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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. dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 338 - 03/03/2014 14:47:00 1553919 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
19,626 i think was the attendance on saturday night. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 03/03/2014 14:56:06 1553929 Link 0 |
there was 18 thousand at the fixture last year between dublin v kildare in the league hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/03/2014 17:02:52 1554063 Link 0 |
dahayeser great post hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 03/03/2014 17:05:30 1554066 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 09/03/2014 17:15:04 1557096 Link 0 |
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: 11237 - 09/03/2014 19:19:50 1557199 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
4,363 at the Waterford Dublin game lukewalsh96 (Cork) - Posts: 252 - 09/03/2014 21:51:20 1557394 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
Some fans made it to both games.... :o) Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3738 - 10/03/2014 11:54:18 1557584 Link 0 |
agree with hurlingdub hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/03/2014 12:13:20 1557600 Link 0 |
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. HighKing81 (Meath) - Posts: 129 - 10/03/2014 13:02:21 1557640 Link 0 |
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? waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 10/03/2014 13:55:25 1557683 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |
lukewalsh hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 10/03/2014 17:01:06 1557844 Link 0 |
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 Link 0 |