Just heard Eircom are severing all links with the league. anyone got any more info?
Anyone else hear cracking coming from the roof?
A little chicken has just run past screaming something about the sky...Originally Posted by jebus
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God shocking news, did they not hear our champions knocked out the champions of Estonia yesterday?
Someone might be able to verify this but when we were at the Fans Forum in Abbottstown last season it was said that to be involved with the International team you had to support the League of Ireland.
In the statement it says Eircom are to continue with the national team which contradicts what we heard from the FAI
I hope the sponsorship at least continues until the end of the season. It might work out well in the long term. Eircom's main interest is obviously the national team, maybe now the FAI will be able to attract a sponsor that is dedicated to the League of Ireland and will be interested in promoting it strongly. It probably doesn't do Platinum One's proposal any harm either.
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Maybe get another sponsor on board. Wonder will Pat Grace's Famous Fried Chicken fancy it?
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our champions have given away their jersey to charity for christ sake. i dont think any company is waiting in line to take on the league.
another huge blow for the league. i for one am not too optimistic about companies queuing up to hand over their money to a league that can only attract bad press at the moment
lets face it eircom were crap for us but better than nothing.
i wonder if we could convince the toll people from the m50 that they need some good press, or the HSE ???????anyone????
The Mizzoni pizza and pasta league would go down well
I thought there was something like that in place too.
That was my understanding too
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Platinum 1 will be rubbing there hands at this.
The good thing about this however is people might call it the League of Ireland rather than the eircom League... I never got why everyone put the sponsor in when talking about it.. You don't hear the league in England being called the Barclays Premier League by fans.
Bunch of drama queens. Lets wait and see who we get on board before declarig the end is nigh. Sponsors come and go, eircom were always relectunt sponsors of the league so maybe now we'll get a chance to get a sponsor who actually wants to be involved
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Perhaps some movement has been made with Drury already if they want rid of the league, but not the national team?
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Not good news, does anyone know how much this is worth per year??
Ok the league isnt getting great press at the moment and this isnt going to help but eircom did ok out of the deal, their name is mentioned in literally everything to do with the league, from match reports to sports bulletins etc, surely another sponsor should be found without too much hassle. Any chance ford will want to take it on??
Why would they? They need the IFA and a lesser extent Linfield to agree to there proposal and there is no chance of that. Thats where there issue lies.
I remember hearing from a person who was involved in the running of a league club a couple of years back that the Eircom deal was fairly crap for the league. He seemed to think the end of Eircom's sponsorship would offer an opportunity for the LOI to secure a deal that would really benefit the league.
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