Agenda for Friday Nights

**red bellied** · 17/06/2006, 10:54 PM

Who in their right mind wants Rovers to play on Friday nights is there a conspiracy for this?

**red bellied** · 18/06/2006, 2:01 PM

You dont have to be a genius to work out that Friday nights will not work in the Showgrounds and the MC must know this as well. So you have to ask yourself do they want this to work.

If the League merges with the FAI there will be changes. The Rovers MC go to the FAI look our attendaces are crap we want to go back to Winter football, the whole summer thing isnt working probably sounds daft but there could be something in it.

**Terry** · 18/06/2006, 3:02 PM

There is a lot of complaining here, but nothing constructive been decided for what I can see. As the title says, what are the supporters agenda? what is yer plan to get the message across to the board?

**red bellied** · 18/06/2006, 3:18 PM

Was drunk when i put that up it should come across what is the clubs agenda for a Friday night because they know its going to end in failure so is there an alternative motive for this.

**Redzer** · 19/06/2006, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by red bellied

If the League merges with the FAI there will be changes. The Rovers MC go to the FAI look our attendaces are crap we want to go back to Winter football, the whole summer thing isnt working probably sounds daft but there could be something in it.

IMO that wont happen. Summer football is here for the long haul. If you look at the plans for the Dublin clubs, the FAI are trying to persuade clubs in the capital to ground share. If winter football were to return the grounds would not hold up, having a home game every weekend.
The facts are our attandance is UP since summer football started. The reason is more than likely due to our success on the pitch, rather than summer football. If we were to get a good cup run ,or a chance to finish in the top 4 or 5, I'd venture to say our attandance would climb higher.
7.500 attended the GAA match last Saturday evening. So Saturday evenings football is not the problem. I have no doubt that at least 1000 of them would be genuine sports fans,who rarely or never go to see Rovers. But if the product was marketed properly, they would go to the Showgrounds.

**Red4Eva** · 20/06/2006, 12:35 AM

[QUOTE=Redzer]7.500 attended the GAA match last Saturday evening./QUOTE]

the official attendance was just over 5000 and i was at most of their league games & there was about 900 at one of em & a lot of that was away support. fridays r saturdays it doesn't matter if the club don't do a sh*te sight more to publicise the games our attendances won't be maximised

**Redzer** · 20/06/2006, 9:39 AM

Sorry, printing error on my behalf. I meant 5,500.

**red bellied** · 21/06/2006, 2:07 PM

From the Champion today Toolan said "Rovers are continually lobbying for a return to winter football claiming the present arrangement is not working, particularly for teams in the North West and West." He generally blames the attractions of Summer for this.

Reading between the lines the Friday night issue might not last the full trial, Toolan says "if it is a total downer we might not go the distance"

Commenting on the survey at the start of the season he says there wasnt enough numbers to say how this would go.