The Identity Crisis in Google Trends

**Boh_So_Good** · 05/12/2008, 11:59 PM

Look how even before Keano joined Sunderland the Irish media still gave them more press than either Bohs, Shamrock Rovers, Galway United or Derry City.

Same with web based views - shot up passed the LOI clubs.

and as one expected the non-media interest in Sunderland started to vanish a year ago while the morons in Irish journalism increased their obsession with this eh "Irish" club:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Bohs%...ate=all&sort=0

**L37Ultra** · 06/12/2008, 12:03 AM

Get over it. Hes an Irish manager, who happens to be an ex-Irish captain and one of Ireland's best ever players, managing in what is probably one the best league in the world. There is bound to be some media attention over here and people want to see how he is getting on.

**HarpoJoyce** · 06/12/2008, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

Look how even before Keano joined Sunderland the Irish media still gave them more press than ........

Originally Posted by L37Ultra

........ Hes an Irish manager, who happens to be an ex-Irish captain and one of Ireland's best ever players, managing in what is probably one the best league in the world. There is bound to be some media attention over here and people want to see how he is getting on.

I am not neutral on this but there was attention on the appointment and subsequent career bordering on obsession.
Syndicated Rob Stewart articles from the Telegraph Northern football correspondent.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...t-1564604.html

There should always be an initial media interest in an Irish success or appointment. Perhaps though, some sports news providers continued and hoped to benefit from expectant sales. This argument alone justifies the efforts of the Journalists.

**El-Pietro** · 06/12/2008, 12:45 AM

change galway united for cork city and the stats change considerably

**Boh_So_Good** · 06/12/2008, 12:53 AM

I put in "Cork City FC" as "Cork City" could be non-football related and the stats are interesting.

**Boh_So_Good** · 06/12/2008, 12:54 AM

now this is the most telling of all...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Eirco...ate=all&sort=0

**Boh_So_Good** · 06/12/2008, 12:58 AM

The Irish media have had a hard time deciding if our health care system is more important than Sunderland

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Sunde...ate=all&sort=0

I mean, is Ireland the most ****ed up nation on earth. Our journalist are quite simply on another planet.

**osarusan** · 06/12/2008, 1:05 AM

All these posts will help Sunderland's stats anyway!

**Denis The Red** · 06/12/2008, 1:10 AM

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

and as one expected the non-media interest in Sunderland started to vanish a year ago while the morons in Irish journalism increased their obsession with this eh "Irish" club:

Well done, fight the good fight

**El-Pietro** · 06/12/2008, 1:13 AM

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

now this is the most telling of all...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Eirco...ate=all&sort=0

is it?

ive never searched Eircom League in my life

these are tough comparisons to make - would be best to try and say sunderland + sunderland FC + Roy Keane etc
vs Loi + League of Ireland + Eircom League + .....

**El-Pietro** · 06/12/2008, 1:14 AM

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

I put in "Cork City FC" as "Cork City" could be non-football related and the stats are interesting.

it could be, but thats not to say all the searches for Sunderland are football related

or all the searches for Cork City are not football related

these comparisons mean nothing

**jebus** · 06/12/2008, 2:23 AM

Its an obsession we all have with Roy Keane, even those of us who don't froth at the mouth when it comes to the man will still read an article about him as he's an interesting character in a sport that nowadays has a serious shortage of them.

Big deal, the only people to blame for Sunderland getting more coverage than Bohs is the general Irish public who couldn't give two hoots about the league. If I were an editor on a Irish newspaper I'd have given more coverage to them too, because that's what the majority of the public wanted, and that's what their advertisers would have wanted to.

We're a niche market, we'll always be a niche market and we will get the niche market coverage from media that don't owe us a thing. I'd take issue if RTE had started a weekly hour long programme about Sunderland, but they didn't, so I won't

**Rovers Maniac** · 06/12/2008, 2:36 AM

Originally Posted by jebus

Its an obsession we all have with Roy Keane, even those of us who don't froth at the mouth when it comes to the man will still read an article about him as he's an interesting character in a sport that nowadays has a serious shortage of them.

Big deal, the only people to blame for Sunderland getting more coverage than Bohs is the general Irish public who couldn't give two hoots about the league. If I were an editor on a Irish newspaper I'd have given more coverage to them too, because that's what the majority of the public wanted, and that's what their advertisers would have wanted to.

We're a niche market, we'll always be a niche market and we will get the niche market coverage from media that don't owe us a thing. I'd take issue if RTE had started a weekly hour long programme about Sunderland, but they didn't, so I won't

Expected more from another 37'er Jebus

**L37Ultra** · 06/12/2008, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac

Expected more from another 37'er Jebus

Are you a Limerick fan this week so?

**OneRedArmy** · 06/12/2008, 10:24 AM

I don't buy the "giving the people what they want" argument.

The modern media creates demand through saturation coverage and the "build them up so they have further to fall" tactics.

A large percentage of the population are morons who are unable to think for themselves and spout naive polarized views that they've been fed by the media, as evidenced by many of the texts about Keane into the radio shows over the last few days.

**jebus** · 06/12/2008, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac

Expected more from another 37'er Jebus

That saddens me Maniac

**BohDiddley** · 06/12/2008, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by jebus

media ... don't owe us a thing.

Why do you say that? The media has a public role: it is not a private domain.

Actually, redtops give 'us' -- i.e. the greatest sport in the world as it is expressed on this island -- more coverage than the so-called qualities. Is that because they somehow owe 'us' more?

RTE gets a licence fee precisely so that it is not at the mercy of ratings and can instead provide local (Irish) coverage.

**Mad Moose** · 06/12/2008, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

The Irish media have had a hard time deciding if our health care system is more important than Sunderland

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Sunde...ate=all&sort=0

I mean, is Ireland the most ****ed up nation on earth. Our journalist are quite simply on another planet.

I'm still trying to work out who Kathy French is

. She didn't feature much in the news at all. Katy French on the other hand might have just crept on to the trend graph if only very briefly.

**superfrank** · 06/12/2008, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by BohDiddley

RTE gets a licence fee precisely so that it is not at the mercy of ratings and can instead provide local (Irish) coverage.

RTE does not get all its money from the license fee. They also make money from advertising. Therefore, like all businesses they need to be attractive to addvertisers.

Agree with jebus that other media outlets don't owe us anything. They are businesses.

**pete** · 06/12/2008, 12:23 PM

Sunderland & Roy Keane is reality TV entertainment. People watched the Rod Squad TV show but they were not Carlisle or maybe even football fans.

Time for the media to find a new Oirish club.