What's up with Derry TV?

[pineapple stu]

Could we see a premier division side go the season without being on TV?
We're trying to fix that for you...:(

[BohDiddley]

Yawn.

You've got two alternatives for your motives:
1) You troll, people respond (see bold). Its the internet.
2) You're so insecure that you can't handle the fact that your big club aren't permanently on the telly.

Either way, you don't look clever.

We've had history lessons, geography lessons, diversions into the property market and now you resort to attacking the poster.
If you want me to give up I'm happy to. I really don't think we're going to get a rational discussion of why a TV company would concentrate its coverage in this way, apart from being too lazy to change to accommodate cup fixtures, especially when all we get is an orchestrated defence from Derry fans, as if somehow their precious profile is threatened. Let's just say that, for me, it feeds into the half-baked media treatment of Irish football generally.
I think I made clear earlier that I don't particularly want Bohs non-stop on the telly. In my view, it hits attendances. I was referring to the general spread of coverage, and I said that I would like to see some relegation-relevant coverage.
You may not like it, and I don't know what it's called in your part of the world: but here, it's called an opinion, and I see no reason to change it.

[Réiteoir]

That's interesting. What percentage of Derry fans live in the Republic, would you say?
When was the last time three out of a series four games, on any channel in UK or Ireland, featured one mid-table team? Do you really not think that is extraordinary?

Happens regularly on Liverpool TV ;)

And it's finally dawned on me that Derry City are the Newcastle United of Irish Football - their fans are under the delusion that they are the self-styled "Bestest Fans in the Whole World... EVER" and are a massive club - when in fact all they have to get excited about every season is the League Cup...

[pineapple stu]

LOL at a Bohs fan slagging another club's fans for being deluded that they're a massive club. ;)

[Réiteoir]

LOL at a Bohs fan slagging another club's fans for being deluded that they're a massive club. ;)

We're more XL than Massive to be honest Stu :D

And if things don't go Arkaga at Dalymount - then the future could be interesting to say the least...

[dcfc1928]

Hmm, I may have erred on the table positioning. In my head, Cork were still ahead -- forgot about the deduction. Let's amend that to third-placed in the league, 12 points off the leaders, going nowhere, and set to be trounced by a manager you sacked. ;)

The rat wasn't sacked, he walked away. I think he realised that he wouldn't get away with spending money the club couldn't afford so bottled it.

[BohDiddley]

The rat wasn't sacked, he walked away. I think he realised that he wouldn't get away with spending money the club couldn't afford so bottled it.
Sorry. Wasn't paying attention there.
Maybe it was just those drums that made him leave?

[OneRedArmy]

And it's finally dawned on me that Derry City are the Newcastle United of Irish Football - their fans are under the delusion that they are the self-styled "Bestest Fans in the Whole World... EVER" and are a massive club - when in fact all they have to get excited about every season is the League Cup..........when of course we should be bowing down to the uberlords in Dalymount who have dominated domestic football for the last number of decades.:confused:

For christsake you haven't even got the trophy yet. You'll have lots of time for appendage waving when you do, and throughout the offseason as well.

The thread was a thinly disguised troll and got the landslide of crap in response that it deserved.

Fact (as your lot used to say).

[BohDiddley]

Seriously...

IT

IS

NOT

A

TROLL
I expressed an opinion, which I still hold in the absence of any significant argument to the contrary, that TG4's focus on Derry is unwarranted and that scarce TV exposure should be spread around other clubs. That got an equally unwarranted volume of, frankly, mostly rubbish, knee-jerk replies, the majorith of them from the north-west corner of the island. It's a point of view. On the internet. Live with it.
If one really wanted to troll here it wouldn't be too hard now, would it?

[Dodge]

Thread closed. We're going around in circles. Bohs fans whinging about not being on TG4, Derry fans whinging at Bohs fans whinging....

No good can come of this