QuoteThe highest average attendance this season is that of Cork City, with 3,798, and the lowest is Mullingar Town with 125.
Very high attendance for a non league club I'd say it's better then CHF
Today's Sunday Business Post has a feature on the eircom League.
The highest average attendance this season is that of Cork City, with 3,798, and the lowest is Mullingar Town with 125.
Very high attendance for a non league club I'd say it's better then CHF
good to see the EL in the papers, maybe an investor will see the possibility of making money and back some of the clubs (like shels)
nick leeson is certainly making an impression in the media.
Sunday Business post, Business and Finance and the VIP mag amongst others. His publicity is quite unique, and very different to the loudness of Dolan etc...
refreshing.
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Its a good article excluding the Mullingar Town reference. If only they knew the top dublin based players earning a lot more than €1500.
For all the difficulties of a few clubs there are other clubs running themselves properly. Fulltime professionalism & summer football are relatively new so will take time for fans & players to adjust.
I disagree with point that need 1 tv station to cover the games. IMO theres no chance RTE will show 30 live games on their own, i've no problem with spreading the games around as long as its fair to all.
Yeah, but I do think Dolan had a point about if the FAI had the bottle to use the international team as a bargaining chip they could get as good a TV deal as they want. But 30 or so live games + Europe + Setanta Cup is a great deal as it is.
Mullingar are in the eircom under 21 league so i suppose thats why he included them
Originally Posted by pete
[QUOTE=Slash/ED]Yeah, but I do think Dolan had a point about if the FAI had the bottle to use the international team as a bargaining chip they could get as good a TV deal as they want. QUOTE]
I agree with both, so Im kind of contradicting myself! Theres no reason why you could have a live match on every week, a regular time and place would be amazing for the league but I think that RTE are the only channel with the ability to afford it and clearly they arent interested which is a shame.
Good article though (again with the exception of the Mullingar Town bit)
As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.
I reckon Saturday night every week would be brilliant. Regular time and place, plenty of people off work and all other eL fans would be available having played the previous day.
Clashes with The Premiership/Match of the Day though, alas there would only be one winner there
Friday night is football night should be marketed to hell, with a regular slot on tv.
As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.
I don't know about you Troy but I never see the eL games on TV as I am at games. I think clashing with the rest of the games minimises the audience. Bohs v Drogs is the first I can remember watching in a while.Clashes with The Premiership/Match of the Day though, alas there would only be one winner there
Friday night is football night should be marketed to hell, with a regular slot on tv.
Well there are Fridays that I dont get my football fix as I cant make all games at the X from Dublin. To be honest most fans have every 2nd Friday 'off' so if there was a game on telly Im sure they would watch it alright.
As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.
[QUOTE=Troy.McClure]Or clubs could buy their own professional cameras and rig their grounds up permenantly for tv broadcasts, funded by grants and in liason with the tv stations. Then it would just be a case of RTE\TV3\TG4 coming in and providing the rest. Would be money well spent for a change and would leave the media with very little excuse regarding not showing games on a weekly basis. Instead of complaining about the lack of media coverage clubs should try and do something about it.
good article, publicity is always a bonus.
Next week (Bohs-v- UCD) will be my first League game this season 'cause we play Rovers on Sunday, but Setanta usually repeat their matches so I've seen a few repeated.
I saw an ad on TG4 last night saying that thier will be live football every Friday night starting sometime soon so I suppose that they will be covering the climax of the league campaign unless I heard wrong
TG4 have the most live games to show alright and have only shown one so far so a lvie game every friday starting soon is definitely possible.
lots of us travel away as well every 2nd friday
yeah, I saw that alright. Good newsI saw an ad on TG4 last night saying that thier will be live football every Friday night starting sometime soon so I suppose that they will be covering the climax of the league campaign unless I heard wrong
City have about 100 at each away game, that leaves about 3000 who dont.
As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.
Friday is the only night for Irish football. Saturday is English football and Sunday is GAA, whether we like it or not.
With four channels (RTE2, TV3, TG4 and Setanta) there should be a live game every week for what is undoubtedly the most popular sport here. It would also help with the "every 2nd Friday off" problem mentioned earlier. Those who don't go to away matches can watch the League on the telly.
Today I saw athletics on the telly.
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