That kind of is the point, maybe UCD shouldnt focus on just students as their core following, but try and develop a base in Dublin South-East.
Of course it can be done, and there are plenty of ex university teams about in the top leagues across the world but I doubt anybody in UCD cares what a random poster says about this stuff... fun little mind excercise tho.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
I think you're right. Probably the most fans from one team at a final in modern history.
What would be interesting is if both Derry city and Shamrock rovers are top two next season which I think it will be and both teams contest the final we could be looking at a full stadium. Between the both clubs and the amount of neutrals it's definitely possible.
So if you think Bohs are big read this. http://www.astronomy.ie/perpespective.html
Finn Harps will be facing an 820 kilometre round trip to Kerry. Other lenghty trips are to Waterford (800km), Wexford (750km) and Cobh in Cork (860km).
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
#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).
That Sligo Shamrock final had a huge amount of neutrals at it, as it was the first game in the new Lansdowne. I even had a cousin there who has never been to a football game before or since.
I'd a cousin of my great uncles friends aunts nephew who attended that game.
We need to keep after the day trippers,make sure they come back. Easier said than done unfortunately.One day trippers for the cheap seats.Event junkies,FAI and LoI sites should spam the arse of them
Not modern times but I was at the 1980 Waterford/St Pats final. Attendance was given as 28k and there was definitely 20k up from Waterford that day. I remember reports stating they outnumbered Pats fans 6 to 1 that day
Rovers sold 1000 season tickets in the 1st 24 hrs after sales opened apparently.
Generally 50-60k, according to the Medialive website, which, sadly, is on a par with LoI matches on RTE.
Some hugely impressive crowds this season. I'n looking for a complete list of attendances for the season, I tried the LOI official site, but nothing there that I could find - you'd think they'd be shouting it from the rooftops.
Or is this site reliable?
https://www.worldfootball.net/attend...vision-2022/3/
Not sure how some clubs (Shams, Dundalk, Drogs) played so many more games than others, both home and overall - playoffs?
EDIT: Seems they simply didn't have the full figures for some clubs.
Last edited by EalingGreen; 22/11/2022 at 3:10 PM.
Not sure where the figures in that link are coming from but they’re totally inaccurate/inconsistent.
Straight away Pats, Rovers and Derry all had higher averages than that, Harps and UCD had lower averages than that and the random number of games makes no sense. If they’re taking European/cup games into account for rovers then they haven’t included them all and haven’t included any cup/euro games for Pats/Derry/Sligo, likewise Drogheda and Dundalk didn’t play that many home games in 2022 and shels played more than 17 home games. There’s no doubt more inaccuracies in that link but that’s just at a glance
Paaatrick's Agletic
It looks to be at a midpoint in the season and includes both home and away games.
You can select "home" and it'll show UCD with an average of 842 for example.
Although I rather unhelpfully linked to the Overall table, the Home table still looks very unbalanced eg Drogs 15 homes, Shams and Dundalk 13 each, versus Derry and Shels 6 each and Finn Harps 8:
https://www.worldfootball.net/attend...vision-2022/1/
Can hardly be the midpoint, no?
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