Fair to say Walsh and O'Hara won't be exchanging Christmas cards this year!

jimski (Kildare) - Posts: 381 - 26/05/2013 21:55:46    1392079

Wow.......O'Hara fairly spelt it out.......more or less sub-par management and training, connacht final last year papering over the cracks of bad results......inferred he was more interested in the Roscommon job.

Solo_Run (Leitrim) - Posts: 227 - 26/05/2013 22:04:16    1392086

Ciaran Whelan is a good analyst and seems to know what he's talking about.

However his comments last night about Morgans show-boating made me smile a bit. Does his not recall his time under Caffrey where the Dubs were showboating to the Hill before every game?

sedico (Kildare) - Posts: 1682 - 27/05/2013 09:06:12    1392111

They showed 3 and a half minutes of the Laois-Louth game. And 3 and a half minutes of poorly recorded footage of the Wicklow-Longford match which looked like a great game.

Yet we got about 10 minutes of the Cork-Limerick and Kerry-Tipp turkey shoots, dreadful one-sided matches.

Very poor RTE, very poor.

And what in the name of god was that Spillane on about sweat shop blankets.

icehonesty (Wexford) - Posts: 2592 - 27/05/2013 09:38:55    1392127

Thought it was particularly low brow yesterday,from o Rourkes bizarre rant at Brolly just before the Tyrone/Donegal game,to Brollys elevation of Jim McGuiness to God like status (hes a football coach Joe),to Cahill constantly looking at the wrong camera when talking,to Spillane with his comments about far eastern rugs (or something like that),not to mention his customary bit about how "there are two things needed to beat the blanket defence"to Cahill,Whelan,Spillane and o hara all talking at the same time for about 20 seconds to the editor not being able to tell Colm cooper from Paddy McBrearty and so on so forth.
I still enjoy it though.

joncarter (Galway) - Posts: 2692 - 27/05/2013 10:24:46    1392191

Spillane showed last night how poor an analyst he is, trying to say how to beat the blanket defence,Kerry pushed through tipp because they were stronger and put some high balls in to donaghy ,cooper put passes out to the corner forwards, if that was against Donegal they would be hammered trying that.Cork tried last year to do what he was showing yesterday and got bet, i think its more wishful thinking on his part than actually seeing something that will overcome Donegals tactics.
Have to say that bite on paddy must have been worse than we thought, they went to him last night in sunday game for motm award and his face had got skinnier and his hair had turned ginger, the man didnt look well at all.:)

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 27/05/2013 11:21:56    1392269

AthCliath
County: Dublin
Posts: 1957

1392269
Spillane showed last night how poor an analyst he is, trying to say how to beat the blanket defence,Kerry pushed through tipp because they were stronger and put some high balls in to donaghy ,cooper put passes out to the corner forwards, if that was against Donegal they would be hammered trying that.Cork tried last year to do what he was showing yesterday and got bet, i think its more wishful thinking on his part than actually seeing something that will overcome Donegals tactics.
Have to say that bite on paddy must have been worse than we thought, they went to him last night in sunday game for motm award and his face had got skinnier and his hair had turned ginger, the man didnt look well at all.:)


Spillane never once mentioned Donegal last night. He was talking about the general blanket defence.........

Cute_Kerry_Hoor (Kerry) - Posts: 2518 - 27/05/2013 11:25:52    1392271

AthCliath
County: Dublin
Posts: 1957

1392269 Spillane showed last night how poor an analyst he is, trying to say how to beat the blanket defence,Kerry pushed through tipp because they were stronger and put some high balls in to donaghy ,cooper put passes out to the corner forwards, if that was against Donegal they would be hammered trying that.Cork tried last year to do what he was showing yesterday and got bet, i think its more wishful thinking on his part than actually seeing something that will overcome Donegals tactics.
Have to say that bite on paddy must have been worse than we thought, they went to him last night in sunday game for motm award and his face had got skinnier and his hair had turned ginger, the man didnt look well at all.:)


Think back re Cork v Donegal last year. Cork were playing quick ball into O'Neill in the first half and it was paying dividends. They seemed to change it then and it all fell apart.

Ha ha re McBrearty. He doesn't look right at all.

sedico (Kildare) - Posts: 1682 - 27/05/2013 11:43:42    1392293

Yeah very poor. A total combined 8 minutes of ''Coverage'' of the 2 Leinster Championship games Louth/Laois and Wicklow/Longford. The Wicklow game looked like it was filmed on a camera phone. If the ball went high the camera couldn't capture it.

They showed 25 minutes coverage of the Munster Championship annihilations Tipp/Kerry and Cork/Limerick despite the Kerry/Tipp match being televised Live on Sunday.

I expected nothing more from RTE though.Licence Fee = Licence to print money.

Wicklowman (Wicklow) - Posts: 1161 - 27/05/2013 11:44:51    1392294

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County: Kerry
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1392271 AthCliath
County: Dublin
Posts: 1957

1392269
Spillane showed last night how poor an analyst he is, trying to say how to beat the blanket defence,Kerry pushed through tipp because they were stronger and put some high balls in to donaghy ,cooper put passes out to the corner forwards, if that was against Donegal they would be hammered trying that.Cork tried last year to do what he was showing yesterday and got bet, i think its more wishful thinking on his part than actually seeing something that will overcome Donegals tactics.
Have to say that bite on paddy must have been worse than we thought, they went to him last night in sunday game for motm award and his face had got skinnier and his hair had turned ginger, the man didnt look well at all.:)


Spillane never once mentioned Donegal last night. He was talking about the general blanket defence.........


My point is there was nothing in his analysing last night to show how to beat the blanket defence, which he is referring to is basically how to beat Donegal. He is looking for something in a div 1 versus div 4 team to justify his arguement, only thing i agree on is Gooch at no 11 is not the answer even though he played well yesterday.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 27/05/2013 12:03:17    1392314

Wicklowman They just clearly aren't GAA people. Any GAA man would like to see a good match, good scores, tight games. Not hammerings in Connacht and Munster. Every year they show loads of Munster and Connacht games and with an odd exception they're very poor. Leinster games, unless Dublin or Kildare are playing are skipped over. I was really looking forward to that Wicklow Longford game, it sounded brilliant.

icehonesty (Wexford) - Posts: 2592 - 27/05/2013 12:05:20    1392318

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1392318 Wicklowman They just clearly aren't GAA people. Any GAA man would like to see a good match, good scores, tight games. Not hammerings in Connacht and Munster. Every year they show loads of Munster and Connacht games and with an odd exception they're very poor. Leinster games, unless Dublin or Kildare are playing are skipped over. I was really looking forward to that Wicklow Longford game, it sounded brilliant.


They didn't show any hightlights of Kildares last three league games. Only team that weren't covered.

sedico (Kildare) - Posts: 1682 - 27/05/2013 12:12:52    1392330

Well in fairness, most neutrals want to see the corks and kerrys to see how they are shaping up. I appreciate that some games might have been of higher intensity etc but you cant deny that there is a large school of interest in seeing the big teams in action also.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 27/05/2013 12:12:57    1392331

sedico
County: Kildare
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1392293 AthCliath
County: Dublin
Posts: 1957

1392269 Spillane showed last night how poor an analyst he is, trying to say how to beat the blanket defence,Kerry pushed through tipp because they were stronger and put some high balls in to donaghy ,cooper put passes out to the corner forwards, if that was against Donegal they would be hammered trying that.Cork tried last year to do what he was showing yesterday and got bet, i think its more wishful thinking on his part than actually seeing something that will overcome Donegals tactics.
Have to say that bite on paddy must have been worse than we thought, they went to him last night in sunday game for motm award and his face had got skinnier and his hair had turned ginger, the man didnt look well at all.:)


Think back re Cork v Donegal last year. Cork were playing quick ball into O'Neill in the first half and it was paying dividends. They seemed to change it then and it all fell apart.Ha ha re McBrearty. He doesn't look right at all.


Cork kept point for point with Donegal last year for first half went in 1 point down, put in a lot of wides and after about 10 mins of second half Donegal were ahead by 4 and game was over.
Very similar to yesterday in the scoring front.
If anybody is gonna beat Donegal by shooting from distance they will have to have some high percentage of score sucess. because Donegal will give you all the possession you want further outfield and you better take your chances because every miss you have from outfield saps confidence gives
Donegal another chance to attack out of defence with the ball and tag on another point.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 27/05/2013 12:19:00    1392341

The Master. The fact that Kerry and Tipp was shown Live earlier that day should have meant Louth/Laois and Wicklow/Longford should have been given decent coverage.

Wicklowman (Wicklow) - Posts: 1161 - 27/05/2013 12:25:36    1392355

Very little coverage given to both the Louth v laois, and Wicklow v Longford games, but worse of all, both games were barely analysed. You would expect that in the league, but it shows huge disrespect to all teams involved. Also on the point of the Sunday game show as a whole, Des Cahill has to be the worse presenter on TV, he sounds bored when talking about every game.

PK57 (Louth) - Posts: 1664 - 27/05/2013 12:40:36    1392373

Last night's Sunday game was an absolute embarrassment to GAA, RTE and television as a whole. I was pleasantly surprised at the start to see that they were putting on the London game first but that was the only positive. They hadn't even bothered to send a commentator and just had an after match voice over with about 2 minutes of action on one camera. I could excuse RTE if it was a case that this upset hadn't been coming, but it had, as Leitrim and Mayo were very lucky to get out of Ruislip with wins in recent years. To then have nothing but a skype feed from what Des Cahill described as an upstairs flat was degrading to the London players. This was then followed by a rant from Eamonn O'Hara at Kevin Walsh with no analysis whatsoever from any of the other analysts. From then to the end of the football part of the show we had brief glimpses at 2 games in Leinster and more extended looks at the annual Turkey shoots in Munster. These games were punctuated by silly comments from Spillane about Blankets, even sillier comments about the Tyrone keeper by Whelan and we had the spectacle of O'Hara listing out the MOTM candidates from the Kerry game even though the MOTM had been mistakenly revealed to be Cooper 20 minutes earlier. After that rubbish I was looking forward to the hurling session but to my utter amazement it was even worse. After a 2 minute tribute to Donal og Cusack they got down to who and what they thought would make an impression on this year's campaign. Low and behold they came up with Henry Shefflin's work rate and Brendan Maher's leadership. Did we really need 3 'experts' to tell us this? They then went on to write off Galway on the basis of a bad league campaign (where they got to a semi-final) and the very scientific fact that Galway never put 2 good years back to back, genius!! At that stage it was time to end and I think Des was happy to put that show out of its misery.

Mailman98 (Galway) - Posts: 319 - 27/05/2013 12:51:47    1392391

'The Master'

Most neutrals and i'm one would have liked to see one of the following:-
1. London v Sligo
2. louth v Laois
3. Wicklow v Longford

rather than Kerry v tipp - this isn't a dig at tipp, but we have seen these 2 play so many times in recent years and the result was a forgone conclusion - is it because it is a home game for Kerry and as its on TV - more revenue for them

As regards the evening show - brutal - how many mistakes - wrong video clips etc..
But no results - according to a friend of mine who was in Trim on sat - the Down v Meath Christy Ring cup was a cracker finishing level after extra -time - but no result - minor games no clips or results...

personally the London v Sligo game could have been live - novelty factor, the shock factor was on, etc, but we see the usual bull - fans want to see what Kerry are like - nobody knows what Kerry are like because they played a very poor team...... as regards the hurling analysis - the hurling championship started weeks ago..... then we had the experts viewpoints - why????? Go to any primary school in the country and ask them who will will the hurling championship and 99% of the kids will say Tipp, Cork or Kilkenny , so why spend so long on drival, the footballers of London, Louth, Limerick, Sligo. Longford, Wicklow and the underage footballers of Tyrone, Monaghan, Antrim, Cavan, Junior footballers, Christ Ring Hurlers of Down/Meath, Kildare/Kerry etc deserve much much better

We the GAEL's of this country deserve better than this s..t

cuchulainn35 (Armagh) - Posts: 1691 - 27/05/2013 13:14:11    1392430

Would any one know why the Sunday game isn't available oversees? Setanta is a poor service no live games over weekend

duncanknows125 (Down) - Posts: 123 - 27/05/2013 13:14:35    1392431

Time to dump RTE

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4968 - 27/05/2013 13:25:03    1392444