That got my vote too.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
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That got my vote too.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
All 3 are very nice. That said I'm pretty sure options 2 and 3 run foul of the rules regarding kits and option 1 could be problematic when facing Sligo and Pats if needed. Maybe option 1 as away and option 2 as third?
They'd certainly run foul of the rules for any proper survey, given the requested response options to each are 'Love' 'Haha' and Shock ! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Titan
https://youtu.be/yKLT79ZwZ60
Not LOI marketing as such. But good to see Sonas using the sponsorship of Bray in their ad.
Cabinteely giving free season tickets to players and coaches
https://twitter.com/Cabinteely_FC/st...08981678612481
Gotta hand it to Cabo. Their PR and social media presence is second to none!Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickccfc
A smart way for an inner-city club with no tradition of support to get a few more people through the gate and to start to build a fanbase.Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickccfc
I doubt it'll lose them much on ticket sales, it'll give their other matchday income a boost, and it should also help them attract more (paying) players to their underage set up.
Good stuff all-in-all.
Cabinteely aren't exactly inner-city.
Quite the opposite. Of all the Dublin clubs, they're probably the furthest from the city centre. It wasn't so long ago that Cabinteely was considered a rural village in south county Dublin, before they were engulfed by the urban sprawl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Shelbourne give free season tickets to all their young players - both male and female.
https://www.thesun.ie/sport/football...-to-the-clubs/
Graham Gartland seems to be doing some v good community outreach work as Rovers community officer.
It's a shame that this stuff hasn't been going on constantly, year in year out, for every club for the past 20/30 years. I genuinely think this is the area where LOI clubs fall down the most - community outreach in primary schools. If LOI clubs are not visiting every primary school in their locality (and ideally beyond) for a few weeks every single year they're missing a massive trick. With something like this it's hard to see immediate ROI but it's the best way to build a loyal long-term fan base.
From small acorns big oak trees grow. Start small & work upwards. Start with the kids in primary schools & try to keep them. Make it fun. Support the teachers with equipment & training. Make it fun. Keep them on board, in whatever capacity you can.
A few clubs are doing that already though.
Limerick's community work over the last five or so years has been quite extensive (unless it's stopped over the past 12 months when I wasn't looking). I recall they were even sponsoring a prison program at some point, don't know if they still are.
I'm sure some clubs do great work in schools (Sligo and Dundalk in particular seem to have established excellent links in their locality), but I'd be surprised if every club is doing as much work as Rovers, and reinforcing that year in year out with annual visits.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Thinking back to when i was at primary in school in Meath in the nineties, when we won a Sam Maguire, the cup would be brought to every primary school in the county, without fail within 2-3 months of the final being won, and always accompanied by 2-3 players. And it wasn't just the footballers, i remember numerous years when Meath hurlers would visit the school for a few days and do some basic hurling drills with is. I kid you not, hurling in Meath!!!
I wouldn't particularly expect any LOI clubs to visit schools in Meath, but I've quite a lot of friends who are primary teachers in Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford and i've never heard of a LOI club visiting any of them, but i know for a fact county GAA players do visit each year. And it's fantastic promotion, it's all the kids talk about for the week. Even the teachers are banging on about it for days to anyone who'll listen. The GAA obviously have a huge advantage here in terms of funding etc, and the FAI cutting the funding for community officers a few yrs ago didn't help, but it always seems that many LOI clubs don't prioritize this as much as they should. Surely there can be no better way of recruiting young lifelong fans. Most kids who have an interest in soccer pick a team before they reach their teenage years so it's essential to get as involved as possible in primary schools.
I wonder if our fully professional clubs, Like Rovers, Dundalk, Cork etc have anything written into player contracts to stipulate they must do a certain amount of community promotion each year?? Seems like a no brainer. If you're paying professional players they should be doing promotion for the club with school visits etc.
Parochialism would become a problem there though, in terms of counties that have no LOI team. Have a feeling Meath schools wouldn't be all that up for reps from Bohs or Drogheda for example.
A great way to connect with lapsed fans and former players.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Just because you don't hear of it happening, doesn't mean it isn't happening. I'd say Harps do more work in the community than Shamrock Rovers. You hear about it more in Dublin though because of where it is, and because it's condensed into a smaller area.
I've seen a great deal of stuff over the past year or two online from Galway United, and in particular, this off season. Sligo, as mentioned, have one of the best community backing of any club in the league and it shows when it comes down to fundraising.
Harps take in county-wide measures with the dedicated Schools Programme, which visits every primary school in the county every year, also takes in the Eat Right Play Right programme, the Road Safety Campaign, Fran Fields Schools Cup, and a couple of other things through the year that's slipped my mind.
There's other initiatives at other clubs too. There is, for certain, some clubs who do little to nothing in the community, but as I said, just because you don't read about it in the national newspapers, doesn't mean it's not happening.
In my own humble opinion the league is missing a trick by not kicking off on the weekend between rounds 2 and 3 of the 6 Nations. After a busy sporting weekend last weekend, next weekend doesn't have too much sporting activity.
They definitely are. You'll get the people hungry for more sport this week looking for anything to be on and the people who dont really watch rugby scanning the tv guide to see when the match is so having a LOI game in those slots would be perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
OK, we are 3 days away from the new season beginning, a good time to help educate non LOI football fans about the new season even if they are not interested but lets say a certain percentage of them try and make the effort to get some information about the league and clubs etc. You would think that they would gravitate towards the league's official site first, as of now is going under a makeover, which for me is a terrible decision. That should have been done weeks ago, it makes no sense whatsoever to go offline with days to go until the new season, when traffic is bound to be higher than normal. They still could have kept the old site up and running until the new layout is complete. Just boggles the mind.
Caulfield: "I keep saying there is massive work being done in the media, promoting our league and promoting our games. If it came from the top it would be better again, a bit more investment in the game, because this product is fantastic."
I have to say Cabo are probably my favourite team other than Rovers, close between them and UCD, not for their football or anything just love how they go about their business and now they've pulled this New Zealand game out of nowhere? To think there were people who said they'd add nothing to the league.
Whats peoples views on that friendly? Will it really draw that big of a crowd or? Fair play to Cabo for thinking outside the box again tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by RathfarnhamHoop
I think its great, I would go but cant unfortunately but im sure they'll get a good crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Devo's talking about bringing in a guest player or two.
If he persuades Duffer, it could well sell out
Do Cabo have any famous ex players? With it being a golden jubilee celebration having ex players seems like something might happen. I know of Andy Keogh and Stephanie Roche but I doubt either of them will play. Other than ex cabo players who could they resonably get? Duffer, Robbie Keane, McPhail?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Alan O'Brien - Irish international who ended up in the depths of non-league within a suspiciously short time-frame?
Not such a short time frame when you look back at it. He made his debut for Newcastle in 05-06 and didn't drop into non-league until the second half of the 11-12 season when he left Yeovil for Gateshead. Still a mystery how he was ever capped, though.
Andy Keogh is the only former Cabo player who's played at full international level. In men's, that is. Stephanie Roche also played for them underage.
I'd pay in to watch Stephanie
Wiki says Alan O'Brien as well, which is why I mentioned himQuote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Probably not the right thread but was just listening to 98fm on the way home from work in Dublin and they had a sports bulletin around 5:30 and they led by announcing the rovers, Bohs and Pats matches on tonight. No mention of other matches but it's a just a Dublin station so it's understandable. No mention of premier league news or anythin. They followed with some rubgy and news about the Crucible. Nice to see the LOI being prioritised.
their podcast is top notch in my opinion!Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
May be the wrong thread for it but I though programmes are a sort of promotion so I'll put it here. Interesting bit in the Rovers programme last night about how Bohs had a dig at Rovers in the recent derby programme. Apparently (I haven't seen the programme) Bohs claimed to have had the most memorable results citing Santry 2001 and they also called Tallaght the SDCC stadium. Rovers writer pretty much said that they seemed to have a rose tinted view to the results and as for the stadium people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I must say the Rovers programme has been especially good this year so if any contributors are reading this well done keep it up.
Jeez, hardly the most cutting of digs in fairness.
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Originally Posted by Mr A
We are sensitive souls :)
I think it was the pettiness of it really , it should be beneath them.
The programmes this season are good I agree with Rathfarnham hoop on that, whoever is doing it fair play
I remember feck all Bohs Rovers games specifically but I do recall the 6-4 one in Santry so I think that is fair enough. The other dig is a bit petty, but it's pretty much as bad to even rise to it.
agreed
Rovers, Pats and Bohs all have little digs at each other at times. The SDCC one is a bit bizarre given their current situation but I suppose it makes them feel better. Who cares if they think their results were better?
Just listened to the Newstalk podcast, they read out the editorial from the Rovers programme and holy feck it was quite something. Starts at about 30 minute mark https://soundcloud.com/user-67260695...gramme-battles
Very, very funny indeed.