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Deleted User wrote: »Literally no chance. You used to be able to get 90,000+ into Croke Park
I do know that, and my Da says there were massive crowds for league games in 50s and 60s but can't find any attendance figures.
Even so, if Sunday sells out there will not have been many bigger ones
Found it!
According to Wikipedia previous record was 1964 "Home final" between Dublin and Down. 1964. 70,125.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_National_Football_League_(Ireland)
You are bang on Doctor - 59,703 at the replay in 1993.
I was at the 1977 final where official attendance was 43,456. Where the other 25,000 would have fit I don't know as the place was jammed. That final was famous for the incident where Paudie, McCarthy and Hickey pulled down two protestors who had gotten onto the pitch from the Hill and ran towards the Canal End. It caused ructions in States where there was attempted boycott of Dublin on All Star tour. Hickey is all leftie on our asses these days :-)0 -
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gormdubhgorm wrote: »Jayus I can't wait. Every day is a great day to beat Kerry. And each time Dublin beat them it makes the painful defeats of the past seem all the more worth it!
Hopefully it will be another day that the Kingdom are sick of those blue jerseys!
A potential four in a row that's magic stuff.
I don't want a Kerry Rising!
Yep. They couldn't beat them often enough 0 -
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Here's a question for the more knowledgeable dubs here. How many times did Dublin play cork in the All Ireland run under Kevin Heffernan and what years would they be?
Background: recently came across cinefilm shot by my uncle in croker and it looks like it's the summer rather than earlier in the year. The hill is packed and can even see some of the banners synonymous with heffernans reign such as "The Jacks are back" there's even a shot a few feet away from him with the hill in the background.
Would be interested in knowing what year the footage is from
August 1974 - AI semi final, definitely. Only time Dublin played Cork again under Heffo was 1983, but "Jacks are Back" was the "COYBIB" of the 70s
You have historical gold dust there by the way, because as far as I am aware that match was not televised and I don't think there is tape of it. Almost certain of that. It was first big Dubs game I'd ever been at. My uncles had been involved with the hurlers and had been in Croker a good few times with about 600 others watching them! I was just dumbstruck that day sitting in upper Hogan staring at the Hill and listening to the noise. Only thing I remember about the actual game itself bizarrely is Anton O'Toole heading for the Hill and being dragged down and my uncle losing the plot beside me. It certainly added to my vocabulary!0 -
August 1974 - AI semi final, definitely. Only time Dublin played Cork again under Heffo was 1983, but "Jacks are Back" was the "COYBIB" of the 70s
Entirely possible there is more than one game in the collection, as I think of it now the cork stuff and the hill with scoreboard in background is one part then there's another with heffernan in normal clothes at the sideline don't think there's cork jerseys in view.
Thanks for the info BD 0 -
I do know that, and my Da says there were massive crowds for league games in 50s and 60s but can't find any attendance figures.
Even so, if Sunday sells out there will not have been many bigger ones
Found it!
According to Wikipedia previous record was 1964 "Home final" between Dublin and Down. 1964. 70,125.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_National_Football_League_(Ireland)
You are bang on Doctor - 59,703 at the replay in 1993.
I was at the 1977 final where official attendance was 43,456. Where the other 25,000 would have fit I don't know as the place was jammed. That final was famous for the incident where Paudie, McCarthy and Hickey pulled down two protestors who had gotten onto the pitch from the Hill and ran towards the Canal End. It caused ructions in States where there was attempted boycott of Dublin on All Star tour. Hickey is all leftie on our asses these days :-)
I used to laugh at some of those attendance figures .. I think they were just the paying punters .. what with the ladder down the Canal End and young lads been lifted over the turnstile in The Hill I'd say 1/4 of the crowd didn't pay on any given day.
Coincidentally my Da was at the '64 final and in all the years we went he still maintains that's the biggest crowd he ever saw in Croker
*Random thought* .. In hindsight the old Hill was a death trap in it's day especially after a big game ..0 -
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Entirely possible there is more than one game in the collection, as I think of it now the cork stuff and the hill with scoreboard in background is one part then there's another with heffernan in normal clothes at the sideline don't think there's cork jerseys in view.
Thanks for the info BD
If by "normal" clothes, you mean Farrah slacks and a v necked, navy Slazenger jumper, then that was his golf gear. He played a full round at Clontarf Golf club, before heading to Croker for the game.
Mad to think of Eamon Fitzmaurice or Jim Gavin doing that these days !0 -
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I'm away this weekend I've to miss this one, would have been nice to say I was at 4 league finals in a row.
I missed a game in the OByrne cup too, funny enough it was the one in Bridgets and I could walk to it..
Slacker !
wicklowwonder wrote: »Do we have a Dublin team for the weekend?
Will be named tomorrow afternoon.0 -
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Interesting after the competition between Dean Rock and Cormac Costello, that neither are starting!
That is presuming that the team line out as named. Not always given with Jim Gavin's. (It's one of the few things about his tenure that irritates me.) Wouldn't surprise me to see Costello start in reality.
Mannion and Costello both bring youth, speed & that certain spark of creativity for goals & pace. Rock for all his good points - the frees, work rate etc - makes him a safe pair of hands, but he lacks pace. He is not the best option to exploit all those 35 year old legs in the Kerry full back line imo. For all the talk about how the rejuvenated the Kerry old guard are this Spring, lets see how rejuvenated they feel, when you throw a bit of yoof & speed at them.
That is Plan A.
Plan B involves our favorite Kerry Killer from Crumlin.
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