Forget the media!!!

[GalwayFrancis]

Out of the eleven threads with new posts this morning,
three of them are complaining about how little or how
bad the coverage is for the el and irish soccer in general.
I think that people should stop wasting their energy on
the RTE, BreakingNews, the Herald and other such media,
and just focus on helping their club become more media
friendly by winning matches. In recent weeks the papers
have been filled with pages full of the Rovers scandal, but
then again "there's no such thing as bad publicity".
Everyone should just get over how bad the irish media is
in relation to irish soccer and just comcentrate on the
footballing side of things.

[superfrank]

It's ok for you, yez have Nick Leeson to grab the headlines.

[Conor H]

Ya and he's doing a smashing job all we need now is the team to start been a bit more consistent and the whole club will be buzzing.

[1 9 2 8]

Ya and he's doing a smashing job all we need now is the team to start been a bit more consistent and the whole club will be buzzing.

If you think Lesson writing about the British lions or Man Utd in the eircom league part of the mirror is a "smashing job" then in that case the Sunday Tribune is the best eircom league paper

[dcfcsteve]

The bottom line is that Irish football is itself responsible to a large degree for the media's attitude towards it.

It's really not rocket-science to get media coverage - especially in towns outside of Dublin. Small local charities, schools, Student Bodies, church groups, rugby/GAA clubs can all seem to manage it, but somehow it's beyond the realms of Eircom League clubs. Few of our clubs/the FAI do anything themselves to present a regaular, positive image to the media. All we do is just moan when the only thing they seem to run-with is bad news.....

At a local level - if we feed the media with positive stories (and in some cases, just ANY stories) they will run with them. It really is that simple. I don't know what it's like in other towns, but Derry City has always had more than its fair share of local media coverage. There was a lul for a few years whilst a spat with a local paper was worked-out, but we do get good coverage overall.

At a national level, it's a tougher nut to crack. But there's no reason why the FAI couldn't smooshe journalists and built-up a positive relationship re the EL over time. Hang on - there is a reason ! Its's the FAI.......

[Rory H]

Ya and he's doing a smashing job all we need now is the team to start been a bit more consistent and the whole club will be buzzing.

lol...

[BohDiddley]

The bottom line is that Irish football is itself responsible to a large degree for the media's attitude towards it.

It's really not rocket-science to get media coverage - especially in towns outside of Dublin. Small local charities, schools, Student Bodies, church groups, rugby/GAA clubs can all seem to manage it, but somehow it's beyond the realms of Eircom League clubs. Few of our clubs/the FAI do anything themselves to present a regaular, positive image to the media. All we do is just moan when the only thing they seem to run-with is bad news.....

At a local level - if we feed the media with positive stories (and in some cases, just ANY stories) they will run with them. It really is that simple. I don't know what it's like in other towns, but Derry City has always had more than its fair share of local media coverage. There was a lul for a few years whilst a spat with a local paper was worked-out, but we do get good coverage overall.

At a national level, it's a tougher nut to crack. But there's no reason why the FAI couldn't smooshe journalists and built-up a positive relationship re the EL over time. Hang on - there is a reason ! Its's the FAI.......

Some of that is true, and is borne out by Bohs' silence on our latest signing. But that doesn't absolve Irish sports journalists of their responsibility (if they accept that they have any public service role) to give decent space to Irish sport beyond GAA, rugby and golf, which they do even when they have the material.
Blaming the FAI and lack of professionalism at club level may be part of the answer, but it is not the whole answer. I think Derry might be different, because it is a club with a strong identity with its city and therefore local media. But in general Irish sports media at national level don't just neglect Irish football, they are actively hostile towards it, as we have seen from the Evening Herald's recent contributions.
As it is, British tabloids give better coverage of EL than do Irish newspapers, and we are all familiar with RTE's obsession with English football. Rocket science, it's not. It might be something even harder!

[ThatGuy]

The bottom line is that Irish football is itself responsible to a large degree for the media's attitude towards it.

It's really not rocket-science to get media coverage - especially in towns outside of Dublin. Small local charities, schools, Student Bodies, church groups, rugby/GAA clubs can all seem to manage it, but somehow it's beyond the realms of Eircom League clubs. Few of our clubs/the FAI do anything themselves to present a regaular, positive image to the media. All we do is just moan when the only thing they seem to run-with is bad news.....

At a local level - if we feed the media with positive stories (and in some cases, just ANY stories) they will run with them. It really is that simple. I don't know what it's like in other towns, but Derry City has always had more than its fair share of local media coverage. There was a lul for a few years whilst a spat with a local paper was worked-out, but we do get good coverage overall.

At a national level, it's a tougher nut to crack. But there's no reason why the FAI couldn't smooshe journalists and built-up a positive relationship re the EL over time. Hang on - there is a reason ! Its's the FAI.......

Exactly. But most people here seem to think it's everybody's fault but the Eircom league clubs.