Attendances 2014

[Lim till i die]

The plans are nowhere near as bad as Jackman.

What are the plans??

Iv a suspicion a lot of people dont realise just how bad they are.

Id agree with most of the rest of your post.

[Dalymountrower]

The plans are nowhere near as bad as Jackman. I admit the plans are pretty poor but anything, and I repeat anything, is better than Thomond Park. I have been a Limerick supporter since the late 70's and I will not be attending matches in Thomond Park again. It has nothing to offer from a football perspective. From day one the football crowd have been treated like Ryanair passengers, the pitch is poor,there's a complete lack of atmosphere, postponed games, no parking, the football on offer doesn't help either. The sooner we're out of there the better. The Markets Field is the spiritual home and The Markets Field is where we need to be, and fast. Another season in TP and we're as good as dead! Imagine what the player budget will be like next season if we have to stay in TP? It doesn't bear thinking about but I reckon it would be something close to the teams Noel O'Connor put out.

Went to Thomond last season and thoght the stewards were the most courteous in the country.
In my opinion Limerick play a poisonous brand of football under Taylor and thats the reason your crowds have nosedived.

[donnrua]

Limerick stewards will always be courteous to supporters of other teams - it's our own that get treated like s****e. There shall be no argument from me regarding the poisonous brand of football Taylor has us playing but it has proven to be very very effective against Bohs!

[NeverFeltBetter]

I haven't heard any mass complaints about the stewards since halfway through last season.

[IrishRossi]

Spotted Johnny Glynn there - is he being lined up to replace Cousins,

I hope so
Poor Crowd last nite, but the club doesn't even seem to be promoting the games, now i could be wrong but the only poster i seen for the match was outside the ground

[nigel-harps1954]

Jackman was a bad ground, but the plans for the new Markets Field are pure poison.

[bluewhitearmy]

Markets Field is just a bigger Jackman as far I'm concerned the only difference being the stand in Jackman kept you dry if it rained the ones in MF wont.

[donnrua]

I haven't heard any mass complaints about the stewards since halfway through last season.

That's when half the crowd went and never came back.

[Mr A]

I don't believe that style of football or having local players has a major effect on crowds. Winning matches outweighs these pretty much to negligibility.

Harps have had all local teams, sometime playing decent football, but if they aren't winning people lose interest. Back in the day (late nineties, early 2000s) we had a good sprinkling of non locals and good crowds because we were decent. Longford would of course ideally have more local players- but it'd be suicide to bring guys in who aren't as good as what they'd have otherwise.

[outspoken]

I hope so
Poor Crowd last nite, but the club doesn't even seem to be promoting the games, now i could be wrong but the only poster i seen for the match was outside the ground

Correct there hasn't been a poster up in de town or on the way into town all season, then people wonder why we can't attract new followers to games. Ridiculous.

[Jofspring]

I don't believe that style of football or having local players has a major effect on crowds. Winning matches outweighs these pretty much to negligibility.

Harps have had all local teams, sometime playing decent football, but if they aren't winning people lose interest. Back in the day (late nineties, early 2000s) we had a good sprinkling of non locals and good crowds because we were decent. Longford would of course ideally have more local players- but it'd be suicide to bring guys in who aren't as good as what they'd have otherwise.

I agree with you there. People in Limerick keep saying if there was more locals in the team crowds would support them. At one stage we had a complete team of locals, struggled and people didn't come out to watch us. We now have a midfield with Duggan, Rainsford, Tracy and Hughes all locals and people still aren't coming out to support the team. Terrible football a bad results at home is killing us.

[WoodquayBoy]

Not suggesting side should be stocked with local players - you get the best you can afford, simple as that. But the point I'm making is there is probably no connection town and Town. Under Stephen Kenny, for example, wasn't the team mainly non local players, but they would go in to town after game and be seen around the place. I hear that's not the case any more

[Bosco]

Not suggesting side should be stocked with local players - you get the best you can afford, simple as that. But the point I'm making is there is probably no connection town and Town. Under Stephen Kenny, for example, wasn't the team mainly non local players, but they would go in to town after game and be seen around the place. I hear that's not the case any more

That was the case with Kenny but in fairness you're talking 12-15 years ago, the Town were having some success for the first time ever and there was a novelty factor, the majority of people in the town only started going to games then and since then were treated to Premier Division football and cup finals, it was inevitable that dropping down to the first division would seriously hurt our attendances.
Some of the players in fairness have been out in town, particularly last season but to be fair to them the majority of locals wouldn't waste their money going out in Town on your average Saturday night so it's a bit much to expect players to.

[outspoken]

That was the case with Kenny but in fairness you're talking 12-15 years ago, the Town were having some success for the first time ever and there was a novelty factor, the majority of people in the town only started going to games then and since then were treated to Premier Division football and cup finals, it was inevitable that dropping down to the first division would seriously hurt our attendances.
Some of the players in fairness have been out in town, particularly last season but to be fair to them the majority of locals wouldn't waste their money going out in Town on your average Saturday night so it's a bit much to expect players to.

Exactly, the group of players we had last year (most have remained this year) were probably the most 'fan friendly' since the Stephen Kenny days.

[WoodquayBoy]

Fair enough, thanks for clearing that up

[ForzaForth]

343 at Wexford v Shelbourne

[nigel-harps1954]

Attendances week 8:

St Pats v Athlone: 1,257
Limerick v Sligo: 819
Drogheda v Shamrock Rovers: 1,330
Cork v Bohs: 3,711

Bray v Dundalk: 900?
Derry v UCD: 800?

Waterford v Harps: 443
Wexford v Shels: 343

Longford v Galway: 350?
Shamrock rovers v Cobh: 200?

[nigel-harps1954]

Week 8:

PREMIER DIVISION

Athlone - 895 (754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Bohs - 1,734 (1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 670 (891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 4,319 (1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 1,167 (1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Drogheda - 1,330 (817; 977; 811; 859; 1,106)
Dundalk - 2,256 (1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Limerick - 1,031 (1,649; 734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD)
Pat's - 1,732 (1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 2,471 (2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 2,395 (2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)
UCD - 414 (487; 506; 558; 610; 272 FD)

FIRST DIVISION


Cobh - 275 (439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Harps - 614 (479; 429; 433; 644; 480) -
Galway - 1,342 (No previous)
Longford - 425 (379; 365; 315; 230; 260)
Rovers B - 315 (No previous)
Shels - 769 (1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
Waterford - 600 (478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
Wexford - 275 (227; 302; 216; 343; 494)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,721 (1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 586 (391; 372; 578; 682; 417)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,330 (1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)

OVERALL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 10,153

OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 18,179
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 101,565

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 119,744

[Martinho II]

local media has attendance of 350 ppl at Galway game..

[outspoken]

local media has attendance of 350 ppl at Galway game..

God that's desperate