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happy days · Joined: 08 Mar 2022 Posts: 203 Location: Kirkcaldy

The Rovers web page has a feed for buying tickets but couldn't see a price for said articles.

Tam · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 6:32 pm Post subject:

Tickets are priced as follows:

Adults £15 | Over 65 / Under 21 £10 | Under 16 £5

happy days · Joined: 08 Mar 2022 Posts: 203 Location: Kirkcaldy

Cheers Tam never saw the price list but there again me missing somethings not a new occurrence.

embow · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:26 pm Post subject:

Gary Parker · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 8:31 pm Post subject:

Biggles · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 2157

Wouldn't trust any figures coming out of East End.

embow · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 9:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks GP.
I see exactly where you're coming from Biggles but it's been the case for a long time now (decades in fact) that the Pars have had a larger core of home fans than the Rovers.
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embow · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:24 pm Post subject:

Cheers SG.
Makes perfect sense on all points.
As far as the Pars are concerned, I was always of the opinion that the changes started when Jock Stein stepped in the door of East End and further success followed with the appointment of Willie Cunningham. Fathers/Mothers took offspring to witness the glory years of the 1960's and extended families have remained loyal ever since.
Just my theory. Absolutely no facts to base it on.🥺
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Cuparman · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 1664 Location: Irvine

Methinks the fife flyers have/had a fairly large number of supporters, and it’s rarely a boring non-event, given the type of sport that it is......if ya know what I mean. Wink

Pretty sure I read a few years ago that they were getting crowds around 1300-1500. Although that is simply a memory thing as this has been mentioned somewhere on fantalk before. Confused

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StarksBarmy · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 3844

Just googled the Flyers, finished 10th of 10 last season, couldn’t even make 8th place for the coveted play-off spot Rolling Eyes

Wondered why I haven’t heard much about them lately!

I used to be really pi55ed off at the ‘dormant’ Rovers’ support which we have seen down the years is substantial in numbers when the occasion suites.

I am now one of them pretty much so can’t complain! Was home and away majority of games from the late 80’s til 2014/15, the dire offering from the last season under Grant Murray took something away from me and it never returned. Probably averaging about 10 games a season since, always expecting the past passion and ‘love’ to return but it hasn’t yet…

Can only speak for myself but once you properly fall off the horse kind of thing, it’s hard to get back on.

Disregarding numbers from along road, I think 1200 and counting is a decent amount for us, few months ago after signing Goodwillie, predictions from some were of us playing in front sub 1000 home fans as we drop down the league system, thankfully we are moving on in (hopefully) the right direction..

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Castle · Joined: 24 Jul 2010 Posts: 4773

I think it's all about success. We are still reaping the rewards from our purple patch in the mid 90s. I have no doubt our average attendance woukd be a couple of hundred lower now than it is but for those glory days then. It is the same for Dunfermline. They had huge success in the 60s but even in the last thirty years they have spent, what maybe ten seasons in the top flight? In that time we've spent three seasons there. That success means that Dunfermline have been attracting more people to come along and so it will take longer for that fan base to drift and whittle away.
In many ways the Pars financial doping has benefited them in much the same way as an athlete gains from steroid doping. Even after an athlete stops taking the drugs they can retain muscle memory. The Pars got fans hooked on them during the (relatively) successful periods funded by borrowing cash they didn't have to repay. The Bank, Fife Council, local businesses and The British Red Cross picked up the tab. If they spend another ten years yoyo-ing between the second and third tier their attendances will be what we have now.
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stan drew rover · Joined: 05 Jun 2017 Posts: 793 Location: Work it out!

For me, as SG says, it's a comnbination of several factors sure enough, but there are two that stand out...

First, football-related, is that the differemnce stems from Dunfermline having had a successful period through the 1960s, which was far longer and more sustained than ours during the 1990s. This has led to a 'tradition' of them being seen as the better-supported team [similar to Kilmarnock & Ayr United on the other side of the country)

The other is population. Whilst we could claim Glenrothes as part of our catchment area, that has never happened due to Glenrothes' growth years being largely due to an influx of people from (mostly) the west fo Scotland. And so, Central Fife has more than its fair share of Old Firm worshippers

Contrast that with Dunfermline's more recent growth (have you been through Duloch? - there's thousands there alone!), which has stemmed from commuter belt status. Also, a different demographic from Kirkcaldy/Glenrothes.... A friend tells me Dunfermline's population has grown by 25% in the past decade, as has the town's affluence.

To reverse the roles between Pars and Rovers would take at least a decade of sustained dominance by our team over their's, and even then, we'd need to be premier division all that time, too....