Dear FAI, your league has started...

Surely it's a numbers game. The FAI will try to fill the new Lansdowne with any bums on seats. Be it soccer or whatever.
And at least it means those spectators actually go to an Irish stadium...

Though whether the grass roots, like player development get this, is a moot point.
Am presuming the LOI clubs want to bring through their own players? As opposed to being dictated about how to do so by the FAI...

Do many clubs still spend money on marketing their home games? I know Gufc had a budget to spend on match promotion but when the club got into financial difficulty they scraped it. (local printers gave gufc about 100 - 200 posters that were put up in local pubs & business)

Mervue have one or two road signs up to promote their games and Saltill do zero match promotion.

When the next tv deal is due for renewal FAI should get rte to show fixtures at end of live games or get a free ad promoting the league

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Originally Posted by danthesaint

I hope this was sarcasm? How much of the money do you really think will go into irish football?

From the Man Ure friendly (first game in the aviva) then the 2 aviva tournaments, I doubt any of the money went back into the game, reckon it went to JD plan of getting the FAI debt free by 2020.

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As Mr. A pointed out, the FAI being debt-free can only be a good thing.

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Originally Posted by peadar1987

As Mr. A pointed out, the FAI being debt-free can only be a good thing.

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I think it is largely irrelevant to LOI football.

All league fixtures advertised on the electronic hoardings around the pitch last night in the Aviva before the game and at half time.

I actually had to read that twice to make sure of what was said.

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Originally Posted by gufcfan

I think it is largely irrelevant to LOI football.

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It won't hurt it. And as much as I love the LOI, and think that it should be a bigger priority for the FAI, it shouldn't be their only priority. Paying off your debts is good. It's the sort of thing all organisations should be doing.

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Originally Posted by peadar1987

It won't hurt it. And as much as I love the LOI, and think that it should be a bigger priority for the FAI, it shouldn't be their only priority. Paying off your debts is good. It's the sort of thing all organisations should be doing.

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A debt-free FAI certainly wouldn't be bad.

I thought that your point that the LOI shouldn't be the FAI's only priority was a strange one, as I think most here feel that the Delaney and Co. treat the LOI as a necessary evil to which lip-service is paid.

We don't want the FAI to drop everything and exclusively promote LOI. We just want them to do their duty as the guardians of the football association and national league.

When the FAI actually want to push something, you are sick hearing about it. The start of the LOI season would have been embarrassing from a promotion point of view had we not already known that they had no interest in it.

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Originally Posted by gufcfan

We don't want the FAI to drop everything and exclusively promote LOI. We just want them to do their duty as the guardians of the football association and national league.

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To get back to the original point of this thread. We just wanted the odd fecking tweet from them...

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Originally Posted by Dodge

To get back to the original point of this thread. We just wanted the odd fecking tweet from them...

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Airtricity break out

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Airtricity League ‏@airtricityleag2m
RTÉ will show Sligo Rvs v Cork City on Sat, April 13 (3.55pm) and St Pat's v Sligo Rvs on Fri, April 19 (7.05pm). Both games on RTÉ Two

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