As I mentioned in the match thread, junior soccer has gone months in most parts of the country without any games being played due to adverse weather. This has been happening more often the last number of years which definitely demonstrates how much worse Irish weather is becoming. If the LOI switched back you could be looking at games getting called off every weekend, new fixtures having to be made etc... If you are lucky enough to get games going ahead then the chances are your pitch will be destroyed. The few people that do bother going to games would start to fall away also.
Attendances could always be better but they aren't shocking by any means. The usual teams have decent crowds and then the rest depend completely on success.
In an ideal world you have a premier league filled with teams spread out all over the country in places with large catchment areas but sadly it doesn't work like that.
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