Tuned in yesterday and I hear Ann Marie Donelon and an Arthur O'Dea. How did these two get a gig on a national radio station?
Ann Marie wrote off Galway for the All Ireland saying yesterday was the real final.
Arthur then just says "yeahh" in a real low tone and talks really slow and has nothing interesting to say at all.
Wimbledon will finish after the women's final tomorrow for OTB
Bit of a dilemma in Wimbledon for the woke baes of Off the Ball - cheer for Novak or Nick in the final?
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Johnny Ward is painful to listen to. He is way too casual and doesn't seem to be prepared.
I really enjoy the Sunday Paper Review every week - but christ, I struggle a bit when Timmy McCarthy is on. He seems a decent fella and all - but he keeps saying "in that sense" over and over and over. Once you hear it, you can't un-hear it. Like, he'll use it every second sentence, almost always unnecessarily. Drives me nuts at this stage.
What's the issue of the has no interest in GAA?
Joe molloy has zero interest in GAA. During covid he said he didn't want the championship to go ahead. He went mental when the GAA questioned Ronan glynn about gaa activities speading covid. During this years league he was on about a dublin player getting a ball in his own 22. He was also the possible relegation of dublin on a sunday would be influenced by how the kildare match would work out. Kildare had actually played the night before!
whatever about thinking it would 14 vs 14 which I could understand as the situation was reasonably unique but to think it would be 13 vs 14 was a bit poor.
i wonder did they follow up with a correction on later updates
Yeah was surprised at that, James o donoghue adamant Armagh would be starting ET with 13. They had ample time to be told by an awful lot more of the NT team also.
It was eye opening that between a gaa correspondent, a gaa player, and two sports anchors no one seemed to realise that teams go back to 15 vs 15 in extra time despite red cards
Was more distracted by that Cliona Foley one, Christ she is a pain in the hole to listen to. Rates herself extremely highly but has absolutely nothing of value to add. Constantly interrupts with some titbit of shite and as for that repetitive cackling laugh at one of her own attempts of wit or if one of the others makes a passing comment. She is by far the worst contributor and most painful to listen to.
Canada, living and working there for Canadian tv.
Where's Kevin Kilbane these days?,used to be everywhere for a while.
David Connolly has some weird takes
I’m going to make, what on this woke forum, would be considered a most sexist comment because you should forgive that accent as she, without a shadow of a doubt, is the most beautiful woman on Irish TV or radio (in my opinion). She is absolutely stunning. Sexist but true. The girl is photo-****-genic.
On a side note, OTB content was been absolutely outstanding recently. Most of the social justice stuff is gone unless relevant, Joe is on top of his game and Ger is also really good. Great guests (Anthony Moyles, Gerry Thornley), loads of content all day every day. They are kicking **** arse.
They’ve even had some of the women with strong accents tone it down a bit. Fiona Hayes and Niamh Briggs have stopped breathing into the microphone like an asthmatic Darth Vader and the accents have flattened out for a far easier listen. They are good pundits too.
The paper review has also stuck to the sport mostly and most of the discussed stories are really interesting. This is a high point for OTB.
Thats just my recollection without googling, I remember even before saipan there was talk about him missing that match, Fergusan was no help imv
Keane missed the away Iran game through injury which was played on November 15th.
He was fit enough to play for united on November 17th when they beat Leicester at home 2-0.
They went into that international break on the back of a 3-1 defeat at Liverpool which might give some perspective into Keane/Fergies thinking.
I didn’t know that, it was a few games he was accused of dodging though, right?
Wouldn’t really make sense for him to want to miss a big game like that, even with the lead.
Poor form if he did but I doubt we’d ever find out for certain. Would United have been in any position where they’d have needed him there? It would be their medical staff making the call, wouldn’t it?
I may be wrong but the game he was accused of feigning injury for was the second playoff against Iran away, we were 2-0 ahead going into if iIrc
Always found it disappointing that neither management, nor other players, saw anything wrong with flying coach or being provided with substandard facilities.
The games Keane was accused of feigning injury for were friendlies, it wasn’t like he was “crying off” from important matches. Ones I, personally, wouldn’t think he should be playing anyway.
“Win or lose, we’re on the booze” is a fine mantra for the fans but for a team and management to have the mentality that they’re only there to make up the numbers is very disappointing. Having to captain it, as well, when you’re a fierce competitor, would be crushing.
it might be coming across I blame Roy.. I don’t really..Irish football is the poor man of Europe, third world facilities and a that’ll do attitude. That hasn’t changed and extends to the Irish opinion of all professional sport in my opinion.
Roy was an extremely difficult unreasonable character but Saipan was just a by product of 50 or so years of Ireland underinvestment in football and sport in general
Not sure about mick already having a interview lined up. Roy said they had a Press conference 15 minutes after the infamous meeting. That seems unlikely unless it was already a pre appointed presser.
mick called a team meeting and had the interview in the paper under his arm, saying it was unacceptable. Roy had a go back. Mick accused him of picking and choosing the games he was fit for. Roy went into his red zone mood and lambasted mick as a player and manager.
So roy had the argument with Kelly and Bonner, then went to the IT and complained about conditions.
Mick didn't like this so called a team meeting where he accused Roy of missing games when not injured, Keane blasted him for it and then got sent home and then had an interview already lined up for after the team meeting where he would say Roys comments in the IT were not right.
That correct?
Roy firstly wanted to leave citing “personal problems”, that came on the back of an argument with Alan Kelly and packie Bonner in training. Roy then did a u-turn and wanted to stay.
after that he did an interview with Paul Kimmage and Tom humphries. He gave out about the training base, lack of balls and training kit, ambition of his team mates or lack thereof and hinted he would retire from Ireland after the World Cup.
roy thought the content of the interview was perfectly fine which is where Roy’s world differs from right thinking people. We would later see this in his acrimonious departure from man utd and the arguments that happened with fellow players and staff there.
Roy was sent home, it was too late to call in a replacement, everybody in the country went into meltdown. roy done the interview with tommie Gorman. That’s about it.
Excellent interview with Tommie Gorman this evening.
Don't really understand the chronology of events in Saipan. Roy going on about being accused of faking injury etc. When was this? When did it all kick off. Was it when they got over there Roy laid into it in the Irish Times? I believe Roy came back but was then kicked back out by McCarthy. Why was this?
Joe Molloy is an top class broadcaster.
Common trait among most of the female hosts for some reason
Who's the woman hosting that pod they just played a clip of discussing the women's super league? Voice like nails on a chalkboard.
Meath. Brutal.
They had Sam Lee on the other night, he's a City reporter for the Athletic. The man shouldn't be on radio, really tough to listen to him speak.
His content was alright but just his way of speaking was hard to listen to.
Thought Joe bringing up Patrice Evras comments about Pep lowered the quality of the conversation. Evras comments were braindead.
Pep's record of winning the CL isn't great, largely because he tends to overthink things. For example last year in the final he dropped Rodri and played Gundogan and they were wide open at the back. He's done things like that nearly every year...until this season. This season was just a bad finish. Like Grealish had one shot miraculously cleared off the line and another Courtois saved with his studs.
And people criticising him for taking off KDB? That's what managers do to shore up teams going into the last few minutes. No one criticised Ancelotti when he took off Benzema before the end of extra time despite there being a chance of penalties?
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