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Replying To WanPintWin:  "Pat was a bit of craic. He didn't take himself too seriously and is still entertaining on the independent podcast. Joe could be funny, but he had a personality where he could give it out, but was very thin skinned if he got anything back. He also made things quite personal and clearly had a few agendas with some players, managers and counties which coloured a lot of his thoughts.
He used to go well overboard with some of his stuff. He has a style where he exaggerates significantly to make a point, which is fine to a point, but it often got to the stage where he'd be describing things which never happened, just to make his argument."
Brolly was and still is annoying. But the Sunday Game highlights show does need some livening up. Not by Spillane and Brolly but a few characters and less scripted-sounding conversation.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8627 - 18/06/2026 16:14:56    2680478

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Replying To Fionn:  "100%
And you'd defo miss Pat Spillane and Joe Brolly also."
You most certainly would not. That panel was way, way past its sell by date and had become a very sad parody of what a panel should be.

Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6205 - 18/06/2026 22:41:32    2680524

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Replying To Greengrass:  "You most certainly would not. That panel was way, way past its sell by date and had become a very sad parody of what a panel should be."
For all their faults, they were entertaining to say the least.

The majority of the new batch….. zzzzzzzz

Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 5108 - 19/06/2026 08:07:32    2680533

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Replying To Fionn:  "For all their faults, they were entertaining to say the least.

The majority of the new batch….. zzzzzzzz"
Nah. They were gone way beyond entertaining. They had become self indulgent in the extreme and had reduced what should have been a great programme to an embarrassing mess that did nothing more than repeat what they had said in their newspaper columns that weekend. It had become all about them rather than about the matches and the players. It was way past time to seriously shake up that programme.

Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6205 - 19/06/2026 10:44:59    2680561

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