2010 attendances

**Rasputin** · 09/08/2010, 7:42 AM

4000 at the Showgies between Rovers and Everton Reserves to see the return of Seamie Coleman.

**pineapple stu** · 09/08/2010, 10:14 AM

Averages after round 25. Official figures in bold. Club averages in bold means more than half of their figures are official.

PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,026 (2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976) (missing Sligo 2)
Bray - 836 (1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Drogheda - 997 (1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682) (missing Bray 2 and Sligo 2)
Dundalk - 2,007 (2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 888 (1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,683 (1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 3,791 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Sligo - 1,891 (1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
Sporting Fingal - 991 (635 FD; 688 FD)
UCD - 546 (272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 423 (462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cork - 1,854 (2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Derry - 1,878 (2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD)
Harps - 730 (480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Limerick - 571 (429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 247 (260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD)
Mervue - 134 (166) (missing Shels)
Monaghan - 252 (183; 177; 292; 204; 183) (missing Mervue, Salthill and Shels)
Salthill Devon - 139 (N/A) (missing Mervue)
Shels - 707 (972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 673 (434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 320 (494; 767; 810)

Premier Division average - 1,567 (2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 679 (417; 641; 722; 570; 520)

Overall average - 1,105 (1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)

Attendances for last weekend (i.e. the figures I've gone with) -

Premier Division
Bray Wanderers v Sligo Rovers 527
Dundalk v UCD 1200
Galway United v Sporting Fingal 679
St. Patrick's Athletic v Drogheda United 1269
Shamrock Rovers v Bohs - 5000

First Division
Derry City v Monaghan United 1471
Limerick v Athlone Town 535
Waterford United v Shelbourne 580
Cork City Foras Co-op v Wexford Youths 1560
Mervue United v Finn Harps 70
Longford Town v Salthill Devon 200

**passinginterest** · 09/08/2010, 10:42 AM

There was around 5,000 maybe a bit more in Tallaght. I'm sure the official figure will pop up somewhere.

**Cuyahoga** · 09/08/2010, 11:07 AM

5,200 according to the Star.

**Dodge** · 09/08/2010, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

There was around 5,000 maybe a bit more in Tallaght. I'm sure the official figure will pop up somewhere.

Rovers haven't released any official figures this season, have they? Quite a fe empty seats in the stand facing the camera. I'd imagine msot of these would've been filled by a 3pm kick off

**Mario** · 09/08/2010, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Rovers haven't released any official figures this season, have they? Quite a fe empty seats in the stand facing the camera. I'd imagine msot of these would've been filled by a 3pm kick off

I actually tried to buy a ticket for the west stand and was told it was sold out twenty minutes before kick-off.

Musta been due to season ticket holders being away on hols or not being able to make the 12:30 kick-off and people heading in the east which was overfull in the singing section.

**Dodge** · 09/08/2010, 12:15 PM

Didn't realise fans could move between the two stands.

Seemed too many seats empty for the usual season ticket absences. maybe the Garda enforced a smaller capacity too

**FrOsTy** · 09/08/2010, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by Rasputin

4000 at the Showgies between Rovers and Everton Reserves to see the return of Seamie Coleman.

Ye that's why they were there

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**passinginterest** · 09/08/2010, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Didn't realise fans could move between the two stands.

Seemed too many seats empty for the usual season ticket absences. maybe the Garda enforced a smaller capacity too

East stand is usually massively overcrowded in the middle, I've a West stand season ticket and I'll often wander over to that side for a change of scenery. They say you can't switch sides but I've never seen it enforced.

**osarusan** · 09/08/2010, 1:06 PM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

East stand is usually massively overcrowded in the middle, I've a West stand season ticket and I'll often wander over to that side for a change of scenery. They say you can't switch sides but I've never seen it enforced.

Doesn't that defeat the whole point of having seats?

**pineapple stu** · 09/08/2010, 1:07 PM

Unallocated seating in some grounds is a way around not being allowed have terracing any more (Ashton Gate in Bristol has it, for example). Not everyone wants to sit.

**passinginterest** · 09/08/2010, 1:10 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Unallocated seating in some grounds is a way around not being allowed have terracing any more (Ashton Gate in Bristol has it, for example). Not everyone wants to sit.

Yeah that's pretty much how it works. Only a small number of people opt for the reserved seat season ticket at an extra €100 a pop, those seats are all in the middle of the West stand. The unreserved season tickets are supposed to be stand specific and they do direct you to the other turnstile sometimes if you try to enter the wrong one, but inside the ground I think I can only remember there being a barrier stopping people crossing over once.

**Rasputin** · 09/08/2010, 3:53 PM

Originally Posted by **FrOsTy**

Ye that's why they were there

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Well I know that was the primary attraction for Rovers fans at it which constituted well over the majority.
I would hazard a guess that about 3000 were Rovers fans, the regulars with the passing interest fans who turn up for the odd big game.
Then I would say about 1000 were Everton fans with a good contingent coming down from Donegal to see Seamie.

**dcfcsteve** · 09/08/2010, 4:36 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Unallocated seating in some grounds is a way around not being allowed have terracing any more (Ashton Gate in Bristol has it, for example). Not everyone wants to sit.

It's a way round the difficulty of going to a game and not being able to be next to mates etc if you can't get seats together which was a big benefit of terracing and which annoys fans in busy stadiums no end.

But it's not designed to be a way round sitting down, as the presence of a seat clearly suggests. As was shown in Manchester, Health and Safety and venue livcensing rules will back any public authority which tells fans in a seated stadium that they should be using those seats whether they like it or not.

**Martinho II** · 09/08/2010, 8:17 PM

Originally Posted by Acornvilla

200+ at the town salthill game, possibly 250-300, for those of you who disagree in between being angry and bored i counted the crowd outside of the main stand and in section a of the main stand, 120 approx there.. so easily 200-250 altogether

I was told by someone else that there was only fifty at this game so I am very surprised that the attendance quadrupled!Anyone from Salthill at it?

**Patrick Dunne** · 10/08/2010, 1:57 AM

5,500 at Terryland Park earlier for Galway United vs Liverpool Reserves (1-0 GUFC).

**De Town** · 10/08/2010, 4:08 PM

Originally Posted by Martinho II

Anyone from Salthill at it?

5 from Salthill as far as I could see.

**Straightstory** · 10/08/2010, 5:25 PM

Can't believe so many people are turning out to see Premiership RESERVE sides. Quite shocking really. We are totally in thrall to English football. When I think of what could be achieved if these people came out to support Irish sides....
Totally mad country.

**Paddyfield** · 10/08/2010, 10:10 PM

http://www.galwaynews.ie/14356-unite...s-passing-game

Poor attendance and financial woes continue
GALWAY United had no answer to the passing game of Sporting Fingal in Terryland Park on Friday night as the visitors cruised to a win that was far more comfortable than the final scoreline suggests.

Liam Buckley’s side played in their usual 4-3-3 formation, which United tried to counteract by playing five across the middle, but the home side never looked like gaining a foothold in midfield as Shane McFaul and the peerless Ronan Finn completely dominated proceedings for the visitors on what was an immaculate playing surface that perfectly suited their playing style.

With the home side playing Derek O’Brien and Steven Walsh out wide, and tucking Stephen McDonnell, Gary Curran and Ciaran Foley inside, the hope was that United could contain Sporting’s playmakers and get at the visitors out wide.

Sadly, that never happened as United either didn’t try, or failed miserably if they did, to get behind the visitors defence out wide, and in the end they had a combination of Barry Ryan and some woeful finishing from the visitors to thank for losing by the small margin they did.

Sean Connor’s side did trade somewhat on parity in an entertaining first half that saw chances for both sides, but the second 45 minutes was a vastly different story as United struggled to get out of their own half, creating just one decent chance compared to the dozen or so carved out by the visitors.

All of that pales into insignificance, however, given the financial trouble the club is in. More than 40,000 Irish people turned up at the Aviva Stadium last Wednesday to bleat their support for Manchester United against an Irish side. On Friday, at a game that actually mattered, only 679 showed up at Terryland Park, including some who were in Galway for the Umbro Cup, and a group of six Eintracht Frankfurt fans who were visiting a friend in the city for the weekend. Unless gates improve, losing to as good a footballing side as Sporting Fingal will be the last thing United will have to worry about.

Reports emerged at the weekend in which Shamrock Rovers manager Michael O’Neill claimed that he was contacted by United CEO, Nick Leeson, asking if would be interested in signing striker Karl Sheppard. Such a sale would sorely hurt United’s chances of staying up this season, but shows the precarious situation the club is in, having already had to release five players last month.