Cork "psyche"

[pete]

Sorry but 10k average crowds is a fantasy figure.

Its all about your core support that you can rely apon week in week out. These are the people who go to the club shop, bar etc...

Dublin clubs tend to have their own identity & have shrong enough core bunches of supporters. For example $hel$ will generally get the same home support for most games but also rely a lot on neutrals & away supporters for a lot of their finances.

The Cork City core support is fairly pathetic in a city of its size (i'd guess have access to about 200k+ people) & have fostered no real club community. Maybe its all bcause no club bar/meeting room of its own but i don't think thats all it is.

City have a good disadvantages over dublin teams but also have a lot of advantages.

[Éanna]

10k is fantasy at the moment, but 5k isn't. I'm suggesting setting these two as goals.

[rebel yell]

Well 103FM said there was a Huge crowd at the Bohs game. I think it was estimated at 3,000 somewhere. If that figure is correct, it means either 106 FM have a poor idea of Huge or in EL terms that was considered quite big by 106FM's standards. If that's all we can get for the champions in a crunch match V a team
with reasonable away support, then I'd say a core of 2000 would be doing well.

[Éanna]

I'd say there were more than 3,000 at the Bohs game. I ould've said 4 at least.