Popping. I was there yesterday and with Galway football if there is a vibrancy the fans will follow. Not quite there yet but green shoots emerging. In fairness our footballers have a very dedicated but not big core support who travel to all games including FBD. Given hurling is a better game to watch the peripheral fan (neither football or hurling) tends to side with the hurling if that code is going well.

kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1973 - 18/05/2015 09:23:25    1724800

Keeper - thats an amazing stat- and bear in mind attendances have dropped since the 90s hence we a bit hard on ourselves -imagine what the attendances of the 90s compared to - i think the crowds we get at underage interconuty games are amazing - 6000 at last 2 munster minor hurling final replays on wed nights in neutral venues

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 18/05/2015 09:39:17    1724807

I'm not sure what the combined attendance in the last page included but nearly 1.5m attended the championships in recent years. Refer to link below.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/gaa-crowds-up-15-million-fans-expected-through-gates-30403446.html

A Another (None) - Posts: 193 - 18/05/2015 10:07:15    1724836

I'm not sure that comparing the GAA championship attendances with NBA or NHL games in the US is really much use considering all of their stadia are enclosed with capacities of in or around the 18,000 mark. They probably fill 90 - 95% of the venue for most games. 2 or 3 Dublin sell-outs at Croker is enough to drag the GAA's average way way up, but apart from those games there are very few sell out games, even at smaller provincial venues.

decky (Roscommon) - Posts: 384 - 18/05/2015 11:49:36    1724895

4,520 was the attendance in ennis last night for clare v limerick

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 24/05/2015 10:52:05    1727550

18,500 in breffni park for cavan v monaghan

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 24/05/2015 14:52:47    1727630

21,493 in thurles for clare v limerick

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 24/05/2015 16:49:37    1727699

Not too bad.I expected 25000 so not far off.

cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 24/05/2015 17:04:23    1727708

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Not too bad.I expected 25000 so not far off.


will you go away out of that you were saying there would be 30thousand plus all week haha

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 24/05/2015 17:42:16    1727731

Ha hill,i said i would hope to see 30,000,but was expecting 25000+.I was a few thousand out.I won a nice few bob today so im a happy man.

cuederocket (Dublin) - Posts: 5084 - 24/05/2015 17:46:02    1727736

Healthy attendances. There will be a decent crowd in limerick for the semi between limerick and Tip. The other should be good too. Cork have big support and waterford should be boosted by that league win.

AlSo cavan v monaghan was a good attendance. Just shows you what a healthy provincial championship can give you.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 24/05/2015 19:04:03    1727792

33k in croker for a double header of Dublin v Galway and Dublin v Longford . No doubt about it . If they played Dublin v whoever in portlaoise next year and that hurling match on its own they'd surpass that attendance .

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 31/05/2015 16:57:42    1730534

barnowl was right i reckon out of the 33,500
if galway and longford combined had more than 1,000 id be shocked
hopefully more galway will support them next saturday was shocked with how few of them were there yesterday,

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 01/06/2015 11:35:11    1730803

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33k in croker for a double header of Dublin v Galway and Dublin v Longford . No doubt about it . If they played Dublin v whoever in portlaoise next year and that hurling match on its own they'd surpass that attendance .

doubt it very much
wasnt a great deal in for the hurling
galway had hardly anybody there
was nearly all dublin out of the 33,500

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 01/06/2015 11:36:16    1730804

Don't know why they called it a double-header. Piss-poor Dublin support at the start of the match for their hurlers. That must be soul-destroying for what is a very good unit. Quite a vocal Galway support. Well done to the lads and lassies who traveled. Then towards the end of what was a nail-baiting finale there was constant disruption as the fist-ball followers starting coming in in readiness for the mismatch. Those of us not from Longford and with sense and not overcome with frost-bite and exposure headed home

Maroonatic (Galway) - Posts: 1062 - 01/06/2015 12:35:25    1730841

Moronic who was that the 500 supporters from galway

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 01/06/2015 12:59:51    1730863

1,641 was the attendace in thurles for tipp v waterford on sunday

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 02/06/2015 20:30:59    1731668

What's the story with the Tipp support? They have fine football team on a role after a decent league and an U21 AI appearance and they can't break 2k!

Even their once great hurling support has fallen away. They were outnumbered in a big way when they played Limerick in Thurles last year in the first round of the Hurling championship. I reckon they had about 8/9K Tipp fans there at best.

Are they all Premier League fans in Tipp these days??

dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 353 - 03/06/2015 09:38:53    1731783

I can see their being a massive crowd in Tullamore next Saturday night for a tasty Double header!

BigJohn.6_8 (Galway) - Posts: 704 - 03/06/2015 09:42:58    1731787

Yeah tullamore will be packed. Whats the official capacity? 17k I think?

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 03/06/2015 16:46:06    1732059