QuoteThat's a bit disappointing, is it?Originally Posted by culloty82
There will be more people at Bohs tomorrow than all other LOI games this weekend collectively. Make you wonder will nee Dalymount be too small by a long shot?
That's a bit disappointing, is it?
Yeah poor crowd in Tralee for some reason. Stand was sold out online but alot of no shows. Maybe 20 Harps fans there.
Going to the game tomorrow, what’s the break down of the numbers. Is it ten home ten away and the rest neutrals ?
No figures for Shels or Dundalk games. Shels was sold out so assume over the 5k. Would mean 3 teams last night all above 5k. With the 30k in Aviva,
over 50k at league games this weekend.
Tad disappointing to to be expected on a bad weather night?
I think Noonan put an extra 5k on the attendance Sunday with his goal on Thursday.
The amount of eyeballs that story got will have convinced a small fraction on those people that it's worth ripping along to the Aviva.
I wouldn't worry about the size of Dalymount just yet. It's 2 fixtures a year which are guaranteed to sell out.
This weekend could be the beginning of Bohs going to the Leinster model of playing their biggest games in the Aviva.
It’s bang on Kerry’s average of last season and up 20% on last seasons opener (bray - 510). If Kerry can average over 700 this year then it will keep momentum going - a new club is always going to take time to build fan base, especially when so far always rooted to the bottom of the table.
That said, would expect and hope for a much bigger crowd in 2 weeks against Dundalk.
With the experiment tomorrow set to be a success then it will probably convince the powers that be to go again for their next fixture at home to Rovers.
I was thinking that, considering the first game of the season tends to be one of the better attended matches.
Has there been any improvements made to Mounthawk Park? They were allocated money recently
FAI connect has updated Kerry attendance to 810 now. The stand was sold out yesterday morning, but still lots of empty seats - presumably no shows as well as people having tickets for the stand but going to the terrace where the views are less obstructed.
I don’t believe there have been any improvements yet as a result of recent grant - it’s mainly for upgrade of Astro apparently, so assume that will be done next season.
It will be interesting to see over the next 12-18 months what further ground improvements will be done, one would assume some of the recent investment will be set aside for ground, but obviously complicated as not owned by the club.
TBF, that's why Sean O'Keeffe is double-jobbing with both the KDL and Kerry FC, so that the ground maintenance and improvement is done to the satisfaction of both parties, which isn't easy when the complex has to cater for First Division, LOI Academy games, and matches in the various KDL divisions in any given weekend, so finding a window for such work to be done is far from straightforward, to say the least!
Great , we can be just like the rugby
Seems that revised 810 figure exceeds last year's attendances, with the exception of the two Cork games and the Bohs Cup tie.
646 at Longford
Definitely. It should be an 8,000 Category 4 stadium at a minimum. Ideally 10,000, but that would be the upper limit.
Baltic cold night, zero expectations around the team this year and very small away crowd. I do think on a nicer evening we'd have got 800+ with a lot of sympathy out there for recent storm damage but I'd expect a huge drop off now after another disappointing start for third year in a row
Kerry have increased season ticket sales from 2023 to 2024 and now 2025. Good going considering results to date over 2023 and 2024. Not a whole lot of positive momentum from results in the league. The MSC run last year was positive. All the while the club is getting established.
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.
Exactly. Comparisons between them and the likes of Kildare County are genuinely unfounded. Kerry feels much more substantial, and is showing year-on-year continual growth/improvement.
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