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Originally posted by planning planning wrote:

Originally posted by Honey Monster Honey Monster wrote:

I'd completely agree on the second point; the league is not marketed and promoted enough. I used to hear the odd radio ad but apart from advertising a game on the telly, is the league actually promoted on the TV? I presume it's still not. The league has the right idea to promote live football; they just need to do it much much more. This all comes down to their Marketing budget which I'm sure is extremely restricted.
 
 



Its up to clubs to market their games. People are influenced by what they see on tv rather than the local paper. RTE won't do it even though they have the rights to the league. I was in Hungary during the summer, and they had full domestic games on every night. The football was poor, crowds were low, but the national broadcaster was dedicated to the local game. The RTE coverage is minimalist and does nothing to promote the game.

Friday night is a weeknight, and a challenge if people have to travel any serious distance. Therefore games should be played at weekends, like most countries across the world.
 
When have you seen an ad by any club advertised on the telly? It's up to the league to promote the entire league; not just one team. But yes, RTE could promote it themselves more.
 
Friday night should stay. It's one good idea that they do have.
 
Great idea about clubs going to the schools. Does this happen much anymore? The only reason I started supporting the league as a kid was Shels came into our school and gave us all free season tickets. Get the kids while they're young.....that sounds pervy but yis know what I mean.
 
 
 
 
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The influence the schoolboy clubs have on where the talent ends up has to be challenged. The best will always end up in England, but there is no reason an fai funded academy up to leaving cert should not be as attractive as a mive to England, contract them and sell them at 20 while leasing them to league clubs. At least Irish football will them keep some of the spoils, not agents aka schoolboy managers. I wonder does the E consider Everton small minded for not advertising with Liverpool to promote the epl?
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Originally posted by Saint Tom Saint Tom wrote:

The influence the schoolboy clubs have on where the talent ends up has to be challenged. The best will always end up in England, but there is no reason an fai funded academy up to leaving cert should not be as attractive as a mive to England, contract them and sell them at 20 while leasing them to league clubs. At least Irish football will them keep some of the spoils, not agents aka schoolboy managers. I wonder does the E consider Everton small minded for not advertising with Liverpool to promote the epl?

Do you not think there should be a joint marketing campaign or should all clubs look after themselves?
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Originally posted by Saint Tom Saint Tom wrote:

The influence the schoolboy clubs have on where the talent ends up has to be challenged. The best will always end up in England, but there is no reason an fai funded academy up to leaving cert should not be as attractive as a mive to England, contract them and sell them at 20 while leasing them to league clubs. At least Irish football will them keep some of the spoils, not agents aka schoolboy managers. I wonder does the E consider Everton small minded for not advertising with Liverpool to promote the epl?

where would this academy be based? who decides what players get leased to what clubs? do the players get a say in it?

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Not bothered where its based. You could use an American football style draft if needed. The players have choice to enter the academy or not. All loans are no longer than a season
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Originally posted by TBWRA TBWRA wrote:

Originally posted by Trapped Trapped wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Maybe Bohs don't, but this is bread and butter in the top half of the table


So every club in the top half of the table makes full use of the local schools and has hundreds upon hundreds of kids at every match? Fair play to them. But they must be very quiet, or in some cases invisible. 

And your "bread and butter" is not the free tickets given out, it's the cash that comes in at the gate rather than free promotions.



Bohs have done numerous initiatives with local schools players visiting schools have schoolboy matches at half time at every home game and have recently linked up with the NDSL .


I know that. Just like there's schoolboy games at half time in a lot of LOI grounds around the country. I'm talking about getting them in as supporters. The NDSL link up is obviously a welcome move, but it's more about a player development/feeder team scenario rather than generating supporters for life. Club I used to be with Ayrfield United linked up with Shelbourne a couple of years ago to become Ayrfield United-Shelbourne but again that was more about using Ayrfield's youth teams as a feeder club as well as giving them access to training facilities in the AUL. My point on the other page was about kids going along purely from a supporters point of view and supporting a team early on. Playing a couple of games for the underage team or playing in a once off half time match is obviously good but isn't quite the same as going just as a fan from early on.
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