Quoteoops nearly said something i should not haveOriginally Posted by deecay
There must have been 3,500-4,000 fans at the Sligo-Rovers game this season..so when it suits them, they have no trouble coming out for Summer football.
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and it's not gonna be three
and it's not gonna be four
it's more likely to be 5-1.
oops nearly said something i should not have
Shams in the cup is a big game,old-timers and sunshiners come out.We wont have a great crowd tomorrow because of it being on tg4
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It's usually during the actual summer months that our attendances drop off.
Deecay dont get me wrong, i know and appreciate that there are a lot of diehard Rovers fans from the county, some of the best infact and without them Rovers would be long gone out of football. Just sharing my personnel experince of following the Bit O'Red.
Does anyone have the attendance figures before summer soccer and after summer soccer for Sligo?
Offical attendances are not released
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Would be hard to compare seeing as we were in Division 1 for a lot of the time but considering we're consistent top 6 at this stage our average of about 2000 is not what we used to get in the mid 90s when we were around the same.
I used to love cold, windy, wet, Saturday nights in the Showgrounds
"Housewives bringing the kids to the beach", mother of god, is this the guy that said something about crowds being down because farmers were cutting hay a few years ago.
I am not sure it could have been him but funny i think it was Richard Sutherland who is now youth team coach at Bohs, i think poor auld Richard may have been prompted by somebody
Very embarrassing for the league having this farmer on the telly blaming low attendances on housewives bringing kids to the beach and Shligo Gaa's non existent championship run. Put a muzzle on him
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Sligo has always been a football town. While I know very little about GAA I think their GAA team is one of the worst. Ditto for their rugby team.
There is a strong football tradition in the town and generally they have attracted big crowds. i think being out of the cup and mid table is probably the main reason here rather than summer football.
As a tourist town Sligo could also pick up casual support during the summer months.
Oh know another Galway fan obsessed with us, we will send you some season tickets next year as you seem to care more about us than your own teamVery embarrassing for the league having this farmer on the telly blaming low attendances on housewives bringing kids to the beach and Shligo Gaa's non existent championship run. Put a muzzle on him
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Summer football is a factor for us but there are obviously other reasons which we can't identify , everyone in the region knows when the matches are on they are reasonably well promoted , faciliites are good , we have one of the best rovers teams in years playing a very attractive brand of football scoring plenty of goals and providing good value for money but yet attendances are way down when compared to even 10 years ago. This years running cost budget was reasonable and should of been reached easily the current problems are due to shortfalls in predicted revenues not massive overspending , the 130k will be found and more if required the club has been in much worse situations in the past and pulled though this one will be no different.Waht bugs me is why aren't there more people going to matchs its is not just us who have this problem perhaps someone here has the answers.
I didn't see it, and I'm sure it was probably embarrassing, but there is more to do during the summer months. Whether that's going for days out with the family or doing stuff around the house/garden/ farm. Then you also have to factor in clashes with the GAA, including local games which does impact on attendances for the rural teams. Obviously this is going to impact more on the country clubs rather than the city clubs. It's a lot easier to get out at for an 8pm kick off when it's been dark for 3 hours imo - and if I recall correctly last season it was shown that attendances dropped off during the summer months - they were higher at the start and end of the season rather than actually during the summer months.
I'm not sure it's viable to change back, but it's sure as hell shows up the initial decision wasn't properly thought through and analysed. Interesting that the great white hope, well according to some on here anyway, of Irish football proposes a return to Winter football...
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There is indeed more to do in Summer months. But there's also a need for more to do - with longer nights, warmer weather and kids on holiday.
Parents want a range of things for their kids to do in the holidays - not just the usual cinema, swimming pool, park routine.
There's no reason why live football couldn't become part of families' Summer activity 'rota', and thereby provide a huge boost to league attendances.
Re: Winter vs Summer football, I think the simple answer is that it is easier to get non-LoI fans to go in the summer than in the winter. Ask a non-LoI supporting friend of yours to a game on a sunny day and they just might go along, ask them to go a day when it is cold and lashing rain and they'll probably laugh in your face
Haha,Oh know another Galway fan obsessed with us, we will send you some season tickets next year as you seem to care more about us than your own team
Nice sig by the way
I couldn't give a toss about your shower of moaning farmers, If you read me original post you would have noticed that I felt embarrassed for the League not Shligo Rovers. The moaning out of you lot is unreal. You paid too much to players and have nothing to play for so your fans have deserted you. It's got nothing to do with housewives taking kids to the beach, or glamour GAA games against London. Do us all a favour, stop moaning and get on with sorting your club out.
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You seem to care enough about us to come up with a vareity of "hilarious" nicknames and phrases for us, Well done you!
I disagree, from the experience of friends, but sure I'll tell you myself when my little one is older. There's different priorities for many people (obviously not all) when they have a house & family.
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