Apparently his thinking/hope is that An Post are going to come on board as major sponsors of the league. Whether that ever happens remains to be seen.
I'd first hand experience in this promotion last night...... Shocking, What a shambles it really is ! It makes no sense what so ever to let so many people into games free of charge, All the people using then where regulars who normally pay into games. 55 Adults and 50 Children free of charge, that was over a third of the crowd last night.
I actually had 2 guys come through who are season tickets holders saying they used the promotion leaflet because they thought the club would get some money from it.
I've worked with the guy and he is bang on and only wants whats best for the League, but what in the name of **** was Noel Mooney thinking off with this promotion ?
Apparently his thinking/hope is that An Post are going to come on board as major sponsors of the league. Whether that ever happens remains to be seen.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
It's great according to Noel Mooney: http://www.eleven-a-side.com/loi/news.asp?n=37400
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
This promotional scheme was a nonsense of the highest order.
In the quotes from the Irish Daily Star/Eleven-a-side piece Mooney makes no mention of any role for this promo in a strategy to attract An Post as league sponsors, but only mentions attracting a new layer of support.
There is no doubt that some new fans might get a taster and become regulars (like his New Zealand family example), but the cost versus returns for the clubs just don't add up.But Mooney believes the benefits of the An Post scheme will outweigh the short-term impact on revenue.
He told the Irish Daily Star: “We have to think about what is right for the league and for clubs in the medium- to long-term. In our view this scheme can add a new layer of people to the game here.
The Bray example above cost the club over €1,000 in lost revenue(miniscule in comparison to other clubs) .
Lets be really generous here and say 10% of these were newbies, and that 30% of these were so enthralled with what they saw, that they now attend half of Brays league games next season. That would give Bray a return of less then €300 next season.
When you add in the fact that the same vouchers could be used repeatedly for several games in October, the scale of the lunacy becomes even more obvious.
Promoting new supporters through the issuing of targeted freebies is sensible - but Noel Mooney has shown that his judgement on how to do this is not to be trusted. Of course clubs had no say in all this - it was foisted upon them.
To be honest, this would have made more sense at the start of the season. Very hard to integrate people into getting into the habit of going to games when theres a nice 4 month break coming up soon.
Lets redefine what it means to heal
Apparently this lark has cost Bohs €6,000 for the Pat's game on Friday.
We look forward to Mr Mooney making the case to Padraig Smith and his other FAI colleagues when they are on the warpath re the SCP.
Is there a shels head working for an post? This lad seems to be handing them out like flyers. Whoever he is, he is no fan of the league if he prefers to see clubs losing money just so he can laugh that he got people in for free.
That was just at Fingal wasn't it? As I'm sure you've gathered already, fans of Shels, a few other clubs and various other people in the league view the 21 other clubs in the league and Fingal as separate cases. I would not try to deprive 99% of clubs of much needed money, I would do anything possible to avoid giving money to Sporting Fingal. You can argue about it all you want, but my reasons are my own, and as long as I stay within the law I'm grand, and I'm sure the same applies to the lad who was handing them out outside.
Lets redefine what it means to heal
It's a small component, yes, and probably won't matter either way.
But, hypothetically, if it were marginal - say we were almost there but needed a sum of this order to squeak through - wouldn't it be relevant? How, in such circumstances, could the FAI punish a club for financial stupidity?
And, more generally, doesn't the fact that they are so demonstrably dim dent their financial rectitude credentials?
Rumour has it Harps launched one of those rain inducing missiles above Ballybofey last night to insure today's fixture was canceled and refixed for November saving them from the vast horde of an post voucher wielding zombie Shels fans. Only a rumour though.
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