Might actually increase the attendances if they do :P
Fair play to the 20-30 Galway fans who made their way to Tallaght for the second time in a week, I was talking to a couple of them in the Maldron before the game and they are a sound bunch.
Excellent video produced by some of they're fans with interviews of Hooperman, blackie, Fenn and Sheppard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5JW6w0SnD8
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Think you're a fair bit over on both counts. Irish Times has 450; we reckoned 500 at the time, 600 max.
Other attendances in the Irish Times are 1098 for Pat's v Dundalk, 3879 for Rovers v Galway (strangely both different to other official-looking figures) and 400 for Drogheda v Fingal.
I reckon it was around 550 for Bray/UCD, definitely between 500-600 anyway.
The Leinster Senior League needs a strong Bohemians
I guess it doenst help the club either when there was a piece on them in yesterdays star on sunday about financial problems there with players cheques bouncing.. the manager situation doenst seem to have helped them either and Darius Kierans hanging about has resulted in two managerial casualties.. Donnelly was very critical of the club in stating that not enough use was made of him so I get the impression that Kierans is the powerbroker in the background. It looks like Kierans could be cast aside or demoted as Drogheda seem to have accepted that the regulations have gone against them and they cant afford to take a chance of appointing someone else in a shortterm capacity.. Kierans I believe qualifies this weekend but that may not be good enough for the club..
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
The sun today
Like WTF"Darius Kierans is set to step aside from first team matters when basement boys Drogheda appoint a FOURTH boss this season"![]()
There should be a good crowd for the upcoming Boh's - Rovers game. The Tuesday night game should make for a good TV game as well. With the internationals a few days later, there won't be much other games clashing that night. Might be something to look at more often, League games on the Tuesday / Wednesday before Friday internationals.
So if you think Bohs are big read this. http://www.astronomy.ie/perpespective.html
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Averages after round 31. Official figures in bold. Club averages in bold means more than half of their figures are official.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,732 (2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976) (missing Sligo 2)
Bray - 802 (1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Drogheda - 929 (1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682)
Dundalk - 1,936 (2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 861 (1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,810 (1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 3,803 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Sligo - 1,738 (1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
Sporting Fingal - 947 (635 FD; 688 FD)
UCD - 530 (272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 393 (462; 387; 670; 421; 316) (missing Shels 2)
Cork - 1,780 (2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Derry - 1,795 (2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD)
Harps - 705 (480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106) (missing Limerick 2 and Wexford 2)
Limerick - 629 (429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 243 (260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD) (missing Derry 2 and Shels 2)
Mervue - 123 (166) (missing Shels)
Monaghan - 240 (183; 177; 292; 204; 183) (missing Athlone 2, Longford 2, Mervue, Salthill and Shels)
Salthill Devon - 129 (N/A) (missing Mervue)
Shels - 688 (972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 636 (434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 324 (494; 767; 810) (missing Monaghan 2 and Salthill 2)
Premier Division average - 1,512 (2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 674 (417; 641; 722; 570; 520)
Overall average - 1,094 (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 UCD - 500
Drogheda United v Sporting Fingal - 400
St Patricks Athletic v Dundalk - 1098
Shamrock Rovers v Galway United - 3879
First Division
Derry City v Mervue United - 1336
Waterford United v Limerick - 534
Finn Harps v Wexford Youths - no figure yet
Cork City FC v Longford Town - 1398
Athlone Town v Shelbourne - no figure yet
Recent games missing -
Harps v Wexford
Cork v Longford
Not wishing to rub salt in Bohs wounds, but thats some drop (630) on their average from last year, as defending champs, cup semi finalist and almost in contention for the title all year.
We are down 430 based on these figures, I`d prob agree with that, hardly winning a game (or rather losing most at home) over the summer didnt help matters, maybe the last 3 home games will see an increase on the summer drop off as we appear to have finally found some sort of 'consistent' form.
Decent figures from Cork/Derry in the FD, and you have to take your hat off to the Tallaght figures.
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“Crikey, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea,"
This year figure is massively inflated too...
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It's interesting to note how much their attendances went up when they stopped giving official figures (i.e. the jump from 2008 to 2009). I think that indicates just how wrong fan estiamtes can be.
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