DDC1990 wrote: » Any reason that they chose to talk about Dublin scoring averages instead of discussing the Kerry game? We got 2 minutes of analysis and 5 minutes of Dublin talk.
Pretty fast wrote: » What's with all this hatred for Curran? He's as good as any of the rest afaic and more than entitled to be a sg pundit. He's drawing ire from good lot here for the life of me I just don't see why. He was correct with what he said last night so why all the disdain? He was only articulating what the dogs on the street already know which is the lack of funding from HQ. I like the guy and think he deserves a break.
Magill46 wrote: » I think the problem is that Sunday Game already has one village idiot. It doesn't need another, even if he occasionally stumbles onto a good point.
Pretty fast wrote: » What's with all this hatred for Curran? He's as good as any of the rest
homerjay2005 wrote: » Why the hatred? Because the man is a clown from head to toe, every time he speaks on live TV, 10s of 1000's of people around the country are baffled by what he is trying to say. He has zero charisma, zero tv likeability and zero reason to be there. above all else, he just waffles and rants without having anything to say His opinion is worthless.
Pretty fast wrote: » What are you on about with your tens of thousands? So a few mopey Mary's on here don't like him and that equates to tens of thousands? I'd call it good old fashioned envy because his own county Roscommon is not chic enough or not as successful as others thus he's deemed like he doesn't know what he's talking about. Gaa snobbery well on display here.
Fireball07 wrote: » Nothing to do with GAA snobbery. He talks utter crap. There are plenty big name players from counties who have won loads of All-Irelands that I wouldn't like listening to either. Someone mentioned something about getting proper GAA journalists on to talk which might be a good idea, although some of them are pretty bad too. But the good ones might be interesting. Just because you were a good player doesn't mean you have a clue what you are talking about. But I've seen Curran on it twice now and he has been awful both times. I'm sure there are hundreds of Roscommon people who could do a better job than him.
Jayop wrote: » Wooly from Newstalk/Laoise fame would be good. Was one once I think he said and never asked back.
munchkin_utd wrote: » he's good on the radio. Very much a players perspective on things. which in a sense is what Curran is doing too, i.e. without engaging the brain too much on practicalities of whats possible, "more" should be done for coaching for clubs and "less" given to Dublin. But like a lot of players and fans, theres no thinking of what the number look like. So just so we are on the same wavelength, Dublin get a special "Dublin development" fund of 1.4million of the 9million total fund.http://www.gaa.ie/content/documents/publications/annual_reports/GAA007_GAA_annual_report_2014_financial_section.pdf Grand, follow Currans suggestion to kill that grant and give it to all other countys instead and you have 43grand per county (to each of the 32 irish counties, excluding abroad) That'd get you one full time officer per county, which in all honestly is NOT going to narrow any gap and make the likes of Leitrim into all Ireland contenders. And anything beyond that will need some serious funding Theres 2126 clubs in Ireland, so say we want a coaching officer per 5 clubs, so the coach spends one work day at each club, thats 425 full time officers which roughly @45grand a head cost (say thats wages and travel) thats 19 million euro to be distributed by HQ. Where though in the name of god is this 19 million (or other 8 figure sum) of brand new cash to come from ?
Pretty fast wrote: » TSG employ him so they deem him adequate enough. It's none of my business whether he's kept on or not but it seems petty enough for so many to be on his case.
Patww79 wrote: » That's a different sport you're describing. By all means start it up and see where it goes, but don't reduce football to that.
Fireball07 wrote: » How is it petty? People think he is talking rubbish, which he is. And to be honest, I'm not sure TSG are the best judges of pundits judging by some of their other choices. Who knows whether they even bothered looking for someone else, maybe they just appointed Curran because he's a 'character'. There is a stark contrast between some of the analysts on RTE- I find Liam Sheedy, for example, very good. Pat Spillane, on the other hand, is well past. Cliché-ridden, very little actual analysis done.
davegrohl48 wrote: Martin McHughs joke on bringing Kerry women up to Monaghan. Probably not the place for it but with herd thinking there was a lot of "I have no idea what he means" thrown around for what was a straightforward joke.
timmyntc wrote: » Curran seems like like he's much better suited to a text-based medium or even possibly radio wherein he would have more time to properly think before he speaks. Some of his analogies I could get by reading between the lines, (At least I think I know what he was trying to say) however there's no denying that he made a complete balls of his argument on the national broadcaster. He did bring up some good points, like the Catholic church or Fianna Fail way back when, nobody really would have foreseen their current state and their decline. I think Curran is saying simply that if the GAA doesn't address some of it's issues sooner rather than later, we could see a big decline in the organisation and in gaelic games in decades to come. Of course it could be entirely speculation, and if not it doesn't necessarily mean he knows his stuff (A broken clock is right twice a day etc.)
Jayop wrote: » Easily the best in the business. Never sounds like he's filling time with meaningless nonsense and seems to know everything about every player.
davegrohl48 wrote: » Quite like Marty and Canning. Tom Carr has been shocking. Firmly rooted to cliche and missing obvious stuff. "James ODonoghue seems to have a shoulder or elbow hopefully not too serious and can continue". Who would not know about his shoulder problem? Then he wouldn't stop saying "Intensity".
