Marketing the EL

[Cosmo]

'The main thing that needs to be done is the FAI to get off their arses and to market the game.'

Lads, ye can blame the FAI all ye want for it but the reality is the clubs have to take most of the blame and get up off their arses. The full time players in this country have it handy and are getting away with doing a few hours training 5 or 6 days a week for a nice handy wage packet .

Obviously posters all around towns, local radio stuff, newspaper ads, etc are your basics. General PR stuff locally (like a group of us Drogs organised a big supporters pr day last season which resulted in our biggest league attendance since we got promoted - if that could be done a regular basis......)

But the people that should be hit are the kids in school - this is the generation that can be brainwashed - majority of our generation, forget about them, they've sunk too far into their barstools. Getting the players to go to the schools constantly (and i dont mean a couple of times a year to each school or doing it for a year or 2) - I mean that every school has players in EVERY week for the next number of years, talking to the kids about last weeks match and next weeks match, taking a PE session, etc (obviously this can only work with the full time teams but they should be doing this constantly by them and they should lead the way).

Brainwash the kids basically

Obviously it would be good if the FAI could lead the way and come up with a marketing programme that clubs must abide by every season - but whats stopping the clubs taking the initiative

[garykelly]

Until either the League or its sponsors remove the proverbial finger, the marketing will remain rubbish.

Yeah cos i'm sure they'll wake up one morning and have an epihany and say "what have i been doing all this time. must sponsor eircom league"

They are never going to get the finger out. But let's just point the finger, blame someone for all our troubles and just sit here and talk.