Up For The Match 2024

squonk · 22-07-2024 09:13AM

Not Up For The Match per se but an extension. I was watching the Sunday Game last night and wasn’t to unpressed with Joanne Cantwell. Overall both teams left it an on the pitch yesterday and, I think, should be showed have a dinner in peace without mics being stuck in their face. Worse still was Cantwell pushing Tony Kelly about the goal and 4 point he scored, looking for a soundbite and seemingly not being badly Tim he told her he was brilliant. Well done to him for digging the whole embarrassing round of questions. Next there was Marty laying into Shane O’Donnell wanting to know was he going to the states still and letting him for the “right” answer that he wasn’t. Very unfair on the lad. His personal life and career plans are his business.

Fairly much the sort of stuff you’d expect from the kind of donkeys RTE employ as sports presenters. I felt sorry for the lads overall. Fine, do a few interviews on arrival at the hotel but leave it at that. It really felt like RTE were rocking up to the hotel pushing the monkeys to dance for them.

Radio5 · 22-07-2024 02:45PM

Marty shouldn't have been commentating on a Final that Clare were playing in, no more than Ger Canning on a Final involving Cork. Up for the Match is very well past its sell by date.