QuoteOn now. Not sure they're right claiming the crowd is the same at a Setanta Cup game as a League game
Why is a dance version of Adagio for Strings being played in United Park?
Last chance bump. On any minute now.
On now. Not sure they're right claiming the crowd is the same at a Setanta Cup game as a League game
Why is a dance version of Adagio for Strings being played in United Park?
Nothing new
Ground breaking stuff there
really makes you think, doesn't it?
For me the whole Irish barstooler mentality and the Irish sporting public's relationship with the EPL are key issues and they were totally overlooked.
In depth my hole.
It smacked of written, directed and produced by P1.
Can't believe some of the things Reynolds from Glentoran said. There he was talking about how all the IL grounds belong in the last century when not only is his own club about to announce their new 10,000 seater stadium but with many grounds well on their way to surpass such 'last century' grounds. He also mentioned the combined debt of IL clubs being 1.75 million iirc. What he failed to mention is that £1 million of that is his own clubs. All he can see is an AIL being a saviour in the short term for his club and not what is good for football across the island in the long term.
I have to say those clips made the LOI very enticing to be honest. if i was a barstooler I would have definetly taken my fat ass off my fatboy for a couple of seconds to check out loi matches on this weekend.
Not a good image summoned up there....Originally Posted by thischarmingman
About the only coherent thing I thought watching that was 'I wish we had a CEO as media savvy as Richard Sadlier': or even a CEO......
Last edited by sonofstan; 18/09/2008 at 9:23 PM.
A patriot is someone who knows how to hate his country properly.
But the fact is that the FAI's relationship with the media is horrible and as long as the FAI are in charge of marketing the league it will continue to "exist" in its basic form which is club by club surviving.
The FAI have no control over the media which is the fundamental problem. If the media hate the FAI how do we ever expect to make an impact? Its not going to happen.
I would just like to know what is the FAI's plan and vision for the league. They should say what their ambitions are because at present its not moving forward at 100kmp - it os crawling.
The deepest layer of human thinking and feeling somehow knows that God must exist - Pope Benedict XVI
Yea i agree.
More about why we should have a AIL.
Cork played Drogheda this week didn't they?? that was the game on TV,P1 come out the same week and say their would be no AIL
Just what i was thinking.
We do
Yeah I was hoping we'd get them talking about it in studio after the piece was over and that someone would bring up the fact that Irish clubs are doing badly because Irish people are glory hunters
If they had more time they could have done alot worse, but then again it was just long enough to get away with not giving the full picture.
The papers will love it though, some serious room arms and legs for them.
I would like to see the FAI come out with a statement in response to it and contest anything they are not happy with.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Well if they are able to control RTE and their most watched show then imagine what they would do for football in this country.
P1 may have their own profits in mind but they would transform the league if given a chance. What are the FAI ever going to acheive in charge of the league?
The FAI and IFA should at least consider the proposals.
The deepest layer of human thinking and feeling somehow knows that God must exist - Pope Benedict XVI
What a load of Platinum 1 horse ****e. Even a fella in my local laughed at the bias to them. the same fella who lives for a club not from this locality.
Roddy Collins, the biggest <insert as appropiate> in Irish Football.
But that's just it, what proposals. It's been debated to death but all they put forward was a wish list and some wishful thinking. There was nothing of substance.
Part of the impetus for my rant last night was due to spending much of the day in Croke Park (working): I've never been to a game there, and while I've worked at gigs in the stadium, it took last night to make me realise the income streams they have from the conference facilities and the sheer size of the operation. Damn right, I'm jealous.
Thing is, 40 years ago, Croke Park and Dalymount would have been more similar than otherwise - the former bigger certainly, but not even twice as big, and the attendance at an FAI Cup final, while smaller than at an All Ireland, wouldn't have been dwarfed by it. So, until we grasp why the GAA have a facility, and a media presence, such that criticism of them is almost never voiced publicly anymore, whereas the league have United Park and Fran Gavin, we're paddling in circles.
Finn Park is right above; the FAI have no vision for the league beyond sustaining its current half- life as a welfare case; but, then nor do the clubs, beyond the 'group stages of the champions league' mirage, which, as I'm sure I've said before, bears the same relation to a sustainable development plan as buying a lotto ticket twice a week does to a pension plan.
A patriot is someone who knows how to hate his country properly.
Well ask the following questions:
1. Where do you see the league in 5 years time run as it is by the FAI?
2. Where do you see an All Ireland League in 5 years time, run by P1, if it was set up immediately?
Answer to Q1: The same as it is today minus a few clubs through liquidation and with a few more part time clubs. No media coverage and no progress in Europe.
Answer to Q2: 8-10 professional clubs self sustaining with regular qualification to the Champions League and Uefa Cup group stages. Media including Sky Sports and Setanta Sports, and a huge media coverage every day of the year just as British footie gets today. Fact!
The deepest layer of human thinking and feeling somehow knows that God must exist - Pope Benedict XVI
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