QuoteGood practice for Sunday week so.Originally Posted by redarmyfaction
Estimate 3200 for the Showgrounds, about 300 there from Bohs but they were pretty subdued for most of the night.
Good practice for Sunday week so.
It looked less than that on TV. What's the capacity there these days ?
Think it was over 4,000 in the end. Likely won't get any accurate figures as there was massive queues leading up to kickoff so people were probably ushered in quickly without proper counts.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
About 4K seated and whatever you can get standing behind the Maugheraboy end and the little standing section in the away end..
Last edited by redarmyfaction; 20/11/2021 at 11:34 AM.
You are hardly suggesting that the club didnt know if there could have been a squeeze in spots Nigel? Derry fans will be all over this!
Massively oversold the away area again.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
What size was the crowd at the RSC? I've seen people on social media saying it was big. Hopefully Waterford stay up in the play-off final, as UCD don't bring a lot to the Premier Division if we're honest (and especially not supporters).
2500 or in that ballpark was mentioned on loitv.
Stayed over in Sligo Park last night. First visit in Showgrounds since 2016. Sligo done a great job with the murals of their famous players,history and the €100 brick in the wall where you put in a message either someone whos passed away or a big Sligo rovers fan. Brilliant!
Loved the fancy dress from a few Bohs fans plus fireworks at the end. Bohs friend of mine stayed in Great Southern Hotel and a lot of bohs fans stayed over. I stayed in Sligo Park and bumped into few Bohs fans that were in bar in hotel after the game!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
2612 at the RSC.
What time did ye get served to Marty?
Didn't see a figure from Dundalk v Derry, but can usually tell if its over 3k with a good few rows taken up behind the town goal, plus maybe 300 down from Derry, so I`d estimate 3,200 - 3,330 something like that.
Not too bad for a side finishing 6th but a good vibe with the new owners first game.
#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).
Obviously getting a bump in numbers due to stadiums being back to full capacity after a long gap and also the end of season factor but I have to say the attendances have been more than decent around the grounds and maybe this could be a sign of further increases to overall/averages for next season.
Worth pointing out that the 7,765 attendance in Tallaght on Friday is the biggest League attendance in 20 years plus.
What was the last one ? Did the Cork-Derry end of seaosn title decider in 2005 (?) not have a crowd similar or bigger than that ?
Thread here says Cork v Derry was listed as ‘around 7,000’ so not higher. Open to correction though obviously.
https://twitter.com/tormey_history/s...360714753?s=21
Still think Rovers v Pats in the RDS has the last big attendance.
For my money, the size of biggest crowds in recent years has been largely determined by stadia limitations. Rovers could presumably have sold more tickets if they'd a bigger capacity (?). Likewise the Cork-Derry game in 2005 was a sell-out. Not sure about the Rovers-Pats RDS game - as I don't recall that myself, and the RDS had quite a big capacity then. But I think we're at the stage where the only think stopping the occasional LOI game beating numbers like 7,796 is the fact that our stadia are all so crap. It wouldn't be hard to envisage a Bohs-Rovs derby game in a keenly contested season getting a big crowd like that.
Work on the North Stand in Tallaght is imminent which will bring us up to 10k capacity. Enough for our needs for the foreseeable IMO.
Trick is to make the 7k+ crowds a regular occurrence which I think is more than doable for Rovers with a winning team.
10 Tallaghts around the country and we’d be sorted. That’s a pipe dream though.
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