OnSide came out last year but never took off. Shame, I'd love to have such a magazine.
Just cleaning out my old room at parents house, looking back through all my football stuff and flicking through a magazine called "The Soccer Magazine", which dealt with Ireland, the LOI and Irish league, and Irish players in the UK.
Wondering if ye guys think there is a market for a mag on the LOI (a Foot.ie version!). I do, if you also include info on the national team
I would love it if there was such a mag on the market.
Noticing the attendances seemed a bit better in the early 1990's too - jesus over 2,500 to see Sligo in Athlone in the old first, and Derry, Cork and Dublin Derbies reg got 3/4/5000.
And Bray V St Francis - FAI final , well over 22,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(side issue - sorry!)
OnSide came out last year but never took off. Shame, I'd love to have such a magazine.
"If you don't work harder I'll pull you off at halftime,"
“Crikey, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea,"
This is another one of the issues that pops up on here once or twice a year, and it's been debated to death.
Suffice to say that if a domestic football magazine was commercially viable, we'd probably have one now. A coupld have come and gone, which probably says it all.
As for the attendance at the Bray St Francis final - a large proportion of those got let in for free.
BD :
The point is waaaayyy over here (points off into distance with left arm).
Meanwhile, you're waaayyy over there (points off into opposite direction with right arm).
It feels like Groundhog Day on here half the time, with the same debates over and over and over....
All we need now is someone to come on and suggest the answer to the league's woes is to have a club in Navan, Tralee or Mullingar....
It didn't help OnSide that it was complete and utter crap.
The ball is round and has many surprises.
The soccer magazine was very good. Still have about 10 copies back home and well put together. I remember I used to buy Hogan Stand, the GAA equivalent and it wasn’t a patch on it.
Hogan Stand is still there and the Soccer Mag is gone. What a pity.
P.
"Now jump up there and stuff that son of a bitch in the basket, chief"
What about regional teams?
There were 2 other mags. The (Irish) Soccer Reporter and the utterly sh!te Eleven A Side which was brought out by the same folks who bring out Hogan Stand.
Nobody knows us, we don't care
Spotter was an excellent magazine. I'd love to have seen a bit more of that. The best magazine i have ever seen about Irish football
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Well judging by all the nwespaper articals and pages and pages of bad news about the LOI, then a LOI magazine would definatley sell, but it would have to be all bad news and scandals, now thats what the Irish public really want
Honestly while we are here as a matter of interest who out of the 12,000 odd fans who watch LOI week in, week out would honestly or could afford to subscribe to a magazine. i've made no secret of the fact i'd love to launch one but no point if no one would read it, buy it, advertise in it.
Last edited by padjoe; 11/08/2009 at 11:14 PM.
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