2976 announced at the Showgrounds
Bohs/Dundalk - 4,239
Drogs/Waterford - 1,791
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Bray/Wexford - 576
Cobh/Athlone - 433
City/Kerry - 2,312
Treaty/Harps - 674
2976 announced at the Showgrounds
1,241 in Limerick
1002 at Finn park
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Usually always announce the attendance in Oriel, didn't last night. Thought there would be a big crowd in as they had 20% off online tickets and free ice cream for kids but the stand wasn't even full. Not a great crowd
I heard it in the away end of the stand, was 2000+ can't remember the actual figure announced
I was at St Pats Sligo Rovers match serious crowd and atmosphere at it. Announcement made of approx 3100 fans .
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Any figure for Tolka ?. The terracing at both ends of the Riverside Stand looked good, viewed from the main stand, pity there wasn't an extra 300/400 more to give a more fuller look.
4596 is the figure I was looking for. A bit disappointing for such a big game. Did live tv reduced the crowd? more promotion work needs to be done by Shels?
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3,537 in Cork.
710 in Mounthawk Park, which aside from the Cork match is the best home attendance since April.
344 at Wexford/Harps
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
3056 at Sligo/Shels
284 at Longford/Treaty
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
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I'm not very familiar with the town but does the club have any presence there? Is there a club shop or posters promoting games? Do many players live there? I always enjoy going to Bishopsgate, it's a fine ground, sad to see attendances dropping so low
Answer is no on all fronts but as I've pointed out before, the town itself is in an awful hape economically. A good portion of Longford people have to look for work outside the county, a lot of people working in the big employers in the town have come from outside the county or country so that makes it tougher for the club to form a connection with them (not impossible of course, more needs to be done but it's a skeleton volunteer crew out there who have been keeping the club ticking for decades now). Population of the town is only around 10k so if town were getting 1k a week it would actually be an insane success story. I'm hoping the club will bounce back in coming seasons, we've got a brilliant owner but long term you'd have to begin to ask yourself if a place like Longford can sustain a LOI club.
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