Spurs v Man Utd Live 2.45 Sat RTE2

Widescreen · 22-09-2004 7:55am #1

Who needs Setanta! Potentially probably the second best Premiership game of the season so far

and its live on your normal aerial folks.

Tune in and don't miss United continue their return to normal service....

jaggiebunnet · 22-09-2004 8:04am

Come on you spurrrs

okidoki987 · 22-09-2004 8:18am

EH "2nd best game of the season so far" and one of them is SPURS?
Get a life.
The only reason you are high in the Premiership is because the rest of the teams are so poor this season.
Name me 3 world class players on the Spurs side?
Lets look at the league after Arsenal and Chelsea
3rd EVERTON
4th BOLTON
5th SPURS
6th MIDDLESBROUGH
I rest my case.
Wait till the end of the season and then see where Spurs are.
Lucky to finish mid table (again).

There's only 1 team in the Premiership this year (again)
and that ain't SPURS!

okidoki987
Arsenal supporter.

celticfc · 22-09-2004 9:27am

FFS! Don't tell me all RTÉ plan on showing is Man U matches, at least Setanta have offered a bit of a mixture so far. This is the third consecutive Man U match in about 2 weeks (2 premiership & 1 Champs League)

osullima · 22-09-2004 9:35am

celticfc wrote:

FFS! Don't tell me all RTÉ plan on showing is Man U matches, at least Setanta have offered a bit of a mixture so far. This is the third consecutive Man U match in about 2 weeks (2 premiership & 1 Champs League)

Agree 100%. There are more teams than Man U in the Premiership. Even TV3 show a better selection than RTE and that is saying something!

leeroybrown · 22-09-2004 9:35am

I'm sure that the matches they can show are based on the package of games that are available to them and not on them chosing to show United. There should be a full listing of the games available in this package somewhere.

I'm sure they'd be jumping at Liverpool or Arsenal games if they were available. Even TV3 will jump at the United game furst if it's available during their scheduling.

midget lord · 22-09-2004 9:44am

Apparantly RTE have stated that they are showing matches depending on league positions and importance. But that beggers the question "important to whom?"

leeroybrown · 22-09-2004 9:49am

I presume there is some form of arrangement where they can pick a specific 3pm kickoff a week or two in advance and cover that? Also I assume that RTÉ having a match every two weeks means that Setanta have the matches during the intervening weeks?

In fairness to RTÉ, showing ManU, Liverpool or Arsenal almost every week probably makes an awful lot of sense to them. These three teams probably have more Irish fans each than all of the other Premiership teams combined.

Drag00n79 · 22-09-2004 5:52pm

Just a quick point on Irish TV channels' obsession with ManU. Next Tuesday TV3 are showing ManU live against Fenerbahce in the Champions League. So are ITV1. The Liverpool match away to Olympiakos is only live on ITV2 — not on Sky either. I can't understand it because I would say that most ManU viewers who have ITV1 will opt for their coverage ahead of TV3's. At least if they showed Liverpool they would have an exclusive broadcast and I'm pretty sure higher viewing figures.

Ros Man · 22-09-2004 9:48pm

Is there not a link between ITV1 and TV3

Maybe we need a TV32

huh! · 23-09-2004 7:35am

they are not showing a Man U match, they are showing The pride of London, come on you Spurs!

Those Glory Glory Days

emertoff · 23-09-2004 6:22pm

Anyone have have an e-mail address for complaints to RTE?

I'm sick to the gills of RTE's Man U bias. Not just for the live games, it's bloody everywhere at Montrose. If a Utd youth player broke his toenail, it would be on Aertel. I know the argument about Utd delivering the audience figures which advertisers demand, but RTE are a public service broadcaster.
It's true what Paddy Barclay (then of The Guardian) said on Sky a few years ago: "I don't know why they bother with MUTV when RTE does the job for them"

KdjaCL · 24-09-2004 6:07pm

More people watch man utd than anyone else more fans etc means more people watching ads.

kdjac

DMC · 24-09-2004 6:16pm

emertoff wrote:

I know the argument about Utd delivering the audience figures which advertisers demand, but RTE are a public service broadcaster.

Now that is an excellent point.... is the English Premiership a public service broadcast for Irish TV?

KdjaCL · 24-09-2004 6:24pm

DMC wrote:

Now that is an excellent point.... is the English Premiership a public service broadcast for Irish TV?

LOL yes and as i watch Live Eircom league Action every week ,Oh i remember RTE are irish and a public service. oh sorry real world they spend millions on **** highlights of PL and live games and show their req 6 games a season of EL.

kdjac

DMC · 24-09-2004 6:32pm

RTÉ actually don't have to show any Eircom League matches. TV3 have a contract to show 5/6 per season, but, as pointed out to me before, its not exclusive, so RTÉ are free to show a game if they want to, as they did last Friday, showing Bohs and Cork City.

Drag00n79 · 25-09-2004 9:37am

KdjaC wrote:

More people watch man utd than anyone else more fans etc means more people watching ads.

That argument doesn't stand up with TV3 showing the same match as ITV1 next Tuesday evening. Their viewing figures for that will be lower than if they were the only channel to show Liverpool live.

Mossy Monk · 25-09-2004 1:46pm

yer wan just said it will be a classic so i must watch it now but what bugged me about RTÉ's last game was that they kept giving the scores of other games. STOP IT RTÉ, STOP IT :mad: :mad:

Aquos76 · 25-09-2004 9:36pm

I have been following 3pm soccer on different foreign channels for about 3 years now and what I have noticed is that Man U's games which get played at 3pm on saturdays will 95% of the time be televised as the main game. The reason behind this is that viewing figures show that they are the most watched side in these lands. Even when Man U are on $ky $ports they always generate the highest viewinf figures. Each month "What Satellite" publish the viewing figures for the most watched programs on tv in the uk and time and time again Man U game command the higest figures.

As regards RTE showing Man U all of the time. One can understand why they do. TV3 tend to do the same when they can. This deal they signed for 3pm Sat football means that they will show what ever is the main game on the day n question.

Take a look at today's fixtures for example:

Spurs V Man U

Star Sports Asia
Canal + Sport (Poland)
Canal+ Nor/Swe/Den/Fin
Sky Sport 1 (Italia)
Supersport 2
C+ Deporte 3
Multivision 8
NTV Turkey
Sport TV
ART Sports 2
Network 2

Man City V Arsenal

ESPN
TPS Star
Canal+ Sport
Supersport 3SA
Sport 1 (Hungary)
ART Sport 1
C+ Deporte 1
Sky Sport 3 (Italia) (Delay 18:15)
NTV Turkey (Delay 20:30)

Norwich V Liverpool

C+ Deporte 2
Canal+ Sport (Delay 19:10)
ART Sports 2 (Delay 20:00)
Multivision 8 (Delay 21:45)

Now look at the amount of broadcasters that took the Spurs v Man U game.

Mossy Monk · 26-09-2004 1:23am

fair point but what is billed as the best game and what eventually turns out to be the best game are a lot of times different so shame on you RTÉ. give other teams a go

oh and as before updates of other games as the man u v spurs game was on :mad: :mad: :mad:

Spurs v Man Utd Live 2.45 Sat RTE2

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