Eamonn Dunphy leaving RTE ,the end of an era

Nerdlingr · 25-07-2018 06:36PM

I'm gonna miss him anyway. Looking back on the old clips, Himself , brady, giles and the hosting by Bill - it made for great TV.
There's enough over analysis going on in the game so to watch Dunphy go off on one and talk like the man on the street is/was a welcome relief.

Arghus · 25-07-2018 06:39PM

He's a rubbish football pundit. He hasn't a notion what he's talking about most of the time and as much as he portrays himself as the fun lovin' Éamon, he doesn't like being called up on his nonsense one bit.

A pretty good interviewer away from RTÉ.

Arghus · 25-07-2018 06:44PM

Okon wrote: »

Dunphy on Sky Sports would be hilarious... Sky would end up getting tons of complaints and end up sacking him though.

The thing about Dunphy is, as much as he portrays himself as a rebel, he only says the rubbish he does because he knows well he can get away with it on RTÉ. He'd be another nodding head dog on Sky, without question.

thebaz · 25-07-2018 06:47PM

Arghus wrote: »

He's a rubbish football pundit. He hasn't a notion what he's talking about most of the time and as much as he portrays himself as the fun lovin' Éamon, he doesn't like being called up on his nonsense one bit.

simply not true - played international football for Ireland - wrote one of the best books on football - only a game - so he most certainly knows what he is talking about - as long as he is not tired & Emotional - always enjoyed watching him , though he has tired lately , his punditry will be sorely missed , particularly of a golden time in Irish football. When you hear great players like Richard Dunne and Damian Duff trying (unsuccessfully) to do it , you realise ther is a skill to analysis. I will most definitly miss him.

billymitchell · 25-07-2018 06:53PM

For better or worse,he will certainly be missed. The guy was more entertaining than many Ireland matches over the years

Equium · 25-07-2018 06:57PM

Sign James Richardson up now.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 25-07-2018 07:03PM

Have to say I won't miss him when he's gone.
Personally, I feel as though he ripped the fun out of any game I ever watched, even genuinely good matches got brought down to a penny-size because of both him and Brady's analysis. Throughout the World Cup, when it was half time I muted the TV, and when it was over I turned the telly off. They just sucked the fun out of every match I ever watched with them on it.
No match is ever exciting enough. No player played well enough. No referee had as good a game.
Real glass half-empty pundits in my eyes.

Arghus · 25-07-2018 07:06PM

thebaz wrote: »

simply not true - played international football for Ireland - wrote one of the best books on football - only a game - so he most certainly knows what he is talking about - as long as he is not tired & Emotional - always enjoyed watching him , though he has tired lately , his punditry will be sorely missed , particularly of a golden time in Irish football. When you hear great players like Richard Dunne and Damian Duff trying (unsuccessfully) to do it , you realise ther is a skill to analysis. I will most definitly miss him.

Perhaps I phrased that a bit inelegantly, an "inexatitude".

Dunphy does have knowledge about the game, but it's mainly from his own era. But his knowledge of players and teams from the modern day is patchy at best and non-existent at worst.

He'll often make snap judgements on players, teams or managers based on maybe one half of a match he's watched and he makes loads of factual error and bogus predictions - loads. Whenever he speaks about non-English players or teams it's car crash stuff. Getting players names wrong, mixing up players, falsely claiming such and such thing or score happened, making grand pronouncements about the game without much research... He is a crap football pundit.

I could forgive him that if he didn't express his snap judgements with utter conviction and then get haughty about it if someone challenges him on his baseless opinions. Look at how himself and Kenny Cunningham got on. Now Kenny is a bit odd himself, but he definitely knows his modern football and he clearly knew Dunphy didn't so was well ready to stand up to him and challenge him - and Dunphy took that very badly.

Will I Am Not · 25-07-2018 07:23PM

He’ll be missed for entertainment value, definitely not for insight or knowledge of the game. I’d rather listen to himself, Brady and Giles for the rapport and bit of craic than anything else out there.

Giles is a very knowledgable man on the game just woefully out of touch with the modern players.

I do enjoy Dunphy’s podcast, the live World Cup special was very entertaining. They clearly spent some time in the bar before recording, Didi Hamann was in good spirits

Nunu · 25-07-2018 07:38PM

28 years I’ve watched him on RTE covering every international tournament and the Irish qualifiers . I’ll miss him. His emotional style and worldly feel for the beautiful game was unique. Sometimes overboard or facts completely wrong but more often than not on the button.
As recently as after the England Colombia game I think it was he gave a great post match sum up of what the World Cup means to countries. The one bit of analysis that will stay with me from the tournament.

thebaz · 25-07-2018 07:39PM

Arghus wrote: »

Look at how himself and Kenny Cunningham got on. Now Kenny is a bit odd himself, but he definitely knows his modern football and he clearly knew Dunphy didn't so was well ready to stand up to him and challenge him - and Dunphy took that very badly.

lets agree to disagree - but I would say Eamon won that argument - I actually quite like Kennys punditry - I like pundits to have personailty and Eamon had that in spades - as I said and you say he has become a bit tired the past few years - but as an Irish fan I just loved his pundirty with Giles in that Golden era - sure, it riled a few people but , it was great TV for the time.

Paully D · 25-07-2018 08:24PM

He’s been some craic in fairness!

Richard Hillman · 25-07-2018 09:23PM

I think he lost his zest in recent years, especially after Bill left. He was brilliant when Ireland lost badly, he really helped vent the disappointed and anger at times. I think he got the public mood very wrong at times. Complaining after a great win or a valiant loss against a big team. The majority of the time he got the public emotion right.

He's probably bowing out a little bit too late. I don't think he was as effective over recent times. The entertainment he provided during the 00s was amazing television, almost as good as the football itself. But I think they got a little bit drunk on that success.

I still get the lolz from the Rod Liddle moment. I was watching live and to say it was out of the blue is an understatement :pac:

mada82 · 25-07-2018 10:05PM

Some classics.
Rod liddle. Pretty sure I watched that one live.
Jap Stam. “Everyone else is wrong”

Okon · 25-07-2018 10:51PM

Arghus wrote: »

He'd be another nodding head dog on Sky, without question.

I dunno, I really can't see Dunphy as a nodding head dog on any channel... he's way too old to change his ways now.

MisterAnarchy · 26-07-2018 12:09AM

HalloweenJack wrote: »

Hopefully that'll free up a spot for someone who actually knows something about football and has more in their locker than just the nonsense he churned out over the years.

Well RTE have a potential replacement raring to go

Minderbinder · 26-07-2018 08:12AM

I’d guess he lost passion for the game a long time ago.

There’s only so long anyone with an iota of sense can retain passion for the Irish team when the governing body is as clueless, aimless and corrupt as it is.

He has been spoofing for a long time in fairness, but he used to take things seriously until he probably realised things were never going to change.

bucketybuck · 26-07-2018 09:39AM

Dunphy and his moron counterpart Brolly are the reason I no longer bother with any RTE commentary or so called "analysis". I'll switch on before the game, come halftime the sound gets muted, when the final whistle goes I switch off.

There is a place for good analysts, I like hearing opinions whether I agree with them or not. But Dunphy and his ilk are just an embarrassment and I do wonder about anybody that seriously finds them entertaining.

The "Mrs Browns boys" of punditry.

keano_afc · 26-07-2018 10:33AM

Whatever your feelings on him, it was always entertaining when he was on the air.

To be left with Duff and especially Sadlier makes me weep a little.

Sheridan81 · 26-07-2018 01:59PM

billymitchell wrote: »

For better or worse,he will certainly be missed. The guy was more entertaining than many Ireland matches over the years

Sometimes the only reason I'd turn the tv on for Latvia v Ireland etc. was to hear the half-time analysis from Dunphy and co.

Most football pundits are largely clueless and boring. At least Dunphy was entertaining, although he should have "Ronaldo is not a great player and will never be a great player" carved on his tombstone.

Bounty Hunter · 26-07-2018 04:47PM

He probably should go, maybe he should have been already gone quite some time ago but I don't think I will spend ages searching for RTE streams in the future when it is far easier to find alternatives. The Panel made RTE's coverage far superior, Prime Bill, Eamonn, Giles & Liam will be hard to ever beat

ricero · 26-07-2018 04:54PM

Sadlier is the drizzling ****s

Eamonn Dunphy leaving RTE ,the end of an era

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