Aer Lingus like Shamrock Rovers

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19/12/2008, 9:33 AM
Soccer Mom

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Originally Posted by corkharps

What are the odds on Ryanair logo on Rovers shirts 09/10 season?;)

Now there's an idea :) It won't be Aer Lingus anyway but I'd bet it would really appeal to O'Leary's warped sense of humour. I'm going to see if I can find a way to contact him so we can get a campaign going.
19/12/2008, 9:44 AM
tiktok

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Originally Posted by SeanDrog

In todays indo the Rovers letter is printed and Rovers have free publicity about the price of their season tickets in a national paper (pg 22) headline : "Rovers bare their teeth at CEO's claim"

Nice one IMO, well done Rovers (they saw a gap, shot and scored), I would actually thank Mr O;Leary for creating the opporunity.

That's about the size of it, Rovers tongue in cheek response was about getting publicity for themselves [which they've achieved] rather than picking sides in an airline battle.
Well done Rovers.
19/12/2008, 10:05 AM
GuisaSaigon

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Originally Posted by R�iteoir

Can I have one of those yellow ones, or if not a red one please...

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/39/11hc5.jpg

What's the story with that, did they take some of the seats from Tolka with them?:rolleyes:
19/12/2008, 10:20 AM
Soccer Mom

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Originally Posted by Soccer Mom

Now there's an idea :) It won't be Aer Lingus anyway but I'd bet it would really appeal to O'Leary's warped sense of humour. I'm going to see if I can find a way to contact him so we can get a campaign going.

Well I failed miserably but there's some funny stuff out there about O'Leary. Anyone have a way of getting in contact with Michael O'Leary besides the obvious snail mail method?
19/12/2008, 10:28 AM
celticV3

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Originally Posted by R�iteoir

Can I have one of those yellow ones, or if not a red one please...

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/39/11hc5.jpg

Lego?:eek:
19/12/2008, 10:54 AM
stann

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Originally Posted by Soccer Mom

Anyone have a way of getting in contact with Michael O'Leary besides the obvious snail mail method?

I think you need a pentacle for a start.
19/12/2008, 11:26 AM
Soccer Mom

Low fares start in the underworld eh? So what you're really saying is that 'I haven't a prayer of a chance'
19/12/2008, 11:31 AM
pineapple stu

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Originally Posted by tiktok

That's about the size of it, Rovers tongue in cheek response was about getting publicity for themselves [which they've achieved] rather than picking sides in an airline battle.
Well done Rovers.

Exactly.

Pretty sure O'Leary's quite happy Rovers have replied too, basically bumping it in the news.
19/12/2008, 11:34 AM
blackholesun

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Originally Posted by tiktok

That's about the size of it, Rovers tongue in cheek response was about getting publicity for themselves [which they've achieved] rather than picking sides in an airline battle.
Well done Rovers.

Agreed, O'Leary is an expert at drumming up free publicity rather than paying through the nose for adds. Having you ever seen a RyanAir add on RTE?

As a Rovers fan, I am delighted with the whole episode, more great publicity for Rovers this week.

Am off down to the newsagents now to read Dolans Star article on us ...

:cool:

bhs
19/12/2008, 11:52 AM
irishultra

cringey stuff from the shams board.
19/12/2008, 12:27 PM
pete

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Pretty sure O'Leary's quite happy Rovers have replied too, basically bumping it in the news.

Its a win-win-win. Ryanair & Rovers get free publicity & the media get to fill a space in their papers.

Ryanair & O'Leary are Irelands most successful company & businessman. You don't need to like him to acknowledge that. He also lives here & pays his taxes unlikely the likes of O'Brien, Smurfit, Desmonds, O'Reilly...
19/12/2008, 12:32 PM
fergalr

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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

I couldn't disagree more.

I really think Rovers got their response wrong here. O'Leary will be delighted with what they said, as it basically ba\cks up his analogy - and as most of the Irish public share his view of Irish football, it will have little effect on them either.

The Board should've pushed O'Leary onto the defensive - pointing out that, in these hard times, we all need to support our local industries, and that Ryanair seems happier to portray itself as being British than Irish. Now THAT would've got up O'Leary's nose - not simply stating a load of comments that�ll make him chuckle because they unwittingly support what he�s actually saying.

You don't get it do you.

There is no Rovers vs RyanAir thing going on here - they inhabit different media universes. The Rovers board saw an opportunity to get some get free publicity and they grabbed it. An exemplary case that all other LOI clubs should note.
19/12/2008, 12:43 PM
Larry 'da' Wyse

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Originally Posted by corkharps

What are the odds on Ryanair logo on Rovers shirts 09/10 season?;)

Just a pity the LoI won't allow 'em play a 7 -4 -7 formation :)
19/12/2008, 12:49 PM
SeanDrog

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Originally Posted by Larry 'da' Wyse

Just a pity the LoI won't allow 'em play a 7 -4 -7 formation :)

:D so bad its actually funny
19/12/2008, 1:41 PM
R�iteoir

It's just plane wrong that joke
19/12/2008, 1:49 PM
BohDiddley

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Since the 80s, Rovers have only won one league and No FAI Cups (1 if we're counting the Super cup...)

That's what I thought.
Maybe it's a bit like Ryanair telling you they'll fly you to London/Paris//Barca and actually landing a couple of counties or provinces away.
19/12/2008, 2:12 PM
HammerNThongs

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Originally Posted by R�iteoir

It's just plane wrong that joke

I dont expect Larrys comic career to take off from there!
19/12/2008, 2:20 PM
Sniffer

Ryanair's flights remind me more of a shot from Jason Byrne; you know where it's supposed to land and if it does it's spectacular - but usually it's nowhere near its stated target.
19/12/2008, 2:35 PM
R�iteoir

Or more Tony Grant - ends up heading for some desolate corner - well away from anywhere else
19/12/2008, 9:56 PM
stann

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Originally Posted by Soccer Mom

Low fares start in the underworld eh? So what you're really saying is that 'I haven't a prayer of a chance'

:D
Very good! :)
19/12/2008, 11:38 PM
L37Ultra

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Originally Posted by R�iteoir

It's just plane wrong that joke

Nicely done :D
19/12/2008, 11:43 PM
VinnyDCFC

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Originally Posted by Soccer Mom

I'm going to see if I can find a way to contact him so we can get a campaign going.

The best way to contact O'Leary is through this fella...

Ryanair's head of communications: Peter Sherrard
20/12/2008, 3:56 PM
rambler14

I thought it was the greatest quote I ever heard on the news when he said it!

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Aer Lingus are a lot like Shamrock Rovers.........they used to be big in the 50's and 60's but the world has moved on! There now kind of homeless and generally rudderless!

:D
21/12/2008, 3:41 PM
Magicme

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Originally Posted by VinnyDCFC

The best way to contact O'Leary is through this fella...

Ryanair's head of communications: Peter Sherrard

Don't you mean ex-Ryanair Head of Communications and now FAI Head of Communications?? :p
21/12/2008, 8:49 PM
dcfcsteve

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Originally Posted by fergalr

You don't get it do you.

There is no Rovers vs RyanAir thing going on here - they inhabit different media universes. The Rovers board saw an opportunity to get some get free publicity and they grabbed it. An exemplary case that all other LOI clubs should note.

If seeing the name 'Shamrock Rovers' in print is the sum total of what they hoped to achieve here, then fair play - they've succeeded.

But if they hope their "publicity" to achieve anything more here than that, then we all know it won't.

So there is nothing to "get".
22/12/2008, 8:41 AM
Calcio Jack

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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

If seeing the name 'Shamrock Rovers' in print is the sum total of what they hoped to achieve here, then fair play - they've succeeded.

But if they hope their "publicity" to achieve anything more here than that, then we all know it won't.

So there is nothing to "get".

Oh dear me...yet again you just don't get it...ho ho ho
22/12/2008, 12:34 PM
fergalr

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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

If seeing the name 'Shamrock Rovers' in print is the sum total of what they hoped to achieve here, then fair play - they've succeeded.

But if they hope their "publicity" to achieve anything more here than that, then we all know it won't.

So there is nothing to "get".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicity
22/12/2008, 4:12 PM
dcfcsteve

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Originally Posted by fergalr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicity

I'll try one more time, as the old adage that 'all publicity is good publicity' is just bullsh!t.

If Rovers just want to see the name of their club in print then fine - they succeeded. But if they want to achievbe anything more than that - e.g. convert anyone who sees it into supporters etc - there is nothing in their statement that will achieve that.

Rovers may as well have taken a can of spray paint and written the name of the club on a wall somewhere, as that's about as effective as the 'publicity' of having your name in-print with no clear response mechanism/purpose is. It will do nothign for the club.
22/12/2008, 4:15 PM
dcfcsteve

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Originally Posted by Calcio Jack

Oh dear me...yet again you just don't get it...ho ho ho

Thankfully for the economy, I suspect from your response that you don't work in PR or advertising... :eek:
23/12/2008, 10:06 AM
Calcio Jack

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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

Thankfully for the economy, I suspect from your response that you don't work in PR or advertising... :eek:

That's way too clever and deep for me to understand but don't bother trying to explain it ... anyway happy Xmas
23/12/2008, 1:07 PM
fergalr

Aye. Its the season of goodwill so Happy Christmas Steve.
23/12/2008, 3:59 PM
passerrby

publicity is the key to sponsorship which is the key to revenue methinks
23/12/2008, 5:59 PM
gufcfan

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Originally Posted by blackholesun

You may not always be right, but we'll always be Shamrock Rovers

Classic.

Well done Rovers.
23/12/2008, 9:59 PM
osarusan

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Originally Posted by passerrby

publicity is the key to sponsorship which is the key to revenue methinks

Depends on the kind of publicity, does it not? I can't imagine all the publicity Cork's examinership generated bringing in extra revenue through sponsors wanting to get involved.

And I don't see much in the Rovers statement that is going to make businesses more likely to get involved in sponsorship.
24/12/2008, 9:18 PM
mypost

O'Leary featured on Langerland on RTE this week.

"He was delayed into the world by 4 hours, due to the late arrival of an incoming baby" :D

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