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Replying To galwayford: "50k in Aviva stadium today for Leinster V Ulster Heino cup. Hope the Allianz league final in Croker can match that at least. A sad day indeed when Anglo Irish rugby is more popular than Gaelic football. Anyway I will try and go, if not it is on TG4 at 1.30pm to 5pm. A positive for GAA, weather is better on Sunday. Here is hoping for good clean games and an attendance of above 45K." The Heineken Champions Cup is the premier club tournament in Europe. If you want to compare it to Gaelic football, compare it to an All-Ireland final, not a League final. Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2654 - 01/04/2023 13:18:51 2468118 Link
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "The Heineken Champions Cup is the premier club tournament in Europe. If you want to compare it to Gaelic football, compare it to an All-Ireland final, not a League final." Rugby still on a high after the League of Nations team winning the grand slam…. 3/4 of them at it won't know who is playing or what is happening ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3027 - 01/04/2023 14:03:57 2468125 Link
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "The Heineken Champions Cup is the premier club tournament in Europe. If you want to compare it to Gaelic football, compare it to an All-Ireland final, not a League final." Rugby still on a high after the League of Nations team winning the grand slam…. 3/4 of them at it won't know who is playing or what is happening ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3027 - 01/04/2023 14:06:13 2468126 Link
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "The Heineken Champions Cup is the premier club tournament in Europe. If you want to compare it to Gaelic football, compare it to an All-Ireland final, not a League final." Isn't Leinster Ulster a quarter final or something like that, so comparing it to an All Ireland final is hardly valid. Anyway the games today and tomorrow are just league games at the end of the day, great to win but none of the "life and death" of a championship knockout game in any sport so can't be surprised if the knock out rugby game gets the bigger crowd. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1953 - 01/04/2023 14:18:36 2468128 Link
Replying To galwayford: "50k in Aviva stadium today for Leinster V Ulster Heino cup. Hope the Allianz league final in Croker can match that at least. A sad day indeed when Anglo Irish rugby is more popular than Gaelic football. Anyway I will try and go, if not it is on TG4 at 1.30pm to 5pm. A positive for GAA, weather is better on Sunday. Here is hoping for good clean games and an attendance of above 45K." Not really a like-for-like comparison, the Champions Cup is an international knockout tournament after all. And there are only four rugby teams in the country. Báireoir (Dublin) - Posts: 80 - 01/04/2023 14:50:07 2468132 Link
Replying To galwayford: "50k in Aviva stadium today for Leinster V Ulster Heino cup. Hope the Allianz league final in Croker can match that at least. A sad day indeed when Anglo Irish rugby is more popular than Gaelic football. Anyway I will try and go, if not it is on TG4 at 1.30pm to 5pm. A positive for GAA, weather is better on Sunday. Here is hoping for good clean games and an attendance of above 45K." Not comparing like with like here, Heineken cup is equivalent of All Ireland championship while league is comparable to URC. updwell (Limerick) - Posts: 847 - 01/04/2023 19:09:50 2468174 Link
As a neutral supporter I have being trying to buy some tickets for the match today. However the tickets that were available on line to neutral supporters have been very poor all week, and I have ended up with tickets near the corner of the Hogan. I have been on line since last Monday. I accept 100% that a large amount of tickets should be retained for the counties involved but I also think that neutral supporters are badly treated. I also think that upper stand tickets should have been available earlier. Bit annoying that I could have purchased much better tickets this morning. Really looking forward to the matches today. letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 631 - 02/04/2023 10:29:44 2468222 Link
Replying To galwayford: "50k in Aviva stadium today for Leinster V Ulster Heino cup. Hope the Allianz league final in Croker can match that at least. A sad day indeed when Anglo Irish rugby is more popular than Gaelic football. Anyway I will try and go, if not it is on TG4 at 1.30pm to 5pm. A positive for GAA, weather is better on Sunday. Here is hoping for good clean games and an attendance of above 45K." Why would it be a 'sad day' when Rugby is more popular than GAA or are you just trying to troll? You do know Soccer is just as popular... do you have a problem with that as well? Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1024 - 02/04/2023 10:55:43 2468223 Link
The matches in Croker this weekend are meaningless. They are just a day out in Croker for some teams while others will have one eye on the first round of the championship next weekend. At the end of the season will many people recall who won the Div 2/3/4 finals. Or indeed can many people roll of the last 10 Div 1 champions without googling it Jack L (None) - Posts: 3141 - 02/04/2023 12:42:36 2468237 Link
Replying To letsgetgoing: "As a neutral supporter I have being trying to buy some tickets for the match today. However the tickets that were available on line to neutral supporters have been very poor all week, and I have ended up with tickets near the corner of the Hogan. I have been on line since last Monday. I accept 100% that a large amount of tickets should be retained for the counties involved but I also think that neutral supporters are badly treated. I also think that upper stand tickets should have been available earlier. Bit annoying that I could have purchased much better tickets this morning. Really looking forward to the matches today." Enjoy the matches today Letsgetgoing. Hopefully two cracking games of football await. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7651 - 02/04/2023 12:42:38 2468238 Link
What was the attendance yesterday? Never more than three quarters there at any one time, but must have been over 60,000? BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3118 - 03/04/2023 09:20:34 2468450 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "What was the attendance yesterday? Never more than three quarters there at any one time, but must have been over 60,000?" 45,041. Still larger than half of the Premiership games over the weekend. Not bad for a bunch of lads who had to be up for work this morning. Unpopular as it may be, I think Saturdays games shouldn't have been in Croker. Those games were never going to get to a big enough crowd to generate an atmosphere in such a big venue. I get the whole 'everyone should have their day in Croker' thing, but it doesn't do a great deal for supporters or players to have finals played with an echo. The upside I guess was that everyone could scuttle back up the mostly empty stands to avoid the rain. LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 574 - 03/04/2023 12:02:33 2468490 Link
If GAA going to keep the League finals, firstly need to give all teams 2 week gap between start of championship. The 7.15pm throw in definitely didnt help Div 3 crowd In terms of attendances,might be idea to mix finals so that its Div 1/ Div 4 one day and Div 2/3 another day to bring more bodies in and split the bigger numbers to generate more atmosphere. macca999 (Fermanagh) - Posts: 1142 - 03/04/2023 12:36:24 2468498 Link
Replying To LongfordgaaAbú: "45,041. Still larger than half of the Premiership games over the weekend. Not bad for a bunch of lads who had to be up for work this morning. Unpopular as it may be, I think Saturdays games shouldn't have been in Croker. Those games were never going to get to a big enough crowd to generate an atmosphere in such a big venue. I get the whole 'everyone should have their day in Croker' thing, but it doesn't do a great deal for supporters or players to have finals played with an echo. The upside I guess was that everyone could scuttle back up the mostly empty stands to avoid the rain." Why are you comparing the attendance to the PL attendances? Also, every PL match had a full ground over the weekend. Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2654 - 03/04/2023 13:03:09 2468514 Link
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "Why are you comparing the attendance to the PL attendances? Also, every PL match had a full ground over the weekend." Yeah strange one and people from all over the world go to PL games too so another reason not to compare, I was in Old Trafford for a game in November and a couple from Singapore were beside me. TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 1760 - 03/04/2023 13:39:43 2468534 Link
Replying To Cockney_Cat: "Why are you comparing the attendance to the PL attendances? Also, every PL match had a full ground over the weekend." ... to show by comparison just how impressive it is to have 45,000 people at a league final in an amateur sport. By any measure that is still a very impressive fact. Having 80,000+ at later stages of All-Ireland Championship is simply phenomenal. LongfordgaaAbú (Longford) - Posts: 574 - 03/04/2023 13:51:16 2468537 Link
Replying To TerribleFootwork: "Yeah strange one and people from all over the world go to PL games too so another reason not to compare, I was in Old Trafford for a game in November and a couple from Singapore were beside me." It must be the longest 90 minutes of your life. The stadium usually empties swiftly to give people a chance to get back to London and Singapore Jack L (None) - Posts: 3141 - 03/04/2023 13:56:40 2468544 Link
Replying To TerribleFootwork: "Yeah strange one and people from all over the world go to PL games too so another reason not to compare, I was in Old Trafford for a game in November and a couple from Singapore were beside me." I'm a Spurs fan, been to couple of games this season. Every game, there are a large amount of Koreans in attendance. It's all down to Son Heung-min. Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2654 - 03/04/2023 14:20:21 2468557 Link
Wss at an Arsenal game in the emirates recently, the people beside me were from norway & the people in front of me from Japan, the local guy i knew to get the ticket said most old school arsenal fans living in the area cant afford to go anymore! OpenStand (Limerick) - Posts: 717 - 03/04/2023 15:02:13 2468575 Link
Replying To Jack L: "It must be the longest 90 minutes of your life. The stadium usually empties swiftly to give people a chance to get back to London and Singapore" Don't forget Wexford too ;) TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 1760 - 03/04/2023 16:00:26 2468595 Link