Nigeria Game

[dublinred]

yeah just back from game this morning . What a load of ******. The players were strolling around the park like it was a sunday morning run out and the only player who seemed to give a toss was martin rowlands who at least put in a little but of fight.

Terrible attendance at game which surprised me considering the amount of irish over there .

Nothing gained from game really hopefully wed he will play mc geady and at least we can get a look at him !


I think Kerr should of learned a lot from the game , Kinsella needs to retire not at the races at all , Maybury and McPahil are not good enough , Lee does not look good enough either but considering how hard he tried and the scraps he got he should get at least another chance. I wasn't too surprised at the attendance given the lack of promotion and terrible organisation , the local cab drivers din't even know a game was on , £25 quid for the cheapest ticket was also a rip off considering holland is only 20euro next weekend.Staging the games in the valley was also a big mistake loftus road would have got at least 17,000.

[lopez]

I wasn't too surprised at the attendance given the lack of promotion and terrible organisation , the local cab drivers din't even know a game was on , £25 quid for the cheapest ticket was also a rip off considering holland is only 20euro next weekend.Staging the games in the valley was also a big mistake loftus road would have got at least 17,000.I agree. It was only the people who read the Irish Post or The Voice or Charlton supporters that would have known about the tournament. Plenty of people I know didn't know about the game either.

Ticket prices were average for England (I was speaking to someone last night who said Chelsea's season ticket will be over £800 next year and will not include any cup games). The problem was that there was no imagination from the organisors. Most Nigerians for example couldn't afford the price and yet there was no suggestion that people on low wages could buy a ticket for £10 or £15 for a family, etc. Nor, if it's community biased, were free tickets handed out to schoolkids from schools with high ethnic diversity. Bums on seats always means that a few quid would be spent on programmes, Mars bars, etc. Finally, the Evening Standard likes to bang on about multi-cultural London this and that but its coverage of multi-culturalism steers no further than a black man shooting a white man (or vice versa). The organisers once again did themselves no favours, but the Standard didn't write one line about the tournament on Friday. An absolute disgrace! :mad:

I watched the game in Frazer's on O'Connell Street in Dublin, with a load of Nigerians! To be fair, there wasn't much publicity about the game, and most of the pubs I asked about it didn't even know it was on, but still it was pretty embarassing to be outnumbered by the "away" team if you follow...It looks like the publicity was no better on the other side of the Irish sea.

[sylvo]

I agree. It was only the people who read the Irish Post or The Voice or Charlton supporters that would have known about the tournament. Plenty of people I know didn't know about the game either.

Ticket prices were average for England (I was speaking to someone last night who said Chelsea's season ticket will be over £800 next year and will not include any cup games). The problem was that there was no imagination from the organisors. Most Nigerians for example couldn't afford the price and yet there was no suggestion that people on low wages could buy a ticket for £10 or £15 for a family, etc. Nor, if it's community biased, were free tickets handed out to schoolkids from schools with high ethnic diversity. Bums on seats always means that a few quid would be spent on programmes, Mars bars, etc. Finally, the Evening Standard likes to bang on about multi-cultural London this and that but its coverage of multi-culturalism steers no further than a black man shooting a white man (or vice versa). The organisers once again did themselves no favours, but the Standard didn't write one line about the tournament on Friday. An absolute disgrace! :mad:
It looks like the publicity was no better on the other side of the Irish sea.



To right, I never heard anything about the two game's in London while over in Ireland, the organisation of this tournament has been a joke from the word go, the organiser's did'nt do hardly any publicity for these game's and then over priced it, they proberly thought they'ed make a killing, they'll proberly be lucky to break even, Lopez we were at the US cup in 92 and that was a tournament was done properly, the ticket's were cheap the competion had publicity for month's and the local community's of the visiting team's were involved in the thing, (plus the player's took it serious, ; :rolleyes:) this was a shamble's. Bring on the reggea boyz :p . I hear we're back at the Rose of Denmark again on wednesday. :eek:

[Beavis]

I watched the game in Frazer's on O'Connell Street in Dublin, with a load of Nigerians! To be fair, there wasn't much publicity about the game, and most of the pubs I asked about it didn't even know it was on, but still it was pretty embarassing to be outnumbered by the "away" team if you follow
Simple explanation there,nearby Parnell Street area has a huge African community.Often refered to as 'the hood' in Dublin.


if you substitute the word 'support' for 'attendance' that pretty much summed up last thursday night for me
Considering the little we had to cheer for on Saturday,the atmosphere among the irish crowd was pretty good.Definite improvement on Thursday despite the far lesser numbers.

[anto_123]

and we still have the Jamica game to look foward to!!!!
at this rate we'll have an under 12's team starting against the Dutch... :confused:

Come on Rowlans!!!!