RTE Soccer coverage.. Disgrace.

Chancer3001

Dunphy always sounds like that.

Stupid thread is stupid.

lahalane

Bill: Well it looks like we wont be going to Copocabana he he he.
Eamon: No.
Bill: That was awful depressing wasnt it?

Whats not to like?

MadsL

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Thread has no merits!

Ah now...er...er...er it's a er...er..er..good thread. A good thread. ...er...er...er *scratch ear* not a great er ... thread. A good thread, not er a great one.

chakademus

Jeez people are so sensitive about Dunphy. I get the whole troll element of his presence on the panel. I'm just tired of the hackneyed dynamic is all. Tropic Thunder is on.

cletus van damme

anncoates wrote: »

Hardly watch pundits. Just forward past if I've recorded the game or make tea/sort out beer/ go the jacks if it's live.

Dunphy is a paid troll. With those huge wages, him and the others (bar the likes of Sadlier and Cunningham) should at least research the games and teams they comment on.

Making dumbass comments to shock people is not "telling it how it is". It's parochial and embarrassing.

The problem with the top level pundit model is that ex players are good at playing the game but not necessarily good at analysing it in wider terms so all you get is mongo, soporific sequences where they pick a goal and blame or praise somebody for it instead of talking about the game in more general, tactical terms.

your critique of pundits is correct - but wrongly applied to RTE.
RTE is really good , it has decent analysis coupled with silliness - a perfect mix

Strumms

Brutal thread...

The RTE punditry is by far the most interesting, informed, honest and entertaining that there is. The beauty of it is that the guys actually have a personality and can express themselves and talk honestly and passionately about the games whether you disagree with them or not. They are mostly usually right apart from Brady who basically must still have a taste of Traps cock in his mouth. Sill it's all part of the entertainment. Compare that to the bland sound bites, corney jokes and stating the bleedin obvious fest that you get with BBC & ITV especially. I usually watch MOTD with the sound off.

TimeToShine

anncoates wrote: »

Hardly watch pundits. Just forward past if I've recorded the game or make tea/sort out beer/ go the jacks if it's live.

Dunphy is a paid troll. With those huge wages, him and the others (bar the likes of Sadlier and Cunningham) should at least research the games and teams they comment on.

Making dumbass comments to shock people is not "telling it how it is". It's parochial and embarrassing.

The problem with the top level pundit model is that ex players are good at playing the game but not necessarily good at analysing it in wider terms so all you get is mongo, soporific sequences where they pick a goal and blame or praise somebody for it instead of talking about the game in more general, tactical terms.

If you are watching these fellas for in depth tactical football analysis then you are doing it wrong. There are plenty of podcasts and radio shows with knowledgeable pundits who know what they are talking about, this panel is just for a bit of craic and entertainment and in my view they succeed on that count.

MadsL

From the level of grumpiness on this thread I assume Ireland lost.

*goes to check score*

chakademus

Strumms wrote: »

Brutal thread...

The RTE punditry is by far the most interesting, informed, honest and entertaining that there is..

Yes, in your opinion.:D

anncoates

cletus van damme wrote: »

your critique of pundits is correct - but wrongly applied to RTE.
RTE is really good , it has decent analysis coupled with silliness - a perfect mix

True.

If you think Dunph calling a player shite is analysis, that is.

Howard Juneau

chakademus wrote: »

Jeez people are so sensitive about Dunphy. I get the whole troll element of his presence on the panel. I'm just tired of the hackneyed dynamic is all. Tropic Thunder is on.

This thread just went full retard

WHOAH!! fecks sake

'if ye think its all over , it is now ...

MadsL

Jake1 wrote: »

WHOAH!! fecks sake

Exactly. Everyone know's Dunphy prefers Pepsi with his JD.

wow sierra

Boomtown Rats on Late Late - just saying:D

thebaz

chakademus wrote: »

I infer from Dunphy's slurred speech, watery eyes and general demeanor that he is jarred. I could be wrong of course. Do you think someone on set broaches the topic?

I want my soccer pundits all squeeky clean, ala Gary Lineker , with dry unfunny puns and boring irrelevant stats.

Go on Eamon , we love you , ya mad thing

anncoates

Jake1 wrote: »

WHOAH!! fecks sake

I love the Dunph. I'd just rather be on the beer with him than listen to him punditing. :pac:

scriba

wow sierra wrote: »

Oh and on the comment about Dunphy being "under the influence" - is there anyone sober watching this

Not anymore.

Witcher

thebaz wrote: »

I want my soccer pundits all squeeky clean, ala Gary Lineker , with dry unfunny puns and boring irrelevant stats.

Go on Eamon , we love you , ya mad thing

+1, here's what Roy Keane thinks of that crap;

http://yfrog.com/scaled/landing/862/dcftk.jpg

dxhound2005

wow sierra wrote: »

Brady sounds jarred too - this is great. By the way Dunphy is right about the reason we got to Germany - Dunne in Moscow - plain and simple - no way would we have been there without him - listening to him (Dunne) now I nearly think he can do it again :P:D

Not that plain and simple. That draw wouldn't have counted for anything if we had drawn any of the 6 games we won or lost any of the 3 we drew. That's 6 wins, 3 draws and only 1 loss in the 10 group games. And all along Dunphy was calling for the manager to be sacked and the panel were bemoaning the quality of our play.

What was on in Germany?

jonnny68

Liam Brady is absolutely deluded, at least Giles and Dunphy call it as it is.

EyeSight

i like how they speak their mind. But i find both TV3 and RTE pundits usually just moan about "back in my day it was much better.."
They just seem to whinge all the time.

During a Real Madrid CL match last year on TV3 i forget which commentator it was but he would not stop saying how he dislike the Real goalie. He would literally just say "i don't like him". Even though he had a really good game, the commentator would not let up and never gave a reason. Maybe it was because he didn't play back in his day

allthedoyles

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTgdoR6IEAA6TO3.jpg

BillyMitchel

chakademus wrote: »

People seem to be pretty sensitive about the mere question of Dunphy being sober or not, some even justify it as being part of the entertainment. If you don't mind me saying I think a thread discussing the appropriateness of a sports analyst being under the influence on live national television absolutely DOES have merits.

No it doesn't and either do you with your 60 post posts in 4 years.

Just for the record, I've met Eammon numerous times and nothing but praise for him. He is also very professional and I highly doubt he was under the influence so please go back to whatever hole it is you came from.

Prob a TV3 exec, here stirring the crap because your own football coverage is like something from FIFA2000.

Birneybau

BillyMitchel wrote: »

No it doesn't and either do you with your 60 post posts in 4 years.

Just for the record, I've met Eammon numerous times and nothing but praise for him. He is also very professional and I highly doubt he was under the influence so please go back to whatever hole it is you came from.

Prob a TV3 exec, here stirring the crap because your own football coverage is like something from FIFA2000.

Careful there baby

LordSutch

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Just for the record, I've met Eammon numerous times and nothing but praise for him. He is also very professional and I highly doubt he was under the influence so please go back to whatever hole it is you came from.

That may be true, but the thing is, Eamonn always sounds a bit sloshed (slured words), so to the uniniated when they first hear him, they think bloody hell 'he sounds as if he's pissed', even when he's not . . . . . .

wotausername

EyeSight wrote: »

i like how they speak their mind. But i find both TV3 and RTE pundits usually just moan about "back in my day it was much better.."
They just seem to whinge all the time.

During a Real Madrid CL match last year on TV3 i forget which commentator it was but he would not stop saying how he dislike the Real goalie. He would literally just say "i don't like him". Even though he had a really good game, the commentator would not let up and never gave a reason. Maybe it was because he didn't play back in his day

commentator was mark lawrence, :mad: the goalkeeper had a great game that night!

cml387

Jebus lads can you tell us who won, Clare or Cork?

delaad

chakademus wrote: »

People seem to be pretty sensitive about the mere question of Dunphy being sober or not, some even justify it as being part of the entertainment. If you don't mind me saying I think a thread discussing the appropriateness of a sports analyst being under the influence on live national television absolutely DOES have merits.

In "vino veritas"

briany

Dunphy's drunk on the panel? I'm only watching it now. I was expecting him to be slumped over Brady's shoulder asking for a kiss or something, the way people here are talking. He seems absolutely no drunker than usual.