Quote722 official at UCD-Pat's according to today's Indo.
explain?Originally Posted by ndrog
722 official at UCD-Pat's according to today's Indo.
To be fair they are idiots,1,200 as our average attendance
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Where'd you see that? Saw the article, but didn't see any figures.
I'd be fairly sure Sligo's crowds are a good bit over here as they're only estimates by the way (same as I guesstimated 800 for a 722 crowd, or 10% over, and 1700 for a 1286 crowd, or 33% over).
explain?
think about it!!!!
poor crowd but we played some good ball. our goals were well worked and really great
Pg 65,the EL survey.Second to last column called Ave Crowd.Its just UCD to have worse crowds
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They are sending in wrong figures, they probably have their own reasons for this. 900 I heard mentioned for UCD game from someone on gate plus was in local rag as well.
I think it may gave been up 6% last year and 13% this year on "projected attendances". Talking to someone about it last night and they heard
54,321 sold - wws will never die - ***
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Fair enough; haven't seen the print version.
Ah come on... The CPOs are under pressure to increase crowds, Revenue have clamped down on cash payments to an extent and people are known for overestimating crowds. Which is more likely - the club lying or people are out in their guesstimates?
Estimates for the Showgrounds home games are quite good on here. Maybe 10% out but not nearly 40% which was printed in the paper which I havent seen yet. Did it print the individual gates for each match? They mighting be lying about what actual revenue is coming into the Showgrounds every fortnight, as seasons tickets and super reds arent charged addmission thus taking them out of the equation. As i say the club may have alternative reasons for this.
Indo Loi average this season
Bohs 1800 approx
St pts 1900 approx
Cork 3200
Derry 2200
Drogheda 1600 approx
Shams 1600
Sligo Rovers 1200
Bray 1500
UCD 400
Galway 1300
Finn Harps 1900
Cobh 1300
You've no idea how good the estimates are if there's no official figures to back it up.
I'm not saying they're 40% wrong and that the Indo is spot on, but I'd say they're still higher than the official figures.
Edit - thanks for that red bellied. UCD's wrong anyway; I get official figures for all games which I assume has to be the basis for this report to carry any credibility. Don't know about the others.
Indo figures for first division:
Dundalk 1300 approx.
Waterford Utd 450
Sporting Fingal 450
Shelbourne 990
Limerick 37 400
Monaghan Utd 175 approx.
Longford Town 500
Athlone Town 407
Wexford Youths 800
Kildare County 250
First Division
Dundalk 1300 approx
Waterford 450
Sporting Fingal 450
Shels 990
Limerick 400
Monaghan 175 approx
Longford500
Athlone 407
Wexford 800
Kildare 250
Comparison of actual v Indo figures very quickly. Clubs in bold give official figures for here.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,099 (foot.ie) v 1,800 (Indo)
Bray - 1,400 v 1,500
Cobh - 1,215 v 1,300
Cork - 3,503 v 3,200
Derry - 3,341 v 2,200
Drogheda - 1,800 v 1,600
Harps - 1,869 v 1,900
Galway - 1,300 v 1,300
Pat's - 2,021 v 1,900
Rovers - 1,705 v 1,600
Sligo - 1,927 v 1,200
UCD - 594 v 400
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 407 v 407
Dundalk - 1,268 v 1,300
Kildare - 189 v 250
Limerick - 494 v 500
Longford - 563 v 500
Monaghan - 175 v 175
Shels - 1,010 v 990
Sporting Fingal - 647 v 450
Waterford - 692 v 450
Wexford - 884 v 800
Overall, not too many differences in fairness. I'm missing some recent games (will drop Sporting Fingal down, for example, and bring up Bohs after the Rovers game); most of the official figuers appear good with the exception of UCD, which is confusing!
That Derry average doesnt like right either, anytime I am up there is 3000 plus and on the television the crowd always looks decent as well.
That's taken from a quote bu the Derry chairman in a statement on their website.
your fans had bermuda shorts and no tops on , and were jumping up and down like mad yokes for 90 mins ,even when 2 nil downexplain?very funny actually ,fair play .Drogheda independant has the attendance at 1 ,200 .
One suggestion for some of the discrepencies:
The attendances on here are league averages. The Indos might include cups. I know that Cork City's crowds were much lower in the Setanta cup and we had a league cup attendance of 290 against limerick.
On the ccfcforum:
Ave League: 3501
Ave Overall: 3090
Ave Setanta: 2081
Possible. We had two League Cup games and one FAI Cup game against Monaghan which would have taken us way down. Puts a bit of a false tint on the figures really.
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