eircom League 2007 Attendances

**sonofstan** · 10/03/2007, 7:25 PM

Originally Posted by Raheny Red

Supposedly Longford have a dismal crowd there tonight

Shels fans desperately looking for someone to look down on!

**pineapple stu** · 10/03/2007, 7:28 PM

Originally Posted by gael353

250 tops!

300-350 mentioned on the Limerick forum.

CBG is usually reliable with his estimates, as far as I can see (think he has access to official figures more often than not)

**Raheny Red** · 10/03/2007, 7:30 PM

Originally Posted by sonofstan

Shels fans desperately looking for someone to look down on!

YUP

**stann** · 10/03/2007, 8:24 PM

Originally Posted by pete

I heard 2500. Can't see how the RSC can fit 3000 anyway as seen some pictures & few people trackside. I'd guess 2000 more realistic as stand only holds 1200 or something.

People from both sides who were at the game all say 3000, you were told 2500, and yet you say 2000 because you can't imagine any more fitting in????

I counted over 2600 from where I sat and I couldn't see all the ground. The stand was packed (1300), there was 350 strung along the far side of the pitch, and another 150 scattered in front of and behind the fence at the city end, and 50 or so along the county end around to the entrance gate. Then there was 4 sheep pens trackside on the stand side which each held 200, the maximum the FAI fella would let in each. The one nearest the city hadn't as many in it. I couldn't see how many were standing either side of the stand, but there's normally a good few on the bank at the city side.

**Schumi** · 10/03/2007, 9:19 PM

Originally Posted by stann

there was 4 sheep pens trackside on the stand side

Any pictures of these?

**stann** · 10/03/2007, 9:35 PM

Not really. 'Enclosures created by linked crush barriers' lacked a bit of descriptive colour I thought.

**pineapple stu** · 10/03/2007, 10:05 PM

1800-2000 mentioned for Athlone-Kilkenny on the Athlone forum.

**oriel** · 10/03/2007, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by bohs til i die

I was talking to Noel Mooney last night at the Bohs game and he said the Dundalk-Harps attendance was 1850 or a figure in and around that.

Exact figures are not available but 2,500 is the estimated figure as now reported by local radio, one local paper and the dfc.com

**Buffalo Saint** · 10/03/2007, 11:51 PM

Just back from Longford v Pats. My guess is about 1800. Don't think I'd be too far wrong. Pay at the gate and no tickets given out, so who's to say or who can say, how many attended. A great travelling support. Fair balls to the Red Army!

**SPXcyan** · 11/03/2007, 12:03 AM

YA can catch a short glimpse if lucky at the layout of the RSC with this clip..

**dfx-** · 11/03/2007, 2:59 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Think 1700 in fairer fo our game, in hindsight.

In the second half anyway, the main stand was pretty much full (a few empty seats at the end I was in offset by the Rovers end overflowing) - say 800 (holds 848). We reckoned about 600 standing around the ground and the Cascarino stand (which is supposed to hold now 650) was about half full. So total is 800+600+300 = 1700.

I would've guessed at least 2,000 - goes to show guesstimates. It honestly looked like the biggest Rovers UCD crowd at Belfield for at least 4-5 years. Never needed the seating behind the goal either and not much space around the perimeter fence either..

**Longfordian** · 11/03/2007, 3:10 AM

Originally Posted by Buffalo Saint

Just back from Longford v Pats. My guess is about 1800. Don't think I'd be too far wrong. Pay at the gate and no tickets given out, so who's to say or who can say, how many attended. A great travelling support. Fair balls to the Red Army!

Yeah. I'd agree. Good Pats support. Hard to quantify it but also more home fans than nearly all games last year which ain't saying much but it's a start

**Stato** · 11/03/2007, 9:02 AM

Originally Posted by Buffalo Saint

Just back from Longford v Pats. My guess is about 1800. Don't think I'd be too far wrong.

Are you having a laugh? The capacity of the Flansiro is 6,900 as far as I'm aware, there's not a chance that the place was a quarter full. My estimate was no more than 1,000. The main stand has a capacity of 1,500 and there was a huge amount of empty seats around us, I'd guess 400 in there at the most. From my view across to the open areas I had guessed around 500 supporters.

**WindmillWarrior** · 11/03/2007, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by bohs til i die

I was talking to Noel Mooney last night at the Bohs game and he said the Dundalk-Harps attendance was 1850 or a figure in and around that.

I'd go along with that. From last years guesstimates it looks like the D*ndalk boys are getting a bit carried away with themselves. The shed might have been packed yeah, but its feckin tiny lads!!
See pic - http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...lk/newshed.jpg

BTW, bohs till i die, what was the figure for our away support on Friday?

**BohsFans** · 11/03/2007, 2:46 PM

Originally Posted by WindmillWarrior

BTW, bohs till i die, what was the figure for our away support on Friday?

Originally Posted by Bohs til i die

465 on Connaught Street and another 50-60 in the Jodi

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**pineapple stu** · 11/03/2007, 3:45 PM

So what are we saying on the ones where there's a dispute?

Longford v Pat's - Town fan and a Pat's fan agreeing on roughly 1800; Stato saying 1000 tops.
Dundalk v Harps - Dundalk fans and website saying 2500; Drogs and Bohs fans (don't know if either were at the game though) saying 1800.

**Battery Rover** · 11/03/2007, 4:12 PM

Athlone vs Kilkenny

The seats in the stand were 95% full and there was about 50 standing up at the back. Another 100 standing round the pitch. So 2000 would be right.

**kdjaC** · 11/03/2007, 4:18 PM

Go with less than a 1000 for longford game about 200 pats fans.

kdjac

**pineapple stu** · 11/03/2007, 4:33 PM

OK, so on that basis (feel free to argue, those who have other figures), the first update is as follows -

PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 3,078 (2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340)
Bray - --- (1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cork - --- (2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 4,000 (3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - --- (1,751; 1,682; 1,554)
Galway - 3,314 (1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Longford - 1,000 (681; 1,004; 1,131)
Pat's - --- (1,342; 1,599; 1,882)
Rovers - --- (1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - --- (1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 1,700 (546; 653; 306 FD)
Waterford - 3,000 (915; 1,513; 1,753)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 2,000 (421; 316; 291)
Cobh - 375 (368; 403; 240)
Dundalk - 2,500 (1,078; 474; 591)
Harps - --- (428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Kildare - --- (265; 186; 298)
Kilkenny - --- (122; 185; 110)
Limerick - --- (364; 669; 188)
Monaghan - 309 (204; 183; 182)
Shels - 1,572 (1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Wexford - --- (n/a)

Premeir Division average - 2,371 (1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 1351 (570; 520; 512)

Overall average - 1,907 (1,070; 1,195; 1,218)

FD is an average crowd in the First Division; PD is an average crowd in the Premier Division. I've only put that in where the attendances was when the club was in a different one to their current division.

**pete** · 11/03/2007, 4:59 PM

It would be interesting to see what the averages were for first weekend last season. By all accounts seems like decent 16,000 at the Premier division this weekend.

Looking at the games for next week i see no reason figures can't be kept up at these levels.