Yeah I think you are right as I do remember reading Cabo having a huge crowd for their first game!Originally Posted by Philosophizer
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Think the vast majority of that was Cabo schoolboy players and their parents but yep, huge crowd, there was pyro and everything. No reason Kerry can't do the same and get all the local teams invited for the first game
I reckon there is a big enough sports public in Tralee and the surrounds to support Kerry FC for their first year and if they are competitive and play a reasonable attractive game they will keep the interest. The days of only GAA is now a myth. There is so much sports interest and media coverage of sports available that Kerry and places like Tralee are typical areas that people are aware and want different sports to follow. I reckon there are a lot of soccer supporters, who would be delighted to have the option of being able to go to a League of Ireland game on a Friday night and now Tralee will be able to offer this entertainment choice.
My knowledge of football in Co Kerry is rather limited which of Killarney or Tralee would best suit Kerry FC?
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
If you mean for hosting matches, the KDL have spent the last two decades working on developing facilities, so whether it was a county application (as had been mooted before following the U21s success in the 2000s) or a club team, Tralee was always the likely venue.
It will be interesting to see where attendances are ten games in or so, if the side is making up the numbers in Div1 mid table or below.
Irish people like to support success & Kerry people particularly are used to supporting success. LOI core support Vs support when good times come are two very different sets of numbers.
In your opinion, culloty82, where are the club aiming, financially, in their opening season ? Is there a promotion budget possibility here ? It seems very well orchestrated, and I wouldn't be surprised if they meant business from the off.
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Treaty are arguably the financial template they'll follow for the first few years, given you're proving that having a well-coached, well-motivated squad of largely local players isn't incompatible with success on the pitch. From what is known so far, the investors have a background in US college soccer and will be prepared to scale up the budget if necessary, but are content to let everything be organised from Kerry - in any case, Dennehy has been talking about a ten-year plan, which must be the first time a new club has wanted to dampen down expectations!
He said there was already plenty of places to stand on the other side.Is it time for the Joke thread!
Did you hear about the Kerry man that built the stand along only one side of the pitch................!
Anyone able to add a funny punch line?
Tralee has a significantly larger population than Killarney (24,000 vs 14,000 in 2016, and probably a bigger gap since), so for that reason alone would make the most sense.
Tralee is more accessible from North, South, East and West. Most clubs around the county are familiar with travelling to Mounthawk Park.
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
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Looks like the Kerry HR person is going to have a busy fortnight ahead of them:
https://twitter.com/KerryFC/status/1580256997672468480
Sadly, O'Donnell's, which was the pub/restaurant in the Mounthawk area, just closed down at the weekend, not that there's any shortage of dining options in the town centre itself, mind you.
This time the floodlights are being upgraded:
https://twitter.com/KerryFC/status/1580967409657470976
Limerick had over 3000 for their first game in Thomond Park. Numbers dropped soon after. Tends to be the trend for most clubs. The facilities couldn't be blamed.
Having support for season tickets and membership will be key. If they can get this right to start with, and avoid antagonising this support, they will do well.
Kerry will be doing well to challenge for 8th and 9th, should their application be successful. Kerry's first foray into the youth leagues of Ireland were challenging. Senior grade will bring more scrutiny.
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.
A future newsletter may be rather mundane, but takes things out of the realm of the abstract:
https://kerryfc.com/
Membership and season tickets. Sign up now for more details.
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.
Kerry a great addition to the league, wishing them huge success. If you are UCD right now, the look of the 1st Division from a travel perspective next season would frighten the life out of you. Away trips to Wexford, Cobh, Kerry, Limerick, Galway, Longford, Athlone, Galway, Harps, Waterford next season (excluding whichever one goes/stays up via playoffs) Not a single Dublin team (Bray aside). Talk about an incentive to stay up ! Those young students with exams to sit, talk about an incentive. Not to mention all the footballers in the league trying to do a day job and do that sort of round trip every second week for practically nothing. Fair play to the lot of them.
At least you have motorways to travel to most of those.
The task is all the more daunting from a Harps perspective.
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Isn't this just what the likes of Cork, Harps and Derry have to put up with every other weekend ?
Genuinely wishing then the best, but fear it may end up like Monaghan - too much of a GAA stronghold.
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