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islaydarkblue
Dundee Legend
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 25 February 2012 : 16:04:01
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| Like most clubs their fans can turn out for big events such as a cup final. Ross County had 17,000 fans at the 2010 Scottish Cup Final |
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mev
Dundee Legend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 February 2012 : 18:14:14
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Originally posted by Euan
The important point is that they are top of the league and we are not. If they can do that on a limited fan base I say well done to them. Sometimes I get so fed up hearing us speak about our great fans and belittling other teams with less supporters. Sounds like at times some Celtic & Rangers supporters belittling the rest of Scottish football because we cant match there support or influence.
I'm not belittling their fans but do think they deserve a better away support.
They have a multi-millionaire builder as a director. We don't. Elgin City are the biggest highland club historically yet are languishing in the third division. They don't of course have any multi-millionaires on the board. Having a great fan base though should make a difference!
Living in Elgin I do think that City deserve the kind of financial backing that County have had. I also believe that if they did have the kind of success County have managed then they would be getting a much bigger home support than County are currently getting at the top of the first division. |
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Deedale
Dundee Legend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 February 2012 : 11:57:00
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| Dingwall only has a population of about 5000!!! As such Ross County are bringing in a huge % of their population for every home game, also they had about 300 at Dens on Saturday which is about 6% of their towns population. Could Dundee take 6% of its population to away games???? Even taking in to account there are 2 clubs in Dundee we are way behind Ross County in relation to fans attending games. |
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Drvonshineck
Internationalist
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 February 2012 : 12:36:35
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Originally posted by Deedale
Dingwall only has a population of about 5000!!! As such Ross County are bringing in a huge % of their population for every home game, also they had about 300 at Dens on Saturday which is about 6% of their towns population. Could Dundee take 6% of its population to away games???? Even taking in to account there are 2 clubs in Dundee we are way behind Ross County in relation to fans attending games.
That's all well and good but if you take in to account, the amount of clubs in the surrounding areas then Ross County's catchment for fans is huge in comparison to Dundee who have to compete with 6 other clubs within half an hour drive.
http://www.myfootygrounds.co.uk/AreaMap.asp?view=SCOTLAND |
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ALANMAC
Internationalist
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 February 2012 : 12:41:58
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| Dingwall is the town that Ross COUNTY play home games in but they draw support from Ross-shire which has a population of circa 50,000,basically all north of the Kessock bridge,but quite a few in inverness and south chose to follow County for a variety of reasons,that said it's points on the board that count not bums on seats, at the end of the day they mean hee haw in relation to team performance. |
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DensDerry80
Under 21's Squad Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 February 2012 : 13:25:11
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Originally posted by Deedale
Dingwall only has a population of about 5000!!! As such Ross County are bringing in a huge % of their population for every home game, also they had about 300 at Dens on Saturday which is about 6% of their towns population. Could Dundee take 6% of its population to away games???? Even taking in to account there are 2 clubs in Dundee we are way behind Ross County in relation to fans attending games.
yes but they are not Dingwall FC they are .....Ross County FC.....the clue is in the name! the population of Ross and Cromarty is nearer 50,000 according to one website i googled.
Still, given that its over 3hours to every away game their travelling support deserves a medal! |
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tayportdee
Dundee Legend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 February 2012 : 13:26:27
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| I bet Ross county benefited from the amalgamation of caley and thistle. There is no way that the jaggie fans would go to support the new Caley team. |
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Deedale
Dundee Legend
United Kingdom
533 Posts |
Posted - 27 February 2012 : 14:40:31
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Originally posted by DensDerry80
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Originally posted by Deedale
Dingwall only has a population of about 5000!!! As such Ross County are bringing in a huge % of their population for every home game, also they had about 300 at Dens on Saturday which is about 6% of their towns population. Could Dundee take 6% of its population to away games???? Even taking in to account there are 2 clubs in Dundee we are way behind Ross County in relation to fans attending games.
yes but they are not Dingwall FC they are .....Ross County FC.....the clue is in the name! the population of Ross and Cromarty is nearer 50,000 according to one website i googled.
Still, given that its over 3hours to every away game their travelling support deserves a medal!
You are correct that the population in Ross and Cromarty is near 50,000 but look at the size of the area, fans would have to travel a hell of a lot further to get to Dingwall (over 100 mile round trips!!) than most Dundee fans do to get to Dens. |
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islaydarkblue
Dundee Legend
United Kingdom
2519 Posts |
Posted - 27 February 2012 : 18:03:57
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| Ross County fans knew that they would have long journeys to support their team at away games when they applied to join the Scottish Football Leagues. |
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Euan
Dundee Legend
SCOTLAND
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Posted - 28 February 2012 : 00:13:32
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| Why are we wasting time discussing Ross County on the Dundee section of the website? Could this not go to other football matters? |
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