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Ken Early appreciation thread.

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  • #32
    deadhead13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    Oh, so you were just congratulating yourselve......fair enough.


  • #33
    tbh
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    no more bickering lads, back to the topic.


  • #34
    coopersgreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭coopersgreen


    Dodge wrote: »
    Possibly the only main football correspondent on a national radio station in the world that doesn't attend games.

    Shows too with his complete lack of understanding about the game. The off the ball faux guardian's fiver tripe grates after about 15 minutes.

    He actually presented the guardian's football weekly podcast the last couple of days and was roundly criticised ion their forums etc.

    But then most English football fans actually go to games

    He was really bad on the Guardian podcast.


  • #35
    orourkeda
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    Ken Earleys a bollocks


  • #36
    Diabhal Beag
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    Ken Early is great. I love his witty remarks that have nothing to do with anything relevant and he is a red head. I love him a lot more than Murph or Hick


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  • #37
    irish_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭irish_bob


    love OFF THE BALL and i love ken earley , actually the whole show is a breath of fresh air

    i love earleys sardonic dry wit , he does good smug


  • #38
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Did anybody hear him doing stand in as host on Football Weekly a couple of months ago..?


  • #39
    _blank_
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    Dub13 wrote: »
    Did anybody hear him doing stand in as host on Football Weekly a couple of months ago..?

    Yep, and it wasn't very good, imo.

    He's not a "presenter".


  • #40
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    tSubh Dearg wrote: »
    This is a warning to everyone in the thread. Please note that in the radio forum there is:
    No insulting other members.
    No personal insulting of radio presenters, just criticism directed to their radio programme and their skills at producing that programme.
    orourkeda wrote: »
    Ken Earleys a bollocks

    Banned for three days.


  • #41
    chalad07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭chalad07


    The Off the Ball show is brilliant - great way to pass the afternoon.

    Early is not bad, he's not afraid to go with a controversial opinion. Even though half the time he's just ****stirring. At the same time his knowledge of football seems quite limited. The main presenter, Eoin something, seems to have a far better grasp of football, as well as most other sports,

    I think Early is really there for the banter, more than anything else.

    Good show though.


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  • #42
    FlutterinBantam
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    I won't risk another ban:mad:


  • #43
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    I like the McDevitt & Early double act on Newstalk

    I know they get distracted into strange tangents but I enjoy that.
    But I just like listening to a couple of guys shooting the breeze on radio (non existant on Irish radio)

    Last night was very funny though hearing Gabrielle Marcotti bristling at every question Ken asked him... it was unintentionaly very funny.

    ps: for radio comedy I'm going to plug the two jacks


  • #44
    uRbaN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭uRbaN


    I used to love the show...I find the weekly Johnnie Giles slots and Ken Earlys newsround all bit done to death now at this stage.

    I think they are struggling to keep it fresh now and are forcing the issue.


  • #45
    Slaygal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭Slaygal


    I have to say that I'm not a football fan or a sports fan in general but I really like listening to Off The Ball, Eoin McDevitt's energy and enthusiam works very well against Ken Earley's laid back I knew that was going happen attitude. I love the fact the presenters take the michael out of each other.


  • #46
    irish_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭irish_bob


    uRbaN wrote: »
    I used to love the show...I find the weekly Johnnie Giles slots and Ken Earlys newsround all bit done to death now at this stage.

    I think they are struggling to keep it fresh now and are forcing the issue.

    could be because ( while a living irish legend ) john giles is the dourest man on earth


  • #47
    uRbaN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭uRbaN


    Hah...partly Bob...but mainly (and this is a bit OT) but mainly because Giles (Legend that he is) basically comes on the show / RTE etc and just spouts the same old thing.
    It used to be ok but "honesty of effort" and the likes just isn't the cutting analysis I am looking for anymore.


  • #48
    deadhead13
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    I like Giles's slot on Off The Ball, basically because he does't do bulls**t. Yes, he is repetitive.... but lets face it - so is football.


  • #49
    whodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭whodoo


    i like when graham hunter has a go at ken early...always funny. good show and well worth a listen. There's an honesty in them that you won't find anywhere else.


  • #50
    Green Light
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Green Light


    Early and McDevitt are a great double act...


  • #51
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Green Light wrote: »
    Early and McDevitt are a great double act...

    Which one are you?:rolleyes:


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  • #52
    Green Light
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Green Light


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Which one are you?:rolleyes:

    Neither..:D

    The lads are a breath of fresh air. Such a change from the staid, boring style from RTE. listening to them trying to be more 'off the ball' from 7 to half 7 is truly cringeowrthy...


  • #53
    tbh
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    Green Light wrote: »

    . listening to them trying to be more 'off the ball' from 7 to half 7 is truly cringeowrthy...

    you're bang on there - whether you like or loathe off the ball, there's no denying that RTE have noticed it.


  • #54
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    tbh wrote: »
    you're bang on there - whether you like or loathe off the ball, there's no denying that RTE have noticed it.
    Yep. I'm not going to have a go at Darragh Moloney because I think he's quite good but their attempted quips should be quelled.


  • #55
    FlutterinBantam
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    irish_bob wrote: »
    could be because ( while a living irish legend ) john giles is the dourest man on earth


    Hmmmm Martin Johnson would run him close.


  • #56
    TimmyTarmac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭TimmyTarmac


    Cyclist Sean Kelly would have to be up there.
    Not exactly Michael Barrymore. Tough as nails though.


  • #57
    deadhead13
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    Green Light wrote: »
    Neither..:D

    The lads are a breath of fresh air. Such a change from the staid, boring style from RTE. listening to them trying to be more 'off the ball' from 7 to half 7 is truly cringeowrthy...

    You have a point. It is at its most blatant on Thursdays when RTE decided to put "Dunphy on football" on at same time as OTB's "Thursday night football with John Giles". All because OTB has become the most listened to radio shown in that time slot.


  • #58
    Green Light
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Green Light


    deadhead13 wrote: »
    "Dunphy on football" .

    Is that what they call the slot...? Oh dear...:(

    Thing is what can RTE do. Because they're restrained by their 'Public service' remit(which means playing diddlee-eye at every opportunity) they're never going to be able to be a real contender for the OTB audience so why bother in the first place...?


  • #59
    Barname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Barname


    the competition Authority really needs to look into RTE

    ..... dont ask me, I was flicking around and tuned into 2fm Saturday 2 weeks ago, they actually have started a program called 'ballbusters'

    http://2fm.rte.ie/ballbusters

    it is pathetic, the ad lib sucks, the presenters are very, very bad

    they seem to do a rehash of what Off the Ball covers during the week, an example being this : http://2fm.rte.ie/blogs/ballbusters/2010/01/mad-italian-commentator---juve-v-roma.html

    I object to my TV license money being pooled to generate crap like this

    This is a fine example of how TALENTLESS RTE actually is.

    RTE hang your heads in shame

    (in effect, my point is that my TV license money is used to try and drown out or specifically compete with anything that hits RTEs ratings)


  • #60
    Barname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Barname


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Ken Earleys a bollocks

    now we know Darragh Moloneys username on boards!


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  • #61
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Barname wrote: »
    now we know Darragh Moloneys username on boards!

    an interesting twist on the "hi ken" posts which are now banned :D but this one made me lol.


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