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Off The Ball Official Thread <Mod Note - Post #1, #533, #6651>

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  • #542
    bbability
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭bbability


    There's more to this than meets the eye. 5 guys don't just get up a leave a well oiled machine like Off the Ball. Maybe 1 or 2 but not 5 :confused:

    They're leaving in a blaze of glory. I'd say they'll go their separate ways. No way RTE can take on 5 reporters/presenters in one fell swoop.

    Plenty of options across the pond for the lads.


  • #543
    The Guardian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭The Guardian


    rafi bomb wrote: »
    The paper that are owned by the same people as the station :rolleyes:

    either way it will clarify some of the detail
    read into it all you like

    do you honestly think denis o'brien is in the indo office now suggesting edits to a page 7 story??


  • #544
    The Guardian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭The Guardian


    bbability wrote: »

    Plenty of options across the pond for the lads.

    ken maybe - doubt the others will get offers from across the pond

    big mcdev will get an rte gig eventually, and he'll do good

    not sure bout the rest


  • #545
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Football show was pretty bad,really need to get a few guys in who have personality.Gilroy did his best tonight,but the other two were far too nondescript.

    Getting Richie Sadlier in to co-host the football show alongside Gilroy would be a decent stop gap if he'd be up for that job.


  • #546
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    The Guardian wrote: »

    the indo have the scoop for tomorrow btw
    what really happened etc

    It would have to be lot better their earlier effort of just trotting out the line that Newstalk management put out for it to be in anyway believable.


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  • #547
    yohan the great
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 644 ✭✭✭yohan the great


    If they do go their separate ways I think murph will probably be the one to lose out. He could go into GAA journalism but probably not eloquent enough to be a presenter


  • #548
    clsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,154 ✭✭✭clsmooth


    For those missing a bit of Ken. Heres his article from the Irish Examiner today on Messi

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ken-early-will-messi-be-loved-like-maradona-224338.html


  • #549
    The Guardian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 354 ✭✭The Guardian


    are newstalk likely to advertise for the new team?

    lets face it, the formula can be recreated
    some smart recruits and it'll be biz as usual


  • #550
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    bbability wrote: »
    There's more to this than meets the eye. 5 guys don't just get up a leave a well oiled machine like Off the Ball. Maybe 1 or 2 but not 5 :confused:

    They're leaving in a blaze of glory. I'd say they'll go their separate ways. No way RTE can take on 5 reporters/presenters in one fell swoop.

    Plenty of options across the pond for the lads.

    i'm thinking that they were probably all part of one company. didn't they all go to DCU around the same time? it makes sense for them to be paid, in the same way that other media personalities get paid. if you remember when jonathan ross left bbc, there was a kick up about him being paid a few million per year, but that was to his company, from which producers and background staff were paid too.

    the show wasn't too bad tonight. i could listen to ger gilroy interviewing graham taylor anytime.


  • #551
    clsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,154 ✭✭✭clsmooth


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    i'm thinking that they were probably all part of one company. didn't they all go to DCU around the same time? it makes sense for them to be paid, in the same way that other media personalities get paid. if you remember when jonathan ross left bbc, there was a kick up about him being paid a few million per year, but that was to his company, from which producers and background staff were paid too.

    the show wasn't too bad tonight. i could listen to ger gilroy interviewing graham taylor anytime.

    It was ok, but lacked a bit of humour that the rest of the team used to provide. I'm sure it'll develop its own feel, but you'd miss Eoin and Ken's chemistry. Richie Sadlier works well with them too so will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow. His Tuesday appearences have been great IMO. Even when they were just talking about Frank :D


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  • #552
    clsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,154 ✭✭✭clsmooth


    https://soundcloud.com/off-the-ball/last-nights-peace-offering-to

    This is a classic too posted up on Friday :D


  • #553
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,164 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    clsmooth wrote: »
    For those missing a bit of Ken. Heres his article from the Irish Examiner today on Messi

    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ken-early-will-messi-be-loved-like-maradona-224338.html

    Its not the same. I'm reading it in Kens voice in my head, but I don't know what bits are supposed to be done in his smug voice, and what bits to read in his "quoting an idiot" voice :(


  • #554
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Very disappointing. Really liked the lads, now I wish I listened more often.


  • #555
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    So if JOE were to take two of them, maybe RTE might take 3 to present Game On? (I'm thinking Eoin, Ken and Murph to RTE to present the show with the current presenter and his producer to stay on...)


  • #556
    Utopia Parkway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,199 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    Listened to a bit of it tonight. I don't think Gilroy is too bad really as anchor but the other lads with him pale in comparison to what Ken Early and Murph brought to the show. Show was a lot drier as a consequence and not many laughs. Some people might even prefer it like that but if definitely lacked that spark.


  • #557
    Imhof Tank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    Long time listener just utterly distraught by the news, like many other posters.

    I know this is a bit tragic but I am even wondering (praying) is there any way at all that fences can be mended even at this late stage and they can be put back on air?? Assumming not then this is the end of an era. I dont mind Ger especially but station policy is now obviously to build a future around the likes of McIntyre, the sidekick Simon guy from weekend sport, Shane Coleman and worst of all Chris Donohoe. Not a single original thought among the whole lot of them and this in place of talent like Ivan Yates and Ken Early?

    Eoin will be ok - he has the TV experience as well as radio anchor and will find a role for himself, but without the others to bounce off he may lose his edge.

    Ken I can see spliting his time between writing and commentating gigs, with also the odd bit of punditry like what Dion Fanning or Miguel Delaney have been doing lately.

    I would be surprised if we ever hear from the others again.


  • #558
    Brendan Filone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Brendan Filone


    Saw this on Hook's twitter, sorry couldn't make it bigger:

    hookj.png


  • #559
    Minderbinder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    Always listened to the show while living abroad but never seem to get the time now I'm home. Even though it's a good sports show I don't know how it became so popular, especially for football fans when there's nearly always a game on while they're broadcasting. MNF/Champions League/Europa League > Off The Ball?


  • #560
    JuanJose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭JuanJose


    Minderbinder wrote: »
    Always listened to the show while living abroad but never seem to get the time now I'm home. Even though it's a good sports show I don't know how it became so popular, especially for football fans when there's nearly always a game on while they're broadcasting. MNF/Champions League/Europa League > Off The Ball?

    A compliment in itself surely?

    A big link with home gone for this Irishman abroad...


  • #561
    Imhof Tank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    Good article

    http://www.universitytimes.ie/2013/03/04/off-the-ball-off-the-air/

    Did they have the gall to play out with Maradone Es Mi Amigo?


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  • #562
    stampydmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    Minderbinder wrote: »
    Always listened to the show while living abroad but never seem to get the time now I'm home. Even though it's a good sports show I don't know how it became so popular, especially for football fans when there's nearly always a game on while they're broadcasting. MNF/Champions League/Europa League > Off The Ball?
    that's cause you turn off the tv commentary and listen to the lads..the perfect combination!


  • #563
    swiftman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭swiftman


    what t-shirts will eoin wear now? he'd always been spotted in otb one's


  • #564
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Brendan Filone wrote: »
    Saw this on Hook's twitter, sorry couldn't make it bigger:

    hookj.png

    what a stupid tweet. how the hell would it be george hook's responsibility that they left? for the economics of the station, there was no hope that they'd be able to start in the middle of drive time.


  • #565
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,164 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    stampydmonkey wrote: »
    that's cause you turn off the tv commentary and listen to the lads..the perfect combination!
    Exactly, did that tonight myself.
    And don't forget a lot of people podcast the show or listen to it on the newstalk player. For the last few years I've been listening to it on the player the next day.


  • #566
    shockwave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭shockwave


    I bet they have something else lined up elsewhere, a similar show on another station.

    Maybe even tv beckons?


  • #567
    baalthor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭baalthor


    They won't be able to call US Murph "US Murph" anymore ...


  • #568
    Minderbinder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    JuanJose wrote: »
    A compliment in itself surely?

    A big link with home gone for this Irishman abroad...

    Yes it is I suppose but I still don't understand it. The day when listening to people talk about sport is better than watching live sport, is the day I'll give up on sport altogether.

    I'll still miss tuning into the football show though. But for me, it's not as bad as when Lovejoy and Fenners left Soccer AM.


  • #569
    stampydmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    Cienciano wrote: »
    Exactly, did that tonight myself.
    And don't forget a lot of people podcast the show or listen to it on the newstalk player. For the last few years I've been listening to it on the player the next day.
    did it the whole time if I was about and there was a game on. nothing better than ken describing the goal with the Japanese sonic the hedgehog music in the background


  • #570
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,940 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Imhof Tank wrote: »
    Good article

    http://www.universitytimes.ie/2013/03/04/off-the-ball-off-the-air/

    Did they have the gall to play out with Maradone Es Mi Amigo?

    given that it was played on the show before they presented it, would they have the gall to play it if they get another radio show??

    poorly written piece in fairness:
    They were quite keen to increase the slot of the show from 6pm to 9pm rather than it’s normal 7pm-10pm

    increase the slot but work the same hours? :confused:


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  • #571
    Fits Morris
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 243 ✭✭Fits Morris


    Imhof Tank wrote: »
    Good article

    http://www.universitytimes.ie/2013/03/04/off-the-ball-off-the-air/

    Did they have the gall to play out with Maradone Es Mi Amigo?
    It was played as usual, however it has been used since 2002 when Gilroy was presenter and McDevitt and Murphy weren't yet with Newstalk so I don't see a problem. They clearly won't be able to continue using any segments which refer in any way to the departed members of the team.


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