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Replying To achara: "'Well if there are record attendances it is only because people are hungry to attend matches after the winter' I'm confused is this the 1st year of this winter thing you speak of?" No its the first year of a league that doesn't really matter PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1902 - 29/01/2018 19:12:49 2072134 Link
Expect some big attendances this weekend. Particularly in Omagh for Tyrone v Dublin, Castlebar for Mayo v Kerry and Wexford park for Wexford v Cork. It will also be interesting to see if Offaly gets a big crowd after their performance against Dublin last week. Can't understand why the Tipp footballers wouldn't be put with the Tipp hurlers as a Doubleheader tomorrow night rather than play on two separate days. Nobody will be in Semple Stadium on the Sunday. SlipperyDodger (Cork) - Posts: 93 - 03/02/2018 00:19:30 2073506 Link
Official attendance in Elverys MacHale Park for Kerry Mayo 11,639 Official attendance in Healy Park for Dublin Tyrone 9,465 Official attendance in Thurles for Tipp Waterford 6,363 SlipperyDodger (Cork) - Posts: 93 - 03/02/2018 21:02:14 2073685 Link
Big crowds to be fair on Saturday night especially for football matchs when you consider Rugby on TV as well. OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 669 - 04/02/2018 10:35:31 2073784 Link
The stand in MacHale Park holds 10,000 and was full. There was a if crowd the far side and behind the bacon factory end. Looked more like 15,000 rather than the just under 12,000 as officially reported. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11227 - 04/02/2018 10:40:16 2073785 Link
The attendances in this weeks National Hurling League Wexford v Cork 7,300 Laois v Galway 5,387 Tipp v Waterford 6,363 Kilkenny v Clare 6,416 Offaly v Limerick 4,640 SlipperyDodger (Cork) - Posts: 93 - 04/02/2018 20:28:16 2074040 Link
SlipperyDodger, you were right about Semple anyway. 2,344 was the attendance yesterday, and I'd say about 2/3rds of the crowd were Rossies. I'd have preferred a double header on the Saturday evening myself. decky (Roscommon) - Posts: 384 - 05/02/2018 10:04:53 2074167 Link
Down v Cork 2,983 Donegal v Galway 5,053 dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 336 - 05/02/2018 10:58:50 2074194 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "The stand in MacHale Park holds 10,000 and was full. There was a if crowd the far side and behind the bacon factory end. Looked more like 15,000 rather than the just under 12,000 as officially reported." Don't they only count those who pay through the gate. All kids under 16 would be free so your 15k figure is probably accurate. dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 336 - 05/02/2018 11:23:04 2074205 Link
Replying To dahayeser: "Don't they only count those who pay through the gate. All kids under 16 would be free so your 15k figure is probably accurate." You may be right there. I was under th impression they "clicked" through everybody. 2 friends of mine got in free as they knew the man at the gate..a lot of that still goes on around the country yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11227 - 05/02/2018 12:11:24 2074229 Link
Cant be far off 100,000 attended Hurling or Football league games the weekend past. 30,000 at those 5 hurling league games mentioned above and juveniles are minimum 20% more. Some very big crowds at football too circa 15K Castlebar, 10K in Omagh etc. OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 669 - 05/02/2018 12:42:32 2074243 Link
Replying To SlipperyDodger: "The attendances in this weeks National Hurling League Wexford v Cork 7,300 Laois v Galway 5,387 Tipp v Waterford 6,363 Kilkenny v Clare 6,416 Offaly v Limerick 4,640" there was waay more than 7k in wexford,the stand was full and the open side half full at least i believe perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 05/02/2018 14:02:54 2074279 Link
Big crowd in O'moore Park for Laois v Galway game thats for sure...Laois people really came out in force which they tend not to BigJohn.6_8 (Galway) - Posts: 704 - 05/02/2018 15:04:44 2074307 Link
21,469 in Croke Park for Dublin Donegal SlipperyDodger (Cork) - Posts: 93 - 10/02/2018 20:06:18 2075487 Link
Need to show paying public some respect. It was only announced at 5.30 that Breffni Park was unplayable .Spectators were already on route and The Meath team was there. Cavan Team nowhere to be seen because they knew early in the Day that the match would not be going ahead. Cavan Co Board behaving badly knowing they would get away with it and having a laugh at their neighbours. There should be a severe fine and loss of home advantage for this carry on Ashrules (Dublin) - Posts: 518 - 10/02/2018 21:15:34 2075529 Link
Replying To Ashrules: "Need to show paying public some respect. It was only announced at 5.30 that Breffni Park was unplayable .Spectators were already on route and The Meath team was there. Cavan Team nowhere to be seen because they knew early in the Day that the match would not be going ahead. Cavan Co Board behaving badly knowing they would get away with it and having a laugh at their neighbours. There should be a severe fine and loss of home advantage for this carry on" If that's the case, I hope Meath hockey them tomorrow and I would rarely support Meath. SlipperyDodger (Cork) - Posts: 93 - 11/02/2018 00:19:31 2075600 Link
Replying To SlipperyDodger: "21,469 in Croke Park for Dublin Donegal" I thought crokepark needed to get 35,000 supporters in to even break even? That's a poor support all the same. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 11/02/2018 12:07:26 2075724 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "I thought crokepark needed to get 35,000 supporters in to even break even? That's a poor support all the same." Think the figure is nearer 25,000 but it's not a concern for Croke park when the Dublin Co board are renting it out. I presume the fee is the same no matter what the attendance. As for last night, the crowd was poor enough alright, but it was a miserable evening in Dublin so i'd imagine a lot of the more casual support opted for an evening by the fire, given that both games were on tv and the rugby was on prior to that. AHP (Dublin) - Posts: 323 - 11/02/2018 12:52:55 2075744 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "I thought crokepark needed to get 35,000 supporters in to even break even? That's a poor support all the same." Myth. According to people it's either 20k, 25k, 30k, 35k, 40k, 45k....... There's no set number. Costs go up and down depending on the number and they plan accordingly. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13704 - 11/02/2018 12:56:59 2075748 Link
Replying To AHP: "Think the figure is nearer 25,000 but it's not a concern for Croke park when the Dublin Co board are renting it out. I presume the fee is the same no matter what the attendance. As for last night, the crowd was poor enough alright, but it was a miserable evening in Dublin so i'd imagine a lot of the more casual support opted for an evening by the fire, given that both games were on tv and the rugby was on prior to that." I didn't know that but that's fair enough, and all joking aside it would be easier stay at home in this weather and watch it on the telly, although as they say you can't beat being there. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 11/02/2018 13:15:29 2075759 Link

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