LOI in Europe 2022

**Asterix** · 04/08/2022, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Both teams chartered out of knock yesterday. Did pat's have to bus it to knock ? Must be so much cheaper as mura did the same

Just difficult to get a spot in Dublin. Shkupi had to land in Shannon yesterday.

**WeAreRovers** · 04/08/2022, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by A N Mouse

That's interesting, I half remember they were changing the rights packages to include the qualifiers, but there was some resistance.

Is it just an extension of the old obligation to broadcast domestic teams (before foreign) in the group stages?

No, it's for the actual play-off rounds regardless of teams involved.

**Asterix** · 04/08/2022, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Asterix

Just difficult to get a spot in Dublin. Shkupi had to land in Shannon yesterday.

They aren't happy about it...

http://fcshkupi.com/a-huge-shame-on-...eland/?lang=en

**sbgawa** · 04/08/2022, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Asterix

They aren't happy about it...

http://fcshkupi.com/a-huge-shame-on-...eland/?lang=en

Jeez i hate to say it but Bohs have lost there title as most self obsessed whingers.

The DAA writing the Managers team talk is a brand new way for the Government to **** on the LOI

**joey B** · 04/08/2022, 11:38 AM

If only the Irish government actually cared enough to do that!

Should send all the rest of the teams to Carrickfinn,do it properly!!

**nigel-harps1954** · 04/08/2022, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by Asterix

They aren't happy about it...

http://fcshkupi.com/a-huge-shame-on-...eland/?lang=en

This is properly hilarious.

**Burnsie** · 04/08/2022, 12:03 PM

Didn't Rovers have to drive to Shannon in order to get to Bulgaria, or was it Malta?

**joey B** · 04/08/2022, 12:06 PM

Malta I think,Pats had to fly out of Knock yesterday aswell…

**Burnsie** · 04/08/2022, 12:07 PM

shower of crybabies. Hope Rovers pump them

**Asterix** · 04/08/2022, 12:09 PM

Shannon to get to Malta and split up and went three different ways to get to Bulgaria. I think they have a charter from Dublin for this round.

**nigel-harps1954** · 04/08/2022, 12:12 PM

They're crying on social media that Shamrock Rovers "has decided not to sell its broadcasting rights in our country or Albania!" and that it's costing €10 to stream the game via LOITV.

Supporters on FC Shkupi Facebook page, hundreds of comments stating how they'll get their revenge next week. I'm assuming some poor translation is happening from Facebooks own translation of the home fans languages, but there's some lovely remarks on there about Irish and such things.

**Longfordian** · 04/08/2022, 12:35 PM

Might watch now to see what kind of evil they plan to inflict on Rovers.

**paul_oshea** · 04/08/2022, 12:41 PM

Well it's hardly the club's fault but you can't blame them really. I'm on the border currently between north Macedonia and Albania and there's no interest in euro round football of any kind here on TV as I'd asked around in the hope of watching and no one knows about it in the bars! But playing some obscure teams on the TV all the same.

Someone does need to tell them mura had to do the same though. It is a bit of an ingenious plan, disrupt all teams including Ireland's own

**placid casual** · 04/08/2022, 12:49 PM

The state of that statement..😁
Macedonians going round with a bit of a chip on their shoulder methinks. Getting their excuses in early maybe. They should re-route them through the jack lynch tunnel in Cork on the way back, and maybe have their
bus run out of juice in a moyross estate in Limerick.

**sbgawa** · 04/08/2022, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

They're crying on social media that Shamrock Rovers "has decided not to sell its broadcasting rights in our country or Albania!" and that it's costing €10 to stream the game via LOITV.

Supporters on FC Shkupi Facebook page, hundreds of comments stating how they'll get their revenge next week. I'm assuming some poor translation is happening from Facebooks own translation of the home fans languages, but there's some lovely remarks on there about Irish and such things.

yeah cos thats what LOI clubs do, refuse to take money off TV companies

Might be a hot reception for Rovers fans when they get there next week as a result of this nonsense

**Calcio Jack** · 04/08/2022, 1:22 PM

Originally Posted by sbgawa

Jeez i hate to say it but Bohs have lost there title as most self obsessed whingers.

The DAA writing the Managers team talk is a brand new way for the Government to **** on the LOI

No doubt Madame President will issue a statement on her website correction on the Presidents website

**EatYerGreens** · 04/08/2022, 2:05 PM

Poor man's mind games from Shkupi there. Do they even have that many fans to want to watch it ? God knows why they should be worried about whether or not the rights have bene sold to Albania or not. Sound like a serious bunch of whingers.

**kksaints** · 04/08/2022, 2:14 PM

Originally Posted by EatYerGreens

Poor man's mind games from Shkupi there. Do they even have that many fans to want to watch it ? God knows why they should be worried about whether or not the rights have bene sold to Albania or not. Sound like a serious bunch of whingers.

Their fanbase would be mostly Albanian heritage.

**EatYerGreens** · 04/08/2022, 2:32 PM

Originally Posted by kksaints

Their fanbase would be mostly Albanian heritage.

Still doesn't explain why they expect the rights to be sold to Albanian TV. North Nacedonia isn't even a proper country sure

**pineapple stu** · 04/08/2022, 3:00 PM

Of course it's a proper country.

kksaints has explained it quite correctly. Or take a quote from their wiki page - "Similarly to Shkëndija, FK Shkupi is an Albanian oriented club, with the supporters being Albanian and also part of the Tifozat Kuq e Zi, an ultras group that supports Albania in international football. Nationalist Albanian rhetoric is often a part of the chanting in league games."

Their complaints are...well, let's hope something's been added in translation.