Apparently it happened last night although with the amount of coverage we've gotten in the past I'd always assumed a blanket ban was in place from day 1.
Good riddance to badly educated rubbish
He wasnt banned he was just asked to pay as he printed a rubbish article the other day one which he claims he will reprint this weekendmy arse he will he knows hes in the fryer. He claimed tonight that it was a history article. it was right up to the last two sentences where he got into a bit of legal trouble. Lets see his brave reprint on Thursday now
Can someone educate us exile fans? Even in pm?
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He did reprint actually. And he was effectively banned if he was asked to pay to get in so let's not dress things up when we don't have to. The Leader dropped the ball big time on the story though if the club are to be believed.Originally Posted by gael353
He wasnt banned he was just asked to pay as he printed a rubbish article the other day one which he claims he will reprint this weekend
It's getting a bit tiresome to hear us threatening to sue everybody under the sun when things don't go our way though, very Shels like I feel.
The ball is round and has many surprises.
If he was is being let in if he paid, how does that mean they were banned? and wasent their photographer let in? i seen the article at the back of the leader last night, and its probably the biggest amount of space theve given us in a a long time, and surprise surprise its all negitive. Its a crap paper that give us **** poor coverage so who cares?
P.S. live95 is **** aswell
another season of promise from limerick turned into **** loi soccer in limerick is a total waste of time it drags on like a soap opera wheres all the fans that were saying lims were on the way back to the top
surprisingly Dublin don't stock the Leader up here lads, what was the article about?
Another bad move from DD. We need all the publicity we can get at the moment to attract crowds and advertising.
I don't know the ins and outs of this but it seems to me a total over reacion on DD's part and has suceeded in alienating the press in Limerick
"How Can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team"-- B.Bragg
The leader owe the supporters club money and have robbed articles and other stuff from Limerick supporters too. Good ridence to them is what i say. We get more coverage in the post and the indapendent so **** um!
Very true, they have no-where near the amount of sports coverage as the leader yet 99% of the time they fit us in. The leader was reporting the hassle after the shams game a week after the match, 'court date here, court date there' who cares! what about the ****ing match! just cause you dont know half the players names cause your stuck up the holes of 'Club Munster'!
Having said that i do agree Danny does us no favours when he 'goes off on one'
Who was the reporter? What was the article about? Sorry but I missed this edition of the Leader. Could anyone scan it in and post it up?
Is anyone surprised? The Leader is an incredibly negative paper, dedicated to running this fine city down whenever it gets the chance. Everyday they conjure up new stories to make people feel bad obout their town.
Limerick as a city would be inestimately better off if the Leader shut up shop tomorrow, you'd never see the Examiner as negative about Cork.
The County Edition of the Leader is an even bigger joke,unless your a farmer or are interested in Junior B Hurling and Football (and I have nothing against either) its a no-go for Soccer (especially senior) you would think that being the Primary local paper in the city and county they would make a bigger effort, and at 1.85 euro a time IMO it represents no value in comparasion to the Post and Independent which are FREE No matter what the result both will always give reports, the Leader has been around far too long, had the monopoly, has nothing more to offer in terms of news / sport that their competitors (Post & Indo) already give for free, so why anyone would waste 1.85 euro on it beggars belief...........Use it as bog roll
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This is like groundhog day. Limerick senior soccer supporters have to realise the interest in the city is about the same as Junior B hURLING.
Junior soccer has more support and it is represented by three or four pages every Monday in the paper so without it we would be a lot worse.
The local paper follows the crowd. It wasn't too long ago Munster Rugby barely merited a mention in the paper(PRE Heineken)
I read the article in the paper and thought it was sympathetic. I presume the aggro is the mention of heavy handed tactics by security?
Would you prefer if the paper did not mention it?
Maybe we need to get the head out of our A's and realise Senior soccer needs success before it will get the coverage it thinks it deserves.
So the local team has to earn mention in the local rag?? That's ludicrous to be honest man. Are we any less "deserving" of coverage than our oh so successful hurling and muckball teams??
As for levels of support, look at the flogging they give the dead horse that is AIL rugby during the season. Anyone who tells me a match report on Old Crescent v some posh Dublin suburb is of interest to more people then a match report on a Limerick F.C game is simply wrong.
I love the way warped media logic dictates that junior football gets great coverage because it's 'grassroots' but a local EL side (grassroots on a national level) has to somehow 'earn' coverage.
As for the Leader, glad to hear they're verboten. They wrote lies about Shamrock Rovers fans and fabricated events, even though they were told the truth.
I'll be honest Barry, the article isn't what bothers me too much, I've often stated I'm only a nominal Limerick FC fan, and certainly not hardcore like most of the posters here.
What bothers me is the Leader, it's ethos, it's identity, it's journalists. Limerick is supposedly a city of 100,000 people and yet the leader pitches itself solely at a minority determined to see the negative side of every story. If 9 out of 10 people had a positive story to tell, the Leader would give front page coverage to the 1 who didn't. In everything, the Leader looks for the bad side, for example, the day after Munster's win over Leinster in the semi, the Leaders headline was "now the desperate hunt for tickets begins", no big congrats, no well done lads, but rather, lets all be depressed becuase we'll never find tickets to a 75,000 seater stadium. When Limerick FC was top of the league the Leader stayed pretty quiet, as soon as slide begins they start looking for a return to the Markets field. The Leader, quite simply, is a negative paper which never misses a trick to put Limerick in a bad light. Quite why this so, I've no idea, perhaps good news simply doesn't sell and the Leader lacks the imagination to try anything other than negative, depressing tactics.
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Not to mention the coverage they give the bogball team, a team who has less support than Limerick FC, unless they reach a Munster semi-final or final of course
The Leader was bought last year by the Johnston Press Group, a Scottish media giant who is concerned with nothing but profit. I would seriously doubt if the editor actually edited anything except ad copy. It still is Limericks best known and largest media source, and that, sadly, makes it very powerful also. A lot of its advertisers are GAA people, Horsey people and the like and as a result their sports get priority.
I would suggest patronising these people, inviting them to games, press functions, anything of the like. They should be bombarded with two faced kindness, thus not allowing them any excuse whatsoever to say that the club are not making an effort.
And regardless of whatever tripe this journalist may or may not have written, (I didn't see the article) remember; A newspaper won't refuse ink, and theres no such thing as bad publicity. Time to start using people in the media to the advantage of the club I think.
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