Brian de Salvo now has regular column on League Website

[Réiteoir]

Best news this week - love his stuff on Friday Sportsnight

http://www.eircomloi.ie:82/news-centre/columnists/brian-de-salvo/column/

[A face]

I love it and he has a point towards the end. The more negative the articles get in future, the more removed and out of touch the journos* for these papers will appear. The league looks like it could be making some advances in the next few years and you can see some of these guys struggling to keep up.

Their credibility will be documented in every word they print as the 'playing pitch' shifts around them ...... and in my opinion alot of them have always been just hanging off the edge of it with their relentless bad news stories. I'm hoping it shift moves up a gear and and a few of them fall over the edge and into oblivion, and we can be done with them. We've had to put up with them long enough.



*Monkeys with a spell checker.

[Superhoops]

This is the most positive article I have read for a long time regarding Irish football.

BDeS is the first journalist who has given any recoginition to the bigger picture and nowhere more pointendly than in this paragraph:
In a short time I have seen an unwieldy collection of amateur committees transformed into a lean and lively professional organisation. I have seen vastly increased government funding, Abbotstown, the Lansdowne Road redevelopment project, soccer internationals at Croke Park and almost frenetic activity at grass roots level.

It is not only lazy or attention seeking journalists that have overlooked these facts but also a good many contributors to this forum.

There is still plently of room for improvement at grassroots, domestic league and international level but it is about time some credit and recognition was given for the progress over the recent years.

Well done BDeS for setting a standard of telling it as it is, long may it continue. :)

[Mr A]

I'm not sure how good an idea it is to single out a newspaper like that though, no matter how justified on the league's official website. Unfortunately ****ing off members of the press is always likely to be counter-productive.

I'm not sure they give a toss about their credibility or whatever- they just want the most lurid stories possible in order to sell papers.

[bohsRap]

I'm not sure how good an idea it is to single out a newspaper like that though, no matter how justified on the league's official website.



What kind of response do you expect so? Would it be better if the FAI let the criticism flow without any reaction? I understand what you're saying because the paper could hit back harder, but I don't think the best option is to just lie down.

[BohDiddley]

I'm not sure how good an idea it is to single out a newspaper like that though, no matter how justified on the league's official website. Unfortunately ****ing off members of the press is always likely to be counter-productive.
It's a personal column, so he can have a go if he wants. Who knows, it might provoke a little original thought in press coverage of the domestic game.

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Who knows, it might provoke a little original thought in press coverage of the domestic game.

It wouldn't be before time, it would be very welcome and like the efforts made by the FAI and them getting the recognition for their efforts, the journos/papers would get the recognition for reporting on events in truthfully and without agenda.

Its glaringly bad now for some quarters, and they have to realise that, how could they not. It'll will be more telling as time goes on and clubs and association push on. Its their choice to take.