The Sunday Game Live Thread 2011

flahavaj

Hows about a megathread for all those live games that don't receive their own match thread, just for in-game discussion for when your watching on telly.

Here we go today, Donegal vs Antrim. Just heard the theme tune for the first time all year, THE BLOODS UP.

BAM, BAM BAM BAAAAAAM BA BA BAM,

BAM, BAM BAM BAAAAAAM BA BA BAM,

BA BA BA BAM BA BAAAAAAAAM,

BA BA BA BA BAM BA BAAAAAM, BA BA BAM BA BAAAAAAAAAAAM.

BAMADAMABAM.

Championship is back!!!!

Royal Seahawk

Brolly really laying into Meath.
How much is a large bottle of cider in Quinns now?

Brian017

The summer has officially begun

Mr.Crinklewood

Nice referees jersey.

baldbear

Dirty hoor of a day for a game. Low scoring too.

Pride Fighter

Conditions are awful, but they train in much worse between January and March so no excuse for the fare on offer.

flahavaj

Not a great game so far. Some meaty challenges as well.

Diabhal Beag

C'MON DONEGAL. ENTERTAIN ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pride Fighter

Good score there. If Donegal can get some momentum in the championship they could go far. Great season for them so far.

liogairmhordain

took just over half an hour to get the first "if messi or ronaldo had done that...." comment of the summer

spider guardian

Still well within Antrim's reach but I find it hard to see them pulling it back. You never know though!

cadaliac

That bollocks Brolly, "the disease of Donegal football" .
What a pr1ck.

Pride Fighter

cadaliac wrote: »

That bollocks Brolly, "the disease of Donegal football" .
What a pr1ck.

I dont want you to have to take an early shower. Calm down please, mod.

Duckworth_Luas

I dislike RTÉ analysis in all sports but their GAA panel are atrocious.

TheBucks

Delighted he got a red there - totally deserved.

TheBucks

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

I dislike RTÉ analysis in all sports but their GAA panel are atrocious.

It sometimes depends on the mood of the lads - sometimes they are even entertaining - Brolly however always get the blood boiling no matter who is playing - he really is good at it.

Pauleta

Whats with the netting. The ball for that goal just went through it. Very schoolboy for what is suppose to be a high level sporting occasion. Imagine the ref didnt pick up on it and it was a crucial moment. The association really needs to step up if it wants to be respected. You wouldnt see it at an underage soccer game.

A19B1C12

Have not seen such an uninspiring game and cumbersome display in some time, especially from Antrim.

Afraid to take shots on, making basic errors(missing close frees, dropping handpasses) all made for an awful watch.

To make it worse had a double with Aston Villa who were 7/1 and are winning 2-0. ARGH!

doughef

Brolly is a bit of a Wally..

I wish he would sit on his hands... I fookin hate the way he uses them when he talks


Loving your work OP... great job

Royal Seahawk

Pauleta wrote: »

Whats with the netting. The ball for that goal just went through it. Very schoolboy for what is suppose to be a high level sporting occasion. Imagine the ref didnt pick up on it and it was a crucial moment. The association really needs to step up if it wants to be respected. You wouldnt see it at an underage soccer game.

Would ya not, no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XrJWBxRpGA

Plenty of unsavoury things going on in the world of soccer that you would never see in Gaelic games too ya know, things that are far more serious than inadequate netting.

A19B1C12

doughef wrote: »

Brolly is a bit of a Wally..

I wish he would sit on his hands... I fookin hate the way he uses them when he talks


Loving your work OP... great job

May as well use him to get drunk so

Introducing the Joe Brolly Drinking Game!

Go get 'em..

doughef

johnb03 wrote: »

May as well use him to get drunk so

Introducing the Joe Brolly Drinking Game!

Go get 'em..

Thats deadly,,

I'm a gonna get me mighty plasterd!!!

Browney7

Pauleta wrote: »

Whats with the netting. The ball for that goal just went through it. Very schoolboy for what is suppose to be a high level sporting occasion. Imagine the ref didnt pick up on it and it was a crucial moment. The association really needs to step up if it wants to be respected. You wouldnt see it at an underage soccer game.

I'll tell ya what else you wouldn't see at an underage soccer game. Dressing rooms and adequate facilities. I agree though the netting should be nailed down properly.

Duckworth_Luas

Pauleta wrote: »

Whats with the netting. The ball for that goal just went through it. Very schoolboy for what is suppose to be a high level sporting occasion. Imagine the ref didnt pick up on it and it was a crucial moment. The association really needs to step up if it wants to be respected. You wouldnt see it at an underage soccer game.

They're still using jumpers for goalposts?

DB10

Pauleta wrote: »

Whats with the netting. The ball for that goal just went through it. Very schoolboy for what is suppose to be a high level sporting occasion. Imagine the ref didnt pick up on it and it was a crucial moment. The association really needs to step up if it wants to be respected. You wouldnt see it at an underage soccer game.

Stick to your LOI dross then. The most shoddily run sport in Ireland.

Clown.

fullstop

DB10 wrote: »

Stick to your LOI dross then. The most shoddily run sport in Ireland.

Clown.

Jesus are you still on about this? All because Celtic didn't win the league. Grow up.

Pride Fighter

I've issued an infraction. If anyone says anything more in this thread bans will be dished out. Personal abuse is against the forum charter. Don't do it.


*Mod*

poolboy

Just me or is des looking like that guy who "blacked up" in tropic thunder. Easy on the spray tan des.

Kojak

Pride Fighter wrote: »

Conditions are awful, but they train in much worse between January and March so no excuse for the fare on offer.

Correct. It must have been one of the worst matches on The Sunday Game in many years.

But as the old song goes "Things can only get better". Right?

mrgaa1

the major issue here is the crowd, or lack off, at that match. Yes the weather was extremely poor but with Antrim hurlers having played the previous night in Portlaoise and then their footballers up in Ballybofey the next day I'm sure Antrim supporters were not going to turn up at both places especially as the football was on TV.

Also they went on about the type of football etc.... all counties are now playing this - its just that by editing the highlights they can show what they want.

Yes a shocking bad game of football which leads to big arguments for 13-a-side at intercounty. But then are they out there to entertain or to win?

Kojak

Anyone watch the "preview" TSG had last night for the up-coming championships?

Personally I thought there was a lot of lazy analysis on both the part of the football and the hurling analysts. For example the section was "new talent/talent to watch out for in 2011" which, I thought meant, that the panel would pick out a new young player who could make a serious impact on the championship (i.e. Noel McGrath 2 years ago or Joe Canning a year before him) but Pat Spillane picks Gooch Cooper while Liam Sheedy picks Michael Fennelly. Two players who have already collected All-Stars and All-Ireland medals.

I was hoping they might mention some of the new wave of Dublin or Cork footballers from their succesfull U-21 teams (in football) or at least mention people like Colin Fennelly or John o'neill in the hurling. It just smacked of not bothering to do any research at all and to make it up as they go along.

Also no sign of Loughnane last night - is he still on TSG?

c_man

Kojak wrote: »

Anyone watch the "preview" TSG had last night for the up-coming championships?

Yeah I wasn't impressed with that. Lazy analysis is right, was hoping for a bit more in depth talk. For instance the talk about Connacht lasted all of three minutes (quite rightly I hear a few of you saying :pac: ) and just abruptly ended with predictions going to Mayo/Galway. Leaving out the finalists from last year...

And I don't think we can expect an impartial opinion from guys actually involved in the competition, of course Stephen Hiney is going to go for Dublin to win Liam McCarty!


I see we're getting a midweek GAA show, The Committee Room, hosted by Marty Morrisey. Tbh I was hoping for a show along the lines of Road to Croker from a few years ago.

Kojak

c_man wrote: »

Tbh I was hoping for a show along the lines of Road to Croker from a few years ago.

IMO they had an even better show before that, "Breaking Ball" but for some unknown reason they just stopped making it mid-way through a season.

This committe room programme sounds a lot like a GAA version of soccer's MNS or rugby's "against the head"...

Chnandler Bong

Be interesting to see what The Committee Room is like,I think they should have got someone other than the insufferable Marty Morrissey to present it, someone lke Joanne Cantwell or Jackie Hurley, they're both excellent on the radio and are nice to look at.

c_man

Kojak wrote: »

IMO they had an even better show before that, "Breaking Ball" but for some unknown reason they just stopped making it mid-way through a season.

Oh yeah, I couldn't remember the name of it! I figured there was no such show last year since RTE had their sports scheduling full with the World Cup.

Pride Fighter

Kojak wrote: »

IMO they had an even better show before that, "Breaking Ball" but for some unknown reason they just stopped making it mid-way through a season.

This committe room programme sounds a lot like a GAA version of soccer's MNS or rugby's "against the head"...

Would definitely agree, breaking ball was the best GAA show ever.

Jeddah

Pride Fighter wrote: »

Would definitely agree, breaking ball was the best GAA show ever.

Lads what we must all remember is that RTE is anti GAA. The head of sport there is a rugby head , and the amount of coverage GAA gets on RTE is pathetic and is declining.RTE has no interest in promoting the games at Club/College or underage level. TG4 provide far better coverage and also do shows like "laochra Gael" which are very good.

Would prefer if all rights to cover GAA were withdrawn from RTE and the GAA set up their own TV Channell.

dartbhoy

The 2 Leinster football games live today ,Laois v Longford and Kildare v Wicklow.

Both Laois and Longford have made great progress in the past 12 months,Laois winning promotion to division 1 and Longford winning the division 4 title beating near neighbours and Connacht champions Roscommon and in the process going up to division 3. While I expect Laois to win I reckon this could be a very tight game with only a few points in it at the end.

As for Kildare v Wicklow there has been a very quite build up to this game but I'd expect the lillywhites to win here comfortably. Wicklow footballers have disappointed me,their still stuck in division 4 and bar a few great qualifier wins in 2009 they have never shown their true potential under Mick O'Dwyer.

As for the rest of the games Cork and Kerry should win comfortably in Munster,Sligo to beat Leitrim in Connacht and Derry should be far too good for Fermanagh in Ulster.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Decent start by Laois.

Chnandler Bong

Only 2 points in it now anyones game, Longford have some excellent forwards

Chnandler Bong

Awful shooting from Longford, Laois gone flat

User Friendly

Laois are v poor. dear oh dear,another poor miss by longford:(

User Friendly

i think the wind has changed since the opening minutes

Chnandler Bong

Keeper better get this one

Chnandler Bong

Oh Dear

gerocks

Jeddah wrote: »

Lads what we must all remember is that RTE is anti GAA. The head of sport there is a rugby head , and the amount of coverage GAA gets on RTE is pathetic and is declining.RTE has no interest in promoting the games at Club/College or underage level. TG4 provide far better coverage and also do shows like "laochra Gael" which are very good.

Would prefer if all rights to cover GAA were withdrawn from RTE and the GAA set up their own TV Channell.

And who would pay for it? Me & you, that's who. Happy with RTEs coverage but time to retire Marty M.

User Friendly

11/4 longford @ ht with pp

from what ive seen,i think thats a price worth a play,although i wont be gambling today.

Chnandler Bong

A point in it now, Longford look the more likely to win

Chnandler Bong

Truly awful stuff

flahavaj

Poor fare so far. Hope Longford win.

NufcNavan

Very poor game.