Number of Irish inside the grounds for the Euros.

A lot of debate has been had on the number of Irish going. The Irish Times say interest is 1/3 higher from Poland 4 years ago.
Surely we'll have in the region of 40,000 inside the ground in Paris and the somewhat smaller in the other two games. Anyone care to guess the numbers we'll have?

From a personal point of view, there's 16 people quite close to me who are going this time that didn't go to Poland. I'd imagine I'm not the only one knowing people going who didn't go four years ago

Sweden - 40,000

Belgium 25,000

Italy - 30,000

Edited by GreenDodger93 - 20 Apr 2016 at 9:11pm

Claret Murph wrote: Sweden = 26,269 Belgium = 13,739 Italy = 19,786.

I agree.

Scamper wrote: ABFC wrote: A lot of debate has been had on the number of Irish going. The Irish Times say interest is 1/3 higher from Poland 4 years ago. Surely we'll have in the region of 40,000 inside the ground in Paris and the somewhat smaller in the other two games. Anyone care to guess the numbers we'll have? From a personal point of view, there's 16 people quite close to me who are going this time that didn't go to Poland. I'd imagine I'm not the only one knowing people going who didn't go four years ago I have to say i

What?

Have had a good amount of people who know i travel away to games approach me asking if it is possible to get them tickets, most of whom have never been away to a game and very rarely been to a home match, some of who must have forgotten how they sneered at me after Poland, i have not forgotten .

daithi wrote: Have had a good amount of people who know i travel away to games approach me asking if it is possible to get them tickets, most of whom have never been away to a game and very rarely been to a home match, some of who must have forgotten how they sneered at me after Poland, i have not forgotten . But generally get the impression a lot more people are more interested this time around.

A lot wanting to go if have ticket but while we will have big support I don't see it anywhere near as big as 2004.........

We will definitely eclipse 2004 against Sweden anyhow imo

gufct wrote: If we get 35,000 in for the Sweden game I'd be surprised was looking for 1 extra ticket for it and no joy anywhere. In 2004 we were given a huge allocation because the French public weren't interested in going to the game .

So you reckon between Sweden and the general public 45k tickets will be gone, i reckon we will have easily 40k plus inside the stadium on matchday easily, you do know how us Irish can be very resourceful 

Sweden will have a lot in that stadium. We'll do well to get 35k into stade de france. Belgium will bring a lot too and we all know how hard tickets have been to come by in that game. Italy game is one i could see being 70% Irish. They won't care about the game and probably the good people of Lille won't either

Edited by OnTheOneRoad - 21 Apr 2016 at 12:57am