2013 Attendances

[citybone]

Lads, all the attendances are ****e, what difference does it make arguing whose are more embarrassing?

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There, now that I said it all you pesky buzz kills can stay away from this thread.

Cork City used be best supported club year after year untill things went belly up, We were well proud of that. We are one of the better supported clubs still but we want our top spot back. both Rover's being successfull is stopping that and us only being mediocre last year.

[peadar1987]

I think this could be Bray's year to top the attendance charts.

[nigel-harps1954]

First Division is going to be pretty depressing again I fear.

[citybone]

First Division is going to be pretty depressing again I fear.

Yes without one or two big clubs like, Cork, Derry, Shamrock Rovers in the division its going to be, I guess Shels were above the normal first division average, barely.

[nigel-harps1954]

It all depends on how clubs do however.

Put it this way

Athlone - will be much better, if they're pushing top 3, upwards of 400-500 seems about right.
Harps - can go either way. Pushing for promotion and sitting in the top 3 all season, anything from 600-1,000, another season in the abyss, 400.
Longford - Poor enough last season even when pushing for promotion. Around 400.
Waterford - Last season anything to go by, looking around 400-600 again.
Wexford - It's hard to know what way they'll go. They could sit at 300, or they could push on and get around 500+. Time will tell.
Cobh - First season back. A lot of p!ssed off older fans, a lot happy to be back. Could be big, could be small. Guess around 400 at the start dropping to an average of about 250 by seasons end.
Mervue/Salthill - As you were.


Overall average of the First Division last season ended at 372.

I'd hazard a guess, optimistically rising to 450ish this season.


Hard to gauge the Premier, but:

Shamrock Rovers, Drogheda, Dundalk, Limerick, Cork, Derry to see rises in attendances.

Sligo, Bray, Shels, to see depleted crowds.

UCD, Bohs, St.Pat's to remain the same.

Overall average goes up ever so slightly from 1,630 to about 1,700.

[stann]

First Division is going to be pretty depressing again I fear.

Yes without one or two big clubs like, Cork, Derry, Shamrock Rovers in the division its going to be

True. This is partly what was behind the doom and gloom prognoses in the off-season, I think, no big draws left in the division to entice a few extra people out to matches, and very little in the way of away fans for any game. Thank feck for the Youths!

[citybone]

True. This is partly what was behind the doom and gloom prognoses in the off-season, I think, no big draws left in the division to entice a few extra people out to matches, and very little in the way of away fans for any game. Thank feck for the Youths!

would cobh bring a few?

[redobit]

First Division is going to be pretty depressing again I fear.

Not to worry, sure at least you'll have the fantastic performance against the 'Champions' to keep ya going.

[nigel-harps1954]

Not to worry, sure at least you'll have the fantastic performance against the 'Champions' to keep ya going.

We've bigger fish to fry. Sure we didn't even get into second gear. Not to worry, Sligo will get their chance again.

[redarmyfaction]

2013 highest attendance betting

Shamrock 4/5
Cork City 5/1
Rovers 7/2
Derry 5/1
St Pats 13/1
Limerick 18/1
Dundalk 33/1
Drogs 50/1
Shels 50/1
BRAY 250/1
Bohs 25/1
UCD 500/1

[horton]

^where's those odds with?

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

www.redarmyfaction.com

[stann]

would cobh bring a few?

Hopefully so, we'll have to see how their home and travelling support has fared out over the four year absence of course (look what happened to ours and we still in it!), but would expect a few for the first meeting at least, seeing as it'll still be a relative novelty (4th away game) and the handiest to get to by a long, long way!

[redarmyfaction]

^where's those odds with?

Me website is down, post me the money with your selection, bets in butter vouchers paid in butter vouchers.

[oriel]

So we are only days away from the off, should be interesting to see the crowds for the opening games.

Dundalk v Rovers

Pats v Drogs

Bohs v UCD

Derry v Sligo

Shels v Bray

Limerick v Cork


Anyway back to the Man U v Madrid game.....

[nigel-harps1954]

Can we have an attendance predictions league?


Dundalk v Rovers - 1,500

Pats v Drogs - 1,500

Bohs v UCD - 1,200

Derry v Sligo - 3,000

Shels v Bray - 1,000

Limerick v Cork - 3,500


Waterford v Harps - 700

Salthill v Longford - 70,000

Cobh v Wexford - 500

Athlone v Mervue - 500

[BonnieShels]

Can we have an attendance predictions league?


Dundalk v Rovers - 1,500

Pats v Drogs - 1,500

Bohs v UCD - 1,200

Derry v Sligo - 3,000

Bray v Shels - 800

Limerick v Cork - 3,500


Waterford v Harps - 700

Salthill v Longford - 69,783

Cobh v Wexford - 500

Athlone v Mervue - 500

Fixed that for ya

[A face]

Limerick v Cork - 3,500

Cant see that happening because its on tv, it will effect it on both sides so i'm thinking more like 2,000 - 2,500

[oriel]

Dundalk v Rovers -

Taking into account increased season ticket sales and a usually good away support from Rovers, I would expect possibly between 2,000- 2,500 max for this.

Not sure what is the best source media for crowds but I wish all clubs would just report what they got regardless of how poor or not they are. Irish Times is usually not far off next day, but sometimes even they are way off.

Simple solution, all clubs just count the damn fans attending, it can't be that hard.

[nigel-harps1954]

Don't all the clubs have to give official attendance figures to the FAI?

Why can't official figures be released to the media too. It's very simple.