Wow if thats not a reason for the fai to keep you in the premier over bray then what is. Were you on the galway set up years ago when in the first div claiming 1500 at every game trying to justify premier licence when your attendances included the swans from louch atalia
3437 in the SDCC tanight.700 Dundalk!
A small tangent, an odd one even.....I had hoped that a Kerry team would eventually push for LOI membership - especially considering the previous involvement at league cup level, and the current involvement in the national underage leagues - but one of the aspects that constantly gets thrown around is support levels.
All the local sports teams are well supported in Kerry, Gaa naturally, but also basketball. The Tralee team are pulling in 800+ attendances for the home matches in the SuperLeague, and while basketball has a great tradition in Kerry funnily enough, I would not have anticipated those figures. It would give me hope that a 1st Division Kerry League side would be able to at least pull the same regularly for a home game. Mounthawk Park while very acceptable as a local league venue, would need improvements to bring it up to LOI standard.
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Counties from the 26 that have never had senior football.
Ulster - Cavan.
Connacht - Roscommon, Leitrim, Mayo.
Leinster - Carlow, Laois, Meath Offaly.
Munster - Clare, Kerry
So 10 out of 26 or nearly 40% have never had a club, until the 70's only Louth, Sligo, Dublin, Westmeath, Cork ,Limerick and Waterford held the privilege AFAIK , or did Bray Unknowns hold membership, anyways each of the old port towns was represented except Wexford (too small) and Galway(too poor), with Athlone thrown in as a wild card.
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Bray Unknowns were active for quite a while many years before Wanderers entered the league, and Transport, the railway side, played out of the Carlisle Grounds for a bit in the '40s/'50s also.
Point is still valid, though, if I read it right - aside from all the other problems, there's a fair chance any new league clubs will have to battle against zero tradition of senior football in their area.
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Nothing less than pure arrogance or couldn't be bothered by Rovers. Dlk had 1k enquiries. 300 were left without tickets, Rovers could easily have moved home fans up towards the end opposite to the square but it was too much hassle.
For the match last Sunday week, Dlk were restricted to selling 500 tickets for the match in oriel park due to the extreme limited facilities and capacity. They had no option.
There should have been no such excuse last Tuesday not to extend sales to meet demand, but it would appear that Rovers made that decision themselves.
The attendance figure as a result was probably a little disappointing but maybe not unexpected.
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#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
1,700+ at Derry city v Finn Harps according to the Guards.
[QUOTE=Candystripe;1939849]1,700+ at Derry city v Finn Harps according to the Guards.[/QUO
I hope the 'Garda' figures add up!
Of the teams from new towns/areas/counties in the 26 that came since in since 1970 none have won a league , I think they have 5 cups between them and for each cup there had been at least one failure and for each failure, roughly, at the time of writing one success.
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