That'll happen if you spit on the 1916 rebels and greet the British monarch with Union flags a few years before you're clamouring for independence :p
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I know it's an aside, but this isn't actually true. Most countries at least try to secure regional balance, not just lump everything in one place (with notable exceptions like France and, to a lesser extent, the UK).
Take the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Brazil, India, Russia, Vietnam, South Africa etc (I could go on). All have different cities fulfilling one of more of the roles of Political, Economic and Cultural capitals (the 3 main roles cities can hold in any nation). In Ireland we've just put everything into Dublin. And then we wonder why the place is over-heated and the rest of the country is struggling. D'uh.
The Dublin derby has the biggest attraction in the league without a doubt, games been sold out for a couple weeks now. That’s the game people want to watch. Besides Waterford games, that’s the only other game I want to see on TV - I sure I’m not the only one either.
Even the Irish government is starting to accept the argument that they need to view Derry city/north-east Donegal/north-west Tyrone as a coherent economic unit/city, and treat it as such in the Republic's Spatial Development Plan.
Someone else can make the argument for Sligo.
What do those who were making the case on here that Bohs-Rovers is a mouth watering tussle that the media just couldn't ignore think of the fare they served up for the cameras this evening ?
It was really bad football, of the kind that would probably have seen a huge drop in viewing figures after about 30mins in. And I don't think a ground that's only half-used looks good on TV either.
Pats v Cork was always likely to be a better fixture, so should've been the first choice IMO. Also - hasn't there been an unwritten tradition of airing the champions in the first game of the season?
Obviously they should never show it again but let's not let 1 brutal match between bohs and rovers (with a full house , flares , flags and 4 goals) interfere with a good hissy fit :)
LOI fans might get that but non-LOI football fans that were tunning in to see a decent match or what the quality of the LOI is like ... well you'd turn off pretty quickly. Unfortunately it really was a poor game of hoofball. Not what was needed for a season opener.
This 100%
Yet if you question the wisdom of showing 'Ireland's biggest derby' (c) over other games, you get told you're having a hissy fit :D
The best bit of commentary was when Brian Kerr said at half time that he thought the ambulance was going to have to come onto the pitch and take the ball away, due to the brutal treatment it was receiving :p
The hissy fit was for asking what people who thought they should show the match thought of the quality of the match as if they were connected.
We get it u didn't want rovers bohs on. Bad matches happen sometimes whether the match is shown or not.
and I thought Shamrock Rovers never wanted to have their games televised or is that only home games!!? Bohs and Shams fans are being pretty precious about the observations of the televised game and at suggestion that another fixture might have been a better choice. It was a brutal game to watch of that there is no argument. Was it interesting to watch? The last 10 minutes were. Was it the 'good advertisment for the league'? Nope!! Should Bohs fans care, not in the slightest considering how it panned out. Shams fans should be wishing everything about the game disappear, not be on open record. Eat Your Greens sideswipes at the Dublin jackeen historical stereotype and attempts to formally draw Londonderry and Tyrone in to the Irish governments spatial strategy is far more interesting than the televised game.
The game was brutal no argument. Prefer home games not on tv as I do believe it costs us money but ho hum really. Would I have every game televised if it meant we won the league .........absolutely :)
* Because there are more Bohs fans than Pat's fans
* Because its easier for Rovers fans to go to Bohs that Cork City fans to go to Richmond.
What a ridiculous argument. Since when does the crowd indicate the quality of the game? By that logic they should just have us on tele every week were at home cos apparently the biggest crowd equals the best quality game.
Ireland get huge crowds; think how good they must be.