The Star yesterday had 1600 or someting for Bray and Drogheda
Yeah, it was a great crowd. I couldn't get my usual seat behind the dugout, so I had to sit down the end with a load of kids. Very unimpressed! I wouldn't have said there were that many there though. Rehab Bingo Stand was maybe 90% full, but I wouldn't have though there were 700 Drogheda supporters across from us.Originally Posted by gufc2000
I'd say about 1,300 at Bray v. Drogheda. 1,600 seems a bit high.
Read in one of the papers that Pike rovers had 1200 in a cup gain last week against fairview rangers i think it was but open to correction.
That seems a bit more like it.
700 seems a bit high for the away stand too.
Great crowd though - hope most of them are still coming next season.
The kids down near where me and my dad were sitting seemed to be having a great time. Most of them anyway. There was some little ****e sitting behing us who was cheering for Drogheda, because they play in the same colours as Burnley, who beat Man United last season, which he liked because he was a Liverpool "fan"! In retrospect, slapping him probably wasn't the best course of action...
Only in the legal sense.
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Considering they had about 200 for their last home game v pats, I'd your safe enough with that assumption
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Drogheda had about 150 who were mainly to the right of the press box. The left of the press box were mostly Bray as the main stand was almost full with very little free seats and loads of screaming kids. A good few went over to open side to escape the screaming kids.
Ah here it was bad alright, but I don't remember it being that bad! The estimate from our forum at the time was 450ish I think. 300ish home support and 100ish travelling Pats fans.
200 or 300 isn't that big of a difference. Either way its unlikely to lead to 700 in Bray...
I've siad it load sof times on here. The actual numbers don't interest me. Anyone who goes to games can see the crowds and make their own minds up.
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I noticed that Bray crowd too on MNS, the stand looked to be almost full, did Bray do any family promotions ? Looked to be a really decent atmosphere too, fair play to them. Almost starting to look as if the PD would be worse off w.o Bray nx season ! although in saying that we were shocking in all 4 games this year lost 3, and robbed the first win on day 2.
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At least twelve hundred by all accounts in town (I wasn't bothered going myself)
Big Limerick derby in the Junior Cup, there's at least four clubs in town outside ourselves who could compete in the top half of the First Division.* (possibly making them better than ourselves!!)
*And some would claim have the budgets to prove it.
Ah now... come on.
There were 3 local schoolboy teams invited so that helped. Also no premiership on TV to compete against helped.
Find that hard to believe. Was up in Jackman Park last night for Pike vs Fairview in the Touhy Cup and there was only about 100 to 150 max. While i know the FAI Junior Cup match was a bigger game and there was probably a bigger crowd at it i still think there is too big a difference between 150 people and 1,200 for basically the same match.
Also Lim Till I Die from what i saw last night if Fairview are supposed to be the second best team in Limerick then Pike are the only team that would stand any chance in the First Division. Big difference in the two teams.
Averages after round 34. Official figures in bold. Club averages in bold means more than half of their figures are official.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,800 (2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976) (missing Sligo 2)
Bray - 831 (1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Drogheda - 895 (1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682)
Dundalk - 1,908 (2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 856 (1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,801 (1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 3,803 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539) (missing Fingal 2)
Sligo - 1,749 (1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
Sporting Fingal - 933 (635 FD; 688 FD)
UCD - 621 (272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 370 (462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cork - 1,728 (2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Derry - 1,833 (2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD)
Harps - 676 (480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106) (missing Limerick 2 and Wexford 2)
Limerick - 610 (429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 236 (260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD) (missing Derry 2 and Shels 2)
Mervue - 123 (166) (missing Shels and Salthill 2)
Monaghan - 240 (183; 177; 292; 204; 183) (missing Athlone 2, Longford 2, Mervue, Salthill, Shels and Waterford 2)
Salthill Devon - 122 (N/A) (missing Mervue and Monaghan 2)
Shels - 703 (972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 618 (434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 334 (494; 767; 810) (missing Monaghan 2 and Salthill 2)
Premier Division average - 1,513 (2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 668 (417; 641; 722; 570; 520)
Overall average - 1,093 (1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)
Attendances for last weekend (i.e. the figures I've gone with) -
Premier Division
St Pats Athletic v Bohemians - 1659
Dundalk v Sligo Rovers - 1500
Shamrock Rovers v Sporting Fingal - no figure yet
Galway United v UCD - 782
Bray Wanderers v Drogheda United - 1300
First Division
Limerick v Wexford Youths - 342
Mervue United v Salthill - no figure yet
Cork City FC v Monaghan United - 997
Derry City v Shelbourne - 2361
Waterford United v Finn Harps - 372
Athlone Town v Longford Town - 120
Recent games missing -
Rovers v Fingal
Mervue v Salthill
Salthill v Monaghan
which clubs are they and do you think any of them are interested in joining the a league ?At least twelve hundred by all accounts in town (I wasn't bothered going myself)
Big Limerick derby in the Junior Cup, there's at least four clubs in town outside ourselves who could compete in the top half of the First Division.* (possibly making them better than ourselves!!
*And some would claim have the budgets to prove it.
I was thinking during last nights cup semi final between Bohs and Sligo how good it looked having the away fans at the school end, looked an impressive crowd on tv, we have given that area a few times, so why do Rovers fans go on the Connaught st side ?? Would look much better behind the goal.
I checked the Irish Times today, they had a crowd of 2,588, thats a terrible crowd for a FAI cup semi, it seems Sligo took a really good support, but its wasnt long ago cup semi`s got close to 5k.
Nothing in for UCD v Dundalk & Fingal v Galway yet.
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Its hard to estimate the crowd we brought when your in among them but from my guess it was about 800 or 900.
Makes you wonder what crowd we would have brought if the FAI attempted to accomodate travelling fans and switched the Semi's with Pats and Shams.
Sure we got over 4000 just last year at the Semi vs Waterford, ya couldnt move in the Showgies.I checked the Irish Times today, they had a crowd of 2,588, thats a terrible crowd for a FAI cup semi, it seems Sligo took a really good support, but its wasnt long ago cup semi`s got close to 5k.
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