eircom Sponsorship up for Renewal

[GavinZac]

No Smoke without fire and all that
There's no bloody smoke :rolleyes:

[Duggie]

bloody all the league needs right now, as someone said setanta may look to get in on it seeing as there already involved showing games and setanta cup.

[John83]

eircom now saying this is untrue:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/soccer/mhqlausngbmh/
"Eircom have sponsored the Irish national soccer team since 200 and began backing the domestic league soon after that." Jesus, 1800 years of sponsorship. No wonder it's called the eircom League.

[Lionel Ritchie]

Eircom have sponsored the Irish national soccer team since 200 and began backing the domestic league soon after that.

I wonder did they get their gaudy massive feckin logo embroidered on every tunic, cloak and pelt back then as well. Who the hell negotiated the length of that deal? ...did they even take the time to read the velum parchment it was inscribed upon?

[Gaillimh Al]

One O Clock News on RTE ran with story saying they were pulling out.

[Duggie]

wonder have the FAI been in talks with anyone else ??? im sure eircom have informed them some time ago before they went public.

[don ramo]

"Eircom have sponsored the Irish national soccer team since 200 and began backing the domestic league soon after that." Jesus, 1800 years of sponsorship. No wonder it's called the eircom League.

arthur guinness would be proud:D

[deecay]

Setanta have ruined Blue Square,moving games to mid-week and fans having to travel crazy distances

[Rovers Maniac]

There's no bloody smoke :rolleyes:

wow mate can't believe youare so blinkered on this,

What we need Gavin and to do this as a league is to act now to make it is possible to try to protect against a fire therefore there being no need to wait for smoke to appear first. The FAI need to be proactive on this major issue.

[Dodge]

The FAI need to be proactive on this major issue.

What makes you think they aren't? Eircom have said they're in discussions. The league obviously don't want to tell everyone who they're negioting with it until things are at an advanced stage

May I suggest you calm down, or as I said earlier get a ****ing grip

[elroy]

This sums up the league perfectly, shocking

I hate this attitude towards the league, the slightest bit of 'bad' publicity and everyone jumps on the league. Its doing ok, not great, room for improvement. But the last thing it needs is people constantly putting it down. I think the league is doing quite well considering the level of support and coverage it gets and performances in europe have generally improved. I wish people would support the league more, in fairness it has enough competition from within football (premier league, spl etc) as well as rugby and the gaa.

If the sponsors to the hurling championship pulled out in the morning, would there be such doom and gloom and everyone calling it a farce.............no there wouldnt. If eircom do end their sponsorship, fine a new sponsor will be found who im sure would be happy to avail of the coverage and exposure that a title sponsor of the league would get.

[dublinred]

If the FAI were proactive what sponsors/brands would fit in nicely the league.
Guinness ?- Great in the winter , warm and flat in the summer.

[jebus]

If the FAI were proactive what sponsors/brands would fit in nicely the league.
Guinness ?- Great in the winter , warm and flat in the summer.

Beamish - Are they still around?

Great tag line for the barstoolers in relation to both the drink and the league

[Rovers Maniac]

What makes you think they aren't? Eircom have said they're in discussions. The league obviously don't want to tell everyone who they're negioting with it until things are at an advanced stage

May I suggest you calm down, or as I said earlier get a ****ing grip

Seriously i am not hopping around the office so i have no need to calm down, you are getting upset because of the vodafone put down earlier :)
Don't be i meant no harm in it. Anyway your question makes no sense at all to me Dodge. I never said they were not doing anything did i? But what i have heard is the Eircom want to pull the sponsorship of the league and the FAI do not want to risk losing their sponsorship pf the national team.

[Boh_So_Good]

Bunch of drama queens. Lets wait and see who we get on board before declarig the end is nigh. Sponsors come and go, eircom were always relectunt sponsors of the league so maybe now we'll get a chance to get a sponsor who actually wants to be involved

Totally. The RTE screaming ninnies are something else. This kind of thing happens in all professional sport constantly. Yet it is only in our league it is looked upon as the kiss of death. I was cracking up watching the doom-laden look of the RTE reporters announcing this. Pretty funny.

A couple of weeks from now we'll have a new sponser, and this latest pussy boy outburst will be forgotton just like they forgot their terrors and arm-waving over Global Warming when their holidays came back around and it was time to use Ryanair again. Jounalists nearly being all alkies and addictive personality types tend to move form one overblown crisis to the next (it's like another drink, ciggie or coffee to them). The Irish being a nation of impulsive drunks follow suit every time.


The Irish are so easy to lead, and RTE love to whip them up into frenzies over nothing. Failing a new sponser, the Government will do what the do for the GAA, dogs and horsey crowd and use taxpayers money to pay our domestic soccer players...:rolleyes: So I am not worried. Fianna Fail will see us out of this. They are a sports-mad party for a sports mad nation after all. LOL!

Mind you, RTE will be reporting on the new baby boy the second cousin the Stockport County groundsman's wife had as their lead in soccer story so we'll hear nothing of the new sponser when it happens.

[Sheridan]

If the FAI were proactive what sponsors/brands would fit in nicely the league.

The Durex League of Ireland - "There may be a load of d1cks wrapped up in it, but it can still help you have a good time."

[Rovers Maniac]

The Durex League of Ireland - "There may be a load of d1cks wrapped up in it, but it can still help you have a good time."

:D:D:D

[micls]

Beamish - Are they still around?

Great tag line for the barstoolers in relation to both the drink and the league

Sponsoring us. In the process of being bought out though by Heineken.

[Boh_So_Good]

Do you think the AIL is in all but name now on the cards that the Eircom sponsership is a fallout from this?

[Dodge]

Seriously i am not hopping around the office so i have no need to calm down, you are getting upset because of the vodafone put down earlier :)

What put down? All you did was re-enforce my original point?

Eircom are looking at sponsorship oppurtunities and the FAI are looking at sponsors. Both crowds, and any new potential sponsors wil try and get the best deal for them. Eircom may be sutting their budget and want to concentrate on the national team, the Fai may be looking to establish the LOI brand (as their new TV dealings indicate) and yet you, and people like you are using a namelss, quoteless press article as the beginning of the end. I told you, and others, to calm down and stop using worlds like shocking and crisis, as it is not shocking and is not a crisis. It’s a normal negiotian period.

[jebus]

Do you think the AIL is in all but name now on the cards that the Eircom sponsership is a fallout from this?

Not in the slightest

[Rovers Maniac]

What put down? All you did was re-enforce my original point?

Eircom are looking at sponsorship oppurtunities and the FAI are looking at sponsors. Both crowds, and any new potential sponsors wil try and get the best deal for them. Eircom may be sutting their budget and want to concentrate on the national team, the Fai may be looking to establish the LOI brand (as their new TV dealings indicate) and yet you, and people like you are using a namelss, quoteless press article as the beginning of the end. I told you, and others, to calm down and stop using worlds like shocking and crisis, as it is not shocking and is not a crisis. It’s a normal negiotian period.

How do you know the FAI are looking at sponsors? I would hope they are but how do you know? People are hardly going to go for anything bar the best deal that they think is best for them :). the FAI are have still not made a comment on this ! hmm :D something is wrong.

Sorry Dodge i need to ask you are a Garda? Just i can imagine you at a crime scene saying "Nothing to see here folks now move along" :) . I think my sources are correct and there is a major crisis looming for the league and this could will be a fatal body blow if the league can't get a sponsor nor can the current league champions. But for the good of the league lets hope the FAI acted before the smoke was spotted this morning.

[Macy]

When are the schools back?

[John83]

When are the schools back?
End of August, start of September. Depends on the school, I think.

[Magicme]

Of course the FAI are looking at sponsorship, they are actually very good at getting sponsors.

[soccerc]

Of course the FAI are looking at sponsorship, they are actually very good at getting sponsors.

I know of a company who are willing to step in as League sponsors

[SalvadorSanchez]

I think it might be a good thing to get new sponsors in, we need to get sponsors that will engage with the league... the booze companies will be more active I think as they have the marketing skills turn the sponsorship into some kind of revenue unlike eircom,

At least we might be able to get Ireland shirts without sponsors on now... it cheapens the shirt to put a sponsor on it and no other countries do it except for small tags on the sleeve... never bought the national shirt because of the sponsors... I want to support my country not be a big green drunken billboard...

[Magicme]

I think it might be a good thing to get new sponsors in, we need to get sponsors that will engage with the league... the booze companies will be more active I think as they have the marketing skills turn the sponsorship into some kind of revenue unlike eircom,

At least we might be able to get Ireland shirts without sponsors on now... it cheapens the shirt to put a sponsor on it and no other countries do it except for small tags on the sleeve... never bought the national shirt because of the sponsors... I want to support my country not be a big green drunken billboard...

As the mammy of 2 LOI die hards I wouldnt like the league to be sponsored by a drinks company.

Soccerc, am sure there are a few companies willing so am not worried by this at all.

[dublinred]

I know of a company who are willing to step in as League sponsors

Betting company by any chance , they seem to like football and do well out of it.

[KianD]

As the mammy of 2 LOI die hards I wouldnt like the league to be sponsored by a drinks company.

Like it was for all of my memory pre-Eircom? Harp Lager League. Don't think it made me an alco (lies! lies!)..... well, I don't drink Harp.

[Sheridan]

It was Bord Gais's sponsorship which started my solvent abuse problem.

[Dodge]

BTW interesting titbit

Last ever winner of Opel LOI - Pats
Lat ever winner of Bord Gais LOI - Pats
Last ever winner of harp LOI - Pats

Another reason to want this year to be the least year of the eircom deal

[Magicme]

Its not really that it will cause problems like alcohol abuse, living in Ireland will do that anyway but when you go into schools to sell the league, I dont think the parents or the teachers would be too happy with you going in selling the Smirnoff League or the Budweiser league.

[Macy]

I dont think the parents or the teachers would be too happy with you going in selling the Smirnoff League or the Budweiser league.
It'd just be another excuse to add to the list - didn't stop them allowing the GAA in when hurling's main sponsor was Guinness, but you can bet it'd be another reason for the boards of management of many biggotted schools to block football.

[micls]

It'd just be another excuse to add to the list - didn't stop them allowing the GAA in when hurling's main sponsor was Guinness, but you can bet it'd be another reason for the boards of management of many biggotted schools to block football.

No one calls the Hurling Championship 'The Guinnes Championship' though, whereas a very large proportion of LOI fans call the league the Eircom league.

I'd much prefer if the sponsors weren't an alcohol company.

Saying that City are sponsored by Beamish, but the logo isnt on the Kids jerseys.

It depends how it's marketed really.

[Rovers Maniac]

No one calls the Hurling Championship 'The Guinnes Championship' though, whereas a very large proportion of LOI fans call the league the Eircom league.

I'd much prefer if the sponsors weren't an alcohol company.

Saying that City are sponsored by Beamish, but the logo isnt on the Kids jerseys.

It depends how it's marketed really.

I agree maybe we should go with a drinks company, if marketed correctly we could claim we are combating the binge drinking culture that exists in this country by exposing our kids to alcohol younger. It is just a thought at this stage but maybe the FAI and drinks companies and schools could maybe look into. In France kids often drink wine with a meal before they are 16 ! wish i was French when i was 16 :)

[SalvadorSanchez]

As the mammy of 2 LOI die hards I wouldnt like the league to be sponsored by a drinks company.

Soccerc, am sure there are a few companies willing so am not worried by this at all.

and.....
your foot.ie signature is................................................ ..................

Drink all your beer, there are sober kids in India.

Caught out!!!!!!

[jebus]

BTW interesting titbit

Last ever winner of Opel LOI - Pats
Lat ever winner of Bord Gais LOI - Pats
Last ever winner of harp LOI - Pats

Another reason to want this year to be the least year of the eircom deal

So that Pats can change their nickname to the 'Kiss Of Death'?

[pete]

Thinking of renaming this thread - "LOI supporters over react again".

It is obvious that eircom would assess their sponsorship as time for renewal comes around. It is also obvious that the FAI will test the waters for potential replacements & this won't be don't in public glare. Even if eircom decide not to renew this is not automatically a black mark against the league.

:rolleyes:

[pineapple stu]

Up on RTE (http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2008/0724/eircom.html) now, although the FAI just released a statement that "We are currently in discussions with eircom on all aspects of sponsorship. The talks are at an advanced stage and we won’t be commenting any further until they have concluded"

[ronburgundy]

sign of the times. no interest for the league is just the sad truth. feel sorry for die hard fans nd some quality players but the league is dying. FAST

[Mr A]

sign of the times. no interest for the league is just the sad truth. feel sorry for die hard fans nd some quality players but the league is dying. FAST

And I mean REALLY fast!

[ronburgundy]

Does anybody think that trying to get a community spirit like the gaa and have a club representing each county might be the only way?

[Mr A]

Either that or all the players and officials should wear Sex Panther :)

[pineapple stu]

Does anybody think that trying to get a community spirit like the gaa and have a club representing each county might be the only way?
Definitely. Team names like Kildare County or Dublin City will see millions flock to our league.

Oh, wait...

[pineapple stu]

On Six One now that they want to pull out of the league only. Sligo's chairman interviewed about it.

Must be something in it anyway.

[ronburgundy]

Sex panther. Works 60% of the time, every time. And i was thinking more along the lines of real mayo or sporting carlow

[sonofstan]

On 6.1 now - Tony O'Donoghue presenting as unmitigated bad news and linking it with the precarious position at Sligo Rovers......

[edit] Should have known Stu would beat me...


Oh, and its to be followed by a report on vicious racist abuse against a 14 yo by the followers of our fine national games

[pineapple stu]

Standard drivel anyway. Sligo are top half yet somehow have come out saying they'll go out of business next month, without any sort of mention that the idiots running the club may be someway responsible. Also no mention that maybe another sponsor may come along, like happened every other time a sponsor pulled out.

Does anyone know exactly what the eircom deal is worth to the league (and the individual clubs, more importantly)?

[Guitd]

why do RTE always jump on board with negative news highlighting the eircom sponsorship and adding to it with sligo,galway and waterford financial trouble ---the gave f*** all coverage to Drogs great win