Pat Spillane..

He is a pain at best of times. He should have got his p45 over a decade ago.

Adds nothing but snide remarks.

Completely past his sell by date, and O'Rourke too, RTE badly need to freshen up their coverage and unearth new commentators too, Ger Canning is brutal

Switched over to the Tyrone game on Saturday, heard the Fitzmaurice drone and switched right back to the rugby again. How in the **** did that man get past a soundtest?

I doubt even RTE themselves could tell you why Spillane is still there, they should have done a proper clear out when finally jettisoning Brolly.

He can’t handle it when Kerry lose either, completely melted a few times, especially when they lost the semi final to Tyrone last season

He's not the worst....be careful what you wish for etc. Hes a bit of craic aswell (a bit mad) and is prone to a silly rant or two. You'd tend to watch him getting red in the face whilst someone else is talking. An out in out pure kerry extroverted eejit.

Dunphy, Giles and Brady was a good pairing with the BBC/ITV alternative but descended into farce at the very end.

The problem now with Football is that the Spillane, O'Rourke, Brolly era ended long ago and there is endless sources now than in say 2009. Also the soccer pundits didn't actively harm the reputation of their sport. The Football one has had more influence.

Sure the Football analysis elsewhere can be bland on occasion but the sport badly needs a bit of balance to what goes on on RTE and whats then taken as gospel on social media.

Ciaran Whelan is a good pundit. Dessie Dolan was too. What happened to him. Did he not have the time anymore?

There are many, many things to cringe about with Ger & Marty but you've absolutely hit the nail on the head with their obsession of using nicknames.

They have some annoying way of using players nicknames as if they are unique to Irish culture, in particular GAA culture and that the nickname refers to some profound quality attributed to the respective player.

They'll also try to shoehorn in some additional cringeworthy horseshite, like that players father and grandfather had the same nickname bestowed upon them.

The list for best pundits on my opinion

oisin mconville

ciaran whelan

Thomas O’Shea

colm cooper

Colm Boyle . ( very good on the radio but too few appearances on tv really )

after that I’d draw the line

Would agree with them three. I like Fitzmaurice and McStay not the worse(to be fair managed at intercounty). Gooch and Cavanagh are terrible, offer nothing . Would like to see Dara O'Cinneide as presenter. Cantwall and Cahill are brutal.

He was nearly crying when they lost to Tyrone in 03 and came out with the bitter puke football jibe and last year was the cute hoor nonsense. kerry can be beaten by the better team. Loves the sound of his own voice and offers no analysis on modern game, all about pursuing his own agendas. Should have been shipped out 15 years.

And will someone teach canning how to pronounce Osisn ffs, it's not O-sheen

have to agree. As bad as things are, we don’t want or need brolly back. The wannabe eamo dunphy of the gaa.

I had the pleasure of being in the company of Spillane and a number of other legends of the game about ten years ago in a golf club. I was there by chance but fell into their company.

Spillane is a living encyclopaedia of football. I often think radio would be a better medium for Spillane. Given time and space he is a very shrewd analyst.

Neither.

RTE just rotate their panelists.

McConville is top class, whether he's on Telly, Radio or any podcast (and he does seem to be on a lot) but he's very insightful, and calls out bullshit when he hears it. I'd have him as top of the pile.

Whelan is a good analyst of the game too, as is Tomás. Cooper is only OK to be honest. I've not seen Boyle on the TV but he is good on Radio and podcasts too. He's very new to it and he does need to polish up a little on the delivery but the insight is very strong.

I really do like Eamon Fitz on Co comms - he doesn't have the most exciting voice to listen to but he would in my view be ahead of the rest on Co-Comms. What he has to say is very insightful and he adds a lot in terms of pointing out subtleties in the game that are more often than not missed by others.

Kevin McStay is good in spots - he does some in-depth stuff at times which is very very good and is, to my mind, the only one that can do so on RTE at any level near to what Canavan does on Sky (which is far and above anything RTE can do). Kevin is not good on co-comms however. To be fair to Kevin he's one of the only one of the older bunch that has had the stones to get involved in management.

Spillane can be OK at times but he's part of the history of the game now and is a bit cliché ridden. To biased to really be considered seriously anymore.

I'd nearly say the same about Seán Cavanagh. Not sure he adds much other than arguing with Spillane when Spillane tries to throw a dig in about Tyrone. Pretty sure he was lining himself up for the job when he was coming to the end of his career with the fawning guff angles of his comments that were being published.

I really don't know how RTE can justify using or paying Colm O'Rourke - if a lad has any sort of personal style other than a short-back-and-sides haircut and Sunday-going-to-mass shoes he'll have some comment about it. The game, how people express themselves, and the training has moved on so far from what this guy knows about that you'd nearly expect the old Pathé reel logo to appear when he's about to talk. He seems to get all his guidance from the era of Archbishop John McQuaid.

Dessie Dolan - "you'd have to say" that he just isn't at the races at all.

Pauric Lodge is probably the best of the Commentators in terms of being able to tell you what's happening. Darragh Maloney is decent without being in any way exceptional.

I find Ger Canning and Marty Morrissey to be quite annoying.

Cantwell is OK - she'll never be a Michael Lyster though.

It's a shame really as when you look through the list above, The ones that get the greatest number of appearances are the ones that should be put out to pasture.

Thank god for TG4 (who's commentary and analysis is very very good) otherwise our license fee would be hugely misappropriated for the GAA coverage. The shame there is that so many people don't understand it. I'm fortunate enough in that regard.

Personally when it comes to watching games my preference is to watch on TG4 or Sky Sports. They offer a much better package and in game analysis. If only they would do a "League Sunday" format show too, now that would be something else.