Camogie SemiFinal attendance

It was a shame that the crowd was so small. Brought the kids in, great value, and 2 great games. And within that, you had a fair number only arrive in after the 1st game, as a lot of Cork and Waterford crowd left so the numbers for each game were lower again, but you'll get that at a lot of double headers anyway.

Very little promotion of it that I could see. No issues with ticket costs, great value. Surely there's enough camogie teams /clubs within the 4 competing counties and further afield to have a larger crowd, easy channels for promotion. Cost of travel is a huge factor now for anything we do.

As I said, it was a shame, as with low numbers and people well spread out over the Hogan, there was a lack of atmosphere. Although we were close to 2 very boisterous groups of Galway and Kilkenny supporters which was great, the kids got involved with them.

Can't find attendance figures for the finals (Junior, Intermediate and Senior), but looking at 2021, they were hoping for 30,000 attendance, obviously no attendance for 2020, and they were aiming for 25,000 for the 2019 finals, building on it each year. Huge increase from semi final numbers. Hopefully there'll be a good crowd for the finals this year

More on women's sports attendance in general rather than just camogie. Is it that attendance is still largely a male-driven situation? The dad thinks of going to the games, and getting his daughters to go?

Of course, there are plenty of women that go and are the reason to go, I am talking more about in the general sense.

And if Dad doesn't have daughters then it isn't really something that he will be interested in. So, to get bums on seats you are limiting your audience to girls who play the sport itself, and have a father that is interested, or at least willing, to go.

I think over time, as this generation matures from playing as kids to adults, things will begin to get better as those that played and attended when they were younger now take the mantle themselves, but that is missing at the moment.

So most club hurling matches arent good either then ?

Great thinking there ........ 😏

Camogie final attendance last year was just over 20,000.

Ladies Football final tends to get bigger crowds, but LGFA are clever in how they see to this. Every club in the country is levied something like €200 at the start of the year for All-Ireland tickets, and they can choose between something like eight adult tickets or two adult tickets and 20 or 25 children's tickets (apologies for not having precise numbers - am not involved in ladies football myself). So you then get clubs from all over the country bringing busloads of kids to the final for a day out, because they've already paid for the tickets anyway, and this of course swells the attendance figure.

There is another aspect to playing matches in Croke park, aside from the attendance. Senior ladies deserve to play in Croke Park every bit as much as senior men?

It is a goal, a sometimes once in a lifetime event for many of the players. Sticking them in some small ground in Portloaise, or whatever, doesn't have the same memories.

But yet people dont go to them either ...... ?

janey , that is a shocking figure ..... 😮

I dont think the Semis of the camogie or LGF should be in Croker, only finals should be held there.

There just isnt the draw - simple as that . Croke Park is over used now, and the reality is that people just wont/dont go to watch camogie or LGF unless they have a vested interest (relative/friend/spouse/clubmate playing.)

Our club will send good support for the final , and have a lot of supporters at it, because its a final and we have girls involved - Semi finals in Croke pk just dont entice people to go nowadays.

The sooner that those 2 organisations fall under the GAA , the better. They are run quite poorly at lower levels, and lack the knowhow and intelligence that those running GAA have in promotion of the games etc.

So ?

you "believe" its on? Well, if you dont really know its on, then you mustnt be a 'sports' fan, just a premier league fan? Probably just watch 'your clubs' games on sky sports?

If Ireland had qualified there would be more 'hype' and maybe then you would have watched it?

Also the womens Tour de France is on at the moment ...

Just because you dont watch, and arent interested in all sports, doesnt mean no one else is interested in womens sports, of all types.

Id say because Dublin and Meath were playing?

Local venue for both counties....

Whereas the venue for Kilkenny vs Cork is a trek ...

Croke Pk would be better if it wasnt in Dublin

;) :P

There is a few things at play here:

1) Both Galway and Kilkenny are in the men's senior finals so cost come into it.

2) For the first time I can remember, tickets for the mens finals were on ticketmaster for sale, so i think the time of year is having a knock on effect. People are either away or coming back from holidays.

I would usually bring the daughter to the camoige and football finals no matter who is playing, but because its in the summer this year we are away most weekends.

They should of played the club championship first and then the county stuff starting in August and finals in Sept!

Pah! You're missing the point, I am a sports fan and would follow most goings on. You want to see games played at the higher standard and bar one or two sports, women just don't compete at the same standard. Where they do compete at a high skills level and the competition is good, it's watchable. But there are many instances where the skills level are lower or matches are ridiculously one sided.

The primary benefit of sport though is participation at whatever level. So that's what is really important at the end of the day, not how many go along to shout or watch on TV.