View Full Version : How many fanzines are there in the two leagues?
jebus
16/04/2009, 10:57 PM
I know we do one and so do UCD but what other clubs?
Dodge
16/04/2009, 11:04 PM
Fanzines are so 2003...
superfrank
16/04/2009, 11:05 PM
Don't Cork have a few like IWOTO and FourFiveOne.
Bray used to have but it's been gone awhile.
John83
16/04/2009, 11:20 PM
Shels have Red Issue.
Harps have (had?) Down to the River to Play.
Pats had Ossam is Doubtful.
Longford have the spectacularly infrequent One F in Longford.
Hairy Bowsie
16/04/2009, 11:29 PM
Shels have Red Issue.
Sorry to be pedantic but it's Red Inc.
John83
16/04/2009, 11:35 PM
Sorry to be pedantic but it's Red Inc.
Hardly pedantry. I think there's a Manchester United fanzine called Red Issue, which must be what I was thinking of.
Maynard
16/04/2009, 11:39 PM
Sorry to be pedantic but it's Red Inc.
Had it's ten-year anniversary edition last month:cool:
blue til i die
16/04/2009, 11:57 PM
amateur question i know, but what exactly is in them? :o
brianw82
16/04/2009, 11:59 PM
amateur question i know, but what exactly is in them? :o
Pics of Dodge's last away trip.
jebus
17/04/2009, 12:42 AM
Pics of Dodge's last away trip.
Humourous anecdotes from his weekends as well
That thing that happened to him in January! OMG that was serious lolz
John83
17/04/2009, 1:05 AM
amateur question i know, but what exactly is in them? :o
Varies. They originated in England as alternative match programmes.
Some, like Cork's, are usually fairly straight laced, with a lot of opinion pieces, historical articles, that sort of thing.
The other end of the spectrum is Stig, which consists mostly of comedy, pedantry and anti-FAI sentiment - league related satire (http://www.stigonline.com/misc/design.htm), serious analysis (http://www.stigonline.com/misc/si_funding.htm), fake league tables (Mark Rooney topped the Eircom League in the issue where it was revealed that his mum rigged our New Player of the Season vote), tongue in cheek match reports, funny photos (http://www.stigonline.com/misc/spottheball.htm), alternative histories (http://stigonline.com/league/derry.htm), invented guest columns, funny quotes and so on.
One F in Longford falls into this category too - if anything, it makes Stig look linear and sensible. Down to the River was a mix, last I saw of it. Red Inc is serious, I think. I haven't read Limerick's yet, but I think it's a mix.
It's a mix alright, 2nd issue is just finished so I'll hold on to a copy of each for the next time UCD are playing Limerick John
Paddyfield
17/04/2009, 5:48 AM
There are no Galway United fanzines at the moment.
previously, there were:
Galway Independent
Standing Room Only
Terryland Echo Echo Echo
Tribal Bible
Lost Tribe
amateur question i know, but what exactly is in them? :oSome wonderful poetry ;)
Drogman.
17/04/2009, 9:04 AM
Back in the early 90's we had one called Kick Off.
I then stated ForzaDrogs in 2003 but finished in 2005. Too much work to take on but I was thinking I might start it up again once I get a proper team of people together.
GuisaSaigon
17/04/2009, 9:19 AM
I think The Internet has killed off the fanzine scene. It's a pity because there were some great fanzines knocking around in the early 90's. Got a copy of STIG at the end of last season. The less I say about that the better!
No More Plastic Pitches (http://www.iwoto.com/nomoreplasticpitches.htm) was surely the greatest of them all
Maynard
17/04/2009, 10:18 AM
amateur question i know, but what exactly is in them? :o
Red Inc. is mainly thoughts and reflections on the season so far, opinion pieces and LOTS of anti FAI rhetoric and generally leftist tubthumping:D
holidaysong
17/04/2009, 2:08 PM
There's a guy on OrielWeb trying to start up a Dundalk one.
srfc1928
17/04/2009, 6:05 PM
Does anyone think fanzines affect programme sales ?
Martinho II
17/04/2009, 6:17 PM
Does anyone think fanzines affect programme sales ?
in my opinion yes especially if the content is a lot better than match programs. the beauty with fanzines is that they are not censored compared to a match program.
We have a new fanzine editor this season so edition no 11 will be on its way out soon!!:)
John83
17/04/2009, 6:23 PM
Does anyone think fanzines affect programme sales ?
Negligably. Fanzine sales tend to be a tiny fraction of total programme sales.
EastTerracer
17/04/2009, 6:23 PM
Rovers had a number of fanzines in the early to mid-nineties but the internet forums seem to have replaced them. My own favourite was the wonderful Hoops Upside Your Head.
Does anyone think fanzines affect programme sales ?
I reckon it could be more of match programmes affecting fanzines sales.
pineapple stu
18/04/2009, 1:07 AM
Got a copy of STIG at the end of last season. The less I say about that the better!
It's changed ownership. It's now more Pheonix magazine than LoI satire. It's...different. I don't understand what's going on half the time to comment more than that! But the lad behind it now has sold 50 annual subscriptions or something, so that's a few hundred quid for the club, which isn't to be sniffed at.
DmanDmythDledge
18/04/2009, 1:21 AM
Was he doing it at the end of last season too? I thought he only started doing it this season.
pineapple stu
18/04/2009, 1:33 AM
Last issue of last season was his first.
shefellover93
19/04/2009, 9:08 AM
There's a guy on OrielWeb trying to start up a Dundalk one.
Danny I think, I said I'd help him out with it. NMPP is truly the greates of them all, the best cover ever has to be
http://www.iwoto.com/scrapbook/NMPP%20Issue%2012.jpg
holidaysong
19/04/2009, 12:14 PM
Danny I think, I said I'd help him out with it. NMPP is truly the greates of them all, the best cover ever has to be
It wouldn't be a great title for a Dundalk fanzine.. ;)
Angus
20/04/2009, 10:27 AM
Does anyone think fanzines affect programme sales ?
If the positioning and commercial strategy is wrong, yes. At UCD (not a barometer of anything I know), our programme is €2 and when you ask the guy for €1 for the fanzine, most will hand it over out of the change of a fiver we have just given him.
We also sold annual STIG subscriptions this year for a fiver - a 44% discount on retail price. Annual subscribers get the fanzine by email which cuts down on production hassles.
And if this gets even 2 or 3 people to start tipping up to games it is well worth while
Angus
20/04/2009, 10:31 AM
It's changed ownership. It's now more Pheonix magazine than LoI satire. It's...different. I don't understand what's going on half the time to comment more than that! But the lad behind it now has sold 50 annual subscriptions or something, so that's a few hundred quid for the club, which isn't to be sniffed at.
Lad ? It's been 15 years since I have been called "lad" - thank you kind sir.
In terms of content, the intent is to get people in work and the IFSC and surrounding areas to buy annual subs, to get the thing by mail and, ultimately website (if I can follow John 83's excellent instructions around filezilla), and in that regard, the thinking (to the extent that there was any) is to have the subject matter sufficiently broad to interest the non LOI merchant.......
As I say, to the extent that there was any strategy in this process, that was it !!
Angus
20/04/2009, 10:32 AM
I think The Internet has killed off the fanzine scene. It's a pity because there were some great fanzines knocking around in the early 90's. Got a copy of STIG at the end of last season. The less I say about that the better!
Which one did you get ?
pineapple stu
20/04/2009, 10:33 AM
Aware of the reasons behind the decision alright. And I thought you'd enjoy a bit of nostalgia, lad. ;)
Obviously, subscriptions are much appreciated, which reminds me to get onto O'Neills to spend the money.
GUISA would have gotten the last issue of last year, I assume (last game)
Angus
20/04/2009, 11:55 AM
Prob the Obama cover, with the Yes We Can thing where we were struggling for content - much better production nowadays
GUIUSA pm me your email address and we will send across the 3 editions this season so far !
amateur question i know, but what exactly is in them? :o
Below is the cover of the most recent issue of IWOTO
You can read that issue and all the 2008 issues online at http://www.iwoto.com/backissues.htm
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/iwoto/cover29.jpg
Heres IWOTO's 2007 version of that classic NMPP cover
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/iwoto/cover21.jpg
John83
07/07/2009, 12:32 AM
Some wonderful poetry ;)
I suddenly remembered this post for no reason. Didn't Pete Goulding publish poetry in the Shels rag?
He kindly let Stig republish his Belfield Lament (http://www.stigonline.com/misc/belfieldlament.htm).
Hairy Bowsie
07/07/2009, 7:00 AM
Didn't Pete Goulding publish poetry in the Shels rag?
He kindly let Stig republish his Belfield Lament (http://www.stigonline.com/misc/belfieldlament.htm).
Still does regularly.
Raheny Red
08/07/2009, 12:33 AM
I suddenly remembered this post for no reason. Didn't Pete Goulding publish poetry in the Shels rag?
He kindly let Stig republish his Belfield Lament (http://www.stigonline.com/misc/belfieldlament.htm).
Just being pedantic, it's in the programme - not the RI Fanzine.
Blues Til I Die was a fanzine some years ago before moving to the web and morphing into a forum.
But a new Waterford one has started this year, Two Balls No Cup or something along those lines. Made a very good start, and I think issue 2 is due soon.
Schumi
08/07/2009, 9:58 AM
Two Balls No CupGood name!
stann
08/07/2009, 10:03 AM
We're over it now though, really!! :D
(it's some of our Ultras lads - one in particular I think - that came up with the name and put the thing together, they're probably on here as well)
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