Leinster Branch & Celtic League

[Jarhead]

Just lookin to guage the feelin from supporters with these 2 outfits in relation to fixtures, kick-off times, tickets, t.v. anything basically...

Seem highly incompetent to me with fixtures be arranged late & rearranged even later, kick-off times being change at the drop of a hat, tickets not being posted/arriving, not being available, too expensive, & cr@p t.v. commentary & coverage...

Highly unprofessional if you ask me...

Any1 any thoughts?

[limecat]

Just lookin to guage the feelin from supporters with these 2 outfits in relation to fixtures, kick-off times, tickets, t.v. anything basically...

Seem highly incompetent to me with fixtures be arranged late & rearranged even later, kick-off times being change at the drop of a hat, tickets not being posted/arriving, not being available, too expensive, & cr@p t.v. commentary & coverage...

Highly unprofessional if you ask me...

Any1 any thoughts?

wow...that's a lot of things

fixture times, etc. are in general at the behest of the CLs "broadcast partners", steanta, etc.

tickets not arriving generally seems to be an post and not the branch. notice that for some games, the branch no longer send out the tickets for this very reason. apple sourz may be able to give more info. about the shortcomings of the postal service

expensive tickets. that's one for the branch to answer, but they are trying to run a professional team with professional backup / support, all of which costs money.

cr@p tv. commentary. hmm...setanta have "limited" resources, so they can't afford to pay for the Ryle Nugent and George Hamiltons of this world

[ckav]

Just lookin to guage the feelin from supporters with these 2 outfits in relation to fixtures, kick-off times, tickets, t.v. anything basically...

Seem highly incompetent to me with fixtures be arranged late & rearranged even later, kick-off times being change at the drop of a hat, tickets not being posted/arriving, not being available, too expensive, & cr@p t.v. commentary & coverage...

Highly unprofessional if you ask me...

Any1 any thoughts?

Leinster Rugby are being unfairly blamed on this one. They fought tooth and nail with Setanta in 2004 about the change in fixture times and the short-notice. They didn't want to move from the traditional and highly-popular Friday night at The Brook slot..it's the TV scheduling that is focked.

Ticketing needs to be sorted out, with an on=line option or even TicketMaster used to better effect. It's not working very well in its current guise. To be fair to Ronan, he will have to manually organise 4000 tickets (and the rest) for Toulouse. It's crazy.

commentary and coverage - email Niall Cogley at Setanta -fully agree that it's AWFUL..

[Uncle Mort]

... & cr@p t.v. commentary & coverage...

Highly unprofessional if you ask me...

commentary and coverage - email Niall Cogley at Setanta -fully agree that it's AWFUL..

which makes it no surprise that there is still no headline sponsor for the CL

[Flash Gordon]

Think the property is still quite expensive - you'd probably have to pay about a million and a half. For that you could get the Ireland team, and I know what I'd rather have. There is also the fact that its still very much seen as a Division 2 competition.....coverage on a channel that nobody watches with totally amateur commentators doesn't exactly enhance the reputation of the competition.....

[scotscor]

... & cr@p t.v. commentary & coverage...

Highly unprofessional if you ask me...

commentary and coverage - email Niall Cogley at Setanta -fully agree that it's AWFUL..

which makes it no surprise that there is still no headline sponsor for the CL

Think the CL will be a lot easier to sell this year, with 5 teams still in with a chance and its looking like going to the wire.
But all sides need to settle on a format and less of the italian mutterings.

[Uncle Mort]

...and less of the italian mutterings.

I think that having three Italian teams in the CL would be a good thing as it would give more games, no blank weekends and improve standards all round.

[Darce]

We definately need more 7.30 ko's on friday, at the 'brook. By evidence of recent game vs. Borders. Attendence would have been awful if it were sat/sun afternoon, and bear in mind there were very few internationals on show(now think back to edinburgh in nov??? one man and his dog spings to mind). also, more friday night games in the h-cup(remember leicester, toulouse, montferond)