Salthill probably looked jammed but from the TV angle you could see plenty of space in the terrace. Either way over 20k is very good.

18k sell out in Armagh also excellent.

TV said there was a massive crowd for the tipp match so wonder what was at it.

Meath v wicklow was 9,000 although stand and terrace were fairly full. If this was played at a neutral venue in portlaoise or croker you'd have less than half that number going.

Further proves the importance and need for home and away matches.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 14/06/2015 19:46:25    1736863

11,000 was mentioned at the Tipp match. Delay was due to one stand being closed rather than a big overall crowd.

Still though that is impressive for a Tipp football match in Thurles, shows that the interest in Tipp football is growing.

county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1117 - 14/06/2015 20:19:22    1736901

31,488 Tipp v Limerick
19k+ Kilkenny v Wexford
10k Galway v Laois (figure mentioned on the Sunday Game)
16,572 Monaghan v Fermanagh
9,480 Sligo v Roscommon

Big crowds out this weekend. Unfortunately some of the best supported sides in action over the weekend took deflating beatings. Really disgusted for Laois. It would have been great if they could have built on the Offaly win with a decent performance.

dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 353 - 22/06/2015 10:15:56    1740679

Any figures for the cavan game in London? Did the cavan lads all chip in to send someone over? ;)

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 22/06/2015 10:33:53    1740701

Irony is the crowds are impressive but on the flip side there is a feeling that it is same o same o in both codes this year i.e. KK and Tipp in hurling and the top 4 in football. Monaghan in football and Waterford in hurling hold the key to break the mould. Really we need these two to make a big imprint trhis year and I am thinking of goi8ng all the way. As a Clare mate of mine said to me over the wend it is like their 2013 win never happened. How did we survive in the past with straight knockout particularly that period in the mid the late seventies. The eighties, ninties and to a lesser extent the early noughties spoiled us with Galway, Offaly, Clare and Wexford in Hurling and the Nordies, Galway and a host of provincial breakthroughs in football.

kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1973 - 22/06/2015 10:39:50    1740714

gaelic grounds is very disseaving on tv
you would think was packed looking at it but if it holds 49,500 capacity
thats 18 thousand people could have fit in aswell but you would wonder where haha only looked like room on the terraces.
also there was no way there was 10 thousand in tulamore on saturday night
the week before for kildare v laois replay they gave it as 6 thousand the attendance and it looked similiar crowd.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 22/06/2015 11:27:30    1740749

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Any figures for the cavan game in London? Did the cavan lads all chip in to send someone over? ;)


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flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 22/06/2015 12:16:35    1740807

Where will the Munster Hurling Final be this year? I assume Cork would have been picked for Tipp v Waterford...perhaps Killarney?

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11412 - 22/06/2015 12:33:54    1740832

Yew,
Cork won't be holding any more games till after the refurbishments are completed in a few years I think.
I know Semple is Tipp's home ground but Waterford usually play well there and wouldn't have any fear of having to face Tipp there and is always a very good atmosphere there.

Dubsfan28 (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 22/06/2015 12:56:57    1740848

yeah yew tree was only saying that the other day
how come they never use killarney for hurling in munster
it holds 43 thousand and is a completly neutral venue every year with kerry not being in it

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 22/06/2015 13:30:34    1740888

Yeah I know Cork is out of bounds but it would normally have been picked for this clash. Gaelic Grounds again another option I suppose?

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11412 - 22/06/2015 13:33:06    1740894

Yep Yew Limerick is an option in terms of being neutral but I would think Waterford would favour Thurles. Killarney probably the least favourable option among the two teams. Mind you Tipp had a thrilling replay victory in Killarney over Clare in the 1987 Munster final. I hear ye may have to go to Salthill (if it has not being decided already) for the Connacht final. Won't please many of your fans with the traffic issues etc. If the traffic could be sorted Salthill on a good day is a great venue with probably the best pitch in the country after the recent drainage works. The atmosphere last Sunday week was very good both inside and outside the ground anfd there was a lot more than 20,254 at that game.

kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1973 - 22/06/2015 13:59:35    1740928

kiloughter - That ball is in Sligo's court and you would not blame them for not wanting to come to play us in MacHale Park. That said traffic will be ablot worse this time around with Sligo coming in the entire N17 route. Last week there was a 6 mile tailback into Tuam from Milltown....there will be traffic jams near Claremorris maybe this time...Sligo will bring a huge crowd for this. Mayo will too but talking to a a few over the weekend they said once a year is enough for Salthill. 4pm throw in too means you are home much later. A man in Ballina told me we was faster home from Croke Park last year.

Nothing wrong with Pearce Stadium at all, it is a fine venue just it is in a crap location for getting in and out of.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11412 - 22/06/2015 15:17:12    1741007

31,000 as attendance for Limerick yesterday...either they don't count kids or theres a couple of stiles not feeding into the attendance figures??
Capacity is 49,000...2 stands were sold out..youd be pressed to fit another 1000 in city end and you might have squeezed 3-4000 in tipp end, so that's 5000 off 49000 giving 44,000???

hurler32 (Limerick) - Posts: 870 - 22/06/2015 18:43:00    1741163

hurler32
i doubt was 44thousand now
but I agree stands were said to have been sold out before the day of the game
you would have got another 2 thousand id say into the city end alright
and it depedns on what the clare end actually holds it was half full if say as
they were all standing at the bars, in between was gaps
it did look around 35 thousand though i would have thought but it was the same last year for the all irelnd semi final
and there was only 33thousand that day so they obviously are counting right
just very disseaving ground

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 22/06/2015 19:15:56    1741182

The bottom line is, does the Gaelic grounds really hold 49,000?

PoppinPoints (Meath) - Posts: 225 - 22/06/2015 19:25:01    1741187

Very impressive attendances at weekend matches. But nothing in media about them. Plenty on RTE about "punch up" in Waterford hurling though. Anyway- Waterford will have made the breakthrough this year already by winning the league. Tipp, and Galway hurling final- come on Galway! In football Cork could surprise Kerry, it will be close. I would love to see Monaghan doing well but it will be Donegal. Finally a Dublin Kerry final in football, would get the media off the GAA back would it not?

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2565 - 22/06/2015 20:19:58    1741216

Correct me if im wrong but i believe the Munster final in 2013 was limerick v cork in the Gaelic grounds and that got around 42,000 which i imagine was a sell out there

bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 22/06/2015 20:22:01    1741218

19,134 in nowlan park yesterday maybe 10,0000-11,000 cats and 8,000-9,000 yellowbellies

bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 22/06/2015 20:29:47    1741223

yeah gaelic grounds capacity is 49,866
it has been reduced on big days to 44,000 the last twice it was expecting full houses.
the uncovered stand holds 12,000 so that means the mackey stand must hold about 8 thousand(doesnt look that big)
that would leave 30,000 between both terraces
hence the reason people seem to think the crowd is bigger than the given number
is the way I would look at it

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 23/06/2015 11:02:27    1741399