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  • 19-04-2010 2:50pm
    #1
    dgrump1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭


    What do you make of Dunphy on Sunday's newstalk show mouthing off about jobs for the boys....He was talking about the banks..and the directors being on each others bords of directors..hence the connection one lending to another as in Anglo and Nationwide....What about himself..Dunphy...he appears on all the soccer programmes as an expert on football...the man is in his sixties..they still introduce him as an expert on football..what would he know...we see many past footballers...soccer and rugby...on the airwaves...telling us how the game should be played....most were useless when playing but because they are well in with the right click..they have jobs for life...mouthing....and writing for our national newspapers...probably someone writing for them...ghostwriters.....That is what has this country in the state it is in... everyone is an expert....if you can pick your nose you are an expert. WHAT A SAD WORLD.......


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  • #2
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    dgrump1 wrote: »
    What do you make of Dunphy on Sunday's newstalk show mouthing off about jobs for the boys....He was talking about the banks..and the directors being on each others bords of directors..hence the connection one lending to another as in Anglo and Nationwide....What about himself..Dunphy...he appears on all the soccer programmes as an expert on football...the man is in his sixties..they still introduce him as an expert on football..what would he know...we see many past footballers...soccer and rugby...on the airwaves...telling us how the game should be played....most were useless when playing but because they are well in with the right click..they have jobs for life...mouthing....and writing for our national newspapers...probably someone writing for them...ghostwriters.....That is what has this country in the state it is in... everyone is an expert....if you can pick your nose you are an expert. WHAT A SAD WORLD.......

    Whats that got to do with volcanoes? :confused:


  • #3
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    certainly living up to your username alright. your either a failed journalist or a depressed banker. go on tell us, which one is it?


  • #4
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    dgrump1 wrote: »
    if you can pick your nose you are an expert.

    If needed, I'm avail to do some coverage on this.


  • #5
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Stee wrote: »
    Whats that got to do with volcanoes? :confused:

    "A good volcano.... but not a great volcano"


  • #6
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    mikom wrote: »
    "A good volcano.... but not a great volcano"

    Mount St. Helens... now there was a Volcano...


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  • #7
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    "Would you let him fly the plane to Iceland?"


  • #8
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    platini was not a great volcano. I'm ashamed to be Irish!


  • #9
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    dgrump1 wrote: »
    .the man is in his sixties..they still introduce him as an expert on football..what would he know...

    So you hate the (not even all that) elderly as well as forgeiners?


  • #10
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    dgrump1 wrote: »
    What do you make of Dunphy on Sunday's newstalk show mouthing off about jobs for the boys....He was talking about the banks..and the directors being on each others bords of directors..hence the connection one lending to another as in Anglo and Nationwide....What about himself..Dunphy...he appears on all the soccer programmes as an expert on football...the man is in his sixties..they still introduce him as an expert on football..what would he know...we see many past footballers...soccer and rugby...on the airwaves...telling us how the game should be played....most were useless when playing but because they are well in with the right click..they have jobs for life...mouthing....and writing for our national newspapers...probably someone writing for them...ghostwriters.....That is what has this country in the state it is in... everyone is an expert....if you can pick your nose you are an expert. WHAT A SAD WORLD.......

    Always good to see the use of Dostoyevskian ellipses...whaay, there's another one...Dunphy a former professional footballer...wrote universally acknowledged masterpiece about it...was fine journalist for last twenty-five years...the question is, can he deliver on talk radio...will the ghosts of Pat Kenny-dissing TV criticism come back to haunt him?

    Heard him on Sunday. He justified his selection.


  • #11
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    "It's not anti-volcanicism; it's geological criticism."


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  • #12
    Naos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Naos


    dgrump1 wrote: »
    What do you make of Dunphy on Sunday's newstalk show mouthing off about jobs for the boys....He was talking about the banks..and the directors being on each others bords of directors..hence the connection one lending to another as in Anglo and Nationwide....What about himself..Dunphy...he appears on all the soccer programmes as an expert on football...the man is in his sixties..they still introduce him as an expert on football..what would he know...we see many past footballers...soccer and rugby...on the airwaves...telling us how the game should be played....most were useless when playing but because they are well in with the right click..they have jobs for life...mouthing....and writing for our national newspapers...probably someone writing for them...ghostwriters.....That is what has this country in the state it is in... everyone is an expert....if you can pick your nose you are an expert. WHAT A SAD WORLD.......

    Would've helped you. Punctuation and paragraphs my good man.


  • #13
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    I love Eamon Dunphy, he's better entertainment than the match a lot of the time.


  • #14
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    dgrump1 wrote: »
    What about himself..Dunphy...he appears on all the soccer programmes as an expert on football...the man is in his sixties..they still introduce him as an expert on football..what would he know

    I read his book ONLY A GAME? from cover to cover. I can confirm he (literally) knows very little about the game.

    Dya know one of those tiresome fellas (be it player or supporter) whose team get totally outplayed but only loses narrowly 1-0 leaving the individual totally convinced it was his side that played better and deserved to win? Well that's Dunphy. I guess he may have been able pass well and run well and do some of the other things required to make a living as a footballer but I'm certain that even in his day he didn't actually know what was going on out on the pitch (from a tactical or analytical pov I mean). His book is clear evidence of that.

    Aside, my own personal opinion is that the game of football is changing so fast that if you haven't been directly involved in it in some professional capacity within the past 5 years then you shouldn't even be talking about it at a national broadcasting level.


  • #15
    aDeener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    Ever since his crocodile tears on the late late, i have had no time for dunphy, the time i did have for him beforehand was limited. i found his outrageous outbursts amusing


  • #16
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    If a match is on simulaneously on BBC/UTV and RTE, i normally watch the game on the UK station but watch the panel on RTE - purely to see dunphy. He's so ill informed about the sport he covers and played a bazillion years ago its actually funny.


  • #17
    Risteard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,698 ✭✭✭Risteard


    Max Power1 wrote: »
    If a match is on simulaneously on BBC/UTV and RTE, i normally watch the game on the UK station but watch the panel on RTE - purely to see dunphy. He's so ill informed about the sport he covers and played a bazillion years ago its actually funny.

    Amazing, I do the same for 6 Nations Rugby.


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