How many Irish fans travelled to Hungary?
The aviva was filled with children taken for the day out because their parents got free tickets at work.
I don't think 10 year old children are listening to newstalk.
Pretty sweeping statement re the interest in women's football, i think its growing massively in this country helped by the world cup and reflected in the Aviva last week. Ruesha is a fantastic personality & interviewee and im sure plenty would have enjoyed it as I did. Maybe stick the head outside the echo chamber of this thread and check into reality for a bit?
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I've listened to OTB twice this week when travelling.
First was Tuesday, which I think they said they were having the football show on after 9. Grand, looking forward to that. What comes on? Some dweeb from the 42.ie talking about the Irish womens team against Hungary. I gave it as much time as I could hoping it would soon finish but after 15 minutes of it I couldn't hack any more and switched over.
Then yesterday, while not a massive golf fan I can understand it's a huge audience and a big event with the Ryder Cup so they started talking about that at the start of the show. Then Nathan says..."up after the break, Ruesha Littlejohn"...immediately I turned it over.
The interest is just not in womens football. How many Irish fans travelled to Hungary? I wonder...considering the locals were only hoping for an attendance of 1,000 people in total!!!
To be fair there is still a few hundred each morning on the OTB AM youtube stream, i usually put it on around 8:45 and then scroll back to whatever guest is of interest to me. In the past I would have listened/watched a handful of segments a week across the morning and evening shows, but now I can't and to be honest i don't really miss it. The odd morning segment is enough for me.
I find myself being a much more critical listener now, given the expectation from OTB HQ that they are worth "a tenner a month" and to be honest for me they are definitely not worth that, almost all of the presenters are found wanting...
Ger: Too smug and disparaging of any opinion that he doesn't share
Vinny Perth: Supposed to talks about LOI but instead turns it into the Shamrock Rovers or "I used to work with Stephen Kenny" segment
Johnny Ward: How many times can i say Galway United in the show
Shane Hannon: Does everyone know I'm from Monaghan, I better remind them again just in case....
Oh I’d say it’s a disaster alright. It’s significantly narrowed what they had audience wide on YouTube. Must grate them to now have 18/19 viewers for their morning shows
Paul Kimmage is no loss to OTB whatsoever. Its unfair to call OTB populist sh*te, the problem is there is too much content and too much of it is just average joes talking. Lets be real - what qualifications do you really need to be a sports presenter? Its pretty much whatever your having yourself, show a bit of knowledge of some sport and come on in.
I heard Joe Molloy trying to promote the join effort - it definitely sounds like he is doing it through gritted teeth. It sounds like he was not a supporter, but maybe that is just my perception. I bet the figures are bombing entirely - I swore once Ger Gilroy uttered the words "Its only a tenner a month" I was not signing up. I have that tenner, I'm just not giving it to him.
From being in the pub at the rugby and surrounded by 15-16 ardent sports fans, not one had signed up.
Agreed. He has become a caricature. It's performative bullsh1t
Cant stand him tbh, would start an argument in an empty room.
Paul Kimmage at the Second Captains live show calling Off the Ball "populist shite" for the way it covers things now.
Guess we shouldn't expect him back on the Paper review any time soon...
I looked up Boohig (never watched or listened to him to be honest) but I was curious to see who he was
But his educational background is Political Science and Arts!
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/colm-boohig-09373247
Apparently his strengths are being a 'thinking agent' so there is that.
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Is the problem with OTB that it is full of people with degrees in Arts and English etc? Trained wafflers, that use a lot of words to say nothing of note.
Most clips I've seen posted on social media since Eoin Sheahan returned to OTB am, show me that Boohig is still on there, giving his usual low level pub chat standard hot takes on Man Utd or whatever. Not very enticing.
Depends on the platform, his interview last week with Jim Hamilton was brilliant.
Is ROG really that appealing? Always found him quite dull
Nathan is the main host on Thursday, that's right isn't it?
I sometimes catch bits of the Thursday show, it always seem to be prerecorded interviews, is that right? Maybe the newsround is live?
That was just because Nathan presenting? You can't flog that for legal tender.....
I never believed that 7k figure.
Although, you can't watch The Newsround back either I see.
download OTB app and sign up there, I did for RWC (free month) will end after that, subscription showing me I'm missing nothing!
When you go to sign up via the app, it says the first month is free.
The newsround back on YouTube this evening.there starting to break.obviously the amount of 7000 subscribers mentioned here hasn’t really materialised.
How do I sign up for the months free trial? I can't see anything about it. I want to sign up, binge listen to what I want, then unsubscribe. I think the free month is only for if you sign up for the year?
True, but if you can get big names like Rog free on platforms like the above, it does it make it a harder sell for OTB re subscriptions.
Has his finger in a lot of pies. Heavily promoted on RTE radio ads with Donal Lenihan for Irish Examiner columns
So, ROG is not exclusive to OTB subscribers then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCWckVuj43A
Slightly off tangent here folks.. is this the Off The Ball forum or a Irish Football Chat?
Tbf against France and Netherlands, we were often trying to play Idah and Ogbenne in behind the defence quickly. In the first game Ogbenne gave Hernandez a torrid time. Idah got the better of VVD with one of these type plays but the ref gave VVD a random free.
Whilst I wouldn't call Doherty great for Ireland that can be said for any of our players to be honest. The clue is in the silly possession system that Kenny is trying to play. One of Dohertys and McCleans best attributes is direct running, getting to the byline and getting in a cross. Or else coming inside and shooting. We just don't do that anymore.
Indeed our strongest game over the years has always been to get the ball into attacking positions quickly and turn defenders. Apparently though this is dinosaur stuff so we have to go out and try to pass for the sake of it.
McClean is certainly past it and he is bitter that he is ever questioned about that. A league 2 player has no business being anywhere near our international squad in all honesty.
OTB with John Duggan have lost a lot of respect at this stage. Journalist integrity has gone out the window for them with their relentless backing of failure and some of them continue in that vein. Their backing of Kenny and his shambolic regime has little to do with football and more to do with access to him and his backroom team. OTB with the paywall have all but killed themselves. They just aren't good enough to pull off nonsensical,contrarian or controversial opinions and charge for it.
We must have been watching different games. There was a time Doherty was the first name on my team sheet for Ireland.
McClean has been past it for a while now. Was awful against France. Has been a liability under Kenny (not that Kenny had much choice).
James McClean "great" for Ireland. I've heard it all now.
Not sure what games you watching. Doherty is hot and cold. For a premier league player he certainly doesn't show it for Ireland. I've no affiliation or loyalty to McClean but he's great for Ireland. Can see the legs are going but he's gives it socks n good deliveries into box too.
Cringeworthy, but he works for Stripe now. Must be spending too much time on LinkedIn
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