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Is he going to end the Munster Hurling round Robin? Not on yer nelly...€€€ Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1795 - 17/06/2024 12:01:51 2552288 Link 1 |
For context Munster played a home URC Quarter Final and Semi Final over the past 2 weekends. dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 352 - 17/06/2024 12:09:58 2552292 Link 1 |
30,000 at the hurling quarter finals macca999 (Fermanagh) - Posts: 1139 - 23/06/2024 13:44:09 2554013 Link 0 |
Lúla571210 (Louth) - Posts: 54 - 23/06/2024 16:52:00 2554049 Link 0 |
13k at Mayo v Derry macca999 (Fermanagh) - Posts: 1139 - 24/06/2024 18:28:03 2554523 Link 0 |
13,955 Castlebar 30,509 Thurles 6,768 Salthill Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1795 - 24/06/2024 21:15:44 2554552 Link 0 |
5,000 at Louth V Cork Only for the Cork hurlers would have been less than half the 30,000 in attendance. Probably the best supported GAA county since the Dublin football following has reduced. dingle82 (Down) - Posts: 231 - 24/06/2024 21:43:11 2554568 Link 0 |
The GAA big wigs have destroyed the football Championship….What used to be the flag ship sporting event in this country every year which nearly everyone looked forward to is now virtually dead in the water… fewer and fewer people have any interest in it …!
ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 2680 - 24/06/2024 22:28:13 2554583 Link 0 |
The Cork hurling bandwagon is in full flow.
Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1795 - 24/06/2024 23:24:44 2554598 Link 0 |
7000
Lúla571210 (Louth) - Posts: 54 - 25/06/2024 00:17:53 2554599 Link 0 |
Interestingly L.O.I Premier Division attendance figures have surged by 6% this year in comparison to this time last year and this is often with teams playing 2 games a week.[ It is actually a 36 game season.] Maybe some of the missing Gaelic Football followers are going to the L.O.I instead!
edu (Mayo) - Posts: 58 - 25/06/2024 00:49:29 2554600 Link 0 |
The Irish News gave a guess figure on the attendance in Healy Park and other news newspapers ran with that figure as it was official. I'd say closer to 8k was at the match and was a good atmosphere in the stand among the two set of supporters.
The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3861 - 25/06/2024 00:51:07 2554601 Link 0 |
Lower attendance at P.Q.F between Galway v Monaghan than there was at the group game against Derry a few weeks back.
edu (Mayo) - Posts: 58 - 25/06/2024 00:54:38 2554603 Link 0 |
Remember those figures don't count u16 or so we keep yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11368 - 25/06/2024 08:27:38 2554623 Link 0 |
Well the reasons for the low attendance at Tyrone v Roscommon is obvious (I live quite near to Omagh, and didn't bother going, nor did anyone I know) - we have zero faith in the current management (and haven't had for years), the lack of motivation in the team is visible from space, there's a couple of club teams in Tyrone who'd beat Tyrone on current form; and most Tyrone fans I know were relieved that we were beaten now instead of making a show of ourselves at a later stage. There's a lot of omerta in the county, and very few outsiders have any idea of how bad morale in the camp is
points50swiththeargyllsonthewrongfeet (Tyrone) - Posts: 267 - 25/06/2024 09:00:32 2554631 Link 0 |
I can't blame people for voting with their feet when it comes to the football championship. There's primarily three reasons for people not attending football championship games due to a lack of interest: poor product on the field and no jeopardy. I've been to games and to say that there is no atmosphere would be an understatement. The Sam Maguire matches are worse than the Tailteann cup games due to the defensive play and this is even with teams being afforded massive leeway i.e. they can lose 2-3 matches and still be in the championship. This leads me to the second point - a team can potentially lose three championship matches in a season and be in the quarter final!!! Who in their right mind would pay good money to travel to a football match miles away when there is no jeopardy and the product is bad? Until/Unless the people responsible for the football championship have a rethink and make some radical changes; the situation may get worse. wicklowsupport (Wicklow) - Posts: 1977 - 25/06/2024 09:30:03 2554637 Link 0 |
4 "jeopardy" matches last weekend drew around 35,000 people. Average 8,750. First 2 Rounds of Group games "non jeopardy" drew c130,000. Average 8,125. Not a great argument for "Jeopardy" Reports of GAA expecting 60k Saturday and 45k Sunday. Probably a tad optimistic. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1795 - 25/06/2024 10:31:49 2554664 Link 2 |
You would think given the numbers Dublin and Armagh alone would pull that 60k would be possible when you add in us and Galway. But a disaster of a weekend for anyone trying to get accomodation in Dublin, especially Galway supporters as they are in the late game. Taylor Swift, Dublin Pride and Longtitude all on.
MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 999 - 25/06/2024 13:01:40 2554726 Link 0 |
How did it all go so wrong for them? Dream start winning that All Ireland with a team that had a few years still left in it and a good number of quality players to be added from the underage ranks each subsequent year.
MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 999 - 25/06/2024 13:24:22 2554742 Link 0 |
There will easily be 60,000 on Saturday, Dublin v Mayo and the other game sold out last year. Probably not 40,000 Sunday.
BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2952 - 25/06/2024 13:40:54 2554747 Link 0 |