Up For The Match 2019

Say Your Number

Just started on RTE One, seems Jacqui Hurley has taken Gráinne's place, the August final is still f*cking weird to me.

RobertKK

So nice beating Tipp, they still make excuses years later

Mad_maxx

Could never stand Jackie hurley, just not cut out for TV at all

golfball37

They got rid of the wrong presenter. Des is absolutely awful. Bring back Grainne

blackwave

Des Cahill is a drip!

jluv

Thought the 3 boys were quite funny. Shane is great for a story..

Water John

Jacqui is miles better. Far more relaxed. Not just saying that as a Cork lad.

spurshero

Absolute cringe stuff

Say Your Number

This is weird

Naggdefy

Poor so far. The humour isn't the best.

Need the older lads like Joe Hayes etc to get it going.

Say Your Number

That fan stuff never fails to make me wince

Naggdefy

Say Your Number wrote: »

That fan stuff never fails to make me wince

Elvis wasn't even funny in the 90s.

castletownman

Una Healy is incredible looking.

road_high

castletownman wrote: »

Una Healy is incredible looking.

Was it me or totally out of tune?

deisedude

road_high wrote: »

castletownman wrote: »

Una Healy is incredible looking.

Was it me or totally out of tune?

Is it possible sing that sh1te in tune?

All county songs are terrible

Naggdefy

road_high wrote: »

Was it me or totally out of tune?

Over trying to sing it 'uniquely'.

Water John

Una lucky Tipp aren't playing Limerick.

jluv

Ahhhh.. its definitely All Ireland eve..just saw big Christy in the audience
Love the bit with the kids..my sisters kids could care less about anything else from "santy" as long as they get their season ticket. They both play and live for it..

road_high

deisedude wrote: »

Is it possible sing that sh1te in tune?

All county songs are terrible

I like that one...love the aul Offaly rover and Roads of Kildare too !

TheRiverman

Watching the wonderful Billy Connolly on BBC2,sad that he has Parkinson's Disease,still a million times better than Up For The Match.

screamer

Jacquis expression looks like there’s a whiff of a fart under her nose....

Naggdefy

Tracey has aged. Herself and Brian McEvoy were the Posh and Becks of KK in the 90s.

screamer

The fecking lipstick. My eyes

leahyl

road_high wrote: »

Was it me or totally out of tune?

I actually thought she sounded good...!

jluv

Now this is cringe..

road_high

That ex Tipp player is pissed surely?

Naggdefy

road_high wrote: »

That ex Tipp player is pissed surely?

Like that every year and every hour of the day on radio etc. That's his way.

leahyl

That’s lady’s makeup is shocking, can barely make out her eyes.

golfball37

Joe Hayes is on this every time Tipperary are in the final it seems

Naggdefy

Tracey Millea's make up looked like it was put on with a trowel.

Maybe fan did it!

JP Liz V1

road_high wrote: »

Was it me or totally out of tune?

What did Una sing?

Naggdefy

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

What did Una sing?

Slievenamon

Naggdefy

Fake tan and a blue dress are ideal Tipperary dress for the females.

RobertKK

That is very sad, but so nice. Rivals on the field, all the one off it.

Say Your Number

She looks like Reese Witherspoon.

Say Your Number

Eoin Larkin called her a lad, I'm dissapointed she didn't rear up on him.

Atlantic Dawn

Say Your Number

Did the Saw Doctors write this?

RobertKK

It really suits Khabib...

leahyl

This is cringe

cute geoge

Really impressed with The 2 johnies in fact first time seeing them!

deisedude

cute geoge wrote: »

Really impressed with The 2 johnies in fact first time seeing them!

Check out their podcast. It's hilarious

RabbleRouser2k

From the opening with that awful 'Medley' by the kids from Kilkenny.

To the Una Healy song, to the 'Two Johnnies'... the music was shockingly bad.

And while Grainne seemed like she was doped up to the gills when she did the show (mainly cos she had no idea who was playing) Jacqui and Des were like a 1940s Husband and wife comedy duo.

What is the point of that show? It's so badly thought out... and it's the same faces over, and over, and over again.

Naggdefy

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

From the opening with that awful 'Medley' by the kids from Kilkenny.

To the Una Healy song, to the 'Two Johnnies'... the music was shockingly bad.

And while Grainne seemed like she was doped up to the gills when she did the show (mainly cos she had no idea who was playing) Jacqui and Des were like a 1940s Husband and wife comedy duo.

What is the point of that show? It's so badly thought out... and it's the same faces over, and over, and over again.

It's typical RTE cheap filler 'entertainment'.

jluv

cute geoge wrote: »

Really impressed with The 2 johnies in fact first time seeing them!

While they wouldn't be my cup of tea, I bought tickets for my niece and nephew last xmas for one of their shows. (They do an under 15 and over 15 show) they were more excited by the 2 Johnnie's than the George Ezra tickets that their parents paid a fortune for! Although there was a bit of disappointment when they were announced for EP this year..

jluv

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

From the opening with that awful 'Medley' by the kids from Kilkenny.

To the Una Healy song, to the 'Two Johnnies'... the music was shockingly bad.

And while Grainne seemed like she was doped up to the gills when she did the show (mainly cos she had no idea who was playing) Jacqui and Des were like a 1940s Husband and wife comedy duo.

What is the point of that show? It's so badly thought out... and it's the same faces over, and over, and over again.

I enjoyed the opening 3 guys. And the kids part and the 2 Johnnys. The rest,,meh..standard Up for the Match..

Cmon Kilkenny!

golfball37

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

From the opening with that awful 'Medley' by the kids from Kilkenny.

To the Una Healy song, to the 'Two Johnnies'... the music was shockingly bad.

And while Grainne seemed like she was doped up to the gills when she did the show (mainly cos she had no idea who was playing) Jacqui and Des were like a 1940s Husband and wife comedy duo.

What is the point of that show? It's so badly thought out... and it's the same faces over, and over, and over again.

Everything you said there is why its great.

Purple Mountain

UFTM is a tradition as old as the hills.
Thought Jacqui was great, really natural.
I always thought Grainne was too highbrow for it.
Joe Hayes is a legend, a natural born comedian.
Tipp 4 Liam.
Skin some cats boys!

Atlantic Dawn

Grainne has some diamond mine business or something, probably not worth her while coming back to RTE land for a 1 night gig, like asking Liam Gallagher to open a boozer in Finglas West.

http://gracediamonds.ie/

RabbleRouser2k

Purple Mountain wrote: »

UFTM is a tradition as old as the hills.
Thought Jacqui was great, really natural.
I always thought Grainne was too highbrow for it.
Joe Hayes is a legend, a natural born comedian.
Tipp 4 Liam.
Skin some cats boys!

It's hardly old as the hills-it's early 2000s... when RTE had money to throw around at everything.
And Mary Kennedy presented it... and she often went 'full Gaeilige' for the entire hour or so of the show.
Naturally they brought in Des Cahill because...well, Mary was rather sh**e... and then she got fired and replaced with Grainne.
It was cringe from day one-like something you'd see from those 'the earliest RTE TV programs' from the 60s or 70s.

BoroMan32

The musical choices used were horrendous. Una Healy can't sing to save her life.