The Black Eye - Ewan McKenna

Strange way to be black listed



That's MacKenna's own book he's on promoting too.

Not sure what your problem is here. You said he was black listed when he obviously wasn't.

As for the rugby shirt, I don't know how they set up the background stuff but they do change it around or have a second studio.

From February



From December



As for people being petty, I agree with you. People should look up MacKenna's twitter and also the account with all the stuff he deletes.

https://twitter.com/deletedmackenna

glasso wrote: »

he was completely right on the rugby circa November 2018 hype I will give him that.

the off-the-ball ginger gimp encapsulates the sort of 'tards you get on the rugby forum on boards. (where McKenna cannot be mentioned lol!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeVWCkis_ak

I watched 45 mins of that, I didn't watch the last few mins.

He starts off with a quote from Alan Quinlan :rolleyes:

He's loose with the facts 2006 France won the 6N, not Ireland.

He's loose with the use of the word friendly too. When NZ played Ireland after we beat them in Chicago it was a friendly. One of the criticisms after that game was that NZ took it too seriously and went out to physically hurt the Irish players. Comparing friendlies in football with rugby is just daft. He does acknowledge that a bit at the start but then ignores it latter.

No one laughed at NZ saying they were the best team in the world before they won the 2011 RWC. Saying they choked is backing that up as they should have won more RWCs as they were the best in the world.

He said Brian O'Driscoll was in tears after we beat Australia in 2011, that's the first I've heard of that.

Madigan crying after he played in the France game in 2015 is easily explained too but only if you put it in context. Which Ewan has no interest in. He's also using the result of the game the week after him crying as a reason that he shouldn't have cried.

He said the rugby team was soft and his reason are the rape trial, the 3 year residency rule, and the players personal lives not being tabloid news. So he didn't back his point up that the team was soft at all. The rape trial and the residency rule were and are extensively covered too. The personal lives of players I don't think should be.

He says the game is over covered for advertising reasons. Out of the top 3 TV shows watched in 2018 two of them were rugby games. There were 3 in top 10, so for a sport that's over covered it seems to be getting people watching it.



Rugby games are regularly in the top 10 watched shows every year. Yet these numbers don't count as there's a low participation rate in the game. It being a very physically intense game to play here doesn't seem to register here for some reason.

He was ultimately proved right in that Ireland didn't win the QF but not for any of the reasons he made.

That clip also highlighted one of the reasons they don't have him on. He didn't back his points up, made stuff up, and then starts windmilling using anything he can against the game.

It was poor stuff from him.

His reason for the team being over hyped had nothing to do with how the team was playing, it was all to do with how past teams had performed.

If he'd come out and said the team is playing well but I'm worried about it's evolution of playing style, the tactics of the coach, and we're not evolving or for the reasons you mention then that's something.

His reasons for the team being over hyped because the players are soft due to Rory Best going to the rape trial and Munster go looking for project players is nonsense.

Even when he used past teams as a reference point none of them had been playing as well as that Irish team had been. In the 2017-18 the team beat South Africa in November, won the Grand Slam, won a tour in Australia, and then beat NZ in November of 2018. An Irish team had never done that before, that's why people were thinking we could finally do well at the RWC. Not just the one off game. So when he said we've been here before we hadn't.

Even when he was going on about no Irish team had won a RWC QF game he is forgetting where the Irish team used to be. In the 90's our highest 5N finish was 4th with 4 last placed finishes, three of which were in a row!

I'm not disputing that.

Pretty much up until 2000 Ireland were a very bad rugby team. They would have been ranked 8th or lower in the world if the rankings existed.

It's one of the few things he says that's completely true.

Higgins5473 wrote: »

They haven’t really though, they’ve just been disputed by a rugby fanboy like yourself as opposed ‘refuted’.

I'd like to think that the very least you could take from my posts is that MacKenna regularly says things that aren't true, or isn't what he says they are.