RTE World Cup Coverage

Husker Du · 07-07-2018 8:19pm

youtube! wrote: »

Get in Belgium! No hope for Hope ! (or Brasil )

Patww79 wrote: »

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youtube! wrote: »

I may be wrong with an s but so are you with a capital Z !

No. You were right the first time. Brasil is how it’s spelt in Portuguese.

I hate spelling/grammar Nazi’s. Especially ill-informed ones.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 07-07-2018 10:46pm

Found Kerr very difficult to listen to tonight.

We switched over at half time as my Dad was becoming agitated.

Cursing and slamming the coffee table with the palm of his hands.

siblers · 07-07-2018 11:24pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Found Kerr very difficult to listen to tonight.

We switched over at half time as my Dad was becoming agitated.

Cursing and slamming the coffee table with the palm of his hands.

Your dad would want to relax

ben.schlomo · 07-07-2018 11:27pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Found Kerr very difficult to listen to tonight.

We switched over at half time as my Dad was becoming agitated.

Cursing and slamming the coffee table with the palm of his hands.

Your dad or your toddler, I'm confused. Thought Kerr was as good as always tonight, some funny anecdotes thrown in too.

Ol' Donie · 10-07-2018 8:26pm

I'm sorry the World Cup is nearly over.

But I do need some time away from Ronnie Whelan.

Dr. Bre · 10-07-2018 9:00pm

Sadlier the best pundit by a mile

Pugzilla · 10-07-2018 9:02pm

Hope we get Brian Kerr for the final.

Cork Boy 53 · 10-07-2018 9:28pm

Pugzilla wrote: »

Hope we get Brian Kerr for the final.

Seemingly Kerr will be doing the third place playoff with Adrian Eames.

amacca · 10-07-2018 9:45pm

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Sadlier the best pundit by a mile

Sometimes I think he reminds me of someone constipated before he's about to deliver a response to a question...

Sort of like he's on the bowl straining.

Dammo · 10-07-2018 10:09pm

Gutted that i have to watch england’s matches on BBC/ITV. It’s awful but better than Whelan or Houghton. There’s enough depression in the world without having to suffer those two.

OldMrBrennan83 · 10-07-2018 11:20pm

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iseegirls · 10-07-2018 11:59pm

George Hamiltons commentary is really starting to jar with me over the past year. There are numerous times throughout every match where he names the incorrect player. In the match tonight, constantly misnaming of players like Giroud and Greizmann, Pogba and Matuidi. It's occurring way too frequently.

Amazingly he didn't mention that Man Utd scored 2 goals in injury time back in the 90s CL final, something which he always states when a team is down by a goal going into stoppage time.

Added time of 3 minutes at the end he states, but then has to be recorrected by Ronnie that it's 6 minutes.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 11-07-2018 12:05am

iseegirls wrote: »

George Hamiltons commentary is really starting to jar with me over the past year. There are numerous times throughout every match where he names the incorrect player. In the match tonight, constantly misnaming of players like Giroud and Greizmann, Pogba and Matuidi. It's occurring way too frequently.

Amazingly he didn't mention that Man Utd scored 2 goals in injury time back in the 90s CL final, something which he always states when a team is down by a goal going into stoppage time.

Added time of 3 minutes at the end he states, but then has to be recorrected by Ronnie that it's 6 minutes.

I think his eyes might be gone. Or at least to enough of a degree where they are failing him in regards to doing commentary to a high level.

Cork Boy 53 · 11-07-2018 9:40am

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I think his eyes might be gone. Or at least to enough of a degree where they are failing him in regards to doing commentary to a high level.

I remember him doing RTE commentary as far back as the 1978 World Cup so after 40 years it probably is time for him to hang up the microphone.

Pintman Paddy Losty · 11-07-2018 9:54am

Who's doing the commentary for the England match?

Cork Boy 53 · 11-07-2018 10:08am

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

Who's doing the commentary for the England match?

Seemingly Hamilton and Houghton

Pintman Paddy Losty · 11-07-2018 11:14am

Cork Boy 53 wrote: »

Seemingly Hamilton and Houghton

I'll stick to RTE so!

Does that mean that we'll have to suffer through Kerr for the final?

Cork Boy 53 · 11-07-2018 11:17am

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

I'll stick to RTE so!

Does that mean that we'll have to suffer through Kerr for the final?

Adrian Eames and Kerr will be doing the third place playoff. Hamilton and either Whelan or Houghton for the final.

Pussyhands · 11-07-2018 1:46pm

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I think his eyes might be gone. Or at least to enough of a degree where they are failing him in regards to doing commentary to a high level.

I don't think they are. I think he's just going senile.

An offside will be given and he'll say it was a free kick.

A linesman will flag for a throw and he'll say it's for the other direction. You don't need amazing sight to know this.

How tf can you mistake Matuidi for Mbappe. One is tanned, short and right footed and the other is black, tall and left footed. He must know he gets everything wrong but he won't retire like he owes us.

ThunbergsAreGo · 11-07-2018 1:58pm

Pussyhands wrote: »

I don't think they are. I think he's just going senile.

An offside will be given and he'll say it was a free kick.

A linesman will flag for a throw and he'll say it's for the other direction. You don't need amazing sight to know this.

How tf can you mistake Matuidi for Mbappe. One is tanned, short and right footed and the other is black, tall and left footed. He must know he gets everything wrong but he won't retire like he owes us.

They are both more or less the same height so I dont know who you are looking at

iseegirls · 11-07-2018 3:31pm

Even looking at the highlights of the game this morning on Ireland AM, can clearly hear him say Pogba has scored, only then to say a few seconds later that it wasn't him. I just think its embarrassing. This is a reoccurring event with him.

Pintman Paddy Losty · 11-07-2018 6:50pm

Are any of the Irish radio stations covering the game?

OldMrBrennan83 · 11-07-2018 11:00pm

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Say Your Number · 11-07-2018 11:14pm

Didn't see it earlier, they did a good pre-match montage.

Skid X · 11-07-2018 11:19pm

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It was in the schedules alright, I thought they might drop it after the Semi Final went to Extra Time.

Good Doc, weird to see it there following the RTE coverage after he was let go from the Panel against his will.

NIMAN · 11-07-2018 11:38pm

Skid X wrote: »

It was in the schedules alright, I thought they might drop it after the Semi Final went to Extra Time.

Good Doc, weird to see it there following the RTE coverage after he was let go from the Panel against his will.

To be fair, he was getting a bit meandering in his comments. Just getting old I suppose.

Do you ever listen to him on OTB on radio? Sweet Jesus, everything he talks about in football has to be linked to the time he played for Leeds! Its soul destroying to listen to.

Sometimes you have to let people go...I'd say Dunphy will soon be put out to pasture as well. He is now a pale shadow of the pundit he used to be.

Say Your Number · 11-07-2018 11:55pm

Most of the time when the old days get mentioned, Giles is usually prompted by the presenter to go down that route, anyway he's usually relating a situation that happened in his days to something currently happening, if he was boasting about how great he was I could why people would find that annoying.

Yeah he's atrocious at pronouncing names and he doesn't know much about current teams, I but still like the no bullsh1t, common sense stuff he says, he is a bit old fashioned but the stuff he says resonates with me more than any of these sexy modern pundits out there.

NIMAN · 12-07-2018 3:52am

Say Your Number wrote: »

Most of the time when the old days get mentioned, Giles is usually prompted by the presenter to go down that route, anyway he's usually relating a situation that happened in his days to something currently happening, if he was boasting about how great he was I could why people would find that annoying.

Yeah he's atrocious at pronouncing names and he doesn't know much about current teams, I but still like the no bullsh1t, common sense stuff he says, he is a bit old fashioned but the stuff he says resonates with me more than any of these sexy modern pundits out there.

A pet hate of mine, they should know, its their job after all.

Thats why they are paid to be on the panel, they are meant to know about the guys playing for Real Madrid, Dortmund, Juve, Benfica etc. If they don't, they shouldn't be on pontificating about them.

Dunphy has gone this way recently. There are many games you know he hasn't a clue about the manager or certain players, but he'll say that the Napoli coach is a great tactician or whatever, even though he probably doesn't watch Italian football regularly.

Skid X · 13-07-2018 9:22pm

England v Croatia got enormous viewing figures on RTE2,

924,300 average + more on the RTE Player thing - that's more than watched last years All Ireland Hurling Final.

To give this some context: only three broadcasts in 2017 garnered more viewers on RTE's traditional TV. Those were the second leg of the World Cup playoff with Denmark; the All-Ireland football final between Dublin and Mayo; and the Late Late Toy Show.

https://www.balls.ie/football/england-croatia-viewing-figures-392741

Go Harvey Go · 14-07-2018 5:03pm

No-one commenting on Barry, Risteard and Gary taking over the studio for coverage of the third-place match?

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