The Sunday Game Thread

willabur · 15-06-2015 10:34AM

turned off the radio as soon as i heard the presenter interviewing the couple from mayo and galway. Cringeworthy stuff

willabur · 15-06-2015 10:36AM

didn't fully pay attention to the Sunday Game last night as I was jetlagged as hell but what I did see was poor.

They were highlighting mayos footpassing and showed a clip of a ball being played into the forward line. The analyser said that the galway defending was slack even though the defender was touch tight to the mayo forward, the pass in was perfect. Why have a go at the defender in this situation?

bruschi · 15-06-2015 10:43AM

willabur wrote: »

didn't fully pay attention to the Sunday Game last night as I was jetlagged as hell but what I did see was poor.

They were highlighting mayos footpassing and showed a clip of a ball being played into the forward line. The analyser said that the galway defending was slack even though the defender was touch tight to the mayo forward, the pass in was perfect. Why have a go at the defender in this situation?

the defending out the field I'd imagine they were talking about, being afforded the time to play the ball in. They definitely made that point in the Kildare Laois game, dont remember the talk of defending in the Mayo kickoassing analysis. And if they were highlighting the passing, then the defending is a secondary item in the analysis.

HighKing33 · 15-06-2015 11:45AM

Galway's defending was really good to a degree, particularly in that first half the half-back line was aggressive and got out it front time and again to win ball but they lacked discipline in the tackle. Walsh must have had them really fired up going into that game. Mayo's kicking was very iffy.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 15-06-2015 12:26PM

The highlights they provide of the non televised matches is very poor.The camera for the Meath Wicklow game was behind a pole and then I'm pretty sur ethey didn't even bother to show what caused the 2 penalties Wicklow were awarded.

yop · 15-06-2015 02:00PM

DDC1990 wrote: »

Absolute ****. Turned it off. You have county managers on the line and Shane Curran asking questions like: What's the deal with the fancy boots and What are your tactics for the Cork game.

The couple's thing was horribly cringeworthy.

Stop, that was just Father Ted stuff. We don't need so called entertainment like that. Even the name of the show was so bad I couldn't absorb it. At one stage someone suggest Gary Sice should be called up by Martin O'Neill... the program on nanotechnology after was much more entertaining!

seligehgit · 15-06-2015 02:50PM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Interesting that Tomas O'Se refused to patronise Tipp and pat them on the back for getting beaten despite being enticed to do so by Des Cahill.Straight talking no bull**** analysis from him.

He is a top class analyst,no BS.

seligehgit · 15-06-2015 02:55PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Yep, I caught the first few minutes as well.
What's with Brenda and her need to breathlessly shout into the microphone??
It's pure car crash and nothing short of juvenile.

God help any listeners sitting in the Galway traffic who tuned in to get the national picture on the day's football.....

I found that Marty Squad cringeworthy coming home from Salthill!

yop · 15-06-2015 03:35PM

seligehgit wrote: »

I found that Marty Squad cringeworthy coming home from Salthill!

Ah thats the name, sweet God but who came up with that crap!

Xenophile · 15-06-2015 04:51PM

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

But according to him they didn't really give them a good game.He gave the impression that Kerry coasted in the second half and Tipp really didn't put it up to them then.

It was worth a mention, but an ex Kerry player was not going to mention it especially as his brother was one of the backs! " How many players score two goals against Kerry in a Championship match?"

tippsy · 15-06-2015 11:46PM

Xenophile wrote: »

It was worth a mention, but an ex Kerry player was not going to mention it especially as his brother was one of the backs! " How many players score two goals against Kerry in a Championship match?"

Good point. It was far from coasting. It could have been alot closer but for all the Tipp wides. We had 14 wides and Kerry only had 4/5. Still a big gulf in class there but positive strides being made with Football in Tipp. Alot more belief in last few years. Oh how Id love to see Declan Browne playing alongside a few of the young lads coming thru now.

windy shepard henderson · 21-06-2015 05:46PM

"ger loughnane in anti tipperary rant shock horror"

i have never known a man to hate another county like he dose always sticking in the boot

southstand · 21-06-2015 07:15PM

To be honest what he was saying was fairly spot on imo

windy shepard henderson · 21-06-2015 07:24PM

southstand wrote: »

To be honest what he was saying was fairly spot on imo

well to be fair they have made 3 all ireland finals since they last won the all ireland so its not like they have vanished into the abyss they came very close to wining last year infairness

the reason why i highlighted it is he has become alot more vocal about it since clare won two years ago , you could be forgiving as a tipperary supporter for thinking he was trying to rub your nose in it

Realt Dearg Sec · 21-06-2015 07:25PM

What did he say? I heard he was fairly frank in his assessment of limerick too

Fr Tod Umptious · 21-06-2015 07:32PM

There is an article on the RTE News app with the headline

Coggins slams 'silly' Curran comments on London

There must be someone in RTE who is acting the mick and sticking it to Roscommon after last night because that story is a month old

windy shepard henderson · 21-06-2015 07:33PM

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

What did he say? I heard he was fairly frank in his assessment of limerick too

basicaly he was saying the current tipperary team are too good to only have one all ireland under there belt and in truth he has been like a broken recored about it for the last two or 3 years , he had a stand off with the tipperary county board about the same issue after clare won the all ireland two years ago with his " dont be like tipp " battle cries to the clare lads in his media work

southstand · 21-06-2015 07:38PM

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

well to be fair they have made 3 all ireland finals since they last won the all ireland so its not like they have vanished into the abyss they came very close to wining last year infairness

the reason why i highlighted it is he has become alot more vocal about it since clare won two years ago , you could be forgiving as a tipperary supporter for thinking he was trying to rub your nose in it

I am a Tipperary man and sometimes he does seem to be over critical of Tipp but he was right in what he was saying, if Tipp were playing KK today they would have taken over in that first ten mins of 2nd half and won.
I wouldn't be getting too carried away about the perfomance today as limerick were very poor

windy shepard henderson · 21-06-2015 07:41PM

southstand wrote: »

I am a Tipperary man and sometimes he does seem to be over critical of Tipp but he was right in what he was saying, if Tipp were playing KK today they would have taken over in that first ten mins of 2nd half and won.
I wouldn't be getting too carried away about the perfomance today as limerick were very poor

true they were very flat for around the first 10mins of the second half and yeah they do have things to work on , he's a broken record none the less though i think

southstand · 21-06-2015 07:49PM

Ya I know he annoys me a times but if Tipp were winning All Ireland's he would have no case but harsh truth is they are not, the only way to shut him up is to actually win the All Ireland.

homerjay2005 · 21-06-2015 10:56PM

London manager laying into Shane Curran now. Hope to f*ck this man never appears on live TV again.

tanko · 21-06-2015 11:02PM

McStay talking through his hole trying to make excuses for the cake fool. He reckons there more than one London in the championship, actually there isn't Kevin.

windy shepard henderson · 21-06-2015 11:18PM

alot of these pundits expect the division 4 teams to be as good as the division 1 teams pat spilane is dead right its hugely important that the exilies get a look in , obviously cake has'nt been abroad too much , ruislip is one of the best venues in the gaa and is probably one of the most bitter sweet places you could visit , what ever about results london is probably one of the most important aspacts of the gaa , i would much prefer if london were introduced into the munster championship to give them a chance ,

Powerhouse · 21-06-2015 11:47PM

southstand wrote: »

I am a Tipperary man and sometimes he does seem to be over critical of Tipp but he was right in what he was saying, if Tipp were playing KK today they would have taken over in that first ten mins of 2nd half and won.
I wouldn't be getting too carried away about the perfomance today as limerick were very poor

The first ten minutes of the first half was even worse.

jethro081 · 22-06-2015 12:03AM

lads, does the highlights show go up on the RTE player or anywhere else online?

if not, does anyone wanna gimme a brief synopsis of what the lads said about monaghan? :pac:

yohan the great · 22-06-2015 12:13AM

Powerhouse wrote: »

The first ten minutes of the first half was even worse.

They were playing against a massive wind in the first half

windy shepard henderson · 22-06-2015 12:30AM

jethro081 wrote: »

lads, does the highlights show go up on the RTE player or anywhere else online?

if not, does anyone wanna gimme a brief synopsis of what the lads said about monaghan? :pac:

synopsis about monaghan was pretty much a mixed bag , better then most teams in the country but maybe that bit short of the likes of kerry and dublin , likley to cause donegal problems there next day (should they get there) but will probably fall short

in the game its self probably didnt reach there full potential a far better footballing side then fermanagh and probably playing within themselves

descent looking squad to be brining on the likes of dick cleckin half way through the game

you could read all that back in the tone of kevin mcstay or pat spilane or both , because they were pretty much singing from the same hymm sheet , the rte player will have it over night at some stage they were reluctent to say anything good or bad , as a neutral its kinda hard to argue with them though

seligehgit · 22-06-2015 12:37AM

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

alot of these pundits expect the division 4 teams to be as good as the division 1 teams pat spilane is dead right its hugely important that the exilies get a look in , obviously cake has'nt been abroad too much , ruislip is one of the best venues in the gaa and is probably one of the most bitter sweet places you could visit , what ever about results london is probably one of the most important aspacts of the gaa , i would much prefer if london were introduced into the munster championship to give them a chance ,

Ah now whatever Shane Curran sentiments expressed re London the remainder of us guys are very proud to have London in the Connaught championship so hands off!;)

Fr Tod Umptious · 22-06-2015 12:44AM

tanko wrote: »

McStay talking through his hole trying to make excuses for the cake fool. He reckons there more than one London in the championship, actually there isn't Kevin.

I thought it was a bit of a half hearted defense of Curran by McStay, maybe he had been requested to take one side of the debate.

My problem with Curran was that his "analysis" was at odds with the game itself.

If Roscommon had won by 15 or 20 his pre prepared script would have had some validity, but they didn't and he just made an ass of himself.

windy shepard henderson · 22-06-2015 12:47AM

seligehgit wrote: »

Ah now whatever Shane Curran sentiments expressed re London the remainder of us guys are very proud to have London in the Connaught championship so hands off!;)

i take it the start of championship piss up/weekend away is every bit as good as rumored what's shane curren's views on the inclusion on new york??? if the abu dhabi or lanzarote county board's are reading this tonnight you are very welcome to join the preliminary rounds of next years munster football championship :pac:

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