I'm pretty dissappointed with our "bandwagon". We've been back in the Premier Division for six seasons, and for four of those our crowds have been a couple of hundred either side of 2,000. I thought we might have benefited by more bandwagoners this season.
Their money would be very welcome.
Before people say I'm attacking Dundalk now, would you say the facilities in Oriel are a reason behind that? I find the main stand excellent in terms of view and there's the bar there too but most people seem to criticicse OP, would you agree?Originally Posted by White Horse
I agree 100% with you Outspoken, Oriel Park is a **** hole!!!
One of a few grounds I've never been to. Hopefully I'll get there next year. Never been to any of Limerick's grounds, Cobh Wexford or the Belfield Bowl (if that counts as a separate ground) either.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
Was in Oriel once and that wasn't even for a football match. In the current FD I've been to all grounds bar one, Tallaght Stadium......that will be sorted next season!
Away fans are very poorly catered for. However, Oriel Park is fine for home fans, a stand with good views, plenty of terraced seating (both covered and uncovered), two bars etc. It's also well located, close to town, bars and clubs etc.
I thought there would be plenty of bandwagon supporters this season. However, they haven't materialised. Do other clubs get a huge amount of bandwagon supporters when times are good?
We sure do. I'll be surprised if we don't break the 6,000 mark tomorrow, though the weather is supposed to be shocking and that tends to shave a large amount off our games.
League of Ireland clubs have at least 16 home games a season. People speak about the GAA being one off event junkies and all that. Dublin had 6 Croke Park games in the league and 5 Croke Park games in championship. A sizeable number will make about 3 or 4 Dublin Championship games as well be their club involved or not.
A lot of Division 1 football and hurling counties will be the same. They'll have about 4 home league games, about 4 championship games on average for division 1 counties and then about 3 or 4 club rounds with good crowds. There is consistently good support for these games.
Rugby then tends to have decent enough support as well. An argument is thrown out there about Irish people not going to games consistently but there is evidence there to the contrary. The challenge as always is to find the connect with people for the League of Ireland to have a more vibrant part of the Irish Sporting interests.
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A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
Our average league crowd is just over 2,350 this season, (1,950 was the avg last season) it might jump to over 2,400 depending on the crowd for the final game. The population of Dlk is 38k, so this isn't that bad considering the moderate pool to draw from. It probably should be more considering the season we had. I would have expected to end on 2,500, but at least it's increasing.
The support from the home fans has been good enough, with 5 matches in all comps this season over 3k, but the away support apart from one league visit of Rovers and Pats has reduced significantly. I think what we offer terrace going away fans has a lot to do with that.
There was a vague mention of spectator improvements in one of our programmes earlier in the summer, haven't seen anything since, but it would be good if we could allocate or find funds to improve both sides of the main stand. If this was an extension of the stand even better as it would solve the away problem in one go, not sure what that would cost though.
Last edited by oriel; 16/10/2014 at 7:18 PM.
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Apologies for Monday. We were all en-route to Belgrade to attack Albania players on Tuesday night. The non-hardcore element who made it up to Oriel left their umbrellas on the bus, typical.
No umbrellas allowed tonight for us in Bray I`m hearing....................see what you boys did that time away to Pats a few years ago!
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), only Irish club to win a game / points in Europa League Group Stage (2016).
You are joking, I hope. Bray have banned umbrellas????
You can buy an official Bray umbrella for €10 on the way in*
*you probably can't
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
Facilities and cost are two big factors. €20 in to a stand from the 60s is scandalous. We went from the cheapest tickets in the league to the most expensive in a season. Our gate receipts went up but our attendances didn't. Should we hit a poor patch next season or have a few of the less attractive games in a row we could struggle.
http://www.dundalkfc.com/supporter-information-bray/
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), only Irish club to win a game / points in Europa League Group Stage (2016).
Well Dundalk's 'bandwagon' would have started last year due to coming so close to winning the league.
It's not really a word I like when talking about LOI crowds, we moan at people for not going to games then when they do take an interest we can them all bandwagoners. Everyone has to start somewhere.
Here on a technicality.
Bumping up Limerick's attendance figures here in Thomond Park!
Looks like Turner's Cross is packed already. Could be a full house?
6219 in the Cross tonight according to ET
That was the "official" attendance. I suspect it was more.
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