New E-zine LOI monthly

Just on this SRFC Ultras have released a fanzine "And If I Should Falter", issue one is available on their website at €3, issue two due out soon as well http://www.srfc-ultras.com/index.php/merchandise

Deadline of pieces for next issue of LOI Monthly is the 24th of July. Send them to loimonthly@gmail.com

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Issue two of LOI Monthly is available on the link above. It's got an interview with Alan Kelly as well as articles on George Best's time playing with Cork Celtic and LOI Legends.

Any feedback much appreciated.

Funny enough I just stumbled across this about half an hour ago. Very impressive!Can you make sure and post here when every edition is posted up as I don't have Twitter...Cheers!

Thanks for the comments. There is a Facebook page you can like as well that will tell you when issues are coming out.

Looks like a very read alright. Will go through it over the weekend. Cheers.

Cabra Hoop wrote: Regarding the Grimsby Town and Pats fan who compares the LOI with the Conference and Div 2, don't think any of the teams in those leagues would beat Partizan Belgrade away would you ? Or beat Hadjuk Split or Kaiserslautern away.....etc etc.

I don't mean to piss on your parade but they probably would. I like to promote the league and its merits but lets be realistic too. There are shocks in sport all the time. I'm not belittling any club that punches above their weight and gets a good result.

Just look at the FA cup and the shocks that have been in that over the years. Off the top of my head I remember Burton Albion (non League, I think 5th tier at the time) bringing Man U to a replay a few years ago.
In this years competition:
Cambridge (L2) brought United to a replay
Bradford (L1) beat Chelsea 4-2

Our clubs are realistically around conference and L2 level, some probably lower than Conference Premier.
I`m basing that on crowds, facilities and finances.
L2, L1 and The Championship are well run full time professional leagues of 24 teams each. Our league is struggling to have 20 sustainable semi pro/amateur clubs. On current crowds and Facilities Cork and Shams would have the best chance of being L2 clubs but would need to improve a lot to do better.

We played Rosenberg last summer away and beat them. It probably was the greatest result in our history and will take some beating. Same as beating Belgrade was for ye. But Rosenberg has a 20,000 seater stadium, a playing budget of E10 million+ and they play in a full time professional league that shares out a TV deal worth E100 million. And as a result of all that have consistently done well in Europe.

Until our league gets to that kind of level all our clubs can do is pull off the odd shock same as lower league clubs in England do against their richer and better supported neighbours.



Edited by Bitored - 11 Apr 2015 at 1:32am

Decent Read that.

Bitored wrote: zizu Kilbane wrote: Bitored wrote: Cabra Hoop wrote: Regarding the Grimsby Town and Pats fan who compares the LOI with the Conference and Div 2, don't think any of the teams in those leagues would beat Partizan Belgrade away would you ? Or beat Hadjuk Split or Kaiserslautern away.....etc etc. I don't mean to piss on your parade but they probably would. I like to promote the league and its merits but lets be realistic too. There are shocks in sport all the time. I'm not belittling any club that punches above their weight and gets a good result. Just look at the FA cup and the shocks that have been in that over the years. Off the top of my head I remember Burton Albion (non League, I think 5th tier at the time) bringing Man U to a replay a few years ago. In this years competition: Cambridge (L2) brought United to a replay Bradford (L1) beat Chelsea 4-2 Our clubs are realistically around conference and L2 level, some probably lower than Conference Premier. I`m basing that on crowds, facilities and finances. L2, L1 and The Championship are well run full time professional leagues of 24 teams each. Our league is struggling to have 20 sustainable semi pro/amateur clubs. On current crowds and Facilities Cork and Shams would have the best chance of being L2 clubs but would need to improve a lot to do better. We played Rosenberg last summer away and beat them. It probably was the greatest result in our history and will take some beating. Same as beating Belgrade was for ye. But Rosenberg has a 20,000 seater stadium, a playing budget of E10 million+ and they play in a full time professional league that shares out a TV deal worth E100 million. And as a result of all that have consistently done well in Europe. Until our league gets to that kind of level all our clubs can do is pull off the odd shock same as lower league clubs in England do against their richer and better supported neighbours. Eh I don't know what your smoking if your trying to compare those 2 results. You guys bottled it at home in the 2nd leg while ours was arguably the biggest result in the history of domestic football in this country. Shams haven't been in Europe for the last 3 years and even then they got beaten by a crowd from Lithunia, a league who's best clubs play in Switzerland. My point is shocks happen all the time. What ye did and what we did were shocks. Shamrock Rovers, Sligo Rovers, Dundalk, Pats, Cork or whoever else has gotten good results in Europe don't have the platform or structures to build on it year in year out. L2 sides, the likes of Shrewsbury (10,000 seater stadium), Burton (7,000), Wycombe (10,000), all have budgets in and around £2-3 million (up to 4 times as much as LOI sides). So to say that those sides couldn't go off to a 3rd/4th tier ranked European side and get a result is nonsense. Those sides wouldn't only compete in LOI football they would dominate it.