2005 Attendances

**pineapple stu** · 10/07/2005, 5:47 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

Ha! And our guesstimate here is 4,000. Seems City fans have little scope of measuring their attendences.

That's right, and I always put in the lowest Cork figure... Will put the 5000 in for Bohs for now, but will expect it to come down by at least 20%.

Woeful crowd in Waterford for the UCD game - 350 tops. Counted 150 around the ground, and the stand (holds 700 or so?) was probably less than one-third full. Tall ships and all that, but we had a bigger crowd in Belfield!

Originally Posted by Dr Nightdub

Worst Dublin derby crowd I can remember in Richmond - ever.

Really?!

**�anna** · 10/07/2005, 7:09 PM

I'd say City v Bohs was closer to 4,000 to be honest lads

**Da Real Rover** · 10/07/2005, 11:19 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Woeful crowd in Waterford for the UCD game - 350 tops. Counted 150 around the ground, and the stand (holds 700 or so?) was probably less than one-third full. Tall ships and all that, but we had a bigger crowd in Belfield!

Really?!

that is terrible, with attendances like that no wonder their going bankrupt.

**DonO'Bate** · 10/07/2005, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by gufct

dreadful conditions ****ed rain the whole night and its scalding outside now typical.Best performance of the season keep playing like this and anything is possible.All four forwards played brilliantly and 2 scored.Eric made a huge difference as he bossed the limerick back 4 throughout the game.

About 80/100 there from limerick nice club great fans i hope they get back to winning ways soon.

Official attendance 664

**pete** · 10/07/2005, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by �anna

I'd say City v Bohs was closer to 4,000 to be honest lads

I agree, was surprised with radio figure.
1600+700+1200+500=4000
main stand+derrynane+shed+st annes

**trevy** · 11/07/2005, 11:32 AM

Woeful crowd in Waterford for the UCD game - 350 tops. Counted 150 around the ground, and the stand (holds 700 or so?) was probably less than one-third full. Tall ships and all that, but we had a bigger crowd in Belfield!

Really?!

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No the stand holds 1250 so there was more that that there.I thought about 700 but definitely at least 600 to watch a terrible 0-0 draw.Very poor crowd all the same.Were you one of the 5 UCD fans with the drum in block A?

**pineapple stu** · 11/07/2005, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by trevy

No the stand holds 1250 so there was more that that there.

Is Block A smaller than the rest? There are 160 seats in Block A (16 rows of 10), and five blocks overall. Two of the blocks have the tunnel eating significantly into them. My assumption then was 5 x 160 = 800, less 100 or so for the player tunnel = 700. There were ten people in Block A, and about 50 in Block B; granted, it did get fuller as you moved towards Block E

Originally Posted by trevy

Were you one of the 5 UCD fans with the drum in block A?

Yep (though there weer another 20 or so fans around the ground)! Wish I wasn't though... What a shocking match!

**trevy** · 11/07/2005, 2:38 PM

Block A is much smaller than the rest as its a lot narrower.Theres probably twice as many seats in the other blocks apart from the middle one.It was an awful game all right.

**Schumi** · 11/07/2005, 8:24 PM

Would have guessed at the stand being maybe 1/4 to 1/3 full with 150 around the ground.

**pineapple stu** · 11/07/2005, 8:55 PM

350 is mentioned on the Waterford forum as well (stand 1/4 full), though only with 50 people around the ground. Will up it to 400, but it certainly wasn't much more than that.

**Poor Student** · 11/07/2005, 9:13 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

350 is mentioned on the Waterford forum as well (stand 1/4 full), though only with 50 people around the ground. Will up it to 400, but it certainly wasn't much more than that.

Maybe some day we won't have the worst average in the Premier Division.

**OneRedArmy** · 11/07/2005, 9:15 PM

3,000-3,500 at Derry v Harps. Kick off delayed due to long queues to get in.

**pineapple stu** · 11/07/2005, 9:17 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

Maybe some day we won't have the worst average in the Premier Division.

Waterford will have to be in the Premier though!

Nice to see us getting higher crowds for the home game than the away game for a change (hopefully Longford as well), though obviously I'd rather it was just for our crowds going up rather than ours going up and the other team's dropping...

**Poor Student** · 11/07/2005, 9:19 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Waterford will have to be in the Premier though!

Nice to see us getting higher crowds for the home game than the away game for a change (hopefully Longford as well), though obviously I'd rather it was just for our crowds going up rather than ours going up and the other team's dropping...

I think dropping crowds of one team are compensated by others though. Sustained success at the top will give us rather large crowds from Derry and Cork and maybe even Bohs if they can continue their pre-Cork streak.

**pineapple stu** · 12/07/2005, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

I think dropping crowds of one team are compensated by others though.

Definitely - there's always some teams doing well and some not so well...currently just above water with regards this year's and last year's averages.

Though that may change if you get any back attendances from Cork...?

**Poor Student** · 12/07/2005, 2:48 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Though that may change if you get any back attendances from Cork...?

I sent the e-mail a month ago and got not so much as a feck off.

**pineapple stu** · 14/07/2005, 8:04 PM

Belated updates after the weekend. Last season in brackets.

PREMIER
Bohs 2202 (2340)
Bray 1779 (818) (missing Longford)
Cork 3592 (4033)
Derry 2589 (1672)
Drogheda 1951 (1554)
Harps 1563 (1106)
Longford 1165 (1131)
Pat's 1792 (1882)
Rovers 1986 (1466) (missing Drogheda)
Shels 2012 (2158)
UCD 749 (306)
Waterford 1313 (1753)

FIRST
Athlone 350 (291) (missing Monaghan)
Cobh 363 (240)
Dublin City 167 (592) (missing Monaghan)
Dundalk 273 (591) (missing Cobh)
Galway 634 (571)
Kildare 227 (298) (missing Dundalk and Kilkenny)
Kilkenny 133 (108) (missing Athlone, Dundalk, Kildare and Monaghan)
Limerick 844 (188)
Monaghan 178 (182) (missing Cobh and Kildare)
Sligo 1567 (781)

Premier Division - 1881 (1863)
First Division - 524 (515)

Weekend matches missing -
Bray v. Longford
Rovers v. Drogheda
Dublin City v. Monaghan
Dundalk v. Cobh
Kildare v. Kilkenny

**pineapple stu** · 14/07/2005, 8:12 PM

Comparisons to last season -

PREMIER DIVISION

Bray Wanderers v Longford Town - no figure (n/a)
Cork City v Bohemians - 4000 (1700)
Derry City v Finn Harps - 3000 (n/a)
St Pat's Ath v Shelbourne - 1884 (1800)
Shamrock Rvrs v Drogheda United - no figure (1200)
Waterford Utd v UCD - 400 (n/a)

FIRST DIVISION

Dundalk v Cobh Ramblers - no figure (500)
Dublin City v Monaghan Utd - no figure (n/a)
Galway Utd v Limerick FC - 664 (652)
Sligo Rovers v Athlone Town - 1700 (1200)
Kildare County v Kilkenny City - no figure (350)

Quick summary -
4 up
0 down
5 figures to come
3 no corresponding fixture

Premier Division average - 2942 (1750)
First Division average - 1182 (926)

**pineapple stu** · 15/07/2005, 11:33 PM

850 at UCD v. Pat's. Strange (and annoying!) that our crowds for Dublin derbies are going down while our crowds for the other games are going up...!

700 mentioned for Waterford v. Bray on their forum.