St Patricks vs Sporting Fingal 18/9 RTE 2 13.00

frantic190

The third live LOI game in a week, this time its the FAI Cup Quarter Final match between St. Pats Athletic and Sporting Fingal. Live on RTE 2, K.O. 1pm, programme starts at 12.45.

Team Line-Ups will appear here a bit later on:
http://www.extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/12387/1/

S.R.F.C.

Jesus christ, there's a couple hundred at it, max, shocking.

ShamoBuc

I thought it was 2 Prem div teams from dublin? Why is there no - one there? Seriously disappointing crowd

dreamers75

Stupid ****ing time for a match, like most people my young lads entire team isnt there as they just finished a match.

dreamers75

hhehe Guy

frantic190

Great finish by Guy there, no club benefits from this stupid time for a match.

dreamers75

frantic190 wrote: »

Great finish by Guy there, no club benefits from this stupid time for a match.

We have 3 1pm sats in a row

Pats couldnt find 2 teams for the half time match so the Pats u10s training on the pitch.

Coillte_Bhoy

It's ridiculous having a live match at this time of the day. Small crowd was inevitable and is no advertisement for local football. Madness.

ArmaniJeanss

dreamers75 wrote: »

We have 3 1pm sats in a row

This is because RTE are showing the Magners in the Friday/Sat 7.30 slot is it?

Someone in the LOI needs to tell RTE to gtfo on this issue, and stick with sensible kick off times (even if it causes shortterm pain/reduced coverage etc).

dreamers75

St Pat's have questioned the decision to rearrange three of their forthcoming fixtures to 1.0 on Saturday to facilitate live TV coverage.

Their two matches against Sporting Fingal -- one in the league and the other in the FAI Cup -- will now be played on September 18 and October 2, while their league date with Bohemians has been moved to October 9.

All of the games scheduled for that weekend have been put back 24 hours to avoid a clash with Ireland's Euro 2012 qualifier against Russia.

"The first we knew about this was on Wednesday afternoon when we received an email," said St Pat's commercial manager Phil Nolan.

"When we looked at the figures for the last Sporting Fingal match we played on a Sunday afternoon, they showed a loss of €10,000 in overall revenue, including revenue from our shops at the ground.

"A match against Bohemians gives us one of our biggest gates. Will the supporters now come to the match or stay at home and look at it on TV?

"We have all got to sit down and advance together. If TV stations want to cover us, they do so at 7.0 on a Friday or a Saturday night, not 1.0."

5200 last friday vs Rovers, less than 1000 today.

It is due to Magners and RTE believe viewing will be higher if the game on sat.

Its ****ing higher cos theres noone at as most have their own games to play.


/Scrappy cup game, we playing a lot more direct than them and creating chances. Guy should have had a 2nd but wussed out.

ShamoBuc

It's certainly entertaining now!!!

dreamers75

bah for a moment i thought we were gonna win a cup game

frantic190

Great response from Fingal!

Pats 2 - 1 Fingal

SlickRic

quite an entertaining match this.

as others have said, it's a weird time to have a live game, but it probably does get the hungover television viewers on early Saturday afternoon.

dreamers75

**** crowe always scores vs us

/epic timed post

frantic190

dreamers75 wrote: »

**** crowe always scores vs us

/epic timed post

On the pitch 2 seconds and the ball is off his head and in the net, disallowed though.

frantic190

Fingal certainly look good for a second, both teams look knackered.

/Eats words

3 - 1 Pats

Keeper not great.

dreamers75

YESSSSSSSSSSS


**** goalie but YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

frantic190

Didn't think the Crowe goal was a foul, Fingal may feel hard done by, but they have been terrible at the back.

dreamers75

Heartbreaking cup defeat rolls over to the next round

Coillte_Bhoy

SlickRic wrote: »

quite an entertaining match this.

as others have said, it's a weird time to have a live game, but it probably does get the hungover television viewers on early Saturday afternoon.

Guilty as charged.:) Enjoyed it.

dreamers75

Mahon getting a few digs in at the KO time

Shocking tho only 1 pats schoolboy team could make the game out of 14 or so.

Gavin "shels"

frantic190 wrote: »

Great finish by Guy there, no club benefits from this stupid time for a match.

Well Fingal did, I'd hazard a guess their fans didn't amount to half of the attendence.

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

Small crowd was inevitable and is no advertisement for local football. Madness.

Not sure about this match, but I work in Inchicore and there's usually posters up in loads of the local shops/takeaways/etc... advertising matches.

dreamers75 wrote: »

Mahon getting a few digs in at the KO time

Mahon must be nearly on par with Keely now for being one of the moaniest managers in the LoI ever!

TangyZizzle

Gavin shels wrote: »

Well Fingal did, I'd hazard a guess their fans didn't amount to half of the attendence.

Id say there was about 60 of us

DerekDGoldfish

Decent cup game, horrific attendance

Coillte_Bhoy

Gavin shels wrote: »

Not sure about this match, but I work in Inchicore and there's usually posters up in loads of the local shops/takeaways/etc... advertising matches.

No, i meant as a televison spectacle it didnt portray the League in a good light though the game was decent.

Gavin "shels"

TangyZizzle wrote: »

Id say there was about 60 of us

I'll put my gaff on it that there was more than 60 Pats at it, so therefore it worked out a lot better for Fingal.

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

No, i meant as a televison spectacle it didnt portray the League in a good light though the game was decent.

My bad!

frantic190

759 was the official attendance given in Inchicore today.

dreamers75

frantic190 wrote: »

759 was the official attendance given in Inchicore today.

Bohs game will be interesting, we like most teams budgeted for the season for that game to be around 3-4k Bohs always bring a decent crowd 1k+ to Richmond. A lot of our fans are involved with Junior football and simply cant get to the games at that time.

Fingal away at 1pm is next for us, my kid playing a match at 11:30 in Naas

frantic190

dreamers75 wrote: »

Bohs game will be interesting, we like most teams budgeted for the season for that game to be around 3-4k Bohs always bring a decent crowd 1k+ to Richmond. A lot of our fans are involved with Junior football and simply cant get to the games at that time.

Fingal away at 1pm is next for us, my kid playing a match at 11:30 in Naas

We have also have had terrible crowds recently, will be very interesting to see our away support, especially at that time.

monkey9

There was literally more people out our home match against Belgrove in the last round than there was there today.

dreamers75

monkey9 wrote: »

There was literally more people out our home match against Belgrove in the last round than there was there today.

I reckon this will stick and RTE will show more games at this time as it suits them most likely worked ratings wise.

pain in the arse we got 3 games tho

TangyZizzle

Was it true that noone was allowed onto The Camac? or was that just an aul lad talkin bollocks to me?

dreamers75

TangyZizzle wrote: »

Was it true that noone was allowed onto The Camac? or was that just an aul lad talkin bollocks to me?

Normal for umm expected low attd games, use less tewards if its closed and stand looks better on tv altho it still looked ****

TangyZizzle

dreamers75 wrote: »

Normal for umm expected low attd games, use less tewards if its closed and stand looks better on tv altho it still looked ****

Yeah, thats what I heard.