Off The Ball Official Thread <Mod Note - Post #1, #533, #6651>

brophs

Is it that they wanted to do the same length of show, just starting an hour earlier, or that they wanted to do the same show with an hour more at the start? Seems odd that they'd want to do the latter. The show can feel a bit sparse at times depending on what's going on in the sporting world, so it might have been a stretch.

Aidric

Hook tweeted this earlier.

George Hook ‏@ghook
After years of innovative sport, the Off the Ball team have decided to seek fame and fortune elsewhere. The founder Ger Gilroy returns

Utopia Parkway

Lord Trollington wrote: »

I don't believe 2fm is the kind of station for them. I also don't believe 2fm will dedicate 3 hours every evening from 7pm to 10pm to sport.

I can't see it happening. Also are 2fm going to offer all 5 lads contracts when RTE already have multiples of lads working in the sports department on big money as it is for doing very little.

It will never be the same.

True. They had a certain amount of freedom on Newstalk that they would never get in RTE. It would be like a diet version of Off the Ball.

generalmental

NiallSparky wrote: »

That's a bit excessive.

Its not really i have cousins in England who listen all the time and through their listenership all of there friends listen too.big following in England

Amirani

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Listen to TalkSport for a few days and you might feel differently.

TalkSport aren't great. 5live have some good stuff though. World Football Phone-In is probably my favourite show.

Diabhal Beag

That extra hour of atrocious Hook banter about American politics is going to cost NT bigtime.

ThisRegard

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Hmm. Seems a bit odd that five of them would resign because they weren't allowed dictate the stations schedule, which is what that report in the indo seems to be saying.

And who owns the Indo, conspiracy theories ahoy!

Dub13

I don't believe that from the Indo,they want to go on air at 18:00...!!Sure one of the main reasons for the Friday night show been cut was they felt they were running thin on content for so many hours of live radio.

Cienciano

Aidric wrote: »

Hook tweeted this earlier.

I hate Hook even more now.

His show is like giving your mates grandad who has early stages of alzheimers a 2.5 hours primetime national radio show.

Lord Trollington

Dub13 wrote: »

I don't believe that from the Indo,they want to go on air at 18:00...!!Sure one of the main reasons for the Friday night show been cut was they felt they were running thin on content for so many hours of live radio.

Maybe a 6-9 show instead?

Utopia Parkway

Dub13 wrote: »

I don't believe that from the Indo,they want to go on air at 18:00...!!Sure one of the main reasons for the Friday night show been cut was they felt they were running thin on content for so many hours of live radio.

Unless they wanted to go 6 to 9 rather than 7 to 10. 6 to 10 seems like a real stretch.

mike65

This extra hour malarky smells, first they wouldn't ask for an hour and expect to get it unless they were dopes, they might have managed to wangle 30 mins and Hooky start at 4 pm.

Second - the idea that the NT boss would bin them immediately strikes me as very unlikely.

Cienciano

Dub13 wrote: »

I don't believe that from the Indo,they want to go on air at 18:00...!!Sure one of the main reasons for the Friday night show been cut was they felt they were running thin on content for so many hours of live radio.

I'm assuming it was start at 18:00 and finish at 21:00.

P_1

Shame this has happened, as others have said, it will be interesting to find out what caused it?

Dub13

Lord Trollington wrote: »

Maybe a 6-9 show instead?

A possibility,but the show would feel strange any night there is live football on they would essentially be finished when the games are at half time.

swiftman

cant imagine they wanted 6-9, more like 6-10 if reports are true.
would they end mid-week shows when football games still had 30mins left in then. best thing about 10pm endingd was they'd give you results

mike65

6-9 would not make ANY sense.

opinionatedfan

I think 6-10 makes sense, they were getting rushed as it was in my opinion.

more OTB the better, ill listen tonight purely because I wanted to see how its addressed but after that i'm done.

P_1

opinionatedfan wrote: »

I think 6-10 makes sense, they were getting rushed as it was in my opinion.

more OTB the better, ill listen tonight purely because I wanted to see how its addressed but after that i'm done.

4 hours is very long for a sports show though.

swiftman

opinionatedfan wrote: »

I think 6-10 makes sense, they were getting rushed as it was in my opinion.

more OTB the better, ill listen tonight purely because I wanted to see how its addressed but after that i'm done.

ill listen in, 7-7.15. thats it.

Aidric

Ya that Indo story doesn't wash. Why would they finish at 9 when all the live football would be ending closer to 10?

opinionatedfan

P_1 wrote: »

4 hours is very long for a sports show though.

I thought they were starting to get pushed with the increased Rugby they were doing, the GAA getting back into overdrive and the other interviews they were trying to cover. I'd have gladly listened to 4 hours - minus breaks and news.

padd b1975

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

That extra hour of atrocious Hook banter spoofing about American politics is going to cost NT bigtime.

FYP.

I very much doubt they resingned en masse without an alternative gig being in the pipeline.

Lord Trollington

It's funny that the presenters and the producers of the show resigned.

Dub13

opinionatedfan wrote: »

I thought they were starting to get pushed with the increased Rugby they were doing, the GAA getting back into overdrive and the other interviews they were trying to cover. I'd have gladly listened to 4 hours - minus breaks and news.

If they were getting pushed the first move would be to bring back a full Friday show.

generalmental

If you ask me its all bout ger gilroy.Couple years back when he stepped down as presenter he was set to take on the television world but didnt work out for him.

So i reckon he started to throw his dummy out of his pram and this is what we get now a soulless non - personality. That will be 1 less listener in my house

Big Game

Dub13 wrote: »

I don't believe that from the Indo,they want to go on air at 18:00...!!Sure one of the main reasons for the Friday night show been cut was they felt they were running thin on content for so many hours of live radio.

Sounds like the sort of request you'd make knowing full well it wouldn't be granted, 6-7 wouldn't have worked for them, would be more head to head with drive time current affairs on RTE and The Last Word.

Wouldn't surprise me if there's been unofficial contact about expanding Game On on RTE to a couple of hours and slotting in there.

P_1

opinionatedfan wrote: »

I thought they were starting to get pushed with the increased Rugby they were doing, the GAA getting back into overdrive and the other interviews they were trying to cover. I'd have gladly listened to 4 hours - minus breaks and news.

As would I but I couldn't see it working, unless they were angling to get some live comms/documentaries into the show.

4 hours is a very long time for a live talk broadcast

Lenin Skynard

I'd be very surprised if this is all down to that scheduling issue.

mike65

Can anyone tell me if they were thinking about getting Champions League radio rights? Could have swore I heard something like that.