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

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  • #92
    splendid101
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭splendid101


    I've always presumed Nicholas Roche doesn't dope due to the fact that he's crap!

    I heard he came across very badly on Vincent Browne a few weeks ago as well.

    I haven't heard the Off the Ball thing yet.


  • #93
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,446 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I like this show, but jesus, Ken Early is some waffler. Why make your point in 50 words when you can use 2,000?


  • #94
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,575 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    I must admit, i have a special dislike for bank holiday off the ball. I know the bits they have on it are usually pretty good (although we have heard them before), but come on, surely there should be a live football show after a weekend like the one we just had?


  • #95
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    I muat admit, i have a special dislike for bank holiday off the ball. I know the bits they have on it are usually pretty good (although we have heard them before), but come on, surely there should be a live football show after a weekend like the one we just had?

    I agree. The lads should never get a holiday.

    Ever.


  • #96
    bogtreader
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭bogtreader


    Damn it i forgot they are not on tonight.I was waiting on Ken's opinion on events
    of the weekend darn it


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  • #97
    Lennonist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Lennonist


    telekon wrote: »
    I agree. The lads should never get a holiday.

    Ever.


    They never go home, They never go home, They never go home, They never go home, They never go home,....those boys.


  • #98
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users Posts: 15,979 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    That 'Joe Allen is the Welsh Xavi' conversation was priceless, topped off by the text: "the Welsh Liam Miller more like".


  • #99
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Mr E wrote: »
    I like this show, but jesus, Ken Early is some waffler. Why make your point in 50 words when you can use 2,000?

    I gave up on the show for good recently due to Early's waffling and smugness.


  • #100
    Vunderground
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭Vunderground


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    That 'Joe Allen is the Welsh Xavi' conversation was priceless, topped off by the text: "the Welsh Liam Miller more like".


    Wes Hoolihan was described as 'the Irish Messi' on ESPN before the Norwich/Arsenal game the other week :eek:


  • #101
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    Temaz wrote: »
    I gave up on the show for good recently due to Early's waffling and smugness.

    Ken Early is the reason I listen. The show would be nothing without him.


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  • #102
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Ken Early is the reason I listen. The show would be nothing without him.

    He really divides opinion. Personally, I can't hit the off button soon enough when he comes on.


  • #103
    nicebutdim
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭nicebutdim


    Temaz wrote: »
    I gave up on the show for good recently due to Early's waffling and smugness.

    Strikes me as someone who thinks he's too good for the show. The Ken Burley bull**** was cringe inducing. And he is a ringer for Wurzel Gummidge

    worzel-gummidge.jpg


  • #104
    Imhof Tank
    Registered Users Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    nicebutdim wrote: »
    Strikes me as someone who thinks he's too good for the show. The Ken Burley bull**** was cringe inducing.


    Not at all.

    He knows if this show ever folded he'd never get another job in radio (or on TV given his appearance).


  • #105
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Ken Early is the reason I listen. The show would be nothing without him.

    +1. If Ken wasn't on it, I wouldn't listen to it.
    Skid wrote: »
    He really divides opinion. Personally, I can't hit the off button soon enough when he comes on.

    Nearly everyone in the public eye divides opinion. The Football Show's podcast has been one of the most downloaded podcasts in the country for years. That's down to Ken. He does have a following.
    Imhof Tank wrote: »

    He knows if this show ever folded he'd never get another job in radio (or on TV given his appearance).

    I've seen him on Setanta with McDevitt and other than his...eh...hairstyle he's perfectly normal looking. The couple of times he presented Culture Shock he did a much better job of it than Fionn Davenport does. And I'm sure he could produce a far better left of field weekly football show for RTE than Fiona Looney's Ballbusters. He writes a really good column for the Irish Examiner every Monday, that's probably the direction his career will ultimately take. Murph is the one who would fall off the media radar if OTB ended.


  • #106
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    nicebutdim wrote: »
    And he is a ringer for Wurzel Gummidge
    Imhof Tank wrote: »
    He knows if this show ever folded he'd never get another job in radio (or on TV given his appearance).

    Your critical analysis of a radio host amounts to commentary on his appearance? Really??


  • #107
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    nicebutdim wrote: »
    Strikes me as someone who thinks he's too good for the show. The Ken Burley bull**** was cringe inducing. And he is a ringer for Wurzel Gummidge

    worzel-gummidge.jpg

    Serious? You're talking about a radio presenters appearance? Wow.

    And, the Ken Burley segments were hilarious... I feel they should sign that guy up for a regular slot.


  • #108
    notahappycamper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭notahappycamper


    Temaz wrote: »
    Had to stop listening due to Ken Earley, the guy is a know it all tosser.

    Agreed, and I grew up with him! He was never into football so I would love to know when his interest in the game started. A gang of us would always have a kick about on the green at the top of the road and all he would do would "toe bog" the ball!!


  • #109
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    armchair fusilier wrote: »
    Nearly everyone in the public eye divides opinion.

    No. Not to the same degree. Read the comments in this thread -few presenters polarise opinion so much. You don't hear many people saying 'Ken Early? - he's alright, I can take him or leave him'


  • #110
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    I'll never go back to OTB while he is on it.


  • #111
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    notahappycamper wrote: »
    Agreed, and I grew up with him! He was never into football so I would love to know when his interest in the game started.

    I see Ken as more of a colour presenter... He doesnt possess a huge sporting intellect, but he's entertaining. I love the way they read out all the texts taking the complete p1ss out of him, loved the Ken Burley stuff too, and the way they repeat the question he asked Keano to p1ss him off... The show is genuinely funny, not like RTE where Des Cahill saying "well a Cork lad would be in trouble with the missus if he wore a Kerry jersey" passes as humour..


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  • #112
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    Skid wrote: »
    No. Not to the same degree. Read the comments in this thread -few presenters polarise opinion so much. You don't hear many people saying 'Ken Early? - he's alright, I can take him or leave him'

    I'd agree that in this thread that he has provoked stronger reactions than say... McDevitt or Murph, but I don't think you can then extrapolate it out to conclude that the opinion is as divided in the 40,000+ people who regularly listen to the show. People are much more inclined to be bothered to post about someone if they don't like them, less so if they like them and hardly ever if they just think they're "alright". It's just the nature of internet forums.


  • #113
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    armchair fusilier wrote: »
    Murph is the one who would fall off the media radar if OTB ended.

    He's written some great articles on TheScore.ie over the summer, I think there is a bit more to him than the clown he plays on-air.


  • #114
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    He's written some great articles on TheScore.ie over the summer, I think there is a bit more to him than the clown he plays on-air.
    Fair enough, I not really into GAA - so I haven't read them.


  • #115
    Imhof Tank
    Registered Users Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    Aidric wrote: »
    Your critical analysis of a radio host amounts to commentary on his appearance? Really??

    Hello? I was defending Ken against the other poster you quoted - he was saying KE considered himself too good for OTB.

    Not analyising and certainly not criticising.


  • #116
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    notahappycamper wrote: »
    Agreed, and I grew up with him! He was never into football so I would love to know when his interest in the game started. A gang of us would always have a kick about on the green at the top of the road and all he would do would "toe bog" the ball!!

    Are you sure about that? Didn't Ken have a trial for Marseille at one stage in his youth? ;)


  • #117
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Are you sure about that? Didn't Ken have a trial for Marseille at one stage in his youth? ;)

    Ah the never ending story:D


  • #118
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Imhof Tank wrote: »
    Hello? I was defending Ken against the other poster you quoted - he was saying KE considered himself too good for OTB.

    Not analyising and certainly not criticising.

    Hello what? You wrote the following:
    Imhof Tank wrote: »
    Not at all.

    He knows if this show ever folded he'd never get another job in radio (or on TV given his appearance).

    Unless I'm reading that completely wrong you make a direct reference to his appearance.


  • #119
    Imhof Tank
    Registered Users Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    Aidric wrote: »
    Hello what? You wrote the following:



    Unless I'm reading that completely wrong you make a direct reference to his appearance.

    You are quoting me without the necessary context. Go back and read it one more time - what was I saying "not at all" in reference to?

    I made a reference to his appearance only because the other poster took a cheap shot with the Wurzel Gummage pic. That was an aside and had nothing to do with Ken's radio persona.

    If I understand your post, you are saying I am holding his appearance against him as a radio presenter? Thats not what I am doing at all - I am a huge fan of the guy.


  • #120
    Strongbow10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭Strongbow10


    where can you pick up the podcasts such as the interview with Roche etc???

    The off the ball podcast seems to focus on Ken's inane ramblings and it usually the interviews that make the show for me.


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  • #121
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    I thought the lads were exaggerating about Robbie Keane's goal, but jesssus..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nPrSjrUnpg


    You have to laugh at the other chap, putting his hand up to his head (as if he'd missed) at 0:13


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