Foot.ie Interview

**dahamsta** · 27/08/2003, 3:27 PM

Originally posted by Ref
just email him yourself.

I don't have his email address. I presume he isn't so stupid as to allow them to give him fran.rooney@fai.ie? Screw it, I'll give it a go.

adam

**Ref** · 27/08/2003, 3:29 PM

check PM.

btw, i hope to interview him for my site too. one of these days.

**pete** · 27/08/2003, 3:32 PM

Originally posted by Vetinari
I don't have his email address. I presume he isn't so stupid as to allow them to give him fran.rooney@fai.ie? Screw it, I'll give it a go.

adam

I'd almost put money down that it is. Dooney had similarly structured mail addy as has Brian Kerr...

**wws** · 27/08/2003, 3:34 PM

the only thing is he hasnt got a contract with them yet?
technically he doesnt work there!

**dahamsta** · 27/08/2003, 3:36 PM

So they spend millions on flashy PR firms to protect them from the horrible media and then give everyone an email address a banned Ramblers poster could guess? I dunno who's worse, them for doing it or him for letting them.

Hang on while I put on my shiny face. Hi Fran, I'm Troy McClure! You might remember me from such...

adam

**James** · 27/08/2003, 3:40 PM

Originally posted by Vetinari
Hang on while I put on my shiny face. Hi Fran, I'm Troy McClure! You might ..

well he's definately not going to give you an interview if he thinks you're that lang@r

i reckon it is.. fran.rooney@fai.ie also..think from memory thats how all the fai heads have their email addys, and i dont see why he wont give an interview

imo keep it focused on the eircom league.. enough stuff on the national team already imo

**pete** · 27/08/2003, 3:50 PM

Originally posted by Vetinari
So they spend millions on flashy PR firms to protect them from the horrible media and then give everyone an email address a banned Ramblers poster could guess? I dunno who's worse, them for doing it or him for letting them.

I don't whats wrong with the FAI using that naming structure. Thats standard for practice for most businesses. Email is from communication afterall isn't it? I'm sure Bill Gates has an address like Bill@microsoft.com, bill.gates@microsoft.com or such...

Sure Bertie Ahern has an email addy kn0own to the punters but he just has an office on minions yo keep him from reading the plebs rants.

**Schumi** · 27/08/2003, 3:59 PM

Originally posted by Vetinari
So they spend millions on flashy PR firms to protect them from the horrible media and then give everyone an email address a banned Ramblers poster could guess? I dunno who's worse, them for doing it or him for letting them.

Still doesn't mean he'll read or reply to it!

**wws** · 27/08/2003, 3:59 PM

whatever happened his porn site or did the bertiemeister leave the 'industry'?

**dahamsta** · 27/08/2003, 4:03 PM

Pete, in a wonderful world where pixies roam the land and pizzas and beer deliver themselves unordered, it's a wonderful scheme, but when you're hiding behind a couple of PR firms because your business is in a bit of a mess, it's just silly.

Bill Gates' address is billg@microsoft.com, but really, what are the odds that that's the email address he really uses? I hope it's not anyway, because my server is forwarding Sobig.F to that address at a rate of about ten a minute.

Of course it could be that they implemented it to improve and update the business, but do you believe that? Don't get me wrong, I want to see the FAI improved and streamlined. That's what I'll be asking about if I get the chance.

Anyway, email sent.

Code:

From: adam beecher [mailto:adam@beecher.net]
Sent: 27 August 2003 16:53
To: fran.rooney@fai.ie
Subject: Foot.ie

Hi Fran,

I'm Adam Beecher, the operator of Foot.ie. Apologies for emailing you out of
the blue, but I can see weaving my way through your PR team taking donkeys
and I don't have the patience. I just have a simple request: Will you agree
to a Slashdot-style email interview for publication on Foot.ie?

I'd be surprised if you didn't know what that was, but just in case: You
agree to the interview, we get Foot.ie posters to ask questions, we pick ten
or so of the best and we email them to you, you answer them and send them
back, we publish the result on the site.

Nice and easy, shouldn't take you more'n a half hour or so, maybe an hour if
you actually think about what you're writing. Which we'd prefer. :)

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,
adam

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**James** · 27/08/2003, 4:10 PM

Originally posted by Vetinari
but I can see weaving my way through your PR team taking donkeys
and I don't have the patience. I just have a simple request: Will you agree
to a Slashdot-style email interview for publication on Foot.ie?

jeeze the font so small i read that as talking to donkeys

adam and others, i notice that ppl who use the net alot refer to url's without the http or www as you have done here adam with foot.ie ( also when referred to in the cork city matchday mag as they often do .. its also just foot.ie) now i and everyone here knows what foot.ie is.. surely it might be an idea for the not so net savey (sp) to include the more familiar-website indicating universal www so that ppl know exactly its a website thats being referred to

thoughts

**pete** · 27/08/2003, 4:19 PM

Originally posted by Vetinari
Pete, in a wonderful world where pixies roam the land and pizzas and beer deliver themselves unordered, it's a wonderful scheme, but when you're hiding behind a couple of PR firms because your business is in a bit of a mess, it's just silly.

Alrighty, me not paying attention to the PR firm angle.

Originally posted by Vetinari
...but I can see weaving my way through your PR team taking donkeys...shouldn't take you more'n a half hour or so, maybe an hour if you actually think about what you're writing. Which we'd prefer...Looking forward to hearing from you.

LMAO

**dahamsta** · 27/08/2003, 4:23 PM

jeeze the font so small i read that as talking to donkeys

There's something seriously wrong on that rig of yours James!

adam and others, i notice that ppl who use the net alot refer to url's without the http or www as you have done here adam with foot.ie ( also when referred to in the cork city matchday mag as they often do .. its also just foot.ie)

It should have a capital 'F'!

now i and everyone here knows what foot.ie is.. surely it might be an idea for the not so net savey (sp) to include the more familiar-website indicating universal www so that ppl know exactly its a website thats being referred to

Fran Rooney is a former CEO of Baltimore, a world-renowned crypto firm based in Dublin. If he doesn't know what Foot.ie means, I don't think I want to interview him.

adam

**wws** · 27/08/2003, 4:24 PM

cant believe tah beecher bloke sends his own emails - dont you have a PR firm for that sort of lark?

**James** · 27/08/2003, 4:26 PM

well i know who fran rooney was and is.
the point i was trying to make was moreso for the corkcity matchday mag reference and in general. it was only reading your good self mention Foot.ie in the fran rooney email that reminded me of it.

**wws** · 27/08/2003, 4:28 PM

lame comeback james, lame!

**pete** · 27/08/2003, 4:36 PM

Originally posted by Vetinari
Fran Rooney is a former CEO of Baltimore, a world-renowned crypto firm based in Dublin.

Baltimore well known for their massive PR & marketing departments so maybe Fran took a few of them with him to Merrion Sq. Only problem is the FAI don't have any shares to hype.