Celebrity Bainisteoir

Mint Sauce

surpriseingly not bad so far, go to the odd gaa match, wouldn't know much more about the game than any of the celebrities, wouldn't know many of the celebs either, but looks like it could be an interesting show

any other thoughts of feelings on it

estebancambias

Yep agreed. In my opinion its not a very interesting concept, but it was pretty good considering I thought it would be crap.

The Solicitor Keane is very funny. So is the Derry women and the Westmeath politician.

Who the hell was Ramzy el Hamzy?

I didn't really like him, and I hate Glenda Gilson.

Mint Sauce

estebancambias wrote: »

the Derry women

neil mccaffarty, yeah, think she might do quite well, watched a bit of the late late on friday night, showed a few highlights, she sounds like she could be a very good motivator,

estebancambias wrote: »

Who the hell was Ramzy el Hamzy?

not a clue, didn't know many of the others tbh either, the two models, and the comedian who worked with pat short, would have been the only others that i knew or heard of of

has many of the actual games been played yet, i'm assuming the final would be live on the final show

klong

Ivan Yeates- former FG politician and current bookie- Taghman-Camross, Wexford
Mary O'Rourke- FF TD- Westmeath
Baz Somethingorother- TV presenter- Wicklow
Jon Kenny- comedian- Galtee Gaels, Limerick
Gerald Keane- solicitor- Mayfield, Cork
Glenda Gilson- model- Crumlin, Dublin
Nell McCaffrey- writer (?) & feminist- Derry
Former Rose of Tralee- Kiltimagh, Mayo

Surprised it hasn't been done before. One of the contestants mentioned a match on March 1st. Can see Keane and Yeats doing very well, Jon is another with the right attitude; Glenda and Baz haven't a clue, Nell I thought was very funny. Gerald Keane seems to be trying a bit too hard to be "one of the lads" though. Wicklow team looked fair disappointed to get Baz, I'm sure most of them hadn't even heard of him before (not the only one!)

Toto Wolfcastle

I like it. I like Baz, his show 'How Low Can You Go' was very good, so I'm hoping he does well. I hate Gerald Keane but I suppose I have to support him considering the team is a 5 minute drive from my house.

I loved the way Nell decided that she was at a gender disadvantage being a woman. Great feminist you are love with that defeatist attitude. I'd be more worried about the lack of knowledge of the game to be honest.

The rest of them are meh, although Mary O' Rourke could be a right laugh.

Oh and Aoibhinn needs to eat something.

July

janeybabe wrote: »

Oh and Aoibhinn needs to eat something.

Ya, I always thought of her as thin but didn't realise she was that skinny.

PonyP

I agree, thought Aoibhinn looked very thin and gaunt. I thought the programme was a lot better than I expected and I didn't hate Glenda Gilson as much as I wanted to! She seemed sound enough and was well able for the Crumlin lads slagging her.
Felt sorry for the Wicklow team as none of them seemed to recognise Baz from "How Low can you go", if they were the Wicklow Ladies team they mightn't have minded as much as he is well tasty!

Gerald Kean - thought he was a dickhead when I saw him on the Late Late a while ago and I think he is an even bigger dickhead now!!

Fast_Mover

PonyP wrote: »

if they were the Wicklow Ladies team they mightn't have minded as much as he is well tasty!

:eek:..ugh, please tell me your having a laugh?!

Anyway, I enjoyed the programme, thought it was going to be way worse than it was.
Heard alot about it before this and the Late Late interviews as there was quite a bit of hype on Corks 96fm with the Crumlin/Mayfield match going on. Gerald was on the radio a bit saying how it was all going in the lead up to the match and what not.

busbybhoy

irish-stew wrote: »

neil mccaffarty, yeah, think she might do quite well, watched a bit of the late late on friday night, showed a few highlights, she sounds like she could be a very good motivator,



not a clue, didn't know many of the others tbh either, the two models, and the comedian who worked with pat short, would have been the only others that i knew or heard of of

has many of the actual games been played yet, i'm assuming the final would be live on the final show

4 teams left: Mayo. Cork, Derry and ???

MOD EDIT: People, this is what the 'Report Post' function is for! :rolleyes:

Saint_Mel

I wish I could share the optimism of others but I thought it was just another serving of horsesh!te from RTE.

The idea of having the club games and prize money is good but I dont see the point of having someone come in to the dressing room giving the speech "Well I dont know anything about the game but yeah, we're going to win, woo hoo"

The only entertaining bits were the lads reaction to seeing Glenda and Aoibhinn come into the dressing room. There was good reason that not many of them stood up!!!! And it was funny when Nell walked in and all the lads looked very disappointed. At least she had a bit of banter saying something like "I've been told I'm no Nadine Coyle"!

Fast_Mover

Busbybhoy please put your post in Spoiler tags as there may be people on here who don't want to know the results until they watch it for themselves.

Mountjoy Mugger

Too fuppin late!

Robbo

Typical of the dross that passes for TV these days,

Step one: Assemble mechanically recovered celebrities in Montrose canteen
Step two: Give them a task that they're ill suited to.
Step three: Watch the morons roll in.

Needless to say, one of Ireland's most original and iconoclastic thinkers is behind this, Fiona Looney. The only surprising thing about this is that they didn't work in a text voting scam or scamola.

Sandwich

Celebrity Bainisteoir ?

No talent? Cant do anything worth being on TV for? In love with yourself? Addicted to showing the public your lack of personality?

Be on Desperate-Media-Junkie Bainisteoir!

Coillte_Bhoy

Saint_Mel wrote: »

The only entertaining bits were the lads reaction to seeing Glenda and Aoibhinn come into the dressing room. There was good reason that not many of them stood up!!!! And it was funny when Nell walked in and all the lads looked very disappointed. At least she had a bit of banter saying something like "I've been told I'm no Nadine Coyle"!

All stage managed. My local club Kiltimagh are in it and managed by Aoibhinn and they knew for weeks that she was to be their manager. She seemed sound enough
and was out all evening after our match drinking pints with the lads.

ellie77

Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »

All stage managed. My local club Kiltimagh are in it and managed by Aoibhinn and they knew for weeks that she was to be their manager. She seemed sound enough
and was out all evening after our match drinking pints with the lads.

WOO!!
COME ON COILLTE!!!

Wheels

Robbo wrote: »

Typical of the dross that passes for TV these days,

Step one: Assemble mechanically recovered celebrities in Montrose canteen
Step two: Give them a task that they're ill suited to.
Step three: Watch the morons roll in.

Needless to say, one of Ireland's most original and iconoclastic thinkers is behind this, Fiona Looney. The only surprising thing about this is that they didn't work in a text voting scam or scamola.

I don't mind the concept too much and it does look like fun, but please don't tell me Fiona Looney is behind it?? I was hoping her ego was on the way down, not up. Possibly the most annoying woman on the planet, and if she is behind it I'd bet good money that she put herself forward as one of the 'clebs'.

redspider

I think the concept is a reasonable one, but the 'Celebs' part of it is poor. The problem on TV these days is that there are far too many 'celeb' driven programmes that are weak. If 'ordinary' people were doing the same tasks in the same ways, people probably wouldnt watch. And Ireland does not have enough celebs to be singing, ice-skating, on boats, surviving, irish dancing, cooking, anonymous-ing, etc.

I think the concept could have been tweaked by putting perhaps some well-known people from the sporting world (ie: not celebs per se) into it. eg: Eamon Coughlan, John Giles, etc. Sporting people but not form the GAA world.

Keane, McCaffrey - give us a break.

Yes, Fiona Looney did 'think up' of the concept, first in the credits. Her surname is apt on this one!

Redspider

Wheels

redspider wrote: »

I think the concept could have been tweaked by putting perhaps some well-known people from the sporting world (ie: not celebs per se) into it. eg: Eamon Coughlan, John Giles, etc. Sporting people but not form the GAA world.

I disagree with that, I think it works with the people they have in terms of people who know nothing about the sport.

EamonnKeane

It's not as if a club GAA team even needs that much by way of management. Picking the team and washing the jerseys are all a manager actually has to do.

Coillte_Bhoy

EamonnKeane wrote: »

It's not as if a club GAA team even needs that much by way of management. Picking the team and washing the jerseys are all a manager actually has to do.

Aye, you obviously know what you're on about.:rolleyes: