Free admission to Derry game

[pineapple stu]

...if you wear a Leinster jersey to the match, according to a poster on the Derry forum (http://www.derrycitychat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5278). Says he's seen posters in Ballsbridge. Anyone else seen these? Interesting promo!

[DmanDmythDledge]

Sounds like a wind-up to me.

[pineapple stu]

Dunno about that necessarily. Yer man lives in Dublin and isn't a new poster (in fact, he's on here too, I think). The club's talking about wanting to follow in Leinster's path - family-orientated, Saturday afternoons, etc. I think it'd be a good promo, to be honest.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Did you see the poster on the forum? I'll wear mine and see do I get in for free!

[lefty]

The club's talking about wanting to follow in Leinster's path - family-orientated, Saturday afternoons, etc.

Oh dear god

[Poor Student]

This must be a **** take.:confused:

[John83]

This must be a **** take.:confused:
There was a rumour about this at the Ireland game, I thought?

[lefty]

If we do some sort of link up with Leinster rugby club that would be ****e, 2 different sports with 2 different sorts of fans lets keep it like that

[Schumi]

This is true. The idea is to get Leinster fans whose season ended last week to latch on to UCD in their off-season. If it gets more people to the game on Friday it can only be a good thing.

I've seen posters in Donnybrook and Dundrum too BTW.

[lefty]

Bolox, it might look good for our genesis masters but i dont see a bunch of rugger buggers chanting trinity shíte, prawn sandwich brigade can go leach on to some other club weve enough of them as it is

[John83]

Bolox, it might look good for our genesis masters but i dont see a bunch of rugger buggers chanting trinity shíte, prawn sandwich brigade can go leach on to some other club weve enough of them as it is
If we only let people into the ground who would sing, there'd be the twelve of us plus a few away fans at each game. Anything that boosts the club's local profile is good. Anything that could attract some long term fans, vocal or not, is good.

[lefty]

How are a bunch of rugby heads going to boost our profile? They wont come back after this free in offer. Its a stupid marketing ploy to make us look less shít for the cameras.

[pineapple stu]

And serious rugger heads won't bother coming. There's plenty of Leinster fans who are football fans too - particularly kids. Get them to one game - live on telly too - and they might come back. Plus, we get to make a killing on jersey sales 'cos we know loads of people are going to be jerseyless! :)

[John83]

Plus, we get to make a killing on jersey sales 'cos we know loads of people are going to be jerseyless! :)
These would be the jerseys that O'Neill's haven't bothered making yet?

[pineapple stu]

Word is they'll be here on Friday! That's what I was told last week anyway...

[DmanDmythDledge]

I sure hope so. I've been waiting ages for them to be delivered!

[Poor Student]

Surely anyone in a UCD shirt should also be admitted for free. It's an intriguing if slightly odd offer. Lefty, some of our own such as Bald Student, Student Mullet (not quite as enthusiastic as Bald it must be said), Schumi and Aberdonian Stu are rugby fans. I detest the sport myself but any bodies we can get in is fine by me. The Leinster prawn sandwich brigade you speak of are not likely to turn up. Pineapple is correct, alot of the younger kids are rugby fans too. Leinster are the best supported sporting club (that play in Dublin!) in the whole region. If we rule out overlapping support then we're ruling out a lot of people. My personal feeling is that we'll barely see this taken up by people over the age of 12 but lets see how it goes.

[DmanDmythDledge]

Something official has been announced on it;

http://www.irishfootballonline.com/news_story.php?newsid=4730

[CollegeTillIDie]

Look we are in the heart of rugger bugger land in D4. Surely it makes sense to dip a toe into that potential market and get a few more bums on seats even if only for the summer.

[Bald Student]

Surely anyone in a UCD shirt should also be admitted for free. It's an intriguing if slightly odd offer. Lefty, some of our own such as Bald Student, Student Mullet (not quite as enthusiastic as Bald it must be said), Schumi and Aberdonian Stu are rugby fans. I detest the sport myself but any bodies we can get in is fine by me. The Leinster prawn sandwich brigade you speak of are not likely to turn up. Pineapple is correct, alot of the younger kids are rugby fans too. Leinster are the best supported sporting club (that play in Dublin!) in the whole region. If we rule out overlapping support then we're ruling out a lot of people. My personal feeling is that we'll barely see this taken up by people over the age of 12 but lets see how it goes.My personal feeling is that we'll see a lot of people who would have attended anyway attending in a rugby shirt to get in for free. Since we're getting 4,000 euro from setanta to compensate us for the *cough* loss in gate *cough* we can afford to try to boost the crowd by letting people in for free.

[Poor Student]

I've tried to get the word out via boards.ie and some Leinster forum.

[pete]

This is true. The idea is to get Leinster fans whose season ended last week to latch on to UCD in their off-season. If it gets more people to the game on Friday it can only be a good thing.

I've seen posters in Donnybrook and Dundrum too BTW.

1 problem. If you get them to this 1 game then won't have another home game until July! :rolleyes:

[Bald Student]

1 problem. If you get them to this 1 game then won't have another home game until July! :rolleyes:But rugby is a bandwaggon sport anyway, they're used to attending games once in a blue moon.

[CollegeTillIDie]

But rugby is a bandwaggon sport anyway, they're used to attending games once in a blue moon.
Classic ! :D

[CollegeTillIDie]

I've tried to get the word out via boards.ie and some Leinster forum.

Well done PS Roysh! :D

[pineapple stu]

My personal feeling is that we'll barely see this taken up by people over the age of 12 but lets see how it goes.
I would have thought they'd be exactly the kind of people we're aiming this at. I've mooted a free admission game with a lot of promotion before; this is the next best thing. Doesn't matter that we don't have a home game for a month afterwards - would be better to have one the next week alright, but no reason not to try something different.

[lefty]

How about free entry for anyone wearing a ucd scarf or jersey? I just dont see a bunch of leinster fans coming back again and again. Its an interesting idea from a marketing point of view i'll give u that, i dont like the idea but im always one for new ideas, we do need more fans. Lock the thread and re-open it in a month or two and see if the attendances have risen or if anyone has noticed any increase in our fan base. And is this free in for wearing a leinster jersey a one off?

[pineapple stu]

It's a one-off, yep.

If scarf and jersey sales are up noticeable, it'll have worked! :) Plus, then the people have a tangible reminder of the club at home.

I'd like a free gate some game - maybe a dead game towards the end of the season. It's been done before at other clubs (Rovers, Oldham) and been successful. You get a huge crowd which then drops away a fair bit over the next few games obviously, but you do generate a lot more awareness and it's a lot more likely people will come back.

[lefty]

I'd be much more in favour of that than a free in for leinster rugby wearing people. Why didnt they just have free in for everyone this week would have boosted the crowds even more

[Poor Student]

I'd be much more in favour of that than a free in for leinster rugby wearing people. Why didnt they just have free in for everyone this week would have boosted the crowds even more

By adding a querk like the Leinster jersey you're actually more likely to get people's attention. We're also specifically targeting the Leinster supporting public as people who actually attend live sport in the area and have none to attend this summer.

[lefty]

Ive one, why not let everyone who has a six pack of beer shoved done their pants get in for free? Yes were targeting a specific segment alright, people who follow a different sport. Get ready to help these lads when they shout on scrum, and knock on. At least a gold old fashioned kick in the head is the same in both sports except they call it a ruck

Later

[Poor Student]

I've been asking on a Leinster forum (never thought I'd see the day I'd be posting on one!) if anyone noticed the advertising and one poster said he hadn't but he had been handed a flyer offering a fiver off if shown on matchday. It seems we're going all out with this one.

[pete]

But rugby is a bandwaggon sport anyway, they're used to attending games once in a blue moon.

At the Munster v Perpignan game reading in the programme about the 10 year tickets to new Thomond Park stand - guy behind reading it over my shoulder & remarks "...jeez you'd have to go to a lot of games for that..." (ticket entitles to 3 ERC & 4 Celtic League match tickets + option to buy others...)

:D :eek:

[DmanDmythDledge]

You just know that there will be people who will wear their Leinster jersey going through the turnstiles and then take it off as soon as they reach their seats.

[sonofstan]

So you're going to let a bunch of glory hunters in for free wearing the shirt of a team that plays another sport, but charge the usual bunch of Derry fans who make the 8 hr round trip to Dublin 7 or 8 times a year 15€ in - way to reward loyalty and passion, guys

[pineapple stu]

If the Derry lads want to wear Leinster jerseys, nothing's stopping them. It'd be better than the Superman outfits they usually wear.

This is about us increasing our home support. Derry aren't getting put out in any way at all.

[sonofstan]

If the Derry lads want to wear Leinster jerseys, nothing's stopping them. It'd be better than the Superman outfits they usually wear.

This is about us increasing our home support. Derry aren't getting put out in any way at all.

I like Derry anyway, but the fact that it seems to be the most rugby free city on the Island is a big plus ....I can't see them in the national costume of the southside tosser somehow; though they could drop by the library and steal the shirts off the backs of a few Ronans and Conors sleeping off the night before in Bondi Beach i suppose

[Aberdonian Stu]

We are in a rugby heartland. Oddly enough a lot of our fans also like rugby. We're trying to get rugby fans who don't pay much notice to the EL so follow us. It mightn't work but it's a novel idea.

[pineapple stu]

I too like Derry and hate rugby; but ultimately this isn't about them, to be honest. This is about what Aberdonian Stu said. Derry fans aren't losing out on anything.

[CollegeTillIDie]

So you're going to let a bunch of glory hunters in for free wearing the shirt of a team that plays another sport, but charge the usual bunch of Derry fans who make the 8 hr round trip to Dublin 7 or 8 times a year 15€ in - way to reward loyalty and passion, guys

Son of stan

There are already 2 teams playing in East Cabra ...... we don't have that privilege :D

[Poor Student]

So you're going to let a bunch of glory hunters in for free wearing the shirt of a team that plays another sport, but charge the usual bunch of Derry fans who make the 8 hr round trip to Dublin 7 or 8 times a year 15€ in - way to reward loyalty and passion, guys

I have the utmost respect for Derry fans, particularly those who make the away trips, but it's got nothing to do with them.

[pineapple stu]

Incidentally, is it just free adult tickets that are going or can anyone avail of the offer??

[Bald Student]

Incidentally, is it just free adult tickets that are going or can anyone avail of the offer??Any local teenager who owns a leinster shirt also owned a home made fake ID card to get into Wezzo.

[pineapple stu]

Touché!

I can see a father bringing along two of his sons and two of their friends and then being asked to pay E20 at the gate for the kids while he gets in for free. That's the way it sounds in the press release - that couldn't be the way we'll implement it though?

[Poor Student]

What's the weather like today?

[Bald Student]

Roasting. I'm going to pop home before the match to get my peaked cap.

[Jerry The Saint]

Roasting. I'm going to pop home before the match to get my peaked cap.

Make sure to keep your collar turned up to avoid sunburn. :D

[sonofstan]

Son of stan

There are already 2 teams playing in East Cabra ...... we don't have that privilege :D
eh?!?

did any show up in the end?

[CollegeTillIDie]

eh?!?

did any show up in the end?

Yes there were around 40-50 people in Leinster shirts at the game including a few sporting UCD scarves.

[pineapple stu]

Very disappointed with the result of the promo, to be honest. It was just a normal UCD-country team crowd. Being on telly would have taken a few Derry fans away, and the Bank Holiday wouldn't have helped, but the promo seemed to have no effect whatsoever.

Still, no harm in trying.