QuoteI don't mind his age it's his attitude, he has to reference something he did or pats did. Bring in anybody but please replace himOriginally Posted by Martinho II
Kerr I think his days are numbered. Virgin surely have younger pundits! Wot age is he now?
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
I don't mind his age it's his attitude, he has to reference something he did or pats did. Bring in anybody but please replace him
Will be interesting to see what the TV viewing figures are for today's game at Lansdowne.
Surprised this TV thread hasn't been going. Reportedly Virgin have been very happy with TV viewing figures, particularly matches involving Shelbourne, which is probably a large part of why the last run of six fixtures featured four Shelbourne games.
The final two games of that run are
Rovers v Shels on Friday
Sligo v Drogheda on Friday 2nd May - that will be the first time Sligo have been on this season and I think will mean every team will have been shown at home too.
There are games on Bank Holiday Monday so you'd imagine they'll be thinking about that already
Derry v Pat's looks the most likely game but the other fixtures are Drogs v Cork, Galway v Bohs, Rovers v Sligo, Shels v Waterford.
Week 15 I would assume Shels v Pat's or possibly Rovers v Drogheda
Week 16 really could be anything but maybe the Connacht derby in Galway but Bohs v Shels is also on
Week 17 Derry v Rovers but maybe Galway v Cork (the Caulfield derby) if they haven't run with Galway v Sligo.
Week 18 Cork v Shels, maybe Sligo v Pat's
I phoned the speaking clock to hear a voice speak, it said - "At the tone you will be very much alone"
Selections have just been announced. Annoying that the Pats trip to Derry has been moved from 5pm to 7:45pm. It’s a bank holiday so would’ve been perfect for away fans to get home at a reasonable hour before work on Tuesday but anyways, what can you do.
- Friday, April 25 - Shamrock Rovers v Shelbourne, Tallaght Stadium - 19:45
- Friday, May 2 – Sligo Rovers v Drogheda United, The Showgrounds – 19:45
- Monday, May 5 - Derry City v St. Patrick’s Athletic, The Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium - 19:45
- Friday, May 9 - Shamrock Rovers v Drogheda United, Tallaght Stadium - 19:45
- Friday, May 16 - Bohemians v Shelbourne, Dalymount Park, 19:45
- Monday, May 19 - Shelbourne v Drogheda United, Tolka Park, 19:45
Paaatrick's Agletic
Is the Virgin Media App through Chromecast better for watching their LoI coverage? Virgin Media Two is only Standard Definition AFAIK. Guessing the Virgin Media App would have better picture quality for HD.
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
Updated TV fixtures announced:
Bohs Shels 16 May
Shels Drogs 19 May
Pats Waterford 23 May
Bohs Derry 30 May
Shels Rovers 13 June
Paaatrick's Agletic
Some questionable choices there - with every single game purely and entirely by coincidence in Dublin.
The biggest games on those days IMO are :
16th May - Drogs-Derry
19th May - Rovers-Pats.
23rd May - Derry-Rovers
30th May - Bohs-Derry or Rovers-Galway.
13th June - Pats-Drogs or Shels-Rovers.
How is Derry-Rovers on 23rd not on TV in particular?
On your first suggestion for the tv game, like it or not a Dublin derby looks a million times better on tv than any game of football in United Park.
On the second one, Shels Drogs is a similar game in terms of size to the Drogs Derry one you wanted on tv 3 days earlier. Although another Dublin derby would be good for tv so not a bad suggestion (despite it going against your point about there being too many Dublin games selected).
Agree with you on the third one, Derry Rovers is a bigger game than Pats Waterford. On the last 2 dates, even by your own reckoning all 4 options are in Dublin, and they’ve picked 2 of them.
Paaatrick's Agletic
Lot of it might simply be down to suitability of venues too. Derry and Drogheda are crap for tv broadcast because the facilities are brutal there. Biggest mistake made in Derry was not putting proper media facilities into the new stand.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Just think back when we had RTE coverage!
Now we have a TV deal with Virgin and a new TV Deal thread where we can post about the choice of matches!
I think it's brill and adds to the Greatest League in the World!
They didnt? In this day and age that'd be one of my priorities, up there with....toilets! How much hassle is it to have a relatively small room dedicated as media studio in a new build? If the tv gantry and portacabins were umm functional and used in Oriel...
My opinion won't count for much here (and rightly so), but I've loved almost every aspect of Virgin's new broadcasting arrangement. My kids are watching it, there's proper build-up to games, it looks like professional football should look like on tv. Small things (I know they are meaningless in the general scheme of things) like the aerial shots of the grounds, these are important for the optics of what is our top league.
Was it the Drogheda game vs Shels in United Park (or whatever it is now) where the camera lens just couldn't be sheltered and thus the quality was poor; that was the only negative I think.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
Yeah I agree.
For me the character of the league is coming across accurately too. So if there was somebody who was more of a TV viewing football fan, there is the possibility of getting a TV football experience that feels like a TV version of LOI. The stories develop on their own because they don't need to fill huge gaps of borderline media blackouts. The weekly interviews mean managers say the kind of things LOI managers have always said and then stories develop from there. Even some of the ways the LOI lets itself down at times is present and has this push/pull relationship with its better qualities. That "we want to grow" and trying to do the right things against the very real threat of it all going to absolute sh1te is part of the LOI story too. It's possibly referred to as brand identity or something but anyway I think it's present and I hope that its succesful as a TV product.
New 2 year TV deal for the FAI Cup with RTE. They’ll be showing 13 games over the 2 years with this year including the below
One Third Round fixture on the week ending Sunday, 17 August 2025
· Two Quarter-Final fixtures on the week ending Sunday, 14 September 2025
· Two Semi-Final fixtures on the week ending Sunday, 5 October 2025
· The Final on Sunday, November 9 2025
https://www.fai.ie/latest/fai-and-rt...ver-two-years/
Paaatrick's Agletic
Interesting that it seems RTE are looking to up their game. Has to be welcomed. They can do a good job when they want to.
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
I'd like to see Virgin Media take on the European games consistently. I wouldn't be counting on RTE to show the European games. The FAI Cup agreement probably ticks RTE's box when it comes to the domestic game.
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
RTÉ announce 2-year coverage of FAI Cup
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2025...l-for-fai-cup/
They are desperate now, after seeing the great success of the League coverage by Virgin, they are trying to make up for that loss. It's a win win day for the FAI and the fans.
Kudos to the FAI!
*Just adding my take onto the previous posts.
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It suits the RTE Sports decision makers such as Declan McBennett RTÉ Group Head of Sport as they can fit these games into the gaps during the GAA schedule, I expect!
GAA season finishes in July now, and the cup for LOI sides starts in August, so it fits their schedule well.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
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