I'm correcting two mistruths, that's what I'm about. There was way more than 350 United fans in Sligo on Saturday. Speak to your own SLO, our allocation of almost 500 was close to selling out. Maybe your club made that up to drive more sales...? Perhaps 100+ GUFC fans stayed at home.Originally Posted by red bellied
I've been to the Showgrounds enough times to know that we've brought crowds of around 300 several times. I was in the seated area and it was packed, and there was loads of people in front of the stand at the railing, and then down along the side to the goals. Thankfully there were no 30KM breezes on Saturday to get this one called off.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
Is Nick back as Slo, he was always spoofing Galway attendances. Making stuff up regarding the cup match. I watched the second half in Jinks avenue after making my way up from the railway end. There was no Galway supporters around me. I remember that game well as there was big interest after beating Shels previous round.
Haha whatever, we have very different recollections of events clearly so we will leave it at that. Maybe have a chat with your own SLO about why he is sending messages of low ticket warnings to United club officials the night before the game if he's making it up. Bizarre behaviour.
Not to worry, you won't have too much difficulties with counting away fans next year.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
I sit directly across and I don't care about what was said by the Slo, there was no way was there close to 500 Galway. There was actually some spare seats top left near the fencing. Derry had the biggest away support in showgrounds this season of about 450 and they filled a line all along the open section. By the way there was no official segregation in Showgrounds until the season of 2006. Away support generally would mill around the railway or bottom of Jinks avenue before then.
What seated area is there for away fans every seat is broken ,Kip of stadium not to mention the 2 portloos
Well they werent broken by home fans! You do know you won, you sound quite angry.
They also have toilets in a prefab also which are a similar size to the ones in the away section at Terryland. Also unless every single seat has been broken in the 4 home games Sligo have played (prior to Saturday) since I was there in the last game of the season last year then that’s a vast exaggeration
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Paaatrick's Agletic
New ground development incoming that stand will be knocked by this time next season, great username by the way you have already out lived your team not many can say that.
It will be the best stand in the First Division.
roddy collins you're a flanker you're a flanker!
Ah sure maybe we will get someone to jazz up a dvd or something and organise a ****up for the Fai and dump some other club to the first division, dunno how I dreamt that up.
Just leave Dundalk out of this squabble!! Shaft Waterford, their owner deserves it.
1,974 in the RSC
828 hardy souls on a horrible night in Ballybofey.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Crowds across the country tonight seem to have taken a hit across the board with the weather.
4,723 at Pats Rovers. The tickets were totally sold out a week in advance so you’ve the guts of 600 people that paid for one that didn’t show up obviously due to the rain, likely mainly families with kids etc. Nights like tonight really highlight how poor the spectator facilities are particularly when it’s wet, with most of the ground uncovered
Paaatrick's Agletic
I cant disagree with your general point but all-seater covered stadia are not all rain proof. Im sure many of us have been soaked in Tallaght and Croke Park, I certainly have and in other modern stadia. Raincoats and accepting that outdoor spectator sports are not always comfortable.... Im not being cantankerous, I just think some times there's too precious. If we were in Southern Spain it would be no cover from the sun.
The weather evidently put some people off Richmond. The game was billed as a complete sell out but 4723 was the final number. Still very healthy but a good few hundred off what it would have been otherwise.
That’s true, even the likes of Galway and Waterford which are near enough totally covered were well down on crowds even with empty seats in their covered stands. Obviously people deterred by not wanting to get wet going to and from the car. I can’t relate myself having spent nearly 3 hours stood on the Camac last night but as you say people can be precious
Paaatrick's Agletic
I do laugh sometimes at people when they go on about the rain in this country when you look at some of the conditions American sports fans sit in during winter,I think it’s just excuse for people tbh,each to their own I suppose……
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
In a place like Galway, where it rains 300 days a year anyway, yesterday was one of the wettest days for 6 months. There's rain, and then there's whatever yesterday was... 12 hours of rain in Galway City will inevitably knock several hundred off the gate.
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