eircom League Weekly - Mon 21st - 11.25

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Originally Posted by NY Hoop

Eh that's b**z Rovers.

Also I dont agree with showing first division UNLESS ALL premier games are shown. The Bray game wasnt shown but the sligo one was? :confused:

KOH

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We supply the footage from the Showgrounds each week. TV3 is willing to show the highlights from any match if it is edited correctly for them. There is no reason other clubs can not take up our initiate, especially premier division clubs. It’s no point complaining about Sligo Rovers getting airtime, if your club sits on their asres and expects the cameras to attend to them.
Last week was our biggest attendance, but unfortunately the camera is situated high in the new stand, where all the supporters are gathered, and what the viewer sees is a sh*tty crowd. We must consider changing the camera point, because it does give a poor reflection of the crowd.
It’s far from a first-rate programme on the Eircom League, but it’s the only thing we’ve got. It’s up to the clubs to promote their own grounds. So, instead of running down clubs who is trying to promote the game locally, you should take a leaf out of our book and do the same.

I thought that was funny when they said that it was Sligo's biggest crowd in ages and all you could see was roughly 7 people in the footage watching the match.

Clubs should have their cameras in positions that show a healthy crowd in the backround. This is the case in Cork anyway, the camera shows the smallest stand in the stadium with a load of houses in the backround. It looks terrible.

Houses in the background? We wish we had houses in the background.

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Originally Posted by Redzer

TV3 is willing to show the highlights from any match if it is edited correctly for them.

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You have to edit it as well for them?! If that's true, that's a disgrace! Sure they'll be asking for the commentary and a script for the pundits to read next... :rolleyes:

Feck doing their job for them, bad enough they're not making any effort to cover it properly without editing it for them too. Why do they bother with the show at all if they don't want to do anything for it? Let someone like Setanta do a proper job on it.

i sent in tv3 an email asking them to cover some of our games - they said they deffo will show the games but asked me if i minded transmitting the pictures for them - in broadcast format*



















*may not have happened

I'm surprised they didn't ask you to source the ads for the breaks too. :rolleyes:

What kind of a contract did they sign with the League? That's disgraceful that you have to edit it yourself. That station is a joke. That's why I didn't enter their Bulmers sports quiz....couldn't stick listening to Trevor Welsh for a few hours and they'd probably get the questions wrong anyway....at least you knew the Today FM football quiz last year would be run professionally.

Just an auld reminder for the people .... up you come big fella !!

11.25 - be there .... or you'll end up missing it like !! :p

Stick it on at 11.45 and then don't show all the games yet again, even when there were cameras there such as ours. Maybe we didn't edit it for them :rolleyes: ..We've been shown once in five weeks and that was the Setanta cup where they had access to another TV sations footage all nicely edited for them. Jokers. The sooner that show is replaced with somehing better by any station the better. Poor oul Harry McCue was a bit lost.

The fact remains .... this is all we have .... that and these "Live Games" .... how many have there been .... 2 ...... and there'll be about an extra 6 games shown or something stupid like that compared to last year.


The League have signed up to this !!

The League are happy to settle for this !!

The League wont be changing and time soon and you are telling them its OK by accepting it, so how can you blame them ??

That show was a new low. :mad:

Trevor's repetoire of questions is staggering. :D

Here's a pretty funny post from someone on boards.ie:

TV3 Bosses : OK everybody, we've been making the Eircom League Weekly a terrible spectacle over the past two years, but this week I want everybody involved to make an extra special effort to make it look crap.

Sports Team(ST) : How about we get Trevor Welch to present the show, hes the most boring presenter in world?

TV3 : Good thinking, but Trevor on his own could not make it as shoddy as I want it.

ST : How about getting amatuer cameramen?

TV3 : Now you're talking

ST : Wow this is easy. We could get Harry McCue to do the analysis, sure nobody would understand a word he's saying with his adenoids problem.

TV3 : Brilliant

ST : I think 11.25 is too early for it to be on, we should push back the timeslot 'till a quarter to twelve, lets really make sure nobody is watching it.

TV3 : Give this man a raise

ST : I was thinking that us producers should get drunk on Monday night and see if we can still manage to show the clips in the right order as a sort of test. I'll bet you 10 euro that I won't get the order of clips mixed up.

TV3 : Ill take that bet. Lads this is all gold.

ST : Sir, I think we should tell our reporters on the ground to conduct interviews with managers in the worst places possible.

TV3 : Give me an example

ST : Well sir, instead of doing the post match interviews where the clubs have a designated area, we could do them in cheaper places.

TV3 : You mean out on the pitch

ST : We can do worse than that sir. Thats the norm anyway(laughs out loud). I'm talking backrounds with brick walls covered in moss and rooms that look like a childrens classroom.

TV3 : Excellent. We'll be rid of those cursed rights yet.

New Guy in the Corner : But sir, the ratings have been suprisingly good all along despite our efforts to make it as **** as possible.

TV3 : You're all right kid.(laughs)

very good. :D

It wouldn't suprise me if its true.

Damn I forgot to watch it. Is it repeated at all? Were UCD on it this week?

No they didn't show UCD-Waterford or Town-Bray at all.

UCD game not on and i dont think they have repeats, [It'd probably be on at about 3am if there was-when most people are asleep]
Its amazing how a programme that lasts 40 mins cant show highlights of the small amount of league games that are played weekly in the Eircom prem & 1st.
Sure even UTV show all the highlights of the championship,1st & 2nd divisions in England.

Did anyone notice aswell on last nite's show that after the small highlights for Cork vs. Bohs, they couldnt even show Corks goals again when they tried. It skipped into highlights of the Drogheda vs. Rovers game. Pure Class !!! - technical difficulties..

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Originally Posted by Longfordian

No they didn't show UCD-Waterford or Town-Bray at all.

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Was @ both games and i'm so dissapointed. Thought i'd see myself :D :D . But seriously, tv3 are d*ickheads... Get a proper station to run it and with proper analysis. Sorry Harry McCue. :eek: And repeats @ 05.35 in the morning. Wat a joke!!! :mad:

Never staying up for it again :mad:

Its pathetic

I stood up for TV3 a little last week, but last night was one of the worst programmes I've ever seen of any type on any television station. Disastrous from start to finish. Nobody associated with that programme should have been able to sleep last night for the embarrassment. :mad: :mad: :mad:

They think Trevor is their star man, but he's easily the worst presenter they have....at least since they stopped pretending Aidan Cooney knew anything about sport. There were the usual irritatingly stupid comments...Trevor's "the weekend's only Dublin derby" (don't do it, fatso, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry :mad: ) and King's "Bohs didn't strengthen in the summer" :rolleyes: And poor Harry is just not made for TV even that long after the watershed.

They didn't know in the end whether they needed to fill time or hurry on. What's the rush? Did Harry The Ghoul have to get home before the sun came up? As for the content and technical production, there's just no point in wasting the time thinking about it. No wonder that fella who was sentenced last week for breaking into TV3 took a dump on the windowsill. He must've been an eircom League fan.