Quotestupidity again from the LOI, a final not on neutral ground.
Salthill Devon v Shamrock Rovers
Saturday 31st October
Drom, 2.00pm.
Adults: €10
Under-16's: Free
stupidity again from the LOI, a final not on neutral ground.
Its probably in Drom so there will be more of a crowd there, and to promote the game out there as there a non-league club. I couldn't envisage many people headin to it were it to be played in Athlone or Longford
Apparently there was 700 at Dalymount last night for Bohs v Rovers. If the final had been held in Tallaght there probably would have been upwards of 1000.Originally Posted by gufc2000
Whatever about the Final, might be a good idea to delay the promotion play-off until after the licensing decision, as if either Cork or Derry are demoted, the match could become a dead rubber.
What's the story with this now ?
Obviously with Rovers being a Premier outfit, that means they can't be promoted. So I can only assume that no matter what happens Salthill are promoted. If they want to take up the position of course ?
This match is a final to see who wins the A Championship. There will be two separate playoff matches between Salthill and Kildare County to see who will be in the First Division next season.
I know, but they hadn't re-started the promotion thread at the time, so this was the next best place to discuss it.
Back on-topic. Is there any idea what sort of crowd will be at the game? Moving it to a stadium might have been a better option, crowd-wise perhaps?
There were 2-300 at Salthill's cup game against us a couple of years ago.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Who'd go to the A League final between Salthill and Rovers in, say, Cork?
We typically got 300 or so for our A League/reserve division/U-21 finals. I'd say it'd be similar enough for this one. Would have gotten a good crowd in Tallaght I'd say, but nothing you can do about that now.
Rovers won 1-0 with a stoppage time goal from Don Cowen. From what I heard there was about 300 at the game. This just proves what a terrible decision it was to play the game here.
No it doesn't. Why should the game be held in the venue that gives the bigger crowd, even if that's at a disadvantage to the smaller club?
So it's better to play the game in front of 300 than possibly 1000? It's a final. Neither team should have any advantage.
Name me a neutral venue which would have gotten more than 300 at it. (And nowhere in Dublin counts as neutral)
And there was more value to Salthill playing a final at home than playing to 1000 in Cork, for example.
Why would Cork even be mentioned? Likely venue would be Athlone or Longford. Roughly half-way for both clubs. Rovers would deifnitely have brought a crowd to that. I'm sure Salthill would have pushed it more than they did. They obviously felt because they were at home against a big club the people would automatcially come out for it. Makes no odds now anyway. Just a pity, that's all.
Not a pity at all that a relatively minor final wasn't played in a town 70-80 miles away from both clubs, creating no local interest at all.
Okay then.
how could salthill have pushed it more? They dont have much of a geographical spread to choose from. 300 was great from there perspective, seeing as they usually get around 10-15 per match !
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