take notice and address the issue - same advice to those complaining about prices at any other ground - let the relevant decision makers know.

Alternatively there is always the Joe Duffy show

[Schumi]

45 Euro for adult and three 11 year olds!!!!

€10 for an 11 year old is crazy alright. I suspect there may have been a mistake made as our student price is usually less than that.

[pineapple stu]

Averages after round 2 -

PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,800 (2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976)
Bray - 1,000 (1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Drogheda - 1,000 (1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682)
Dundalk - 2,545 (2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 902 (1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,700 (1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 5,500 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Sligo - 2,858 (1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
Sporting Fingal - 1,267 (635; 688)
UCD - 803 (272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 402 (462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cork - 4,401 (2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Derry - 2,779 (2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD)
Harps - 1,006 (480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Limerick - 861 (429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 350 (260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD)
Mervue - 250 (166)
Monaghan - 250 (183; 177; 292; 204; 183)
Salthill Devon - 330 (N/A)
Shels - 877 (972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 1,000 (434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 380 (494; 767; 810)

Premier Division average - 2,038 (2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 1,074 (417; 641; 722; 570; 520)

Overall average - 1,512 (1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)

Figures in bold are mainly or wholly official; figures in normal type are mainly or wholly guesstimates. I'll update the prior year ones in due course.

[pineapple stu]

€10 for an 11 year old is crazy alright. I suspect there may have been a mistake made as our student price is usually less than that.

Prices are E15 adult, E10 student and E5 UCD student. Don't know about child prices though.

[DmanDmythDledge]

some kid no older than 14 was asked to pay 15 quid in cause he didn't have a student card idiots out there.

I never understood that mentality, what 14 year old has a student card? 99% of secondary schools don't issue student cards, it's just third level that do so so asking for one as proof of age/if you are a student is ridiculous.

[Dodge]

Obviously 14 year old fans of Bohs don't go to school. Fair play to UCD for enforcing an idiot tax

[Leejo]

I never understood that mentality, what 14 year old has a student card? 99% of secondary schools don't issue student cards, it's just third level that do so so asking for one as proof of age/if you are a student is ridiculous.

Happened myself a few years ago as well when I was still in secondary school. The lads at the ticket booth wanted 4 of us to buy adult tickets because we didn't have student cards and they refused to sell us student tickets dispite the fact we were all in second level, only for a steward interving on our behalf we wouldn't have gotten to go to the game. Joke

[RoversHead]

€10 for an 11 year old is crazy alright. I suspect there may have been a mistake made as our student price is usually less than that.

Have been charged full price for kids under ten a few seaons back ,when asked about concession was told there was none havnt taken kids since ,**** poor attitude towards any inquiries or complaints at UCD by away fans,its almost as if we are an inconvenience.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Also, just to put things into perspective, I should have also pointed out that I've been buying student tickets for the past two seasons and never once asked for a student ID.

[eamoss]

Happened myself a few years ago as well when I was still in secondary school. The lads at the ticket booth wanted 4 of us to buy adult tickets because we didn't have student cards and they refused to sell us student tickets dispite the fact we were all in second level, only for a steward interving on our behalf we wouldn't have gotten to go to the game. Joke

Same thing happened to me in Oriel Park but I was only 15 at the time and I had no choice but to buy a adult ticket.

[Dalymountrower]

Have been charged full price for kids under ten a few seaons back ,when asked about concession was told there was none havnt taken kids since ,**** poor attitude towards any inquiries or complaints at UCD by away fans,its almost as if we are an inconvenience.

Clubs should be trying to attract as many kids as possible on freebies, as long as an adult pays in and takes full responsibility for them. A lot of clubs seem to direct those offers at home fans only.

[Cold Night]

What is it with Bohs that they struggle to get over 3000 to games.

There's a great catchment area around the club, plus they're the champions, so whats the story?

[RoversHead]

Clubs should be trying to attract as many kids as possible on freebies, as long as an adult pays in and takes full responsibility for them. A lot of clubs seem to direct those offers at home fans only.

Agree 100% ,the kids are the future of the game

[bennocelt]

On the flip side I managed to buy a family ticket for myself and my two kids - ie the brother and his girlfriend at Morton!!!!

[Dodge]

I love the way this thread is 10 pages long after only 2 weeks.

Rovers only allocated Pats a certain number of kids tickets for Tuesday's game so some had to pay the full adult price (€15)

Pats charge €5 for kids accompanied by adult and €10 for unaccompanied kids (u16). They have discoounted family tickets too.

[pineapple stu]

Rovers only allocated Pats a certain number of kids tickets for Tuesday's game so some had to pay the full adult price (€15)

I never understand that. "Sorry - I know you're only 9, but we've run out of bits of the bits of paper for that, so we've to charge you as if you're 19".

[Dodge]

I never understand that. "Sorry - I know you're only 9, but we've run out of bits of the bits of paper for that, so we've to charge you as if you're 19".

Well what you have Pats do? They were sent a finite amount of each ticket. If all kids tickets are gone, the options for the kid is either pay the full price, or don't go to the game. Pats can't just return the money to Rovers saying yeah I know you're expecting €15 per ticket but we sold most of them to kids so we only charged €7