Sunday Soccer Setanta

[londonhoop]

http://www.setantasports.com/en/Sport/News/Football/2008/04/01/eLOI-Sunday-Night-Soccer-arrives-on-Setanta/?facets/sport-space/ireland-locale/football/

Setanta Sports will provide eircom Premier Division fans with exclusive coverage of selected live matches on a brand new Sunday night slot.

With the new season just four weeks old, this announcement will surely be welcomed by fans of Irish domestic football as an international broadcaster has opted to extend its coverage of the league.

This new approach to covering the league is a big step forward with Setanta Sports committing to fifteen league matches along with the League Cup Final.

[Block G Raptor]

This is great news if true. Did RTE not negotiate exclusive rights to Live eLOI games though

[londonhoop]

Well its there in black and white on Setanta's webpage so id say you can take it as 100%

[harps1954]

Excellent - it doesn't clash with all the other games or the MNS programme on a Monday night. This was something that I actually emailed RTE about at one stage so glad to see it happening. It'll be interesting to see how is affects the crowds, but it's certainly better than the Monday night's that they have tried in the past.

[Block G Raptor]

Well its there in black and white on Setanta's webpage so id say you can take it as 100%

I know it appears to be the real thing all right. Just being a bit skeptical given the day thats in it

[Mr A]

Cool. It'll be interesting to see how the Sunday evening slot works in terms of attendance, it's one of the few that league clubs have not really tried yet.

[harps1954]

This is great news if true. Did RTE not negotiate exclusive rights to Live eLOI games though

No, RTE's coverage is going to increase year on year for the next six years. I think in five years time, RTE will be showing a live game every week. Would still be no harm to have Setanta showing one as well on a different night.

[Rovers1]

will it just be the top 5 teams playin each other being shown though

[TheSaint2002]

most of our worst crowds over the last few years have been for sunday games, sunday imo is a crap day for football not a fan of this

[finnpark]

will it just be the top 5 teams playin each other being shown though

I hope so, we should get a good few games. Im sure they will cover highlights of your relegation scraps too. ;)

[Rovers1]

I hope so, we should get a good few games. Im sure they will cover highlights of your relegation scraps too. ;)


:rolleyes: an easy start to the season and theyre gonna win the league!

[micls]

I delighted cos it means the below games being moved to Sunday....so I can go :D
Sunday May 4th
St Patrick's Athletic v Cork City, Richmond Park (KO 7.00pm)

Sunday May 18th
Bohemians v Cork City, Dalymount Park (KO 7.00pm)

Sunday June 1st
Derry City v Cork City, Brandywell Stadium (KO 7.00pm)

[scottish_bohs]

Will moving these games hit the number of Cork fans that will be able to travel micls??

[gilberto_eire]

If true a bit of a joke in 6 games mentioned:

Bohs: 3 times

Cork: 3 times

Pat's: 3 times

That's a joke, now im not saying any old GUFC match should be show but maybe even a Connacht Derby, it's not the Premiership here where they HAVE to show one of the big 4, all clubs will generallly get the same figures on TV. Seems this year it's just been biased towards the top half clubs!! :mad:

[Dodge]

If true a bit of a joke in 6 games mentioned:

Bohs: 3 times

Cork: 3 times

Pat's: 3 times

Seems this year it's just been biased towards the top half clubs!! :mad:
Cork aren't in the top half!

They should show the best game that week, regardless of how many times a team has been on TV.

[sligoman]

Sunday at 7pm, feck that for away fans!

[micls]

Will moving these games hit the number of Cork fans that will be able to travel micls??

I think it should improve it tbh.Especially Derry. Much easier to travel on the weekends for me anyway.

Also 2 of the games are bank holiday weekends.

But some people had already booked flights and accomodation for the Bohs game.

Also you'l have some who wont bother travelling now cos its on tele

[Paddyfield]

most of our worst crowds over the last few years have been for sunday games, sunday imo is a crap day for football not a fan of this

Agreed. It will look crap on TV when the grounds are empty although the 7pm experiment is interesting.

I will still watch them though.

[pete]

I believe this will increase our away crowds for these games but not enough on its own to justify moving to Sunday. TV attendances will increase but these are very small for Setanta anyway. Don't know if this is a good idea although on balance probably better than Monday nights.

[Donegalcelt]

Would it not make sense to occasionally show teams from areas where Setanta is not freeview, as well as giving those teams at least one or two games on the box?

[rambler14]

It's all the same teams, so much for spreading the coverage around.:mad:

[Bald Student]

It's all the same teams, so much for spreading the coverage around.:mad:I don't mind that. It'll let new fans get some familiarity with the teams and players that they're watching.

It was the same a few years ago when Shels were on the telly every week. I knew people who'd never gone to a game but could name Shels' starting 11.

[harps1954]

It's all the same teams, so much for spreading the coverage around.:mad:

I have no real sympathy for Cobh. You had a chance to have your title winning game live on RTE on the last day of last season and your board/committee refused. You can't have it every way. When you had your chance, you said NO.

[Rebal Boy]

Just wonderring for our game against Derry. Is it a bank holiday weekend up there aswell???

[lofty9]

Just wonderring for our game against Derry. Is it a bank holiday weekend up there aswell???

It is not.

[eirebhoy]

I don't mind that. It'll let new fans get some familiarity with the teams and players that they're watching.

It was the same a few years ago when Shels were on the telly every week. I knew people who'd never gone to a game but could name Shels' starting 11.
That's actually a very good point. I'm 10 times more interested in a game when I know the players. Even just by reputation.

[forza]

It's all the same teams, so much for spreading the coverage around.:mad:

The company knows what the public wants :D

[Dodge]

That's actually a very good point. I'm 10 times more interested in a game when I know the players. Even just by reputation.

which is another reason why the 60 seconds thing on MNS is a good idea. All help to raise the profile...

[Boh_So_Good]

The company knows what the public wants :D

and as a private concern they need to make money from this. Limerick 37 versus Kildare County won't woo advertisers.

[Boh_So_Good]

That's actually a very good point. I'm 10 times more interested in a game when I know the players. Even just by reputation.

Look how Setanta O'Halpin launched the male population of rural Ireland out of their repressed homosexuality with the documentary of him being half dressed Down Under.

[pete]

I haven't looked at what the alternative games were on the weekends Setanta have chosen but games appear to be the best. TV games should mainly include the combination biggest clubs, biggest crowds, highest placed teams in the table (bit early to be using that one yet).

[HarpoJoyce]

...... TV games should mainly include the combination biggest clubs, biggest crowds, highest placed teams in the table (bit early to be using that one yet).

A Broadcaster shows clubs they believe represent their audience. e.g. TnaG and Galway Utd.

[sniffa]

It's all the same teams, so much for spreading the coverage around.:mad:

Its gets worse.

Just wait til next season when you're back in the First Division and you wouldn't even get a mention on MNS.:D

[ashbournebohs]

Does anybody know how much the clubs recieve per game.I would love to know how it compares to what clubs in league 2 get from Sky or the Blue Sq conference clubs get from Setanta.By the way the coverage of them Conference games is brilliant.Cameras in the dressing rooms and a reporter interviewing players on the bench when they have off come off .Real behind the scenes stuff anchored by Paul Parker.I would watch it over a Premier league game any day

[Demoshield]

Will these games clash with the GAA & Sunday Game on RTE?
Also I know in Galway if there is a big GAA match in Salthill traffic will be at a stand still for hours after it & you will get feck all to sit in ther car for an extra hour to get to Terryland.

[Brian Mc]

I think sunday at 7pm is far better than monday nights if games are to be switched for tv. I always hated it last season when Bohs were playing on a monday. Worst night in the week for a match.

[harps1954]

Does anybody know how much the clubs recieve per game.

The home club gets €3,000 and the away club gets €2,000. The home club used to get the full €5,000 but that changed last year.

[Jerry The Saint]

The home club gets €3,000 and the away club gets €2,000. The home club used to get the full €5,000 but that changed last year.

Pats were on TV as often as any other club last year and still ended up paying out more in fines than they got in TV revenue.

This season we're already €16,000+ down in fines so it's likely to be a similar story :(

[Flume]

It really is pittance. But its more the exposure that seems to be important at the moment. maybe when the profile of the league is built up a bit then the revenue should increase.

[harps1954]

I agree. Exposure is the big one. Plus, I know Harps sold extra advertising hoardings on a once off basis when they were on TV last season, so there is extra revenue to be generated in that manner as well.

[Kingdom]

Pats were on TV as often as any other club last year and still ended up paying out more in fines than they got in TV revenue.

This season we're already €16,000+ down in fines so it's likely to be a similar story :(

Surely thats a joke or greatly exagerrated? If not then how could ye be fined that much already?

[Jerry The Saint]

Surely thats a joke or greatly exagerrated? If not then how could ye be fined that much already?

€15,000 for submitting licensing documents too late
+ €1,000 for Buttimer's Sleevegate vs. Sligo
+ €150 for bottles on the pitch

That's only as far as the first game of the season. I haven't seen any updates for subsequent weeks yet.

[Boh_So_Good]

8 years ago we got at most the FAI cup final and perhaps a league decider on RTE if we were lucky.

That was it.

Now the LOI is popping up on TV a hell of a lot more than any of us even imagined in our wildest dreams back then. One question to some of you? What the hell is your problem?

I come on this board and there is always a hardcore band of compulsive whingers who instantly attack anything positive which comes along. Honestly, half the time I think you are GAA moles bred in some lab in rural Mayo and sent out to destory the foreign code.

Unreal!

[Jerry The Saint]

8 years ago we got at most the FAI cup final and perhaps a league decider on RTE if we were lucky.

That was it.

Now the LOI is popping up on TV a hell of a lot more than any of us even imagined in our wildest dreams back then. One question to some of you? What the hell is your problem?

I come on this board and there is always a hardcore band of compulsive whingers who instantly attack anything positive which comes along. Honestly, half the time I think you are GAA moles bred in some lab in rural Mayo and sent out to destory the foreign code.

Unreal!

Well this was certainly a positive post :)

[Kingdom]

]€15,000 for submitting licensing documents too late[/B]
+ €1,000 for Buttimer's Sleevegate vs. Sligo
+ €150 for bottles on the pitch

That's only as far as the first game of the season. I haven't seen any updates for subsequent weeks yet.

You've got to be joking me? As for the jersey clash I thought the concensus was that Sligo/the referee were at fault?

[passerrby]

You've got to be joking me? As for the jersey clash I thought the concensus was that Sligo/the referee were at fault?

agree was that the only fine for this disaster

[Mr A]

No, Sligo got fined €1000 too. Both teams were in the wrong- Sligo for not having 2 strips, Pats for refusing to change. I think they got off very lightly indeed.

[Dodge]

No, Sligo got fined €1000 too. Both teams were in the wrong- Sligo for not having 2 strips, Pats for refusing to change. I think they got off very lightly indeed.

They didn't get off lightly but they did deserve to be fined. Sensible refereeing would've seen no clubs get fined though

[bellavistaman]

I have no real sympathy for Cobh. You had a chance to have your title winning game live on RTE on the last day of last season and your board/committee refused. You can't have it every way. When you had your chance, you said NO.

ah, won us the league too didnt it, we learned from your mistake nothing wrong with that

[Dodge]

ah, won us the league too didnt it, we learned from your mistake nothing wrong with that

You're saying that not showing the game won the league for you?