Soccer Republic

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 26/04/2015, 2:14 PM

Originally Posted by littlebray

Did anyone else see "Sligo Rogers" on a graphic, or was I just hallucinating?

Yeah I saw that as well

**Nesta99** · 27/04/2015, 10:33 PM

That sligo pats game highlights was quite dark in terms of tv footage.

**nigel-harps1954** · 27/04/2015, 10:52 PM

I quite enjoyed that two minutes of silence, simply imagining what sort of waffle Rico was talking.

**Dalymountrower** · 28/04/2015, 7:06 AM

Rico's praise of Rovers plucky draw with Limerick was beyond satire.
Couldn't bring himself to say anything positive about Kealon Dillons wonder goal..

**osarusan** · 28/04/2015, 1:18 PM

Originally Posted by Dalymountrower

Rico's praise of Rovers plucky draw with Limerick was beyond satire.
Couldn't bring himself to say anything positive about Kealon Dillons wonder goal..

What did he say? I can't remember anything too annoying.

**Nesta99** · 28/04/2015, 4:07 PM

I love do as I say not as I do nature of Collins, pure bull**** entertainment. Heary has failed the 10 game test and pack it in as should Hutton - how would Collins hae applied this to himself at Derry who were worse off at the same point under Collins. He has a neck like a jockeys ballbag!

**nigel-harps1954** · 11/05/2015, 11:05 PM

A short discussion on the First Division including footage of a goal from Finn Park. Something mad going on in RTÉ towers.

**Hitman** · 12/05/2015, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

A short discussion on the First Division including footage of a goal from Finn Park. Something mad going on in RTÉ towers.

They're just warming up for the imminent weekly half-hour dedicated to Waterford United.

**ger121** · 12/05/2015, 7:48 PM

Did I imagine it or were they not showing the score of the game before the highlights. Must have been on here recently.

**nigel-harps1954** · 12/05/2015, 8:46 PM

Originally Posted by ger121

Did I imagine it or were they not showing the score of the game before the highlights. Must have been on here recently.

Noticed that too, about bloody time and all.

**gufcfan** · 12/05/2015, 10:05 PM

http://i.imgur.com/x9ehAkU.gifv

You'd think that people on here would remember the score, but with me when there's 3 days between the match and the highlights, most of the time it might as well have been months ago.

**Charlie Darwin** · 12/05/2015, 10:42 PM

I watched that way too many times before I realised what I was supposed to be looking for.

**Kiki Balboa** · 22/05/2015, 1:13 PM

What is to stop the clubs releasing the full 90 minutes or at least highlights themselves? Do clubs record the games ? If they do , why not stick the videos on the internet, wont cost anything.

**nigel-harps1954** · 22/05/2015, 1:17 PM

Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa

What is to stop the clubs releasing the full 90 minutes or at least highlights themselves? Do clubs record the games ? If they do , why not stick the videos on the internet, wont cost anything.

Harps release footage of any their goals scored the day after the games.

Cobh also released footage of their goals a day after game last weekend.

Waterford usually have some sort of footage.

Shelbourne had a live mobile stream of the Harps game in Finn Park a few weeks back on an app called Periscope.

**Dodge** · 22/05/2015, 1:18 PM

Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa

What is to stop the clubs releasing the full 90 minutes or at least highlights themselves?
Do clubs record the games ? If they do , why not stick the videos on the internet, wont cost anything.

Some do. But they have to wait until after Soccer Republic because that's part of the participation agreement.

**Kiki Balboa** · 22/05/2015, 1:23 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Harps release footage of any their goals scored the day after the games.

Cobh also released footage of their goals a day after game last weekend.

Waterford usually have some sort of footage.

Shelbourne had a live mobile stream of the Harps game in Finn Park a few weeks back on an app called Periscope.

Great for the first division, espically for people away from home.... but there must be a separate deal for the premier clubs ?

**gufcfan** · 22/05/2015, 2:47 PM

Originally Posted by Kiki Balboa

Great for the first division, espically for people away from home.... but there must be a separate deal for the premier clubs ?

There is no First Division "deal". They don't show First Division highlights, so there is no conflict.

I would argue that for all the people what watch youtube highlights produced by club volunteers, it's only a very small amount of those who watch Soccer Republic and those that would see the youtube highlights would be extremely likely to watch Soccer Republic anyway in the first place.

The club produced highlights are a potential marketing tool that RTÉ and the FAI are blocking, for extremely questionable reasons.

There is great potential for clubs to market themselves by uploading videos of goals etc. Stuff like, when Chris Forrester scored that chip against Rovers (bad example, it was live on tv).

When you can't upload highlights or even goals until 3 days after the game, it tends to kill the momentum. The league cup games on Monday and Tuesday won't be shown until a week later and even then, it will just be the goals. In the case of Cork/Pats, it might just be the winning penalty.

I think RTÉ and FAI are only flexing their muscles because they can.

**Dodge** · 22/05/2015, 5:13 PM

Soccer Republic won't show any league cup stuff. That's free to go up immediately. So is the FAI Cup, especially when RTE don't send cameras to every game