QuoteThats something they should be doing ... publishing the viewing figures of all games !!
Anyone got the numbers.
I noticed Shels CL qualifiers didn't make Network 2 top 10.
Thats something they should be doing ... publishing the viewing figures of all games !!
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
I'd imagine not great, the choice of games to show has been awful
Originally Posted by pete
Pete the figures I saw had the Steaua v Shels game at number 9 in the weekly top 20 for Net 2 for w/e 31/7. 141,000 was the viewer figures associated with that.
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bet the Cork / Shels game will have massive figures - people tuning in to see mad Ollie and Co. get wound (big time) up by the encouragable Corkies.
Looking very forward to tuning in for this one - don't let us down Corkies.
i trust the carkies will make use of this game to engage in copious over-zealous amounts of ollie-baiting
We can only hope!
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Worrying to see the Shels vs. Steaua game getting 100,000 less viewers than a really, really poor Mayo vs. Cavan All-Ireland qualifer.
Those figures probably not on Aertel yet. That page just has home leg listed.
141k isn't bad figure though. Its the summer so all numbers wilkl be less & Premiership gets maybe 230k max during winter.
In fairness, nothing will beat GAA. Even in a bad GAA season as it is now. Fact is, RTE would LOVE more people to watch eircom league. It's in their interest too. They don't pick bad games on purpose! I love the idea of Monday night football this week. Unfortunately eircom league chairmen are so concerned about maximising attendances, they are unwilling to change kick-off times. Imagine a Monday (or tuesday) night game every week. A lot of the potential viewers for a Friday night game are already at games on a Friday night. There'd be huge viewing figures.
Sky did it at the dawn of the Premiership and I reckon it's one of the main factors why the premiership is so succesful. Matches are on when people have nothing else to watch. Sundays - Omnibus editions or soccer. Monday night. What else ya gonna watch
The glass isn't half full or half empty it's just too damn big!
The problem there is mondays so generally mean poorer attendences, not just the money lost to the home side but also it makes the product look alot poorer on TV.
If they had some dublin derbies moved to Monday nights the attendance shouldn't suffer that much. Surely a Bohs Rovers game for example would get as many on a Monday as a Friday?
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So dublin matches every week so? The Cork fans will be delighted
there was a good crowd at shells and drogheda last monday
... you could hold the odd Cork-Waterford, Derry-Harps game on a Monday night.So dublin matches every week so? The Cork fans will be delighted
Eh?? Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Irish international matches consistently beat the GAAH games in terms of viewer figures and interest. In fact, rugby internationals often beat the GAAH also. Check out the 2004 figures at medialive.ie . These figures are largely reflected in previous years also.
Further, the released figures do not indicate the number of people looking at matches in pubs and clubs. For some reasons, far more people view international soccer (and, to a lesser extent, international rugby) matches outside their homes than GAAH games. Maybe it's to do with the community/patriotic atmosphere which is engendered with international games - something the GAAH can only dream about.
the second half of that post is outrageous. such waffle i have to defend the gaa, i dont like doing that.
all they have is a community/patriotic thing going on thats why they are so strong and cramming them in up and down the island.
and i think you will find a great deal of gaa heads go to their clubs to watch matches. and what about the aussie games in bogball and scottish games in hurling? internationals that can attract 60k, more than football and rugby do....
True. I also think that some of the games between Waterford-Derry or Waterford-Harps could be featured - you'd lose a lot of the travelling support but that's not a huge number for these games anyway. With 7 teams around the Dublin area, there'll obviously be a large proportion of games involving those teams anyway.
Just to throw some numbers at it, if you were to have a Monday night game every week, that'd give you 30 a season, featuring 60 clubs, hence each team should be featured at least 4 or 5 times to keep it fair. Put the 6 Cork Waterford and Derry Harps/(Sligo next year?) games on Monday nights - good derbies to feature. Then put on maybe one each of the Derry-Cork, Waterford Harps games - championship/relegation battles and you've already had each team 4 times. The rest of the games could be largely within the Dublin area (including Drogs and Bray), without an unfair Dublin bias.
I haven't forgotten Longford btw, but I have no idea what would be the best way to feature them in a Monday night match. I suppose a Dublin team or Sligo maybe?
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