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What strikes me as particularly nasty about gambling ads is that it could prevent a recovering addict from enjoying football. You might feel a creeping urge to relapse when you have a feeling about how the match is going to go and the urge is made harder to resist by the gambling ads.
Gavin bazunu wins rte young personality and gives Rovers / the league plenty of mentions.
Hi all. The Cobh Ramblers FC Centenary Book is now available to purchase online at a cost of €15. May be of interest to League of Ireland supporters out there. It tells the story of Ramblers’ journey from formation in 1922 through the Cork leagues and into the LOI. A nice one for the collection.
https://cobhramblersshop.com/product...tory-1922-2022
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...stan-1.4770207
https://www.globalsoccerventures.com/
It’s certainly one out of left field. Anything that improves the clubs profile is a good thing IMO.
Building the brand in Asia. Now where have heard that before…..Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
This is really annoying.
If Rovers had done it I had Tallaghtban jokes ready to go.
Finndonesia? Harpmenia? Still room for Ollie - it's a big continent.
Olliezbekistan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
You couldn't give whoever manages the merchandise set up at Cobh a nudge to answer their emails, could you ? :o Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by cobhlad
Drogheda have joined a campaign to kick gambling sponsorship out of the game i see
Drogheda United take stand against gambling sponsorship (irishtimes.com)
In other news, the club lotto is up to €8000 get your tickets bought in quickly
Club Lotto - Results 03/01/2022 - Drogheda United F.C. | Home of the Drogs
Fair play to Drogheda.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Club Lottos or draws clubs run in general are not really comparable to betting firms in all fairness. One is a way for people to support a club but with a chance to win a prize whereas football betting is more outright gambling and massively more likely to lead to problems for people.
Ah i dont disagree tbh and have no problem with clubs running lotteries but i think if you are going to be virtue signalling like this then you need to expect to be called out. I'd be willing to bet :cool: that Drogs have a few Pubs touting their wares around the ground (although i truthfully cant remember from the last visit). Where does the virtue signalling stop , Gambling addiction, Alcoholism, Fast Food ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
LOI is an addiction in itself. Often a very harmful one.
I think that's harsh.Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
I've never heard of anyone who's life was ruined by an LOI club's Lotto (except maybe the organisers :D. If anything, a lot of supporters seem more interested in finding ways to wangle out of participating (not making eye contact with the person selling them around the ground etc). And for a lot of them a club lotto etc etc is little more than a donation to the club. They genuinely don't do it for the buzz of potentially winning etc. And the club isn't constantly trying to trigger them to spend more and more on it all the time.
Refusing to take gamlbing sponsorship is not virtue-signalling. It's taking a stand. Your argument here is like trying to pull a vegetarian up on hypocrisy charges for stepping on a fly.
Fair play to Drogheda on this, major damage being done to people's life by the gambling industry (along with the alcohol firms).
Shamrock Rovers got a fair bit of criticism for their sponsorship by 888… logic behind sbgawa’s post?
From the report on rte website, the Drogheda chairman says that St Pats A are also backing this campaign, so well done to G Kelleher as well.
As far as I'm aware Pats have been involved with that sort of thing for a while but just never really announced as such publicly. Got an anti-gambling message on the ad hoardings at the cup final etc, think it was reported a few years ago that they'd turned down decent-ish money from a betting company to be shirt sponsors as well.
I think There’s regulations banning an LoI manager or player from gambling, certainly on any football match anyway. I’d have thought it would include promoting gambling in adverts, but I guess if it’s on the shirt anyway . . . . .
There's plenty others doing so as well, just not publicly. Finn Harps turned down a pretty significant offer of sponsorship from a betting company, in favour of a lesser offer with current sponsors Guild eSports.Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88