The bitter reality.Originally Posted by sbgawa
The bitter reality.
That sounds a bit strange. You pay when you join and then that's it, you're a member for life?
Looking at their own website, it's saying €20 per month, or a €240 annual payment?
https://www.sligorovers.com/500-club/
Not sure if it’s still the case but in the past to become a member with a vote at the agm you paid 1k (I think) to become a member. You also become a member when you’ve been in the 500 club for 3 years. TBH I would imagine most members are just in the 500 club.
Nothing to add, here, just acknowledging that the page number is the same as a commonly used formation.
Only another 9 pages till the next one, then it'll be an 81 page wait after that.
Taking into account it’s a thread about LOI stadiums, how may more pages before a new stadium is actually built and fully completed?
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Football will have evolved itself out of existence by then.Taking into account it’s a thread about LOI stadiums, how may more pages before a new stadium is actually built and fully completed?
Or as Busted sang, we'll all be living under water anyway.
Like Croke Park and covering Hill 16, Tallaght is still unfinished until the corners are done!
Watch this space.
22 leagues and 26 cups and....well....none of you will ever catch up if we're being honest.
Average crowds this season 6000 and only 1 or 2 above 8000, Nesta is right to say Talaght wont be finished until the corners are filled in but there is zero need for it.
If our average crowd is 6000 with 5 league wins out of 6 years and 3 Group stages in Europe in a row what are the crowds waiting on to turn up??
Hard to see us ever getting to a stage where we need to fill in the corners.
Also we had a few games well below 3000 people and a couple below 2000.
Dont get me wrong our average crowd going back to 2018/19 was only around 3500 but its hard to see much more growth from here.
If anything i think crowds fall off for anything other gthan the biggest matches as people take it for granted now.
If we are filling the corners can we do the South end and try to keep a bit more of the winf out
It's not up to us though. The council plan to fill in the corners from what I've been told. It'll look well I think.Average crowds this season 6000 and only 1 or 2 above 8000, Nesta is right to say Talaght wont be finished until the corners are filled in but there is zero need for it.
If our average crowd is 6000 with 5 league wins out of 6 years and 3 Group stages in Europe in a row what are the crowds waiting on to turn up??
Hard to see us ever getting to a stage where we need to fill in the corners.
Also we had a few games well below 3000 people and a couple below 2000.
Dont get me wrong our average crowd going back to 2018/19 was only around 3500 but its hard to see much more growth from here.
If anything i think crowds fall off for anything other gthan the biggest matches as people take it for granted now.
If we are filling the corners can we do the South end and try to keep a bit more of the winf out
Our crowds are fine. Highest average in the league. If we had a smaller stadium we'd be selling it out. Pretty obvious that if you're regularly playing twice a week and rarely on Fridays, with a never ending season, you're not going to fill the stadium often. People will pick and choose games for financial and logistical reasons. Had to do it myself. Battles had to be picked with the wife. It's impressive we are keeping the average high tbh. We can do more of course and the aim should be to fill Tallaght as often as possible. Id like to see more marketing around Tallaght and the city personally.
100% to all this, SDCC will fill the corners, no timeline yet but it will happen - they have delivered everything they said they would and will again. Our crowds are good considering everything outlined above, my son and I have had to pick and choose games this season, but we really do need to up our Marketing game, complacency has crept in off the field.
As a wise man once said to me, get the lad who goes once a season to go five times, the five times a season bloke to go 10 times and the 10 times a season fan to buy a ST. That would be a good start but fact is is we need to get better at putting bums on seats on a more consistent basis.
We are becoming very Leinster/Dubs-like in that there are wild swings between our biggest and smallest attandances. That's a strength as it means the interest is there but we need to market the bejaysus out of it.
No One Likes Us, We Don't Care
Absolutely. So much more could be done but the doom and gloom around our attendances is way overplayed imop. I think we sold 4000 season tickets? It's a lot harder to get people to Tallaght than the stadium's within the city, and I think we've plateaued a bit. Same average attendance for the past 3 years. Something for our new CEO to look at. His background would give you hope. Seems to have done great community/fan work at Aberdeen.
I fully expect crowds to continue to trend upwards in the LOI. If only due to population growth alone.Average crowds this season 6000 and only 1 or 2 above 8000, Nesta is right to say Talaght wont be finished until the corners are filled in but there is zero need for it.
If our average crowd is 6000 with 5 league wins out of 6 years and 3 Group stages in Europe in a row what are the crowds waiting on to turn up??
Hard to see us ever getting to a stage where we need to fill in the corners.
Also we had a few games well below 3000 people and a couple below 2000.
Dont get me wrong our average crowd going back to 2018/19 was only around 3500 but its hard to see much more growth from here.
If anything i think crowds fall off for anything other gthan the biggest matches as people take it for granted now.
If we are filling the corners can we do the South end and try to keep a bit more of the winf out
Though will that require the corners of Tallaght to be filed in any time soon? Unlikely.
If they're looking at an eventual 14-15,000 capacity stadium, you'll probably see competitive Leinster Rugby games played there instead of the RDS, with their 20 year lease on the RDS up in 2027.
Ergo the really hard work at any club, not so much convincing the committed, willing and converted on a sub based membership.
It would make sense to use the appropriate sized grounds from Tallaght up to Croke Park depending on match profile but would the RDS really be cut loose after the recent refurb work for Leinster Rugby in the main. It would have to be a very unreasonable lease extension offer by the RDS. It moves away from the more traditional base if using Tallaght but thats a good thing for rugby in term of building catchement/fanbase and SDCC. Not sure I'd be that happy if I was SRFC, competition in terms of floating fan in the area and then working another large sports club schedule at the facility, use of surface on top of underage, womens internationals etc.
Donnybrook/Ballsbridge is Leinster's "spiritual home", to the extent that they're old enough as an entity to have one. Can't imagine their supporters being thrilled about being dragged out to Tallaght on any kind of regular basis. The RDS will be reasonable in terms of rent because there's no obvious replacement tenants for them either.
Went up to Saratoga, where my horse naturally won.
i had enough of them asking me would their cars be safe "out there" when they played the Leinster Schools final in Tallaght to know that the RDS is unlikely to be left.........
I mean you cant even get the DORT
Well they did let Tallaght Community School join the Senior Rugby Schools Cup and bunch of years back. It was a bit of a shock to the system when Tallaght were away to Clongpwes and the lads didnt have a clue what the suss was ad the half time oranges were all about. I was at Prod private school and we had a good laugh at the confused looks when half time organges were delivered, some secret ritual. Likewise Clongowes playing TCS away. There was huge resistance to allow Tallaght in and when they then won a few games there were all sorts of Thomas Davis like storkes pulled but in fairnes the IRFU stuck to their guns at the time.
Why would you want to leave city centre for the city sticks even if it were a bit cheaper sure you are nearly culchies that far out in Tallaght!
They come out in a rash at the thoughts of getting a red line Luas.
Went up to Saratoga, where my horse naturally won.
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