another pathetic cheap shot at the FAI.Originally Posted by Jicked
the stade de france has advertising on the steps, for example, which can actually still be seen when the stadium is full. the aviva wording wont be seen when the stadium is full. the €40m that the deal is worth is helping pay for the stadium but sure hey lets give it back, whats €40m worth to Irish sport anyway?
When did I say anything about giving back the €40m? I'm just saying that the FAI take absolutely every penny going instead of thinking long-term about anything, at all. Getting Aviva off the seats won't sell 10,000 vantage club tickets over night. But if they stop taking the cheapest, stingiest possible option at every single juncture they might be able to shake-off the amateurish, incompetent tag they have, which would help the game here. Instead they desperately rush for every last cent possible instead of looking long term about anything. Take the rebranding of the League of Ireland. Great to get a title sponsor onboard, absolutely. Would have been better off calling it Airtricity League of Ireland (instead of Airtricity League), if you want to talk about going forward and having a recognisable image/brand for football in this country. That wouldn't have meant turning down their cash, but it might have meant taking €100,000 instead of €120,000.
You don't think Arsenal could have done with the extra wedge when building the Emirates, Bayern with the Allianz Arena or even at the Busch Stadium at the spiritual home of corporate sponsorship, the USA.
Who cares what painted on the seats?!? Who cares if the naming rights of the stadium were sold to an insurance MNC. We should be damn happy that we have a state of the art stadium perfect for our sport, yes ideally we would all like extra capacity but its a damn sight better than anything we had in the past.
The ironic thing is that if the naming rights werent sold, you'd have people criticising the FAI for being commercially inept in not maximising revenue from the place.
Again, it isn't solely their decision.
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who cares what the stadium is called. it could be called potbelly stadium for all i care. all i care about is supporting ireland and seeing us win games.
Very good!
How is it the cheapest stingiest option to get the seats to spell out Aviva? What difference does it make? What long-term thinking have they not displayed by putting the seats that way?
If and when Aviva sponsorship ends, the seats are easily replaced.
I take your point about the poor decision to get rid of "league of Ireland", but I don't see how this is connected to that.
Well in the Allianz arena, for all Bayern games, there is a section of the crowd wearing white arranged to spell out the T-Mobile symbol. Damn Germans whoring themselves out to mobile phone companies.
The old Lansdowne end looks fantastic, presumably this will be the location of choice for singing section, should be some sight when full.
It's just the attitude the FAI have towards everything to do with the stadium. Take the fixture fiasco, Delaney was willing to gamble our chances of qualifying so not to risk getting a crowd of 48,000 or so for Andorra if we had to play them towards the end of the group when the novelty factor had worn off. Thats instead of looking long term and realising if we qualified for 2012 they'll shift a whole load of vantage club tickets, and reinvigorate the whole international scene back to the glory days of before. Here they've got one of the very best stadiums in Europe and instead of treating it like a bloody palace they're going to start with stuff like this. What could be run like and have the reputation of a stadium like the Emirates, may well end up as our version of the Reebok Stadium. I simply wouldn't trust these guys an inch to run the stadium in a competent way.
And dodge I know they're obviously in partnership with the IRFU, but things like this have the grubby fingerprints of the FAI all over it (a stadium's version of the eircom blob) , and Aviva would probably be more interested in the FAI's events then the IRFU's. I'd certainly think hosting the Europa League final at Lansdowne would be a bigger draw for sponsorship then say the Heinken Cup Final which they're bidding for to host in the same week.
the FAI will fill the stadium no matter who they are playing for the next number of years.
trap would have approved any draft fixture list before delaney and co attended the fixtures meeting. we still have to play everyone home and away and the order counts for little in my opinion.
the emirates is usually half empty with 10 mins to go in a match, the aviva wont have this problem.
a management company is running the stadium, not the fai or irfu.
rugby in this country currently has a far higher profile than our football team. people all over the world watch the 6N for example but i doubt too many neutrals watch our football team. avivas exposure through rugby will be far higher on an ongoing basis
there is zero substance to any of your points
If we're talking world wide, our football team gets far more exposure. not even comparable to be honest
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Haven't qualified for anything in 8 years, I'd question that tbh. I would reckon outside of the UK & Ireland you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who could name more than 2 of our players
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Doesn't matter. We've still played the likes of France, Italy etc etc in the ground and our games are always included in weekly wrap ups. The name "Aviva Stadium" will be used far, far more in relation to football (the Fance home game was carried by 20+ international broadcastors)
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France game aside, we're second division in football terms. The reason that was carried by so many is because there were 4 competitive games that night. Maybe it's because I live in a Rugby watching country so i see a lot more of Ireland in rugby, internationals, Heineken Cup etc...
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When the stadium does open its up to us the fans to give it character and put it on the map not the FAI and their corporate image. Talking to some rugby heads and they do see themselves as the senior partner in Lansdowne.
realistically how many people outside of Ireland watch our football team play? the 6N is shown in full in countless countries not just the scores on a wrap-up programme
No, its not. Nobody outside the 10 test nations cares about rugby, and very few people would watch the games in Europe, where Aviva are already an established brand name. There's no question that the Football side wa the major attraction to them. Even "second division" national footbal sides gets more press, TV, "new" media coverage than rugby in their core markets
We're getting way off point here btw.
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I would say more people around the world have heard of Robbie Keane than Brian O'Driscoll.
I was in Rome recently on a 6N wkd and a home game at that. You barely would have known the game was on, very little publicly bar the few Scots that were about the place. And this is a test nation where rugby is supposedly an up and coming spot. However, several people I spoke to, when I mentioned I was from Ireland, they immediately referred to how we should be in the WC this year, Trappatoni etc etc. Look at the viewing figures for the playoffs, we were the most viewed game, blew the ratings away in ireland alone. The game was also shown live on terrestial tv in countries like Germany.
Rugby has had a higher profile in the country in recent years, why, success thats why!!! The rugby dream has dwindled some what this year, despite a far less competitive sport than football, the realisation has come this year that the team have reached their limit. In a year when Ireland won the 6N, it still was not the most viewed sporting event for the year, guess what was!!!
When Ireland won the 6N, they managed to fill one street in Dublin, compare this to the way the country was gripped in any of our 3 WC's. NO other sports captures the full attention of the nation like football does! The evidence is clear to support this.
Anyways back to topic, very happy to share LR with the rugby lads, once they dont wreck the pitch immediately before any of our games. The stadium does look class, although I do feel the havelock square end does take away from the finished product.
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