The Sunday Game

[seafoid]

I don't mind them using the players nicknames.
It's when they use their nicknames AND their real names AT THE SAME TIME that annoys me. 
"Colm 'Gooch' Cooper", for example.

It must be RTE policy. They never give the nicknames in the pictures at the start of the match, do they ? 
Ger always comes across as the fella who does the chat with the expert who actually follows the game beside him

[Jinxy]

Occasionally Ger lets the patrician facade slip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEy9z1Ul_to

Compare that with the master though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjy9guThsWU

[Dinny Breen]

Is it me or are the pundits looking younger and younger 

[seafoid]

Occasionally Ger lets the patrician facade slip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEy9z1Ul_to

Compare that with the master though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjy9guThsWU

MoM is the sound of the summer. GC is more like lift music.
And the way MoM says "Colm O Rourke"..

[AZOffaly]

MoM was such a brilliant commentator. Thanks a million for that clip Jinxy.

[seafoid]

The amazing thing about those 4 matches was that Down won the all Ireland

[snoopdog]

The amazing thing about those 4 matches was that Down won the all Ireland
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Nothing amazing about it. Down were the best team in the country that summer and deserved it. Meath nearly got dumped out again to wicklow in the following round. ]

[Jinxy]

The amazing thing about those 4 matches was that Down won the all Ireland

Yeah, most people don't remember that.

[Norf Tyrone]

Is there anywhere a man can watch or download the game again from yesterday (Tyr v Derry)?

[armaghniac]

The game should be on the BBC player, the RTE player and on GAaGo if you are in a distant land.

[Farrandeelin]

Suppose they're keeping Darragh Maloney in reserve for Dublin matches only again this year.

[Owenmoresider]

Suppose they're keeping Darragh Maloney in reserve for Dublin matches only again this year.

With Euro 2016 presenting duties his schedule might be reduced even more til late summer.

[BennyCake]

Another year of Ger Canning. I thought he'd have retired by now.

It's a HUGE one..............

Sometimes it's a big, huge one.

He is so bland. The way he reacted to Armagh in 02 and Tyrone in 03, probably two of the top 10  sporting events in Ireland  in the last 20 years, was appalling .

Oh yes, that footballing stronghold of Benburb as I recall hearing...over the squeals of the cat being strangled and the dog yelping as it was booted 6 foot in the air.

[LilySavage]

You can see a commentators yrue worth when the games are poor and they were pigs of games this weekend for a variety of reasons. Weather, mismayches, negative tactics etc. For me Ger Canning is a fraud who has been slowly winding down to retirement for past yen odd years. The problem is we have to endure this guys dogshit commentary until he gets the punchy RTE pension. When he presents greyhound racing, he looks and sounds about 15 years younger. Get rid. Also the analyis is shoddy. T O Se adds little by way of post natch analysis in contrast to his big brother. Ciaran Whelan is excellent but show in general poor. Martin Carney used bug me as well but at least hes interested in what hes commentating on. And Darragh Moloney was brought up to Derry to srand on the line so to speak..nonsense. He should be on whenever available. Interestly in doc. about AI final last year, he stated that he bought all the papers the weekend before games and scoured for the lesser known facts about players as he saw it his duty to  inform the viewership. Canning the chancer can barely be arsed going to the games it seems.

[Asal Mor]

That MOM clip is really powerful. I think Marty is better than Canning. At least there's some genuine excitement about the game there. I was buzzing with anticipation for yesterday's games but my heart sank a bit when I heard Carney was back again.

There's a general laziness and complacency about the punditry in both codes I would say. I don't see anyone there who's doing research and has a detailed knowledge of what's going on in counties, other than their own. I think you'd get a much better standard of analysis if they forgot about hiring former greats and hired a few sports geeks, whose job would be as full-time analysts, and whose working week would involve re-watching videos of games, researching local papers and forums and going to as many club games as they could, so that they would be able to tell us things we don't know already. The current lot obviously just show up and go through the motions, tell us what we know already, and I'm baffled as to why it makes any difference that they were once a great player/manager. I'd love to see and hear a few analysts who never played county, but are dedicated to their role.