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After hearing of the letter by 20 members of Newstalk staff demanding Hook is taken off the air I can imaging Ger and Joe being the main draftees of said letter.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

redbuck wrote: »

After hearing of the letter by 20 members of Newstalk staff demanding Hook is taken off the air I can imaging Ger and Joe being the main draftees of said letter.

Letter? What's this?

Just seen it on the journal can't link it at the minute.

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

I listened back to this last night. I think when you want in to the paper review on Sunday, they have one bucket to put your mobile phone and one bucket to put your b*lls in. Why can nobody just say "The reason that there is not more coverage of the women's game is because there is not a huge demand for coverage of it." Surely true equality is covering a sport because people want to see it, not because of the sex of the people playing it. What is wrong with just saying that??? As Brian Kerr said "Why is the honest answer the wrong answer?"

Didn't listen to it.

I would prefer that they asked real questions like why more women do not follow women's sport

I even had a thread on it ages ago
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99979090

The paper review / OTB obviously don't read boards.ie ?
I think at this rate Newstalk's percentage of boards.ie members in the listernship figures will will keep dropping.

Maybe I am not the target market anymore?
I mainly like listening to actual games discussed no social justice stuff, or stuff that is vaguely related to the sports itself in a national / international context.
Not interested in listening to thier take on political stuff they are sports journalists.
It is sports show.

The fun and vibrancy has being slowly sucked out of the show.
There used to be an off the cuff nature about it now it is 'forced fun'
There is no /very little contrary opinion on the show which will stimulate debate on sports issues.

Words are always very carefully chosen. On the off chance that they might cause offence to xyz.
Or not even xyz the whole alphabet in many cases!

It seems to be turning into a younger version of what RTE produce at this stage.
With a few 'f**k it's' 'feck it's' and 'is it like, is it like...and like were you like screw you guys?' thrown in by Ger.

Is that all they have left now?

I remember when 2FM used to be the edgy, experimental go-to station.
Not anymore.
OTB Newstalk is going the same way?

This current listener could end up being a former one very soon.

Just a tiny point here, if Cork were playing Kilkenny in the hurling final (instead of Galway-Waterford) the interest around the rest of the country would be very limited too.

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

What's the term for that? Ger is always doing it. It's not paraphrasing, because it's hypothetical conversations, or where he is imagining what people would say in particular scenarios.

You know the way he does it:


That sort of sh1te.

Apparently it is called 'Constructed Dialogue'


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_action_and_dialogue


https://www.thoughtco.com/constructed-dialogue-conversation-1689916

When you're like:


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PeterTheNinth wrote: »

Have to say, either Nathan or Richie are probably my favourite presenters at this stage. It used to be Joe, but sport is sort of secondary to Joe these days. His priority these days seems to be identifying social justice issues within the environs of sport. Still cant warm to that Eoin Sheehan guy either. He just sounds like a newsreader, very dispassionate voice, just listing facts and figures.

Just downloading the paper review now. It's up already.

Both have been very good the last few weeks. Key is they stick to the sport. Nathan is in a lot on Saturday's, he has a nice relaxed presenting style, doesn't over complicate things, keeps it nice and simple..He is very professional and u get the feeling that he loves his job.
Can't complain about Richie either, although he is more in the mold of Joe and Ger.
I must say l think Dave McIntyre is very good anytime he's at the helm, again very professional and l always get the impression that he loves his job.

monstermag wrote:

Both have been very good the last few weeks. Key is they stick to the sport. Nathan is in a lot on Saturday's, he has a nice relaxed presenting style, doesn't over complicate things, keeps it nice and simple..He is very professional and u get the feeling that he loves his job. Can't complain about Richie either, although he is more in the mold of Joe and Ger. I must say l think Dave McIntyre is very good anytime he's at the helm, again very professional and l always get the impression that he loves his job.

Agree 100%. Nathan is the best of the bunch for me. Richie is okay, but I get the impression that he is very politically-correct and conforms with whatever populist views are out there. He is just better at concealing this trait than Ger or Joe.

On that point, what the hell has happened to Joe?? He used be really good, but has disintegrated into a parody at this stage. Someone needs to remind him that he is a sports broadcaster and not a current affairs one.

dominatinMC wrote: »

Agree 100%. Nathan is the best of the bunch for me. Richie is okay, but I get the impression that he is very politically-correct and conforms with whatever populist views are out there. He is just better at concealing this trait than Ger or Joe.

On that point, what the hell has happened to Joe?? He used be really good, but has disintegrated into a parody at this stage. Someone needs to remind him that he is a sports broadcaster and not a current affairs one.

Joe can only get a hard on for sport 4 or 5 times a year, for the majors and the irish open. when the ryder cup comes around, then he can go to town. He's Ger-lite on any other sport though.

critics seem to be losing interest in the show too though. it regularly won best sports show at the PPI but that's gone to Team 33 last time round, which is an excellent show. shame about when it's broadcast though.

foxtrot101 wrote: »

Really? And who won the sports broadcaster of the year 2016?....Joe Molloy. And won it two years before that?...Joe Molloy.

i mentioned sports show. OTB used to clean up at them. not anymore.

foxtrot101 wrote: »

Not always, even going back to the old lot. Without checking it out. I'm fairly sure Mcdevitt won it more often then the show did too.

i'll bow to your wisdom, as i can't be arsed looking it up now either!!