2013 Attendances

**bullit** · 31/03/2013, 8:33 PM

Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy

Talking to one of the Limerick lads he said that our attendance was not given out because the counting system failed after a bit 2305 was what it was at at the time it failed. Club gave an estimate of 3000 to Extratime apparently.

Edit: Extratime have the estimate of 3000 up.

Lims seem to be having problems getting exact figures for attendances so far.I hope it was 3,000 up but Munster Rugby never seem to have such problems with the system for giving exact attendances for their matches and i guess it's the same system yee are using?

**fionnsci** · 31/03/2013, 10:08 PM

Em, yes? Rovers pre-Tallaght. Limerick pre-Thomond.

**pineapple stu** · 31/03/2013, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by bullit

Lims seem to be having problems getting exact figures for attendances so far.

1712 against us.

Which may be exact, but it's not round, which I presume was what you meant!

**bluewhitearmy** · 31/03/2013, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by bullit

Lims seem to be having problems getting exact figures for attendances so far.I hope it was 3,000 up but Munster Rugby never seem to have such problems with the system for giving exact attendances for their matches and i guess it's the same system yee are using?

I think its part of the problems they are having getting used to running a match day with so many more fans then we are used to. The first time they ran out of away tickets so a lot of Cork fans were not counted this time whatever system they were using to count people crashed not sure exactly what was the cause of it. Im not sure if it is the same system tbh we had a scanning system last seaon in Jackman so may have brought that with us. The only part of match days i know 100% that Thomond run is the security. I dont think any attendance was called out either which would be the first time and could have something to do with the problems.

Could well be just trying to up the attendance too but thats what i was told happened and appears Extratime were too.

**bullit** · 31/03/2013, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

1712 against us.

Which may be exact, but it's not round, which I presume was what you meant!

The figure for V Cork was also hotly disputed even though it wasn't rounded(3578)

**bullit** · 31/03/2013, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy

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Could well be just trying to up the attendance too but thats what i was told happened and appears Extratime were too.

I have tweets from people at the match quoting the number given via Thomond P.A

**Lim till i die** · 31/03/2013, 10:58 PM

Definitely felt like more on the terrace (which was far fuller than it was for the cork game)

But then from the terrace you cant see the seats....

Afaik theres problems with the scanners because its not the same system as Munster games and requires different barcodes.

For example our seating is unreserved whereas with Munster youd have a specific seat.

**Lim till i die** · 31/03/2013, 10:59 PM

Also the attendance definitely wasnt announced over the pa.

**bluewhitearmy** · 31/03/2013, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by bullit

I have tweets from people at the match quoting the number given via Thomond P.A

Out of the large group i was in no-one heard it being called out. Feel free to throw up the tweets though if they are from anyone that would know the score then fair enough.

For the record it was a Cork fan that first brought up that a lot of them had not been counted.

Edit: Now that i think of it and its gonna sound like a lie now but the lad that was scanning in my ticket had to call over another lad to do it because it was coming up as an invalid ticket on his scanner wonder was that something to do with it.

**bullit** · 31/03/2013, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy

Out of the large group i was in no-one heard it being called out. Feel free to throw up the tweets though if they are from anyone that would know the score then fair enough.

Nah.I'd rather not in respect of privacy for the Tweeters.As i said i hope the attendance was 3,000 + but disputes over the figures will continue until Lims get their act together re calling attendances and also their security policy which seems to be a reach back to EPL security measures circa late 80's- about 2004

**PartySaint** · 01/04/2013, 12:03 AM

Limerick fans on Saturday night

**Lim till i die** · 01/04/2013, 12:17 AM

Ya terrace much fuller but now that i've seen stand...

**NeverFeltBetter** · 01/04/2013, 1:28 AM

No way was the attendance called out, I had to look it up when I went home. Security seemed more relaxed than the first game to me. I was scanned, but not patted down or made to empty pockets or open my jacket. Seems other people had worse experiences, I'd worry about the impression that leaves. Imagine it'll be Threat Level Red-type stuff on Tuesday.

Decent atmosphere in the terraces, the stand can be a bit of a morgue to be honest. Is that picture as Pats were about to win their penalty?

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 01/04/2013, 8:47 AM

Originally Posted by bullit

Lims seem to be having problems getting exact figures for attendances so far.I hope it was 3,000 up but Munster Rugby never seem to have such problems with the system for giving exact attendances for their matches and i guess it's the same system yee are using?

Munster Rugby have been known to overstate the attendance at many a Rabo league game in Thomand

**Bayern Munchies** · 01/04/2013, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by PartySaint

Limerick fans on Saturday night

Now, I'm no good at judging the size of a crowd, but I'd say there's about 17 million of them there in the terrace

**fieldofmarkets** · 01/04/2013, 10:21 AM

munster rugby issue paid attendances (on website) rather than bums on seats, paid attendances at league games are significantly higher. They used to call out attendances but they wouldn't be as significant to them as it would be for a LOI team.

**Neish** · 01/04/2013, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

I've just been blocked from posting on Mervue Uniteds facebook page and my comment deleted for bringing it up.

Well you could of phrased it better to be honest

**Jofspring** · 01/04/2013, 11:50 AM

Munster have had lads of problems with their ticket scanners also. Many times I just get let through an exit door after they just look at my ticket because of scanning problems.

My season ticket for limerick doesn't seem to be scanning properly at all at games so not sure if I'm the only one in that respect. If the scanners are causing problems then they probably feel it better to just get people in to have the queues building up.