Clareman wrote: » If it was on in Limerick you would have a lot more Clare people at it, in fact I'd say it'd be a sell out. 20 minutes down the road vs. 2 hours, ffs the Gaelic Grounds is closer to some of the players homes than Cusack Park.
opinionated3 wrote: » Ridiculous comment....
opinionated3 wrote: » Playing Tipp in either Limerick or, for your arguments sake, Ennis , would have brought in a great crowd. Fans are studying the logistics of going to cork for a 3pm throw in on a busy Saturday and it does not look one bit appealing. Common sense would have placed it in Limerick but sure the Gaa have to show off Frank Murphy's new gaff to the watching world!
namloc1980 wrote: » This still doesn't explain why Clare fans didn't go to Thurles for the Munster final. Or will Clare only go to games in Ennis or Limerick?
blue note wrote: » I think clare and ourselves have been poor in bringing numbers in recent years. In the 90s and noughties a munster match between us would have brought 25, 30 thousand. Now, it could be 10-15. For whatever reason, people are not traveling as they used to. For those who might go, the journey to cork is going to tip a hell of a lot of people over the edge and they won't bother. No two ways about that.
Figerty wrote: » It appears the Clare county board didn't order tickets for the stands. Cork got in their first and cleaned out the system. And we all know Cork will travel when they expect to win:D
BnB wrote: » On top of the above, it is also strongly rumored that the players were told by a certain bitter county board official that the County Board sent back 5,000 tickets that were not used. I know of at least 2 clubs who did not get all the tickets they looked for.
Reputable Rog wrote: Why are the U21's not wearing the current strip?
jackrussel wrote: » cork hurlers wont be playing there this year - im not sure about the footballers. there'll be plenty cork folk at it for a gawk at their new white elephant
danganabu wrote: » Looking at the state of the Gaelic Grounds at last nights U-21 game I suddenly don't feel so aggrieved at having to travel to Cork, 3 pm on a Saturday is another kettle of fish though.
blue note wrote: For those who might go, the journey to cork is going to tip a hell of a lot of people over the edge and they won't bother. No two ways about that.
lab man wrote: » With the footballers going green well most of the West clare fans will go to see them both matches would be sore in the pocket
windy shepard henderson wrote: » no sadly the fact is the clare supporter bar the die hard is incredibly lazy be it football or hurling , 750 pepole watched the footballers beat cork in the league , while maybe 7 or 8 thousand turned up to watch the hurlers in there first provincial final since 2008 last week , if you brought the clare tipp game to cusack park next weekend there would be 2 to 1 in favor of tipp our support is disgraceful
Django99 wrote: » Hmm it's a difficult one. You can't make people want to support the team. But you can definitely coax them.. If Clare get to an All Ireland they'd bring a big crowd for sure so would any county. The challenge is to get people to support them all year round. Do Clare have a supporters club? Maybe run buses to the games, get the clubs involved and bring juvenile teams to play a challenge the morning of the game. For an older crowd turn it in to a piss up, have buses going that stop on pubs along the way, stay a while after the game. There's no way to make people interested in following the team just by telling them to show up, it has to be attractive for them. For whatever reason it's clearly not attractive at the moment. A bit of hype always gets people interested. Wexford are bringing huge crowds to all their games this year, they smell some success and want to be involved. Maybe Clare are too negative about themselves, trying to downplay chances perhaps. Mayo have huge support because they always have the hope that they might get their day in the sun.
letowski wrote: » It's definitely a tricky one for sure. Clare's supporters club was only set up actually just this year, and in fairness to them, they do as good a job as they can. They provide the supporters with updates, news, interviews, etc. Maybe they're work might indeed keep up interest in the county and incite more support.
Clareman wrote: » I met a few folks over the weekend who didn't travel, when I asked why they didn't they said that they went for tickets the day after the semi final but there were sh1t tickts so they decided to get tickets from the club, when there wasn't any tickets from the club they just didn't bother going.
letowski wrote: » What I couldn't understand is OK if Pat Fitz felt that the demand wasn't probably there to sell a lot of stand tickets, at least take a good lot of them for a start. Give the county the opportunity to have as much support as they could in good areas in the stand. Then give back the ones that were not sold, Cork GAA/Munster Council would have taken them as the game was always going to sell out anyway. You are right, the bulk of out support in the stand seemed to be located between the 20 and 45 of the old stand closer to the Killinan End which isnt exactly great.
Clareman wrote: » They do a great job in fairness, considering they started with 0 funds but the previous "crowd" were taking money but didn't have any accounts it tells a lot about where supporters lie within the Clare county board.http://clarecourier.ie/clare-gaa-annual-convention/
windy shepard henderson wrote: » bad tickets is a perfectly good reason but there are only 460 season ticket holders in the county , you would get that for a clare cup game in the park or a cusack cup final back west , i find people have too much time for the club and the intrest for the inter county is hit and miss take the mayo game last week , i knew a number pf people even lads on the football panel over the last few years that stayed away because the game was on tv i even heard several people already say they are not going attending the tipp game next week for the same reason , i just think our support is too casual compared to our neighbors or the rest of the gaa world we must be the only county in the country where we attract bigger crowds for club games then we do intercounty
