2008 attendances

Athlone Town vs Kildare County Official attendance 236.

It seems to be the more we promote the club through papers, radio, posters, kids free tickets and the more matches we win the lower the attendances have got.

Although Saturday we had to compete against Westmeath playing in both hurling and football. I don't think First Division games should be played on a Friday night but the way things are going it might be the only way forward.

Originally Posted by Schumi

On Saturday, Tom was giving out yards about the Bray attendance being announced as 800. Make of that what you will.

yep, about 800 is about right, with about 20 galway fans...

and i know friendlies dont count but accordinging to rte 5000 at the leeds game and our own website says 5500.... great crowd hopefully some might come back soon....

i know its a bit late but i was talking to someone ivolved in the club and was told that the attendance for the bohs match was about 1800. There was probably 1000-1100 bohs and what ever else was bray, about 800. There was alot more then the 1200 stated on this before.

believe we had an attendance of 300 people at our match fri nite.. the worse thing is that the majority of people that are goin are season ticket holders...

Originally Posted by SMorgan

. Could anybody show me in the FAI rulebook...

...that'll be the crumpled bits of paper and alcohol-soaked beer mats loosely held together with chewing gum and ancient ketchup somewhere at the back of John Delaney's desk drawer?

Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite

Hi Guys,
I must say I do find these attendence figures startling and really I don't know whether to cry for the horrific state that our domestic game is in, or mourn for the death of the game.
Can anyone tell me if any club can at this moment in time get at least 5% of its locality to attend its home games?

I don't think you can ask for 5% of the locality to go to games on a regular basis in any area. For example, although there is a population of 2.25m people in the Greater Manchester region, the majority of Man Utd. attendees come from Malaysia & Inis Boffin, so 5% is unachieveable. I think there is a core support in each County that needs to be expanded and it is up to each club to work on it

Biggest crowd of the season for Pats at Richmond tonight i'd wager. I'm no good at the guesstimates so i'll let someone else but the Rovers fans turned out in force. Fair play.

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Let Carrick apply for the A League and see what crowds they get on a regular basis.

Lets wake up and smell the coffee here. The top 4 LOI clubs lose over 3million euro last season and you lot think everythings rosy in the garden. How sad! That is what has the league in the state its in. We need some forward thinking and I dont think we are going to get it here. We have people trying to justify pitifully small crowds at top league clashes while at the same time denigrating a junior league club showing the way. Instead of criticising, people must get their heads out of the sand and try to learn how to improve and not wallow in blissful ignorance while the citadel crumbles all around them.
Enough said on the matter unless someone has something constructive to say.

Originally Posted by smasher

Lets wake up and smell the coffee here. The top 4 LOI clubs lose over 3million euro last season and you lot think everythings rosy in the garden.

you'll find the clubs lost nothing - if they cost their investors money, thats quite ok actually; generally investors are there to invest. Now if you're comparing Carrick in the A league to challenging for the premier division title, you obviously haven't seen the A league.

How sad! That is what has the league in the state its in. We need some forward thinking and I dont think we are going to get it here. We have people trying to justify pitifully small crowds at top league clashes

show me one? there isn't an ELoI fan alive who isn't aware the crowds are terrible.

while at the same time denigrating a junior league club showing the way.

Showing the way? What? the way to where? The pub after the game?

Instead of criticising, people must get their heads out of the sand and try to learn how to improve and not wallow in blissful ignorance while the citadel crumbles all around them.

I'm almost certain nobody has criticised Carrick and the only person who has criticised someone in this conversation is... you.

Enough said on the matter unless someone has something constructive to say.

I don't think I'll bother thanks, wasted on small minds.

See what I mean!

See what I mean there's barely enough to fill a decent size pub after a LOI game anyway, if you exclude all the kids!

Originally Posted by smasher

See what I mean!

No, enlighten us, because you haven't made a single salient point yet.

Yes. Get rid of half the Dublin teams. Confine league to ten teams- regionally situated . Galway, Cork, Waterford , Limerick, Donegal, Louth, Sligo, Dublin(2) and possibly one more in Midlands/east area and more importantly ' stop ignoring the elephant in the sitting room'!

Originally Posted by smasher

Yes. Get rid of half the Dublin teams. Confine league to ten teams- regionally situated . Galway, Cork, Waterford , Limerick, Donegal, Louth, Sligo, Dublin(2) and possibly one more in Midlands/east area and more importantly stop ignoring' the elephant in the sitting room'!

I like that idea. Then UCD can do to the eL what we've already done to GAA club football.

I just love how people can accuse us of delusion while ignoring the economic realities of population distribution.

I also love how the solution to all of our problems is to yet again promote Galway for no reason.

Obviously, raising the bar for those mired in years of LOI stagnation will not be that easy!

Originally Posted by John83

I like that idea. Then UCD can do to the eL what we've already done to GAA club football.

I just love how people can accuse us of delusion while ignoring the economic realities of population distribution.

I also love how the solution to all of our problems is to yet again promote Galway for no reason.

In case you had not noticed Galway Utd is a Premier division club. To where have they been promoted?

Originally Posted by smasher

In case you had not noticed Galway Utd is a Premier division club. To where have they been promoted?

By default not on the pitch

Originally Posted by smasher

In case you had not noticed Galway Utd is a Premier division club. To where have they been promoted?

It's like revealing the secrets of The Church of Scientology, after each 'Earthly' promotion an adherent receives a DVD....... at a commercial competetive price of course.

I thought that this was an attendance thread ?

Attendances, scientology, whatever floats your boat.

Though on that topic - smasher, if you want to continue the "debate" regarding Carrick, can you start a new thread and not clog this one up? Thanks.