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Replying To WanPintWin:  "The 1998 to 2001 generation are hardly ancient. There have been plenty older pundits on the go.
From your list, one is a presenter and two are hurling pundits. The other two were on many decades ago.
It's obviously up to the lads themselves, but it is odd that we've barely had any football pundits on national tv or radio over the past two decades. Especially given that a lot of the successful team retired in the late 00s."
Ray Silke another. I'm sure he has media gigs, if he wants them? He was on this that and the other for awhile too. Came across well, has the 'gift of the gab' imo. With smartphones and podcasts these days, you'd lose track of who's on what, especially with the old newspaper edging toward extinction.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4116 - 03/07/2023 11:49:53    2491747

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Replying To MachaireConnacht:  "I've noticed that, add in J Maughan and Billy Joe Padden frequently interviewed as well. A Moran was on the OTB podcast before he took the Leitrim job. There's nearly a starting 15 of former Mayo players doing punditry and analysis."
There is indeed and Alan Kerins has more All Ireland Football medals than the 15 of them combined.

smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 495 - 03/07/2023 11:53:27    2491749

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "Ray Silke another. I'm sure he has media gigs, if he wants them? He was on this that and the other for awhile too. Came across well, has the 'gift of the gab' imo. With smartphones and podcasts these days, you'd lose track of who's on what, especially with the old newspaper edging toward extinction."
I mentioned Silke in my previous post, although he was more visible a few years ago. Don't see or hear as much from him recently.
I'm not suggesting it's some kind of media conspiracy, it's just unusual. It's more a case with the Sunday game I'd say. Tyrone have Canavan, Cavanagh, McGinley. Kerry have Tomás Ó Sé, Gooch, Fitzmaurice, obviously Spillane until recently. Dubs have Whelan, Paul Flynn. Mayo have a good few mentioned previously and also had McStay as a regular before he went to intercounty management.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2299 - 03/07/2023 12:26:13    2491768

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "I mentioned Silke in my previous post, although he was more visible a few years ago. Don't see or hear as much from him recently.
I'm not suggesting it's some kind of media conspiracy, it's just unusual. It's more a case with the Sunday game I'd say. Tyrone have Canavan, Cavanagh, McGinley. Kerry have Tomás Ó Sé, Gooch, Fitzmaurice, obviously Spillane until recently. Dubs have Whelan, Paul Flynn. Mayo have a good few mentioned previously and also had McStay as a regular before he went to intercounty management."
And it's fine if they want to have former players from that four county clique to dominat punditry as long as they have a good knowledge of football outside of those counties. Apart from Fitzmaurice some of their knowledge on the lower tiered teams and even some Div 1 teams is embarrassing. I know he's not on the Sunday game, but for a former manager, James Horan's knowledge on teams outside of Div 1 is brutal. Night and day the difference between him and Fitzmaurice.

MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1000 - 03/07/2023 12:56:16    2491782

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "I mentioned Silke in my previous post, although he was more visible a few years ago. Don't see or hear as much from him recently.
I'm not suggesting it's some kind of media conspiracy, it's just unusual. It's more a case with the Sunday game I'd say. Tyrone have Canavan, Cavanagh, McGinley. Kerry have Tomás Ó Sé, Gooch, Fitzmaurice, obviously Spillane until recently. Dubs have Whelan, Paul Flynn. Mayo have a good few mentioned previously and also had McStay as a regular before he went to intercounty management."
Could be the Galway lads have faces for radio.. lol

AnCrúiscínLán (Galway) - Posts: 102 - 03/07/2023 13:15:50    2491794

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Replying To festinog:  "I don't know how Colm Boyle still gets the gig.
He's yesterday's yesterday man."
He is (or was) another Mayo brat ala O'Donoghue!

tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 03/07/2023 13:26:45    2491800

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "De Paor and Sice are on TG4 a lot. Conroy does RTE work occasionally. Mike Meehan is on GaaGo, and also RTE and others in the past. There's at least one Mayo fan in the Newstalk crew, that talk gibberish to one another there for hours during the week, when they've no 'guests' that'll 'talk'. Maybe he's the one signing up all the Mayo lads to Newstalk?"
The Galway lads are well educated..
Don't know any mayo lads that can speak Irish...

Belclare (Galway) - Posts: 904 - 03/07/2023 13:33:31    2491805

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Replying To Belclare:  "The Galway lads are well educated..
Don't know any mayo lads that can speak Irish..."
I'm sure I saw Barry Cullinane on RTE being interviewed before the Armagh game and is a regular on GBFM. In fairness the Galway pundits seem to have better knowledge than their Mayo counterparts who usually have green and red tinted glasses on!

tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 03/07/2023 13:36:44    2491807

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Replying To AnCrúiscínLán:  "Could be the Galway lads have faces for radio.. lol"
That's a horrible thing to say - don't tell me that John Maughan in his shorts and his hands on his hips is what the people want to see! lol

tommy k (Galway) - Posts: 3470 - 03/07/2023 13:41:07    2491812

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Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "De Paor and Sice are on TG4 a lot. Conroy does RTE work occasionally. Mike Meehan is on GaaGo, and also RTE and others in the past. There's at least one Mayo fan in the Newstalk crew, that talk gibberish to one another there for hours during the week, when they've no 'guests' that'll 'talk'. Maybe he's the one signing up all the Mayo lads to Newstalk?"
conroy works for tg4 and not rte, as someone has mentioned they're all native irish speakers thankfully mayo don't seem to have anyone that speaks the irish language or we would be outnumbered there too and meehan is on gaa go occasionally but not 1 pundit on rte is poor, finalists last year surely someone should be there

cavan.galway (Galway) - Posts: 234 - 03/07/2023 13:50:52    2491819

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Replying To Belclare:  "The Galway lads are well educated..
Don't know any mayo lads that can speak Irish..."
Paul Conroy has done TG4 work too as he's a fluent Irish speaker

jam83 (Galway) - Posts: 188 - 03/07/2023 13:57:12    2491829

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "I mentioned Silke in my previous post, although he was more visible a few years ago. Don't see or hear as much from him recently.
I'm not suggesting it's some kind of media conspiracy, it's just unusual. It's more a case with the Sunday game I'd say. Tyrone have Canavan, Cavanagh, McGinley. Kerry have Tomás Ó Sé, Gooch, Fitzmaurice, obviously Spillane until recently. Dubs have Whelan, Paul Flynn. Mayo have a good few mentioned previously and also had McStay as a regular before he went to intercounty management."
When you put it like that, the penny drops surely. Mayo were the face of Connacht football 2011-2017. 5 in a row champs. Galway have been level enough with them since '17 on, with Ros not too far off either. If Mayo were a golfer, they'd be the greatest golfer never to win a major etc, why wouldn't they be in media demand?

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4116 - 03/07/2023 14:19:23    2491846

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Replying To cavan.galway:  "conroy works for tg4 and not rte, as someone has mentioned they're all native irish speakers thankfully mayo don't seem to have anyone that speaks the irish language or we would be outnumbered there too and meehan is on gaa go occasionally but not 1 pundit on rte is poor, finalists last year surely someone should be there"
To be honest it doesn't really matter. And so what if we don't get fair play on the media. Its not going to impact AI chances in any way, better or worse. If there is a perceived under representation , I doubt very much if it is deliberate. As a public , I think we have enough genuine gripes with RTE at the minute.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 981 - 03/07/2023 14:24:54    2491849

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Replying To anotheralias:  "To be honest it doesn't really matter. And so what if we don't get fair play on the media. Its not going to impact AI chances in any way, better or worse. If there is a perceived under representation , I doubt very much if it is deliberate. As a public , I think we have enough genuine gripes with RTE at the minute."
yes quite obviously its not life or death but its the conversation that's being debated on this forum at the moment, you will find unfortunately nothing on here will impact AI chances in anyway, sorry to disappoint you

cavan.galway (Galway) - Posts: 234 - 03/07/2023 14:35:34    2491856

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Replying To cavan.galway:  "conroy works for tg4 and not rte, as someone has mentioned they're all native irish speakers thankfully mayo don't seem to have anyone that speaks the irish language or we would be outnumbered there too and meehan is on gaa go occasionally but not 1 pundit on rte is poor, finalists last year surely someone should be there"
What is a native Irish speaker? Is Garry Sice a native Irish speaker?

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4116 - 03/07/2023 14:39:54    2491857

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Replying To anotheralias:  "To be honest it doesn't really matter. And so what if we don't get fair play on the media. Its not going to impact AI chances in any way, better or worse. If there is a perceived under representation , I doubt very much if it is deliberate. As a public , I think we have enough genuine gripes with RTE at the minute."
Of course it matters, there is a clear bias by Whelan, O'Shea, Cooper, Staunton and Keegan towards their own counties. They were all proclaiming Galway favourites the past few weeks and they will highlight foul play by potential opponents coming up like O'Se did with Ryan O'Donoghue
Leading up to last years final, there should have been an ex Galway player highlighting the fact that Sean Hurson is from the same club as a Kerry selector and the amount of systematic fouling Kerry do high up the pitch to stop the other teams momentum.
If that was Dublin or Kerry the ex players would have been all over it but it was Galway and there wasn't a dickie bird about it

smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 495 - 03/07/2023 14:50:02    2491866

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Replying To cavan.galway:  "yes quite obviously its not life or death but its the conversation that's being debated on this forum at the moment, you will find unfortunately nothing on here will impact AI chances in anyway, sorry to disappoint you"
Well Yes and No. This a social media forum and anything GAA related is fair game. However, many of the topics discussed relate to things related to Galway's chances of future success e.g. do we need a forward's coach, should we need a new manager , do we need more underage development, should Cillian McDaid be positioned midfield or elsewhere, do we need to develop a new kickout strategy, should players get more rest when carrying injuries etc... All valid discussion points and all relevant to our chances of future success. Does the fact that they are discussed here mean that the right decisions for the future of Galway football are made...highly , highly unlikely , but in my opinion they are relevant. But getting more former players on national media than our neighbours , in my opinion, is not relevant.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 981 - 03/07/2023 15:34:03    2491881

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Replying To smallfrank:  "Of course it matters, there is a clear bias by Whelan, O'Shea, Cooper, Staunton and Keegan towards their own counties. They were all proclaiming Galway favourites the past few weeks and they will highlight foul play by potential opponents coming up like O'Se did with Ryan O'Donoghue
Leading up to last years final, there should have been an ex Galway player highlighting the fact that Sean Hurson is from the same club as a Kerry selector and the amount of systematic fouling Kerry do high up the pitch to stop the other teams momentum.
If that was Dublin or Kerry the ex players would have been all over it but it was Galway and there wasn't a dickie bird about it"
Ah please. Lets not start developing a persecution complex like Mayo have developed.
We should try to be honourable in defeat and control the things we can control. I honestly cant see how the lack of media representation has manifested itself in any way in us not getting fair play from referees. The games we have lost in the last few years ( including last years AI ) is because we just fell a small bit short, not in any way due to referee's decisions.

anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 981 - 03/07/2023 15:46:47    2491884

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Replying To anotheralias:  "Ah please. Lets not start developing a persecution complex like Mayo have developed.
We should try to be honourable in defeat and control the things we can control. I honestly cant see how the lack of media representation has manifested itself in any way in us not getting fair play from referees. The games we have lost in the last few years ( including last years AI ) is because we just fell a small bit short, not in any way due to referee's decisions."
My point is it makes a small difference.
Whelan and O'Se wouldn't breathe a word about a Kerry Dublin final yesterday. I came out of Mullingar the other week and all i was hearing from Fitzmaurice, Paul Flynn, Paddy Andrews was about Galway learning to win ugly and how they're were now favourites for the All Ireland, mad stuff.
They've played a blinder in taking the pressure off Dublin and Kerry the last few weeks and will continue to do so.

smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 495 - 03/07/2023 16:07:04    2491894

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Replying To anotheralias:  "Ah please. Lets not start developing a persecution complex like Mayo have developed.
We should try to be honourable in defeat and control the things we can control. I honestly cant see how the lack of media representation has manifested itself in any way in us not getting fair play from referees. The games we have lost in the last few years ( including last years AI ) is because we just fell a small bit short, not in any way due to referee's decisions."
That free against John Daly coming out with the ball. Can you highlight one other example of that free being given against the defender in the same situation in this years championship.

smallfrank (Galway) - Posts: 495 - 03/07/2023 16:08:55    2491896

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