Saturation premiership.

**aIr BaNd!** · 20/09/2005, 4:58 PM

Well at last the bubble seems to be bursting on the mighty english premiership.Greed has now ruined it.Constant saturation coverage by sky has burnt it out.Russian whos plays real football fantasy has driven the final nail in the mighty premierships coffin.
One horse race it is now,still you get the died hard supporters blowing all their money in pubs watching there so called local english teams.Nothing beats seeing your own local team in the flesh every week.Quiet alot of people are getting fed up of boring english premiership football and are now coming out and enjoying a friday nite at the Cross.
Some barstoolers are so much out of reality when the hear about the admission price of a Cork City home game that they forget that their local english premiership team charges �70 POUND STERLING.

**thejollyrodger** · 20/09/2005, 5:21 PM

you could nearly buy a season ticket for that kind of cash ffs.

**Rovers1** · 21/09/2005, 6:24 PM

90E season ticket at Showgies,best 90E i spend every year!!!

**Fair_play_boy** · 21/09/2005, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by Rovers1

90E season ticket at Showgies,best 90E i spend every year!!!

Agreed, same here. Paid about 400 for the kids and myself to see City. There is nothing to compare with that value. Luckily for me they are seriously into the team, the shed, the whole experience.

**EnDai** · 21/09/2005, 11:35 PM

�100 @ Tolka. Would happily pay much more, but I won't complain about the value!

**gustavo** · 22/09/2005, 7:52 AM

why's this in the cork forum!

**kingcolers** · 22/09/2005, 1:43 PM

In fairness, its not all premiership nonsense over there. I used go see QPR and it was great: �20-25 for a ticket, nice ground, great buzz, competitive league and a lot of local lads playing for the team.

But I agree with all sentiments above. Hopefully City (and the eL in general) can take advantage of the disillusionment with the prem and remind everybody what its all about: suporting local lads in a local team (not overpaid, overrated, self-obessed showponies going through the motions...)

**wws** · 22/09/2005, 1:50 PM

I've nothing against the premiership - or any country's national league for that matter but this current fashion for going on anout the Rip off Premiership - is a perfect angle and opening for any decent marketing strategy to hype up the rest of our season - we've a two possibly 3 horse race here and a desperate fight for survival at the bottom

bash the setanta/tg4 and rte heads together and you could have a memorable end to this EL season

**yiddo** · 22/09/2005, 2:19 PM

Originally Posted by kingcolers

In fairness, its not all premiership nonsense over there. I used go see QPR and it was great: �20-25 for a ticket, nice ground, great buzz, competitive league and a lot of local lads playing for the team.

But I agree with all sentiments above. Hopefully City (and the eL in general) can take advantage of the disillusionment with the prem and remind everybody what its all about: suporting local lads in a local team (not overpaid, overrated, self-obessed showponies going through the motions...)

Twould be great if this disillusionment with the premiership translated into extra support for EL teams but I somehow doubt it. I don't see the barstoolers here leaving the comfort of their barstool and heading of to El grounds.

**sean1_3** · 22/09/2005, 9:15 PM

Sky news were comparing prices of chelsea tickets to other european teams and bayern munich is the same price as cork city. Stiil think we're gettin good value?

**patsh** · 23/09/2005, 6:44 AM

Originally Posted by sean1_3

Sky news were comparing prices of chelsea tickets to other european teams and bayern munich is the same price as cork city. Stiil think we're gettin good value?

Yes.
Cost of living is higher in Ireland than it is in Germany, and City are much better to watch than Bayern!

**colm3012** · 24/09/2005, 8:27 PM

95c for child to get into juve match thats value

**Ruairi** · 25/09/2005, 10:07 AM

Moved to Gen. football.

Roar

**thejollyrodger** · 25/09/2005, 10:41 AM

I meant a Eircom League season ticket by the way.

**anto eile** · 25/09/2005, 2:49 PM

95c for juve, no wonder.their crowds (for the most popular team in italy) are woeful. averaged 25-30,000 last year.
Roma tickets last season went for as little as E5 near the end of the season for some games as the olympic stadium is half empty every week

**anto1208** · 26/09/2005, 8:38 AM

Originally Posted by yiddo

Twould be great if this disillusionment with the premiership translated into extra support for EL teams but I somehow doubt it. I don't see the barstoolers here leaving the comfort of their barstool and heading of to El grounds.

thats because the EL is sh1t , plain and simple , i used to follow it for 15 years but ive given up now because its so boring and i fly to the uk now to watch the prem league and even its most boring games are still better than anything you ll see here and im including the national side in that .

just look at a city like liverpool its tiny but yet they have 2 stadiums both of which are bigger and better than any fotty stadium in ireland , the teams are better supported than our national side even

**pete** · 26/09/2005, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by anto1208

just look at a city like liverpool its tiny but yet they have 2 stadiums both of which are bigger and better than any fotty stadium in ireland , the teams are better supported than our national side even

I don't think can say Liverpool id tiny when last census said City was 450k with wider urban area 1.3m.

**Macy** · 26/09/2005, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by anto1208

thats because the EL is sh1t , plain and simple , i used to follow it for 15 years but ive given up now because its so boring and i fly to the uk now to watch the prem league and even its most boring games are still better than anything you ll see here and im including the national side in that .

Total ******, I've sat throw many sh�te premiership matches (and that was watching in an era when it was actually quite attacking, certainly United were). Which team were you following incidentally, if you've never seen an eL game that's been more exciting than a premiership game?

btw Liverpool a small city? Inferior maybe, but small? Give us a fookin break....

**anto1208** · 26/09/2005, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Macy

Total ******, I've sat throw many sh�te premiership matches (and that was watching in an era when it was actually quite attacking, certainly United were). Which team were you following incidentally, if you've never seen an eL game that's been more exciting than a premiership game?

btw Liverpool a small city? Inferior maybe, but small? Give us a fookin break....

i used to support limerick i went to every home game and about 90% of away games for a few years , then cut back to just home games so i would have watched practically every team in the league at some stage over the last 15 years , i also would have seen quite a lot of cork when i lived down that direction .
i went to see everton wigan a game considered a bore by the critics yet i saw more skill and talent on the pitch in 45 mins than ive seen in the EL in 15 years .

liverpool is smaller than dublin even, yet it boast 2 fantastic 40,000+ all seater stadiums whats the biggest in dublin ?? maybe 15,000 and most of that is standing ( lansdown is rugby croker is gaa before ye suggest either of those )

**Dodge** · 26/09/2005, 1:02 PM

watched Liverpool v man U on the Tv a couple of weeks ago. Terrible game. Poxy atmosphere, poor skill levels. If that was Cork v Derry this league would be hammered by all in the press.