eircom League 2007 Attendances

**pineapple stu** · 21/05/2007, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Battery Rover

Athlone Town vs Limerick 37

Jaysus, thought that was the attendance for a second!

Galway v UCD was called out as 1x88 - I thought it was 1588, but could ell have been 1788. Reckoned 1500 myself looking at the ground.

Galway couldn't even put our CPO's name down on the officials list despite having been rung about two hours before!

**pineapple stu** · 21/05/2007, 1:00 PM

The good start was because all the derbies were scheduled for the first day; things were obviously going to be down after that.

Internet at home is broken until Friday, so it'll have to wait until after next weekend's games for an update. But the crowds are still up 30% or so.

**Steve Bruce** · 21/05/2007, 1:11 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

The good start was because all the derbies were scheduled for the first day; things were obviously going to be down after that.

Internet at home is broken until Friday, so it'll have to wait until after next weekend's games for an update. But the crowds are still up 30% or so.

Are you comparing the average of last season to this seasons average. Or are you comparing the same time of years average?

**pineapple stu** · 21/05/2007, 1:16 PM

No, overall last year versus current this year.

The average will start off high, then fall and then rise a bit towards the end of the year. You're right in that it's not a perfect comparison, but I'm too laxy to work it out otherwise.

**gufct** · 21/05/2007, 2:42 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Jaysus, thought that was the attendance for a second!

Galway v UCD was called out as 1x88 - I thought it was 1588, but could ell have been 1788. Reckoned 1500 myself looking at the ground.

Galway couldn't even put our CPO's name down on the officials list despite having been rung about two hours before!

There was a queue of 500 people constantly for over an hour looking for Sunderland Tickets so your cpo was lucky to get in. I wouldnt have even tried to guess the crowd on friday as most people moved to the very back of the stand to get away from the Gale Force Wind and lashing rain. Yes it was 1788 say the official count afterwards which was a fantastic crowd considering it was the worst weather ive ever seen in Terryland for over 30 years of attending games there. Over 650 people got their Sunderland Tickets which has sold out completely and will easily be the biggest money earner in the clubs history.

**sligoman** · 21/05/2007, 4:47 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

No non Dublin club has brought anywhere near that to an away game in Richmond in years

Originally Posted by Louth4sam

Eh we did in the cup last year!!

Originally Posted by sduffy

...then you obviously weren't at the game or you've got the memory span of a goldfish.

I could nearly give you the names and addresses of 400 people that attended the match FFS.

He said non-Dublin. Sure Dundalk is practically a Dublin suburb

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**eamoss** · 21/05/2007, 5:03 PM

If your gonna say something like that then I would prefair if you said that Dundalk was a Belfast suburb

Seeing that both Dublin and Belfast are both 80km away from Dundalk.

**Bald Student** · 21/05/2007, 5:24 PM

Originally Posted by eamo

If your gonna say something like that then I would prefair if you said that Dundalk was a Belfast suburb

Seeing that both Dublin and Belfast are both 80km away from Dundalk.

Yes but the motorway goes to Dublin.

**OneRedArmy** · 22/05/2007, 8:47 AM

Originally Posted by Bald Student

Yes but the motorway goes to Dublin.

IN 6 months the motorway will go to Belfast too?

**Stato** · 22/05/2007, 8:50 AM

Pats v Drogheda

No official figure up yet but my educated guess is 2,200.

**Dodge** · 22/05/2007, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Stato

Pats v Drogheda

No official figure up yet but my educated guess is 2,200.

Would've thought a good deal more than that. We'll see soon enough

**Peadar** · 22/05/2007, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Would've thought a good deal more than that. We'll see soon enough

Good crowd there last night.
Think the ground works, forced a few people into the Camac, making it more full than normal.

**Stato** · 22/05/2007, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Would've thought a good deal more than that. We'll see soon enough

It was definitely a lot less than the Setanta semi and that was 2735. Take about 250 out for the Inchicore end not being in use, take at least another 250 out for the Drogheda support on the Camac side (their part was packed at the semi, was fairly sparsely populated last night). The rest looked around the same.

**pineapple stu** · 22/05/2007, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by gufct

There was a queue of 500 people constantly for over an hour looking for Sunderland Tickets so your cpo was lucky to get in.

Are you having a laugh?

He rang the club office before leaving Dublin - hours before kick off - and asked for his name to be put on the officials list - a standard practice across the league. At the turnstiles, they didn't have record of his name, nor did they bother trying to do much about it. He got in because he paid in. It's ridiculous to suggest someone should be "lucky" to get into a game.

Anyways, we'll just ensure there's no free admission for Galway officials in Belfield in July.

**gufct** · 22/05/2007, 1:08 PM

no problem Stu but why didnt you email the GUFC Office rather than posting here. Strange you didnt mention the development in Terryland in any of your posts. You are a great wum .

**pineapple stu** · 22/05/2007, 1:09 PM

Why would I mention the development of Terryland or e-mail the club? I was just pointing it out is all. Not much the club can do about it now.

Oh, and the new stand is lovely. What'll it hold - 100?

**Magicme** · 23/05/2007, 8:50 AM

Its actually standard practice for the Club to email the list of officials a few days before the game. Generally speaking I know that we wouldnt let someone in unless they have done that.

That said Colm has Daniel's phone number and should have rang Daniel when he got there and am sure he would have taken him in.

**Stato** · 23/05/2007, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Stato

Pats v Drogheda

No official figure up yet but my educated guess is 2,200.

Wasn't far off, official figure is 2,087 according to the Pats website. Kerr has been giving out about moving the game to Monday and that the crowd was probably down by about 1,000 on what it might have been on Friday.

**dcfcsteve** · 23/05/2007, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

IN 6 months the motorway will go to Belfast too?

I suspect neither Dublin nor Belfast would actually want Dundalk as a suburb !

Maybe Alabama might....

**Dodge** · 23/05/2007, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Stato

Wasn't far off, official figure is 2,087 according to the Pats website. Kerr has been giving out about moving the game to Monday and that the crowd was probably down by about 1,000 on what it might have been on Friday.

yeah good guess. Again, some tickets weren't checked at the Archway though