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Stay clear of The Pope's Exorcist. The acting is mediocre at best and the film isn't even scary.

Agree! Terrible movie

[Foreign Movies-]

A few Foreign Movies- that I rate very high and maybe not that well known:


Capernaum (Lebanon movie shot like a doc - crazy realistic)
A Separation (Iranian drama/ mystery)
The Hunt (Danish - Drama)
The White Ribbon (German -about the roots of Nazism)
Honeyland (North Macedonian - documentary)
Mirage (Spanish - Mystery/ Fantasy)
A Moment to Remember (Korean - Drama/ Romance -WARNING it will make you cry)
Peppermint Candy (Korean - Drama / dark -probably need to understand a bit about Korean history to fully enjoy)
Wild Tales (Argentinian - Black comedy - six short stories)
Incendies (Lebanon- Drama/Mystery)
Bleak Night (Korean - Drama)
The Invisible Guest (Spanish - Drama/Mystery)
Victoria (German - Drama/crime)
Lilya 4-Ever (Russian - Drama/crime)
Lion (Indian- Biography/drama)
Revanche  (Russian - Drama/crime)
Last Train Home (Chinese - Documentary - this film will remind you of how good you have it)

And when you think RTÉ can't sink lower....Up for the Match is back next Saturday......

Total cringe fest!

Gerry O Malley
Dermot Earley
Harry Keegan
Tony McManus
Enda Smith.

Francie Grehan and Enon Gavin would  be close imo.
But not many Rossies would dispute that 5. Maybe Smith as he hasnt produced in a big game outside connacht yet!  Hopefully watch this space.

Customers need to get out of the auto rebuy, then maybe they would improve things

what's the alternative - just not watch for a year?

stop bitching about it we get hundreds of games and Sunday game every Sunday for $140 a year , you wouldn't get a night out for double it .

Not the point!  You can watch netflix for about 100 a year and  ive never had any play back issues if thats what ur saying. For me price is not the issue here its the fact its unreliable, frustrating to use and should have a bigger selection of games.

Crashed completely (Ireland and US) at the start of the Dub/Tipp hurling match.  Came back after a few minutes and was fine thereafter, but it's a very poor service overall.  No alternative unfortunately.

Yes and they cant even get play back right. Tried to watch back the Down v Ros game on catch up and  it is missing parts at the start of the game. So went to bbc i player using vpn and playback was perfect. Shows just how shit it is when they cant even get playback right. It really is such a poor service and but no alternative .
If only a vpn worked for rte player

This was their response when I complained about above issue.
It took them a second e-mail to come up with this.

"To elaborate on what I meant by, "As the issue occurred live it would also be on our on-demand upload," the RTÉ studios encountered a connection issue which caused a freeze across the board on all of our streams going out at that time, including the Down V Roscommon game. This effected our coverage of the game, not BBC's, their coverage was going through their system. You will note our coverage of the game has our branding on it and BBC's has theirs. The issue did not occur on site (where the game was being recorded) but at our studios in Donnybrook, where we were pushing the streams out from.  As such, BBC's on-demand version does not include the freeze frame that features on ours as they did not encounter the issue. I do apologise for the loss of coverage we experienced at the start of that stream, missing any coverage is unacceptable. I assure you our engineers have investigated into the issue, we have identified what caused the problem and put measures in place to ensure it does not happen again."

It still doesnt make any sense to me that the on demand video has the missing parts. And were they not using the bbc video in the first place as the bbc iplayer version is the exact same as the gaago video.


I also got on to them about having to move the scroll bar to get to start of game and this is what they responded with

"To reiterate, in regards to your question about scrubbing through advertisements on on-demand uploads, there are two versions of the on-demand upload of our game. One that goes up immediately after the live broadcast has ended which includes advertisements and an edited version (no ads to scrub through) that goes up within 12 hours of the live broadcast ending. If you are watching the unedited version, simply scroll right back to the start of the scrub bar to watch the stream from the start, Live coverage begins 15 minutes into the stream (there are 15 mins of ads pre-game). "

As I said it took me giving out alot to get these responses
Any time I have contacted them about issues they send on spoof usually off the point. No wonder the service hasnt improved in years.

Crashed completely (Ireland and US) at the start of the Dub/Tipp hurling match.  Came back after a few minutes and was fine thereafter, but it's a very poor service overall.  No alternative unfortunately.

Yes and they cant even get play back right. Tried to watch back the Down v Ros game on catch up and  it is missing parts at the start of the game. So went to bbc i player using vpn and playback was perfect. Shows just how shit it is when they cant even get playback right. It really is such a poor service and but no alternative .
If only a vpn worked for rte player

[Just turning up mentality cost Kerry a goal when they tried to show boat the ball into the net..]

One thing I noticed on the sky coverage just as the players were coming off after 70mins was the difference in body language between the teams. They showed close ups of the two Clifford's and Brian Ó Beaglaoich, all looked shell-shocked and exhausted. By comparison Hampsey and McCann looked like they were at the start of a match, not the end.

I noticed that
I put it down to the Kerry lads thought that it was theirs to loose and the papers said so
Extra time wasn't in their plans for the day at all at all
Turn up, play the game, run the scoreboard up and the trickiest thing to manage was
making it back to Hueston station for the 17:30 to Tralee

Just turning up mentality cost Kerry a goal when they tried to show boat the ball into the net..

That was a shocking piece of positional awareness by O'Brien. All he had to do was step half a metre back, schoolboy error.

As bad as the positioning for O'Brien was, why o'shea didn't just roll it in with the left i'll never know. i'd imagine most club forwards would have backed themselves in that position

It wasn't O Shea. It was Geaney. This is what happens when u have numpties like D Dolan commenting on games.

Anyone try watching the Monaghan v Tyrone & Donegal v Armagh games  on catch up today?
I could only watch 40 mins of the Monaghan v Tyrone and then it just stops.
The Donegal v Armagh game will only play from the 52 min to the 53 min. I mean what is going on?
This is the third time I've tried to watch a catch up game (the day after the live stream) and it's either not working (Donegal V Tyrone) or just shows bits of the game.

How can they not set up a recorded game properly for play back?

Not being able to show it live is one thing. Not being able to playback on demand is ridiculous.

It's working grand now after I contacted them about the problem. And it's not the first time i've had to contact them about on demand playback.
Smacks of staff that don't give a f**k or incompetent.

GAAGO to hire new Technical Operations Manager

https://hoganstand.com/County/National/Article/Index/317262

Must have got the sack after all my complaints😆😆

Anyone try watching the Monaghan v Tyrone & Donegal v Armagh games  on catch up today?
I could only watch 40 mins of the Monaghan v Tyrone and then it just stops.
The Donegal v Armagh game will only play from the 52 min to the 53 min. I mean what is going on?
This is the third time I've tried to watch a catch up game (the day after the live stream) and it's either not working (Donegal V Tyrone) or just shows bits of the game.

How can they not set up a recorded game properly for play back?

Not being able to show it live is one thing. Not being able to playback on demand is ridiculous.

It's working grand now after I contacted them about the problem. And it's not the first time i've had to contact them about on demand playback.
Smacks of staff that don't give a f**k or incompetent.

Anyone try watching the Monaghan v Tyrone & Donegal v Armagh games  on catch up today?
I could only watch 40 mins of the Monaghan v Tyrone and then it just stops.
The Donegal v Armagh game will only play from the 52 min to the 53 min. I mean what is going on?
This is the third time I've tried to watch a catch up game (the day after the live stream) and it's either not working (Donegal V Tyrone) or just shows bits of the game.

How can they not set up a recorded game properly for play back?

Interesting article about the influence Dublin have over the GAA, how they are using it to their advantage and how that inevitably is ruining football.

https://punditarena.com/features/emackenna/mackenna-on-monday-dublin-financial-advantage-must-be-addressed/

[The real blight on the game is slow build up possession football]

The real blight on the game is slow build up possession football. Seeing a team pass the ball from the corner flag back to their keeper or from the left side to the right side to the left side ad nauseum is the largest eye-sore. You shouldn't be rewarded for not trying to score.

None of the suggestions put forward tackle that problem at all. I'd put a score clock rule in place. You've a fixed amount of time to score from when you first take possession. So either 1 minute or else the more Draconian use of a 30 second rule. If you've only one forward inside then it takes much longer to work your players up the pitch to score. Teams would then keep their players stationed more evenly around the field if they were against the clock. Also if your blanket defence is only going to be in place for less than a minute I can't see it being worthwhile implementing a suffocating defence.

The slow build up possession football is only a symptom of the blanket defences. It is the 13/14/15 men behind the ball defending that causes the attacking team to retain the possession going over and back probing until a gap appears in the defence.
The underlying problem is with 13+ players inside the defensive 45m line there is no space for the attacking team.  That's the problem that needs to be solved.
2 points for shots from outside the 45m line is a decent suggestion, as is 13 a-side. Any rule change needs to be easy to implement. restricting the numbers in any particular section of the pitch DURING open play is very hard to police, especially in club games where the only neutral official will be the ref.
Also, I don't think a 'shot clock' is a good option at all for 2 reasons. 1. not easy to implement at club level and 2. I actually think it would encourage more blanket defences. If a defence knows that it only has to keep the forwards out for 30 seconds (or a minute) it will encourage them to tighten things up for that minute safe in the knowledge that if they keep it tight they get the ball back.
Any rule change needs to discourage packed defences not reward them.

Good points and i agree but do you have any ideas yourself?
Imo it needs to be a simple rule to implement and start with one and go from there.

First implement the 4 steps rule
Then restrict the fcukn  abomination of non stop throwball. (Or how about reversing the rubby rule - no backward handpassing allowed?)
No throwing the ball over the bar
No illegal  pushing the ball into the net with 2 hands.

What?  No backward hand passing rule? Are u serious? That would f**k up the game as = stop start stop start.
When was throwing the ball over the bar allowed?
Those ideas are not really solving the problem!!!!!!!

And if they break that rule......?
Defender running out of defence, his forward chasing him comes to half way line-has to stop and see how many of his fellow forwards in opposition half....

Well i didn't give it much thought but each team would have to designate 3 players in attack to stay in the oppositions half full time ie full forward line. If there marker runs out of defence they can follow and tackle up until the half way line but let him go after that. It would be the same for 3 players in defense.
Maybe just have rule that the full back line and full forward line of each team can't leave their half. If they break the rule maybe a free from half way line.
It would bring back the best aspects of football before the blanket defense - quicker movement from defense to attack and more 1 on 1 situations.