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The clubs abandoned by the lazy media

  • 04-10-2012 7:30pm
    #1
    Rasp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭


    Hello,
    Indo, IT and Examiner have a least 2 full time rugby journalists and their guest writers such as Toland, Williams, Wood etc with very token and lazy reporting of same.
    A trained chimp could write a piece from the full time results on the Irish Rugby website. Most if not all the journalists cut their teeth and earned their stripes from covering the club game from the 80's and 90's onwards. The lazy way they have treated the club game is a disgrace, who is really interested in reading about the commercial negotiations of TV rights deals? The clubs now need a pay back time from these journalists and it may spark new avenues of interest in the sport. The people employed in the IRFU to look after the club game should make real efforts rather than hide behind surveys and statistics.


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  • #2
    Fishooks12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    Rasp wrote: »
    Hello,
    Indo, IT and Examiner have a least 2 full time rugby journalists and their guest writers such as Toland, Williams, Wood etc with very token and lazy reporting of same.
    A trained chimp could write a piece from the full time results on the Irish Rugby website. Most if not all the journalists cut their teeth and earned their stripes from covering the club game from the 80's and 90's onwards. The lazy way they have treated the club game is a disgrace, who is really interested in reading about the commercial negotiations of TV rights deals? The clubs now need a pay back time from these journalists and it may spark new avenues of interest in the sport. The people employed in the IRFU to look after the club game should make real efforts rather than hide behind surveys and statistics.


    Nothing about it is lazy, the simple fact is that the professional game interests far more people than the Ulster Bank league, hence, more coverage. Same reason why RTE show a Rabo game once a week and show only one AIL game per year. Demand and supply.

    The rest of the post is just mumbo jumbo, "most if not all journalists cut their teeth covering the club game in the 80's and 90's"?!


  • #3
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    I think the clubs need to realise their position in Irish rugby at the moment and that's behind the national team and the provinces. There are people coming to watch Ireland and provincial games who would never have heard of the hay day of the AIL.

    From what I've seen most of the Sunday papers have section or round up of the Saturdays club results. So I don't think they've abandoned you at all.


  • #4
    bamboozle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭bamboozle


    disappointed to read Gerry Thornley's preview of the UBL last weekend...most of it seemed to mirror the UBL thread on here.


  • #5
    padser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭padser


    bamboozle wrote: »
    disappointed to read Gerry Thornley's preview of the UBL last weekend...most of it seemed to mirror the UBL thread on here.


    To be fair to him though, most of what he writes these days is disappointing, so it's not like he is singling out the UBL...


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