2008 attendances

**Battery Rover** · 26/04/2008, 8:14 PM

631 in Lissywollen for Athlone v Dundalk

**Paddyfield** · 26/04/2008, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by Battery Rover

631 in Lissywollen for Athlone v Dundalk

Is that the official name of your new stadium? It's not very Rock n' Roll, is it?
Sorry for drifting off topic.

**WoodquayBoy** · 26/04/2008, 10:44 PM

For the firsgt time in a long time we didn't annouonce an official figure. Reckonit was around 1,300 meself, about 50 from Bray.
Is it that attendances are plummeting so badly that the club doesn't want anyone to know? Wheels are not just coming off, they are off and stacked neatly in the corner.

**LeixlipRed** · 27/04/2008, 2:23 PM

858 at Shels v Waterford. Figure earlier is wrong.

**Battery Rover** · 27/04/2008, 6:25 PM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

Is that the official name of your new stadium? It's not very Rock n' Roll, is it?
Sorry for drifting off topic.

Athlone Town Stadium is the ground name at the moment. Lissywollen is just the townland it is in

**Buile Shuibhne** · 27/04/2008, 6:47 PM

Originally Posted by gael353

Counted 92 at kick off (about 35 from Limerick) could have balooned to 100 by half time.

Any word of the Mons Vs SF attendance?

Possibly something similar?

**Paddyfield** · 27/04/2008, 7:32 PM

Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy

For the firsgt time in a long time we didn't annouonce an official figure. Reckonit was around 1,300 meself, about 50 from Bray.
Is it that attendances are plummeting so badly that the club doesn't want anyone to know? Wheels are not just coming off, they are off and stacked neatly in the corner.

We had smaller crowds when we were doing well in the First Division!

I'm impressed that any more than 300 would attend a game against Bray (with all due respect to Bray who are doing well this season) especially as GUFC hadn't even got a point at home let alone score a league goal. And don't get me started on the hoofball.

Maybe we will pick up 3 points in the Brandywell next weekend?

**deecay** · 27/04/2008, 9:13 PM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

I'm impressed that any more than 300 would attend a game against Bray

You support your team against whoever you play,thats a very stupid post

**micls** · 27/04/2008, 9:16 PM

Originally Posted by deecay

You support your team against whoever you play,thats a very stupid post

Do you get the same crowd regardless of who you play? If you do you're probably the only club in the league that does.

Of course the opposition affects the crowd, as does the form of the team. Not everyone is a die hard super fan like yourself.

**deecay** · 27/04/2008, 9:20 PM

Originally Posted by micls

Do you get the same crowd regardless of who you play? If you do you're probably the only club in the league that does.

Of course the opposition affects the crowd, as does the form of the team. Not everyone is a die hard super fan like yourself.

Point well made,we dont get the same attendance every second week.Maybe im just a perfect fan,infact theres no maybes about it

**Paddyfield** · 27/04/2008, 9:27 PM

Originally Posted by deecay

You support your team against whoever you play,thats a very stupid post

Indeed I do support my team regardless of the opposition. But others don't. I've been to the Showgrounds on many occassions when there have been over 4,000 people there. Where are they now deecay? The Irish sporting public are very fickle. Haven't you noticed?

Did you read my entire post of just one sentence?

**Buller** · 28/04/2008, 12:11 AM

3,000 approx at the Hoops-Pats tonight... Very poor pats contingent IMO- bohs brought twice as much 2 weeks ago... Still, 3,000 for a dublin derby is pathetic.

**Dodge** · 28/04/2008, 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by Buller

3,000 approx at the Hoops-Pats tonight... Very poor pats contingent IMO- bohs brought twice as much 2 weeks ago... Still, 3,000 for a dublin derby is pathetic.

I thought it was far, far less than that. Less than 2,000 there IMO

**Partizan** · 28/04/2008, 8:38 AM

Originally Posted by LeixlipRed

858 at Shels v Waterford. Figure earlier is wrong.

at least about 50 from Waterford. Overall attendance was shockingly bad.

**Stato** · 28/04/2008, 8:48 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

I thought it was far, far less than that. Less than 2,000 there IMO

I would have said around 2,500 myself. Main stand was fairly full and the Ballybough end and lego stand had a few hundred each

Originally Posted by Buller

Very poor pats contingent IMO- bohs brought twice as much 2 weeks ago... Still, 3,000 for a dublin derby is pathetic.

Agreed, it was a pathetic attendance for a Dublin derby but I reckon it would've been a lot higher on Friday night. I heard no publicity for the game over the weekend whatsoever. With Munster, Celtic and two epl games on yesterday, the sports departments in our media forgot all about it.

The �3,000 tv fee that Rovers got won't make up for the loss on the gate.

**gael353** · 28/04/2008, 1:27 PM

Originally Posted by Fintan Cassidy

Any word of the Mons Vs SF attendance?

Possibly something similar?

id say you have slim chance of getting that my friend. havent seen a mon attn since season started

**pineapple stu** · 28/04/2008, 5:09 PM

2417 was the official Rovers-Pat's figure.

**pineapple stu** · 28/04/2008, 5:28 PM

Update after week eight. Clubs who give official figures are in bold.

PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 3,153 (2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340) (missing Bray and Derry; have asked about these)
Bray - 1,350 (1,200; 1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cobh - 1,548 (681 FD; 368 FD; 403 FD; 240 FD)
Cork - 3,966 (2,897; 2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 4,540 (2,614; 3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - 1,900 (1,919; 1,751; 1,682; 1,554) (missing Bohs)
Harps - 1,929 (1,164 FD; 428 FD; 1,347; 1,106 FD) (awaiting official figure for Pat's)
Galway - 1,628 (2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Pat's - 2,271 (1,910; 1,342; 1,599; 1,882) (missing Cobh)
Rovers - 2,220 (1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - 2,100 (1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 621 (663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 461 (670; 421; 316; 291)
Dundalk - 1,500 (1,406; 1,078; 474; 591)
Kildare - 220 (243; 265; 186; 298)
Limerick - 598 (670; 364; 669; 188)
Longford - 650 (885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD; 1,131 PD)
Monaghan - 158 (292; 204; 183; 182) (missing Fingal)
Shels - 1,054 (888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Sporting Fingal - 997 (N/A)
Waterford - 815 (1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD; 1,753 PD)
Wexford - 1,163 (810)

Premier Division average - 2,225 (1,687; 1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 771 (722; 570; 520; 512)

Overall average - 1,551 (1,235; 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.

Recent games missing -
Monaghan v Fingal[/QUOTE]