Sunday Soccer Setanta

http://www.setantasports.com/en/Spor...cale/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.

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

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

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.

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Originally Posted by londonhoop

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

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Block G Raptor

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

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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.

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

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

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Originally Posted by Rovers1

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

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

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Originally Posted by finnpark

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

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

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)

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

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:

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Originally Posted by gilberto_eire

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:

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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.

Sunday at 7pm, feck that for away fans!

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Originally Posted by scottish_bohs

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

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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

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Originally Posted by 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

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

I will still watch them though.

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.

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?