Joe Brolly - tired & emotional??

BGT

Just tuned in to RTE radio 1 Dublin v Monaghan game, is it me or does Joe sound a little tired & emotional?

dobman88

BGT wrote: »

Just tuned in to RTE radio 1 Dublin v Monaghan game, is it me or does Joe sound a little tired & emotional?

Nope. Just his usual silly self. If there was ever a pundit who should be sacked

deise man

Pauric lodge is sounding really uncomfortable commentating with him.

BGT

Agree about PL being uncomfortable, Dublin were 'taking the piss out' of them according to Joe, closest thing to Biffo's interview I've heard since! Embarrassing

Call me Al

He's not cut out for radio commrntary. He isn't able to describe what's happening, and is laughing and pausing a lot. He's more of a spectator than a commentator.
It's fairly uncomfortable listening. I feel sorry for padraig laudge.

gordongekko

He just roaring anytime anything happens and forgets to describe what's happening. He's like a gob****e down the pub interrupting everything that being said.

freddiek

having him on radio may not be the best idea.

i think he's superb on the RTE panel. Him, O'Rourke and Spillane were a great team.

Ciaran Whelan doesnt add much.

tayto lover

Brolly was right in criticising the referee, Marty Duffy, who is dire and should be stood down.
RTE do not like referees being criticised so that led to Lodge being uncomfortable.

JoeGil

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh was Joe's commentary on all the key scenes in the game. Still once the video is released on internet anybody who had to make do with radio today will be able to find out what actually happened in the game. I did figure out though that Dublin won.

sammy37

He was really terrible during the match and probably forgot he was on the radio and not the tv. He did nothing to help out the commentator except for the odd roar while I had no idea at all what was going on .

honeybear

I posted on the Radio forum earlier. At half time during the Armagh v Donegal match, Des & Joanne spoke to Joe. It was a bit heated regarding his comments on the Donegal style of playing & an alleged shove? on a doctor attending an injured player. I only caught a bit of the Dublin v Monaghan match and agree that Padraic seemed uncomfortable, which is unusual as he appears to get on very well with all his co-workers. I think he is one of RTE's best commentators.

ultrapercy

freddiek wrote: »

having him on radio may not be the best idea.

i think he's superb on the RTE panel. Him, O'Rourke and Spillane were a great team.

Ciaran Whelan doesnt add much.

Id have to disagree with you there Brolly and Spillane are attention seeking loud mouths that weight every word they speak to get a reaction. ORourke id a good pundit tho.

Diabhal Beag

Can't compare Spillane and Brolly. Pat calmed down a lot whereas Brolly saw what Pat was doing 10+ years ago and decided he could do better.

BTW Brolly and Colm Parkinson are fantastically bitchy towards each other on Twitter.

ProudDUB

BGT wrote: »

Agree about PL being uncomfortable, Dublin were 'taking the piss out' of them according to Joe, closest thing to Biffo's interview I've heard since! Embarrassing

They should have paired him with someone a wee bit less stiff and straight laced & more up for a bit of banter, than PL is. I'd say if they had him on with Daragh Moloney, or even the bould Marty, it would not have been so cringe inducing to listen to.

I thought it was hilarious stuff stuff, as a once off broadcast. But you wouldn't want to have Brolly do games on a regular basis. Going off on the mindless rants and rambles is okish in a dull as ditch water match. But its kind of useless, when you need someone to actually commentate on tactics in the actual game itself.

His commentary on the team doctors getting shoved to the ground was utterly outrageous. Fair play to Des Cahill and Kevin McStay for calling him out on it. If Michael Lyster showed similar balls in reigning in Brolly & Spillane's silliness during the live Sunday Game broadcasts, it would be a much better show for it.

EICVD

tayto lover wrote: »

Brolly was right in criticising the referee, Marty Duffy, who is dire and should be stood down.
RTE do not like referees being criticised so that led to Lodge being uncomfortable.

That's funny, used to say the same about Marty until his decent performance tonight. So strange how Dubs will say the ref was good while everyone else will say he was poor.....

Da Shins Kelly

JoeGil wrote: »

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh was Joe's commentary on all the key scenes in the game. Still once the video is released on internet anybody who had to make do with radio today will be able to find out what actually happened in the game. I did figure out though that Dublin won.

I actually stopped listening because I couldn't follow it at all. A radio commentator is supposed to be your eyes for the match. I literally couldn't imagine a single second of what I heard in my mind's eye, couldn't even follow who was scoring most of the time. Brolly contributed nothing to it at all.

keeponhurling

tayto lover wrote: »

Brolly was right in criticising the referee, Marty Duffy, who is dire and should be stood down.
RTE do not like referees being criticised so that led to Lodge being uncomfortable.

What is the complaint with Duffy today, or did I miss something ?
Thought he used the advantage rule well and spotted a few fouls that were hard to spot

Timmyctc

Brolly definitely stopped off for a pint or 12 before the match. Still love him on the RTÉ panels. Don't know if he is cut out for the Radio.

harpsman

keeponhurling wrote: »

What is the complaint with Duffy today, or did I miss something ?
Thought he used the advantage rule well and spotted a few fouls that were hard to spot

Gave Dublin some very handy frees in the 1st ten minutes.

CountyHurler

I pointed this out on the other thread... Joanne Cantwell went across to him about an hour before the game to ask him "Was it you that started the media ban with Armagh?" and you could tell even then that he was well on...

All throughout the game you could feel Pauraic Lodge's embarrassment through the radio.. it was more like one of those FanZone commentaries than a proper professional commentary... Brolly ooooing and ahhhing and making snide remarks... He should lose his job over it, no question. It's apparent for a while that he has no respect or manners, and RTE should give him the bullet.

mattser

On a totally unrelated subject ;

I have been watching Sky since they got involved. Replay after replay after replay of points, goals , missed points, missed goals, etc. etc.

Kick outs, possession, and sometimes even scores missed because the camera person is showing replays.

We can watch all the replays later if we want.

RTE are guilty of this for years. Are they supplying the camerawork to Sky ?

And that's just football. In Hurling it's mind boggling.

Any thoughts ?

applehunter

It was a strange commentary to listen too.

Dots1982

Joe Brolly is a keen student of the game. He doesn't make rash judgements on players, teams and games. He is clearly hugely respected by his colleagues for his smart analysis & humble nature. The people who think he is a good analyst are normally those that have the keenest understanding of the game. When explaining his point he never picks out just one piece of footage to back up his point and then says this has happened 3 or 4 times without showing the other times. He is always consistent and never contradicts himself during the course of his half time and full time analysis.

The above are all lies.

CountyHurler

Dots1982 wrote: »

He is clearly hugely respected by his colleagues for his smart analysis & humble nature.

He has never struck me as humble.. He said today that the Monaghan substitute should have refused to go on (because they were so far behind).. Was what he said about Rachel Wyse humble?..Another sneering, smart ar$e, "controversial" statement to draw more attention to himself..

Boom__Boom

mattser wrote: »

On a totally unrelated subject ;

I have been watching Sky since they got involved. Replay after replay after replay of points, goals , missed points, missed goals, etc. etc.

Kick outs, possession, and sometimes even scores missed because the camera person is showing replays.

We can watch all the replays later if we want.

RTE are guilty of this for years. Are they supplying the camerawork to Sky ?

And that's just football. In Hurling it's mind boggling.

Any thoughts ?

Totally agree - very disappointed with Sky on this - what's even worse is showing some fans in slow motion instead of showing the actual game.

Santa Cruz

Boom__Boom wrote: »

Totally agree - very disappointed with Sky on this - what's even worse is showing some fans in slow motion instead of showing the actual game.

Instead of showing replay after replay couldn't they be showing us clips of Rachel Wyse in her tight top or maybe ones of her bending down to pick up a pen

Stoner

it was more just a dig at Whelan I'd say.
To be fair there is a line of good guys available to the RTE and I think this year that they are doing a great job mixing it up. Thomas O'Shea has been great, J Doyle and Mulligan etc all different guys with different views and all good IMHO. JB is doing his nut to be different and failing a bit. Pat Spillane is dealing with it better.

K-9

Stoner wrote: »

it was more just a dig at Whelan I'd say.
To be fair there is a line of good guys available to the RTE and I think this year that they are doing a great job mixing it up. Thomas O'Shea has been great, J Doyle and Mulligan etc all different guys with different views and all good IMHO. JB is doing his nut to be different and failing a bit. Pat Spillane is dealing with it better.

O'Shea is very good, don't think Doyle and Mulligan add much tbh. Brolly is good for the winding up and that's about it!

Nib

Listened to the first half of the Dublin v Monaghan game on the radio. To say it was a surreal experience would be an understatement.

Ohhhhhhhhh......ahhhhhhhhhh......ohhhhhhhh yeeeeessssss.

nice_guy80

How can you have someone on national radio doing GAA coverage who criticises the GAA for selling the games to Sky, live on the radio!!

He made the case for all the people in hospital who couldn't watch the games because of that. the poor creatures.

I'm sure if the HSE wanted to put sky in every hospital in Ireland in the morning they would get a very good price from Sky. But that's hardly the GAA's fault that hospitals don't have sky

tayto lover

keeponhurling wrote: »

What is the complaint with Duffy today, or did I miss something ?
Thought he used the advantage rule well and spotted a few fouls that were hard to spot

Marty is totally inconsistent.
Makes loads of mistakes and then tries to balance them out by giving ridiculous frees or allowing blatant frees to go unpunished.
If you ever want to look at a video that shows him up just watch the Monaghan v Cavan C/ship game from 2013. There are many others too.

Skill Magill

Never liked Brolly until I realised he was taking the píss, can't get enough of him now

EICVD

harpsman wrote: »

Gave Dublin some very handy frees in the 1st ten minutes.

You meant to say 'gave Dublin some frees in the 1st ten minutes' didn't you?

lukin

Juts saw this thread now and I also heard his "commentary" yesterday (if you could call it that). I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought it was ahem, unusual. I definitely think he was after a few rock shandys and should be reprimanded by RTE.
He offered no insight to what was going on in the game, he was just making smart remarks and being silly. Pauric Lodge sounded like he wanted the ground to open up and swallow him.

Harry Angstrom

I could sense Padraig's frustration when Brolly started complaining that the match wasn't being shown on terrestrial TV. Lodge said "Well at least they can listen to us on the radio"

aveytare

Apparently he's an insomniac, not surprised he comes across tired and emotional.

"JB: Yeah, I mean I'm an insomniac, so I get a couple of hours sleep a night.

PK: How many on average?

JB: Sometimes two, sometimes four, sometimes three. Shane Finnegan says I've got bipolar disorder without the depressive symptoms."

http://www.independent.ie/sport/a-walk-on-the-wild-side-paul-kimmage-meets-joe-brolly-29760681.html

Good interview by the way.