So, the most popular match in Ireland up to Sunday night was Brazil v Switzerland, with 407,000 viewers, making it the most popular programme of the week. Portugal v Spain came second with 312,000, with Argentina-Iceland on 285,000, Germany v Mexico on 248,000 and Peru v Denmark on 246,000. One suspects England v Tunisia may well have drawn figures similar to the Iberian derby, but figures won't emerge until next week.
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England games almost always get big TV audiences in the Irish Republic (as Ken Early points out, the advertising costs peak for them as a direct result).
It's not because all the South's fans dislike England, believe it or not.
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Originally posted by Diable Rouge View PostProbably one of those channels that show logs slowly burning.
Those 'log burning' channels and their ilk don't seem to be around anymore, do they? I used to enjoy an occasional dip into the Landscape Channel, which married images of mountains and hot-air balloons with some quite interesting ambient music. (Wikipedia claims it still exists, but I can't recall having seen it in at least twenty years.)
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Germany has a weather channel that shows on a loop slow 30-second live pans from mounted cameras from dozens of places all over the country, from the mountains to the coast. It's quite hypnotic. I watched it for about twenty minutes once.
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Tunisia vs England recorded a sizeable audience of 453,000 last Monday, though naturally that figure more than halved to 200,000 for the Panama game, given the kick-off time and GAA competition. Iran v Spain also proved attractive on 345,000, Russia v Egypt drew 312,000, followed by Poland-Colombia on 303,000, Argentina-Croatia on 286,000 and Germany-Sweden on 276,000. That final figure is particularly noteworthy as 205,000 were simultaneously watching Kerry v Cork, so a sizeable chunk of the country were watching live sport last Saturday.
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostEngland games almost always get big TV audiences in the Irish Republic (as Ken Early points out, the advertising costs peak for them as a direct result).
It's not because all the South's fans dislike England, believe it or not.Last edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 26-06-2018, 12:28.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostIt seems curious to me that more England fans do not want Ireland to fail, especially when they play ugly football, unless they are playing a team you detest even more (like France in Euro 16). Do the Irish actually want English patronizing support?
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Well there's a difference between friendly support, and patronizing, and we're able to tell the difference.... There's about 8 million people on the"mainland" that have at least an irish grandparent and are entitled to an Irish passport. The number of people with an irish Great grand parent is huge. Also there's nothing really objectionable about the irish team other than their early 1990's premier league style, which it turns out is what most english club fans seem to want for some fucking inexplicable reason. There's going to be plenty of people in England who are going to think the same broadly positive way about the republic of Ireland, as we did about Wales, and were very pleased for Northern Ireland at euro 2016.
Fuck the english media though. We see them in action on this whole Northern Irish border business. It's painful.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostThat's not why I or anyone I know watch these [England] matches. We're in it for the sense of the event, and the fairly reasonable expectation of seeing a pompous fat man fall on a banana skin
As I mentioned, there's always a TV audience in the South for England matches. Even though hardly any give a sense of event- they're either qualifying mismatches or friendlies. England have lost one competitive game (of 26) since the last World Cup. Running with your greengrocery theme, there are enough couch potatoes sitting through your games to keep Linker in crisps until he retires.
People in the republic watched Northern Ireland...because they wanted them to do well at euro 2016
Southern fans don't want to admit to their bias, so play dumb and pretend that we might want to merge with their team and ship a cricket score in every World Cup qualifiers.Last edited by Duncan Gardner; 26-06-2018, 14:01.
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostPeople you know- or even people who think like you- are actually quite a small proportion of the TV audience. You're a bit like the guy who says 'I'll stand for election, I know lots of people'. Well that's great, but your 30 mates are hardly a quota.
As I mentioned, there's always a TV audience in the South for England matches. Even though hardly any give a sense of event- they're either qualifying mismatches or friendlies. England have lost one competitive game (of 26) since the last World Cup. Running with your greengrocery theme, there are enough couch potatoes sitting through your games to keep Linker in crisps until he retires.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostIt seems curious to me that more England fans do not want Ireland to fail
* RoI have reached a later stage in one international tournament since 1964 (World Cup 1994)
** England similarly have outlasted Germany once since 1968 (Euro 2004)
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Originally posted by Diable Rouge View PostYou're very naive, though, Dunc, if you think they're actively cheering for England, however - just try to buy a white jersey in an Irish sports shop, and see how far you get
Irish sports shops are full of England shirts- and if I can be gently patronising in turn I go to those with a rather larger turnover than in Tralee or ListowelLast edited by Duncan Gardner; 26-06-2018, 14:15.
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostPeople you know- or even people who think like you- are actually quite a small proportion of the TV audience. You're a bit like the guy who says 'I'll stand for election, I know lots of people'. Well that's great, but your 30 mates are hardly a quota.
As I mentioned, there's always a TV audience in the South for England matches. Even though hardly any give a sense of event- they're either qualifying mismatches or friendlies. England have lost one competitive game (of 26) since the last World Cup. Running with your greengrocery theme, there are enough couch potatoes sitting through your games to keep Linker in crisps until he retires.
Southern fans don't want to admit to their bias, so play dumb and pretend that we might want to merge with their team and ship a cricket score in every World Cup qualifiers.
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostPeople you know- or even people who think like you- are actually quite a small proportion of the TV audience. You're a bit like the guy who says 'I'll stand for election, I know lots of people'. Well that's great, but your 30 mates are hardly a quota.
As I mentioned, there's always a TV audience in the South for England matches. Even though hardly any give a sense of event- they're either qualifying mismatches or friendlies. England have lost one competitive game (of 26) since the last World Cup. Running with your greengrocery theme, there are enough couch potatoes sitting through your games to keep Linker in crisps until he retires.
Southern fans don't want to admit to their bias, so play dumb and pretend that we might want to merge with their team and ship a cricket score in every World Cup qualifiers.
It's not a zero sum game DG.
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Originally posted by Diable Rouge View PostOf course, there's the fact that soccer's the only sport that isn't organised on an all-island basis, and that both nations drew on the same panel of players until 1950
Is Berba claiming that the audience for England games in RoI is made up largely of immigrants and returning emigrants?
As for that RTE Poll. If it was any more of a zero-sum game both Coke and Pepsi could sponsor it. There is no likelihood of a UI side beyond the existing situation while partition endures, and still little chance of that changing for a generation or more. Thanks for the coiffure tips btw, even though I'm nearly as bald as you are.
You have a snide habit of referring my roots any time we disagree, as if I stepped out of UDA kindergarten yesterday rather than 50 years ago.Knock it on the head, there's a good lad.
PS was Mikey drunk? He certainly seemed to be on the Jungle Juice in central AmericaLast edited by Duncan Gardner; 26-06-2018, 15:01.
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