The Sunday Game

[AZOffaly]

Laois won.

[laoislad]

Cause these are the bigger games

They have two commentators at these bigger games

More cameras at these games


Anyway missed the Offaly Laois game. What the hell happened???

Not a big game?
There was almost 8,000 in Portlaoise yesterday. There wasn't much more at the LondonDerry v Down game.

[TheOptimist]

Cause these are the bigger games

They have two commentators at these bigger games

More cameras at these games


Anyway missed the Offaly Laois game. What the hell happened???

Not a big game?
There was almost 8,000 in Portlaoise yesterday. There wasn't much more at the LondonDerry v Down game.

If you are going to be a tit and use it, at least get the grammar correct. It is Londonderry.

[DennistheMenace]

Cause these are the bigger games

They have two commentators at these bigger games

More cameras at these games


Anyway missed the Offaly Laois game. What the hell happened???

Not a big game?
There was almost 8,000 in Portlaoise yesterday. There wasn't much more at the LondonDerry v Down game.

If you are going to be a tit and use it, at least get the grammar correct. It is Londonderry.

And there was over 10k at the Derry game.

[AZOffaly]

Is it my imagination, or has Pat Spillane had a positivity uplift operation? He was trying his best to talk up that game until he broke down at the end with his 72 minutes comment, but he was talking about intensity, no one leaving etc etc.

[Bensars]

Why bother showing so much highlights from games that were already shown live both Sunday and Saturday?
When there are other games - Kildare v Laois, Laois v Offaly, Westmeath v Wexford and all the Christy Ring/Rackard/Meagher finals that got no RTE live coverage?

Sunday game is usually precorded earlier, the SG analysts are in RTE during the games and can select clips etc for anlysis as its happening. These are packaged together and always first.

The games from out and about are then scanned for scores usually and packaged accordingly with a slice  of cliche and predictable punditry which reeks of i couldnt really give a feck, but here it is anyway

[Esmarelda]

Why bother showing so much highlights from games that were already shown live both Sunday and Saturday?
When there are other games - Kildare v Laois, Laois v Offaly, Westmeath v Wexford and all the Christy Ring/Rackard/Meagher finals that got no RTE live coverage?

Sunday game is usually precorded earlier, the SG analysts are in RTE during the games and can select clips etc for anlysis as its happening. These are packaged together and always first.

The games from out and about are then scanned for scores usually and packaged accordingly with a slice  of cliche and predictable punditry which reeks of i couldnt really give a feck, but here it is anyway

You'd have thought that one of the analysts could have been sent to Tullamore on Saturday evening. He could have made notes and had the relevant clips packaged together in the proceeding 24 hours so that a decent analysis was on show on Sunday evening.

[tiempo]

Why bother showing so much highlights from games that were already shown live both Sunday and Saturday?

When there are other games - Kildare v Laois, Laois v Offaly, Westmeath v Wexford and all the Christy Ring/Rackard/Meagher finals that got no RTE live coverage?

Three national finals on at Croke Park at the weekend and RTE/Sunday Game couldn't be arsed to give the lads a bit of air time. That is utterly pathetic.

Considering some of the points made on the Aogan O'Farrell thread, are RTE equipped to deliver the best promotion of the games as they seem intent on half-jobbing it through their weekly highlights show? Surely the GAA need to be stepping in here and setting some expectations/quality agreement to ensure RTE are railroaded out of their current bluff-fest mentality.

GAA getting a poor return on the rights packages gifted to RTE. I'd rather see them at other national broadcasters to be honest e.g. TG4.

[AZOffaly]

Why bother showing so much highlights from games that were already shown live both Sunday and Saturday?

When there are other games - Kildare v Laois, Laois v Offaly, Westmeath v Wexford and all the Christy Ring/Rackard/Meagher finals that got no RTE live coverage?

Three national finals on at Croke Park at the weekend and RTE/Sunday Game couldn't be arsed to give the lads a bit of air time. That is utterly pathetic.

Considering some of the points made on the Aogan O'Farrell thread, are RTE equipped to deliver the best promotion of the games as they seem intent on half-jobbing it through their weekly highlights show? Surely the GAA need to be stepping in here and setting some expectations/quality agreement to ensure RTE are railroaded out of their current bluff-fest mentality.

GAA getting a poor return on the rights packages gifted to RTE. I'd rather see them at other national broadcasters to be honest e.g. TG4.

It's another thing to bear in mind when we talk about 2 or 3 tier football championships. I didn't want to mention it last week because I didn't want to be disrespectful towards the efforts these teams are putting in, but if the level of appreciation/recognition for the Ring/Rackard/Meagher Cups were replicated in any corresponding football competition, I think it would be far from a positive for the counties involved.

[armaghniac]

Considering some of the points made on the Aogan O'Farrell thread, are RTE equipped to deliver the best promotion of the games as they seem intent on half-jobbing it through their weekly highlights show? Surely the GAA need to be stepping in here and setting some expectations/quality agreement to ensure RTE are railroaded out of their current bluff-fest mentality.

The GAA can propose a requirement for magazine coverage etc. But they seem basically interested in the bottom line.

[The Bearded One]

This has probably been picked up already but I've just sat down to watch RTE coverage of yesterday's football. During Colm O'Rourke's pre match analysis he talked about Derry's Eoin Bradley being picked up by the rookie full back Rogers - who also plays for Derry. Unbelievable!

[5 Sams]

This has probably been picked up already but I've just sat down to watch RTE coverage of yesterday's football. During Colm O'Rourke's pre match analysis he talked about Derry's Eoin Bradley being picked up by the rookie full back Rogers - who also plays for Derry. Unbelievable!

+1. How do they keep their jobs. He was talking about "Brendan McKernan" as well! He still has the horrors from 91!

[OgraAnDun]

Why bother showing so much highlights from games that were already shown live both Sunday and Saturday?
When there are other games - Kildare v Laois, Laois v Offaly, Westmeath v Wexford and all the Christy Ring/Rackard/Meagher finals that got no RTE live coverage?

Sunday game is usually precorded earlier, the SG analysts are in RTE during the games and can select clips etc for anlysis as its happening. These are packaged together and always first.

No it's not, the 'welcome tonight to the Sunday game' bit is pre recorded and that is it.

[rodney trotter]

Michael Lyster rushed to intensive care http://t.co/WC7T4QiJrl

[Dinny Breen]

Tommy "Feckin" Carr, why RTE? Why?