I think too much is made of Croke Park being an 82,000 capacity stadium and not suitable for league games. Close off the upper tiers (as they do)and you are dealing with capacity of 50,000. What do you need to create a good atmosphere in a 50,000 stadium. I reckon 28/30 should do it. Parnell park would be a real step backwards. The drive should be to get that extra few thousand in the gates. The spring series planning all seemed a bit rushed this year and I think that was down to the GAA's fixture planning rather than the Dublin County Board. It's such a pity there couldn't be a few double headers with Dublin Hurling on such a high too.

I say fair play to the progressive thinking behind the Spring Series and everything the GAA can do to facilitate it should be done. Other counties should be looking to emulate it where possible. There is great potential for it in Cork although with a couple of players taking on the dual mandate this year it mightn't be ideal. The new positive approach of the Cork footballers is being witnessed by a very small hard core of support typically around 2,000. If they were playing double headers you'd have 5 times that crowd and it could only help the footballers profile and open a lot of people's eyes to how good a game Gaelic football can be when played positively.

dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 386 - 03/03/2014 14:47:00    1553919

Setanta are showing Dublin V Kildare game on TV. I would expect at least 25,000 at game on Saturday. Kildare have a good following will bring a good crowd. Playing Cork was never going to attract many cork fans. Think they had only 2,500 at home against Kildare and most of them were probably Kildare fans.

jacktheDub (Dublin) - Posts: 944 - 03/03/2014 14:52:43    1553926

19,626 i think was the attendance on saturday night.

Paltry attendance, Though that said, there wouldnt have been a bigger attendance all weekend i wouldnt have thought.

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13656 - 03/03/2014 14:56:06    1553929

there was 18 thousand at the fixture last year between dublin v kildare in the league
so just under 20 thousand for dublin v cork who dont have much of a support can hardly be classed that dissapointing

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/03/2014 17:02:52    1554063

dahayeser great post
your spot on I think exactly what you said would benifit cork too
aswell as galway,limerick,kerry and westmeath
you would see a bigger take for double headers and promotion in them countys too

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/03/2014 17:05:30    1554066

population of Dublin is 1.2 million 18000 at the match is a shocking attendance,

tinrylandman (Carlow) - Posts: 387 - 03/03/2014 21:01:06    1554275

3,000 at Laois Galway decent crowd on horrible night ...Galway brought good numbers

BigJohn.6_8 (Galway) - Posts: 704 - 03/03/2014 21:22:45    1554302

6,354 at the double in header in Cork today and 6,600 at the double header in Westmeath. We need to see more of these as they do bring out the crowds. What was the attendance in Croke Park last night?

lukewalsh96 (Cork) - Posts: 252 - 09/03/2014 17:02:05    1557081

20,525 in croker last night

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 09/03/2014 17:15:04    1557096

Just in the door from Mullingar. I think the announcer said there was 6,800 or there abouts in Mullingar. Mayo outnumbered the home support 3/1 from what I could see. Great crowd for such a rotten day.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11809 - 09/03/2014 19:19:50    1557199

I suppose the Irish rugby match in the Aviva would've taken a bit from the attendance in Croker.

keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 09/03/2014 19:24:12    1557204

4,363 at the Waterford Dublin game

lukewalsh96 (Cork) - Posts: 252 - 09/03/2014 21:51:20    1557394

Keeper, the Croke Park crowd was almost the same as the week before so I hardly think the rugby made any difference!

hurlingdub (Dublin) - Posts: 6978 - 10/03/2014 09:34:53    1557447

Some fans made it to both games.... :o)

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4702 - 10/03/2014 11:54:18    1557584

agree with hurlingdub
crowd was same just kildare brought the extra thousand compared to cork
the attendance was up 2,500 on last years dublin v kildare league match

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/03/2014 12:13:20    1557600

Gaelic Football is not a winter game yet we live with a bizarre system where a league containing most of the year's choice fixtures is played off in inclement conditions in a competition that is regarded as second rate, a competitive warm-up for a championship that may only yield two games maximum. That's feckin' crazy.

Taking that into account, the attendance levels are pretty good and hint at how successfull home and away fixtures might be in an improved championship. Long-term we need to amalgamate the league and the championship in some form, one closed season with a fixed schedule, no replays to interfere with club fixtures.

HighKing81 (Meath) - Posts: 129 - 10/03/2014 13:02:21    1557640

6,354 at the double in header in Cork today and 6,600 at the double header in Westmeath. We need to see more of these as they do bring out the crowds. What was the attendance in Croke Park last night?

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In fairness, And i dont mean to sound so condescending, But thats a rotten turn out for a team who's hurlers got to an all ireland final last year, and the footballers who are having a great league campaign so far for such a GAA mad county like Cork.

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13656 - 10/03/2014 13:55:25    1557683

In fairness Offaly wouldn't be one to pull in the crowds and the footballers never get good support so 6,500 + juveniles is decent.

lukewalsh96 (Cork) - Posts: 252 - 10/03/2014 16:39:08    1557832

lukewalsh
juveniles in included in that 6 thousand just like they are in the 20 thousand at croker

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/03/2014 17:01:06    1557844

90% certain they don't include u-16 at pairc ui rinn. Considering they're playing 1B hurling against probably the worst team in that division plus a football (which would struggle to draw crowds against anyone) game against Derry, 6,000 isn't that bad.

RebelCork (Cork) - Posts: 789 - 10/03/2014 17:24:15    1557861