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Christ...I thought it was going to be a new club
Unlikely to be any new Munster club for a long time. A well run Treaty United will cover Clare and North Tipperary. A well run Waterford FC will cover South Tipperary.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Ennis would be big enough to have a LOI team. Didn't Clare win a couple of Oscar Traynor Cups recently too? Galway Utd usually have a few Clare lads in the Academy and Senior squads
There are no signs of any LoI interest in Ennis or Clonmel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckett
Would be great to see that happen for Kerry FC!
Not a club promotion activity but a charity link up, but probably fits better in this thread than elsewhere:
https://twitter.com/FinnHarpsFC/stat...11475086283135
This is going to be great.
I don’t think I’ve seen a more on brand video that lives up to the Bohs stereotypes :D
https://x.com/robertlavelle81/status...545934195?s=46
Great turnout in Rascals brewery in Inchicore tonight for the Patron Saints season preview night. There was Jon Daly , Anto Breslin , Jamie Lennon & Marcelo Pitaluga in attendance.
Similarly, Kerry recently hosted a charity soccer v Gaelic players match for a Tralee boy receiving cancer treatment - over €30k raised so far from the associated GoFundMe page alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
https://www.leagueofireland.ie/news/...d-2024-season/
Increase in prize money for the new season. Majority of it going to the womens league, which is fair given the paltry €55k they had on offer previously. Overall prize money gone up from €655k to €765k across the three leagues.
A step in the right direction, but still needs to be much higher.
Warm weather training camp for Finn Harps last weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Ua9j-Xt-U
Noticed this from Dundalk page, the amount of red-like or maroon tops for the PD, 7 in total from the 10.
Even begs the question why we went with pink for the second top, as can only use that v Rovers and Waterford, but still can't get over the amount of similar-ish colours.
https://x.com/DundalkFC/status/1755217575099695400?s=20
Can tend to ubiquitous!Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Best craic will be when Bray visit Finn Park. Green/White home kit clashes with Harps blue/white, and their second and third kits are both two different shades of blue. What sort of genius thought of two different blue kits for their change colours?Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
17% increase of sweet****all is still ****all but it's definitely a good news story all the same.
In the next 2 seasons the LOI should be hitting both 1 million in total attendence and price money.
https://twitter.com/KerryFC/status/1...wU9lP7HQw&s=19
Kerry have their open training session on Friday night. Another good profile event following the charity match last week and the provincial cup run.
First PR own goal of the season goes to the Galway United media team posting a picture of Ed McCarthy with a stop sign and a driver behind him, with ‘Murder on the dance floor’ as the song on the post. McCarthy was charged with causing the death of a man through dangerous driving in 2020. I’m sure (I sincerely hope to god) how the post looks was unintentional but it’s incredible negligence from the media team regardless of the fact that they’re probably volunteers, not least the player himself who should surely have clocked that holding that prop in particular was a bad idea given the past
https://x.com/rcronin97ryan/status/1...324351196?s=46
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/...h-1040819.html
It'll be hard to top that for social media stupidity though no doubt some clubs will try.
I noticed on the Sportsfile website for their portraits a few other Galway players posing with that driver and other random nonsense but you would have thought all LOI social media teams would have been well briefed for any of their players who may hold a criminal conviction of any sort let alone something as tragic as a road death to pay that extra bit of attention with cotton wool involving the player and second checking
If there was no back story, what was the stop sign, driver and choice of music trying to portray? Saying that social media teams didnt know doesnt stack up - fans of clubs tend to know things like suspened convictions of players and driving bans and Im sure they are fans. Idiotic stuff on behalf of a few people including the player!
Incredible levels of idiocy achieved by our ‘media’ team, a bunch of college-fresh wannabes who have zero media training and seem to only be interested in pathetic jabs at other clubs (the Bray DART poster last year is one example) than actually providing genuine information for our fans.
Thanks to them, the whole league now seems to know about McCarthy’s conviction but we can’t get any info out of the club about how home fans can get tickets for the Pats game on Friday.
It’s all about the ‘likes’ apparently and to hell with being of any actual use with providing info
The music is just the go to for social media posts since it was used in saltburn. Little to no thought was likely put into the music itself just it's just part of the current zeitgeist. If this was posted during the summer it would likely be some other song.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
A couple of clubs seem to have similar issues these days. Imo it’s best not too clever with social media posts and just keep it simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
Maybe the coincidence of the music combined with the coincidence of the Stop sign and the coincidennce of the driver all together in the one visual is just all one massive joint-coincidence?Quote:
Originally Posted by Another Bohemia
Or maybe not.
Probably not all coincidences no but I would be willing to bet the music was the laziest choice anyone made in this. It's literally everywhere now because of Saltburn. Load up any social media app and scroll and you will come across multiple posts with this song as the background. If you are working in social media now you are going to make at least 1 post with this song.Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Are you suggesting that GUFC intentionally tried to link one of their own players to a tragic accident that he caused? Or was it a dig at the victims family? Or maybe they wanted to inform any LOI fan that didn't already know about it?Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
It was stupidity by a young volunteer that didn't know Ed's background. All social media posts within the club should be supervised by a PRO or Club Secretary.
Anyone want to explain the picture. Stop sign, golf club .... what on earth were they trying to portray?
When I heard the music I thought they were lining up a high profile French manager, because it's murder on Zidane's floor...
I'll see myself out.
PR own goal 2 of the season: Bohs helping fans get up for the match
https://x.com/loifantv/status/1757782878941856153?s=46
Can you explain the random sequence of props and music in that video any other way?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckett
P.S. If someone caused a collision, then it wasn't an accident. Accidents have no fault at play. If he hadn't been at fault, he wouldn't have been charged and convicted. The fact that he was shows that it was a collision caused by his own behaviour/negligence, and not an accident/act of God.
I see this has been picked up by the English papers now and Galway have had to apologise, very belatedly.
They clearly attempted to sweep it under the rug but had to come out with a statement once the Telegraph picked it up. If anything that “hopefully this just goes away” attempt at dealing with the situation in silence for the guts of a week makes the club look even worseQuote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
This is a good move by Treaty, a little bit of a trek but will bring matchday colour to a side of the city oft forgotten. Nice set up there https://treatyunitedfc.com/2024/02/1...-city-brewery/
The apology seems a bit reluctant too, oddly phrased - 'Wish to advise no offence intended and apologies for any offence that may have been caused etc. Not intending to offend doesnt diminish offence, and id say offence was caused, not may have been caused, to family and friends of the deceased. Could be phrased with more conviction eg GUFC apologises for any offense caused by recent (insensitive) social media post and will review its official social media processes going forward. Maybe its nitpicking but in the context of the delay in dealing with the post, a lack of explination on what its supposed coincidental (inoffensive) message was, and that it got posted in the first place, plus the brevity of this statement dealing with growing fallout - well it comes across as forced or irritated backtracking as if it was dealing with OTT political correctness, not a sincere 'that was a fook up'. The judge that presided over that difficult court case will be pished off to see the disrgard for the victims and that cutting the young culprit a break by suspending the conviction has been mocked, with the culprit showing additonal poor judgement and Im sure the judge will have made contact with club and possibly player. Id still like to know what the imagery was all about if not about the conviction - if it was mocking the case then it needed to be dealt with more quickly and assuredly by the club!
The Treaty Youtube page has been decent too, maybe the new owners have thrown some money that way? Here's the latest: https://youtu.be/osKdaqRMEsw?feature=sharedQuote:
Originally Posted by Ancient Rush
What do Harps fans think of their Twitter admin? From the outside looking in I think their tweets make the club look so amateurish it’s not even funny anymore. It’s as if they let a 14 year old take care of the account for them for years now
https://x.com/finnharpsfc/status/176...757788981?s=46
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as if mark coyle has scored for shels too some buck
Would be better off starting by sorting out the profile picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
FWIW, it's sometimes funny, but also gives a bit more detail than the average, more sterile account. E.g."x is booked for arguing with ref over a penalty decision".Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract
I'm not sure what's wrong with it really. He has a bit of craic with it, which, as brendy says, is better, and more engaging than the usual boring Twitter accounts.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2 Year Contract