Attendance at Matches

[Fair_play_boy]

In a recent programme, Brian Lennox asked for ideas and help to find the missing thousands who came to see the Inter-Toto games.
Tonight at the Rovers game I counted about 75 out of 120 seats in the premium section EMPTY. Now, this area is 100% season ticket holders. These are the seats directly under the TV cameras. If the people who are supposed to be the closest to the club stay away in droves, there is a problem there that lennox can deal with himself.
Here is one idea (which I will send to Lennox directly. Instead of offering an expensive cash prize to the fan who wins the design a shirt competition, why not award him / her two of these vacant season tickets? Real fans would prefer that much more. And anyway, where does he think the €2005 comes from? And that kind of money is better used on the clubs running costs, IMO.
Second idea: speaking from experience, most boys who come to the cross for the first time love to come back again and again. Tonight I arrived with two nephews who never saw the inside of the Cross before. Ok they saw an exceptional match, but they loved the atmosphere of the place. (They were in the shed, where else). They went home so excited, my brother and brother-in-law are going to end up going soon, by the sounds of things, whether they like it or not.
This dad - son thing is something which I think the club could look at as a way of encouraging new fans. RedFM could work with them in a simple weekly prize of, say, ten dads and sons who never go to city matches. It could be as simple as a simple phone-in competition with the tickets as prizes. If nothing else, at least it would take the bare look off the stand, and it would probably result in many of the dads coming back again and again.

[thecorner]

im a dad and the atmosphere tonite isnt worth brining a newbie into.

i wanna bring my son but i wanna make see an atmosphere

i mean like, a die hard corner boy in the shed..............that doesnt happen too often


but the x is gone to sh!t

[thecorner]

This dad - son thing is something which I think the club could look at as a way of encouraging new fans. RedFM could work with them in a simple weekly prize of, say, ten dads and sons who never go to city matches

y should it be a dad and son that never went









what about the dad and son that goes all the time

forget bout him is it......

[A face]

the Rovers game I counted about 75 out of 120 seats in the premium section EMPTY. Now, this area is 100% season ticket holders. These are the seats directly under the TV cameras. If the people who are supposed to be the closest to the club stay away in droves,

That is a good point actually ..... fickle as ever !!

Here is one idea (which I will send to Lennox directly. Instead of offering an expensive cash prize to the fan who wins the design a shirt competition, why not award him / her two of these vacant season tickets?

2005 is for Cork people, not just City fans !!

Real fans would prefer that much more. And anyway, where does he think the €2005 comes from? And that kind of money is better used on the clubs running costs, IMO.

I'd imagine 2005 budjet is paying for some of it as well though

Second idea: speaking from experience, most boys who come to the cross for the first time love to come back again and again. Tonight I arrived with two nephews who never saw the inside of the Cross before. Ok they saw an exceptional match, but they loved the atmosphere of the place. (They were in the shed, where else). They went home so excited, my brother and brother-in-law are going to end up going soon, by the sounds of things, whether they like it or not.
This dad - son thing is something which I think the club could look at as a way of encouraging new fans. RedFM could work with them in a simple weekly prize of, say, ten dads and sons who never go to city matches. It could be as simple as a simple phone-in competition with the tickets as prizes. If nothing else, at least it would take the bare look off the stand, and it would probably result in many of the dads coming back again and again.

I totally agree with ya there !! It is great to see it happening aswell but the club are working all the time trying to encourage this. But it is a good idea ..... you should write into the club about it.

[Fair_play_boy]

y should it be a dad and son that never went
what about the dad and son that goes all the time
forget bout him is it......

Can you explain how that would raise the attendance? If you offered free tickets to regulars, all it would achieve is a reduction in gate receipts.

[thecorner]

Can you explain how that would raise the attendance? If you offered free tickets to regulars, all it would achieve is a reduction in gate receipts.

so lets reward the people that never ever go and fcuk the regulars

[Fair_play_boy]

so lets reward the people that never ever go and fcuk the regulars

Most real supporters I know would not mind being fcuked, as you put it, if it means paying in to see performances like the one last night.

[A face]

so lets reward the people that never ever go and fcuk the regulars

Let everyone join in so !!

[Storysham]

what they should do is hand out free tickets to schools. get them addicted while they r young. then they will want the jerseys and wanting to go to the games and will have to get a older person to go with them. city could easily hand out 1000 tickets to primary schools around the city

munster do between 1000 and 2000 schoolkids tickets

[Stadler]

at least the premium seats are all paid for up front so even if they're empty for some games the club still has the money from them in the coffers. afaik the club already gives free tickets to schools though i remain to be convinced of the value of such schemes tbh. it's all well and good to throw out the old cliché of 'get them hooked when they're young' but that's horse-****. youngsters will want to go when it's 'cool' to go, plain and simple. getting the core attendance up is the key, but that's a lot easier said than done. the club need to be making a lot more money from avenues other than gate receipts. i wonder how much the golf classic made though, or the upcoming night at the dogs? i can't imagine they make more than a few grand so they really need to be running events like these a lot more regularly than at the moment. it shouldn't be too difficult to run some sort of event at least once a month. as well as the golf classic, night at the dogs, new years ball, fashion show they could do a soccer table quiz like the referrees do, some sort of car draw (nissan, hello?) like a lot of msl clubs do, one of those casino nights that you often see organised in the mardyke, a summer barbecue somewhere. there's plenty of events out there that could be organised to top up the income levels so that we're not as reliant on punters coming through the turnstiles as we are.