Rovers docked 8 points

[CollegeTillIDie]

Nosedived, at the limerick game we got over 2000 and thats in the first division. I'd like to see any club in Ireland attract over 2000 people to an utterly useless, depressing excuse for football. Any moderate success and we can draw out a good crowd. I know the crowds droped but for first division average crowds, we draw 3 times that amount for an average game. If we get some moderate success like 1994 we could attract up to 4000.

Nowadays nobody would. However when Derry were getting 10,000 to the Brandywell, they were in the First Division. Admittedly this was 1985/87 .

[Da Real Rover]

It's strange that Rovers can get these great crowds against the likes of Limerick and get nothing remotely like it any of the times I've seen them play at home to Harps or Galway in recent years. Kinda makes you wonder.

Look im not pulling those figures out of my arse cause if you look at the official attendance of the game it is 2000 and if you ask anyone who was at that game 2000 is a sound approxiamte attendance. So just cause ye bring the 40 or so fans to the showgrounds last year and didnt get the full house ye deserve, ill just put that down to yer B.O. problem.

[Patrick Dunne]

.. alright, that when Galway United went to the Showgrounds last year, there seemed to be at most 600 at the two games, and probably far less.

So Harps and Galway supporters are lying. The funny thing about Sligo Rovers is your need to artifically boost attendances. If there are 150 people in Terryland Park for a game, then I will estimate the attendance at 150, not some ridiculous figure to boost my flagging self-confidence.

Sligo's "official" attendances are taken from their website and are always "2000" or "1500". Surely not official attendances by the standards of normal clubs. In fairness, they seem to be getting bigger attendances than last season, but anyone watching TV3 can see that the "official" figures are incorrect.

[Patrick Dunne]

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[manic da hoop]

What the fcuk has this talk about Sligo's crowds got to do with the title of this thread? Stick to the bloody subject or discuss this elsewhere, please!

[Dodge]

100 people = €250k, there was 80 new monthly paying members in the space of a week and presumably the other 180 are not in a position to get a loan or 1 week was to short to be able to arrange it. 40% of existing members is a good strike rate for €2,500 of a lump sum.

Tp get anyone to do it is suberb but basically you got 100 people to sign up, and I doubt that any of the Dub clubs wouldn't have got that many to sign up to save our respective clubs. Nothing wrong with the Rovers fans but the way some are going on its like they've a HUGE hardcore all saving their club together. 100 fans are, and fair play to them, but any decent sized club could get that...

[joeraki]

Tp get anyone to do it is suberb but basically you got 100 people to sign up, and I doubt that any of the Dub clubs wouldn't have got that many to sign up to save our respective clubs. Nothing wrong with the Rovers fans but the way some are going on its like they've a HUGE hardcore all saving their club together. 100 fans are, and fair play to them, but any decent sized club could get that...

Bring it to around the 350 mark which is more than decent. Didn't Pats try something like this last year or the year before, how'd that work out ??

[Dyl10]

Personally i think docking them eight points is ridiculus.
The eircom league is in bits as it is and the last thing that is needed is losing another big fan base.
It is only paperwork and it should be about the football

[manic da hoop]

Above all else, the Licencing Committee were in full possession of the facts when they granted the Licence. It was only when the 400 Club made the FAI aware of the errors in the book-keeping that they begun to decide to take action. They are administering punishment to a club that is now being run by the very people who are doing more than the FAI ever will to rectify the kind of shoddy management that has always existed throughout this league. Also, the decision to dock 8 points (why not 7, why not 9, why 50) was based purely on the number of points that Rovers have accumulated to date - they made their decision during the Pats game, at which time we were losing 1-0. What if we had just 2 or 3 points on the board, what if we had 20? Btw, I can only laugh at the "high-and-mighty, serves them right" attitude of some people. Scratch the surface at any club and you'll find enough to throw them out of the league if you scruntinise the rule-book. How is it that not one club was granted a Licence at first, but on appeal EVERYONE got one?

[WeAreRovers]

Bring it to around the 350 mark which is more than decent. Didn't Pats try something like this last year or the year before, how'd that work out ??

"any decent sized club could get that..."

Well Dodge?

KOH

[wws]

PATS got 100 plus to sign up for its closest equivilent - 5 year tickets (incidentally theres people at pats who bought life memberships for 250 squid when we were on the verge of winding up!!


now thats value!

[Dodge]

PATS got 100 plus to sign up for its closest equivilent - 5 year tickets (incidentally theres people at pats who bought life memberships for 250 squid when we were on the verge of winding up!!

The life tickets were £1,000 old money. Saved our club back in 1992...

The Pats 500 club thing was a 5 season ticket, nothing more nothing less(We weren't close to dying). I said at the time it'll look like a failure if they didn't reach 400 but would they listen... As it is we have over 400 individual season tickets (to go with the 203 5 year year tickets - and yeah I checked). We had a monthly draw thing last year were people gave money by direct debit. It was limited to 250 and fully subsribed (not at first though). Myself I couldn't do it as I didn't want to donate more money to club at the time...

I'm saying in a life or death situation Cork, Bohs, Pats, Derry and maybe one or two others could easily raise €250,000 in a week from their fans...

[joeraki]

I'm saying in a life or death situation Cork, could easily raise €250,000 in a week from their fans...

After 4/5 goes already I'd hope so

[Buller]

I'm saying in a life or death situation Cork, Bohs, Pats, Derry and maybe one or two others could easily raise €250,000 in a week from their fans...

I doubt after nearly 20 years of homelessness they could do it though...

[wws]

I doubt after nearly 20 years of homelessness they could do it though...

20 years haha, yeah it is funny!

[manic da hoop]

20 years haha, yeah it is funny!

Yeah, I mean it's not like Pats ever spent any time on the road

[wws]

yeah - you're right I better not make light of it in that case...

[patsh]

I'm saying in a life or death situation Cork, Bohs, Pats, Derry and maybe one or two others could easily raise €250,000 in a week from their fans...

TBH, I'd say you could be hard pushed in Cork, unless one or two big donations come in.....

[NY Hoop]

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Sligo educational system.

LOL

And bitter muppet of the year goes to gavinzac. And particularly given that he comes from cark where NOBODY gave a #### back in 1983 when there was NO senior team down there.


KOH


KOH

[Dodge]

Yeah, I mean it's not like Pats ever spent any time on the road

More than 20 years in total. Guess what, we're still going...