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    Smile Taxi for Rovers!

    from shamrockrovers.ie

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    Taxi for Rovers!
    15 May 2007.Rovers have a special pormotion in place allowing all taxi drivers free admission to our home game v Cork City on Tuersday May 29th. Kick off 8pm. All you need to do is present your Taxi ID at the stiles. Here's your opportunity to see the Hoops, for many it could be the rebirth of your Hooped days of old from Milltown era. Come and enjoy SRFC in the Premier! For more details and to download a flier to promote the event click here.
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    Great PR and promo idea I think ... will be interesting to see how many of them take up the offer!

    bhs

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    Good idea and very funny !

    Tuesday should be a quiet evening for Dublin's liberal intelligentsia, so no reason why they couldn't make it along. They'd probably get themselves a few fares on the way back as well !

    Where is this beign promoted ? I assume there's a taxi Trades Union to tell about it ?

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    Possibly the most amusing PR masterstroke anywhere........... for any non-Dubs who may not get the inside joke, every taxi driver in Dublin bar none claims to have been a regular attender at Milltown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dcfcsteve View Post

    Where is this beign promoted ? I assume there's a taxi Trades Union to tell about it ?
    All covered by the legendary Rovers PR machine.

    KOH
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    Link anywhere?
    Who Cares?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raheny Red View Post
    Link anywhere?
    Apart from the one above thats says shamrockrovers.ie?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OneRedArmy View Post
    Apart from the one above thats says shamrockrovers.ie?
    Don't mind me


    Wonder if Johnny MacDonnell will avail of it, come to think of I'd there are a few eL folk who are taxi-men!
    Who Cares?!

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    BTW, ..you'd think Rovers invented the wheel or something [/QUOTE]

    But sure everyone knows we did

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    Thumbs up

    Probably best promo campaign by eL side i can remember.

    As mentioned above should be good chance of getting taxi in Drumcondra on the night of the game too.
    http://www.forastrust.ie/

    Bring back Rocketman!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calcio Jack View Post
    BTW, ..you'd think Rovers invented the wheel or something
    But sure everyone knows we did

    No, I think you're confused - Shamrocks stole the wheel...then burnt it out in a field somewhere....
    SIGNATURESCOPE

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint View Post
    No, I think you're confused - Shamrocks stole the wheel...then burnt it out in a field somewhere....
    It was a tit-for-tat theft in response to their engine nearly getting nicked in Derry and therefore totally justified....

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    Intelligent, witty promotion. Well done.

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    No problem getting a Taxi after the match so. I'll get my coat

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    True Rovers taxi drivers should paint their taxis in green and white hoops.
    It wouldnt look disgusting at all,although their engines might be at risk

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    Quote Originally Posted by ger121 View Post
    No problem getting a Taxi after the match so. I'll get my coat
    Please do, as it was already mentioned twice before you!
    Quote Originally Posted by dcfcsteve View Post
    They'd probably get themselves a few fares on the way back as well !
    Quote Originally Posted by pete View Post
    As mentioned above should be good chance of getting taxi in Drumcondra on the night of the game too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WeAreRovers View Post
    Flaming on the internet and waiting idly for a bite is a fantastic hobby...
    You would say that.

    Well done to Rovers. Hardly the most significant promotion the eL will ever see, but one of the most amusing.

    In other news, anyone who can pass for the old UCD mascot, Colin, will be getting in free to our next game.
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    > Well done to Rovers. Hardly the most significant promotion the eL will ever see, but one of the most amusing.

    Its all one big numbers game, more people a club gets back or in for the first time, the more of them will become occasional fans, then regulars, then hardcore / members. Its not rocket science!

    bhs

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    Did any turn up at all? From report in the Indo trunout was terrible last night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DecBoh View Post
    Did any turn up at all? From report in the Indo trunout was terrible last night.
    http://foot.ie/showpost.php?p=695550&postcount=705

    KOH
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    I was told this morning that Rovers asked John Usher for €2500 sponsorship for Monday's game to cover the cost of giving the Taxi Drivers free entry....he told them where they could go.

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