New E-zine LOI monthly

Denis Irwin wrote: 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.

My bad got it mixed up with Lichenstein but shur its basically the same country like Ireland and England.

Edited by Bitored - 11 Apr 2015 at 4:11pm

pre Madonna wrote: A thread about a decent e-zine on the Irish game , has suddenly become a powerful tool in advocating serious changes in the education system.

I`ll have to use a different font so you understand sarcasm

We've taken on board your recent feedback re not hearing about the latest issue of each magazine so we have designed an easy to follow website where one can find out everything to do with the e-zine LOI Monthly. The link is below.
http://www.loimonthly.com/advice.html

The next issue is out tomorrow.
Features an interview with John O'Sullivan
39 pages of meaty content free of charge.

Looks great loads of content too. 

One poster you, where was the rest of them? 

scottyccfc wrote: Bob Hoskins wrote: One poster you, where was the rest of them?  This is my point, Fair play for what you are trying to do but if you have an idea go with it. Too many years our clubs have had too many meetings and meetigs about meetings. Have an idea, Just do it!

Bob Hoskins wrote: I assume Scotty you do work for Cork, so hats off for that btw.

Wherever and whoever I can help I help. No big deal but the problem we have here is people more than willing to throw out ideas and not willing to take it on. It happens on a daily basis. This is why I have a short fuse when it comes to "Ideas".

My theory is you get more done by doing it yourself.Fair play to the lads at LOI Monthly, hopefully they can make a few quid off it. Had an idea and went for it.


Edited by scottyccfc - 01 May 2015 at 1:08pm

EinLebenLang wrote: This is a good idea, wish you all the best of luck with it. However in my opinion it is a real shame to see ads in an online zine. The thing is laid out very well and looks good, would the ad revenue not make it possible to print a physical magazine? There are a few shops in town it could be sold in, like Offside. Maybe some places in Cork, Derry etc too. Might also be worth speaking to Football Clubs and fan groups who might sell it? Just my opinion anyway and fair play for the effort gone in to it, as I said looks great.

Thanks for the kind words.

We're using the ad money to pay for infrastructure behind the magazine so as it will be a long lasting thing unlike past attempts. We have made a website, bought a domain name and a few other things this year with many more plans in place.

The print edition isn't viable yet but you can print it off as a pdf with ISSUU if it makes it easier to read.

The next deadline for pieces is 9am on the 29th of May with publication on the 4th of June.

As ever any suggestions for topics or if you want to write a piece please email loimonthly@gmail.com

Thanks