Promotion of UCD V Longford cup game

**dcfcsteve** · 29/10/2007, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

We can't go back to being called Pegasus because they are a different (if linked) team.

When were you called Pegasus ? Was that your pre-senior football name ?

**DmanDmythDledge** · 29/10/2007, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

When were you called Pegasus ? Was that your pre-senior football name ?

No, Pegasus was a team set up for graduates of UCD. They played in the LSL, but I'm not sure if they still do. Kevin Moran is the most famous player to have played for them. See more here- http://www.pegasusfc.com/history.php

**sonofstan** · 30/10/2007, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

Dublin 4 FC

'D4 Until Oy Doy!'

(Cheap, I'm sorry)

**CollegeTillIDie** · 30/10/2007, 7:18 AM

If we wanted to go like Limerick 37 We would have to be Dublin 95 as we were founded in 1895.
Dublin 1895 maybe we could ask Munich 1860 for a friendly

And play Schalke 04 and Limerick 37 in the pre-season

**pineapple stu** · 30/10/2007, 6:15 PM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

When were you called Pegasus ? Was that your pre-senior football name ?

Sorry, yeah, didn't make that clear. Pegasus, as dmanetc pointed out, are the graduate team, so we were never called Pegasus. Our only previous name is Catholic University. Pegasus are still in the LSL, and have one team in the Superleague.

**Student Mullet** · 30/10/2007, 9:36 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Sorry, yeah, didn't make that clear. Pegasus, as dmanetc pointed out, are the graduate team, so we were never called Pegasus. Our only previous name is Catholic University. Pegasus are still in the LSL, and have one team in the Superleague.

[Pedantic]The club has changed names at least twice; from Catholic University to UCD and from UCD to UCD, NUID.[\Pedantic]

**Jerry The Saint** · 31/10/2007, 6:48 PM

Originally Posted by sonofstan

Bit off the top of my head this, but in a way, college kids are the worst target group for football. Boys (usually) if they are going to get into football at all, and particularly the local game, will do so well before university (usually before puberty); either as underage players or as fans; if they aren't already confirmed fans by the time they get to uni, they won't discover the bittersweet joys of that kind of commitment during their most distractable - and also poorest - years. A walk around UCD will reveal a load of Leinster rugby shirts and assorted GAA colours; allegiances formed at school, either in Southside rugby schools or at home in the bog. The rare LOI fan in this environment will have a prior allegiance.

To be fair, it's not just a problem for UCD AFC. Even the UCD rugby and GAA teams get very poor attendances and this is replicated all over the country. We just don't have a culture of supporting college sport in this country.

Almost by accident, the Dublin clubs are in the process of carving up the county in a convenient way and this definitely seems to be the future for UCD (if they have one

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Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown - UCDD
Dublin City - Pats
Fingal - Bohs, Shels, eh Fingal
South Dublin - Thomas Davis

**pineapple stu** · 31/10/2007, 6:50 PM

Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint

We just don't have a culture of supporting college sport in this country.

I think the word "college" is superfluous there. It's not as if there's eleven teams with 10,000 crowds and UCD with 500.

**Jerry The Saint** · 31/10/2007, 6:53 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I think the word "college" is superfluous there. It's not as if there's eleven teams with 10,000 crowds and UCD with 500.

My point being that UCD rugby and GAA clubs also get poor attendances. Certainly the GAA teams, despite recent success, would probably be the least popular teams in the county.

**Poor Student** · 01/11/2007, 7:34 AM

I've been told before that UCD are one of the better supported AIL rugby teams. Is that not true?

**Schumi** · 01/11/2007, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

I've been told before that UCD are one of the better supported AIL rugby teams. Is that not true?

Crowds are usually a couple of hundred which wouldn't be unusually small for the AIL from my experience (although very small in EL terms) but I think the likes of Garryowen, Shannon & Cork Con would get a good bit more.

As a completely made up comparison, it might be a similar situation to a club which gets crowds of about 1,100 in the EL premier.

**Aberdonian Stu** · 01/11/2007, 3:21 PM

Having been to many of the AIL grounds in Dublin, my experience is that UCD tend to get better crowds typically than the likes of Blackrock and St Mary's.