The Sunday Game

[beer baron]

Martin Carney still there 

[seafoid]

Colm O'Rourke, Ciaran Whelan, Martin Carney, Pat Spillane, Colm Cooper, Dessie Dolan, Oisin McConville, Tomás Ó Sé and Martin McHugh (missing from photo: Joe Brolly).

Leinster = 3
Kerry = 3
Ulster = 3 and 3/4
Connacht 1/4



A very balanced panel. Martin Carney the only fraction (about a quarter Mayo) to give a Connacht perspective.

O'Rourke is from Leitrim

[From the Bunker]

Martin Carney still there 

Very much so.

[Owenmoresider]

Colm O'Rourke, Ciaran Whelan, Martin Carney, Pat Spillane, Colm Cooper, Dessie Dolan, Oisin McConville, Tomás Ó Sé and Martin McHugh (missing from photo: Joe Brolly).

Leinster = 3
Kerry = 3
Ulster = 3 and 3/4
Connacht 1/4



A very balanced panel. Martin Carney the only fraction (about a quarter Mayo) to give a Connacht Mayo perspective.

Fixed that for you.

[From the Bunker]

Colm O'Rourke, Ciaran Whelan, Martin Carney, Pat Spillane, Colm Cooper, Dessie Dolan, Oisin McConville, Tomás Ó Sé and Martin McHugh (missing from photo: Joe Brolly).

Leinster = 3
Kerry = 3
Ulster = 3 and 3/4
Connacht 1/4



A very balanced panel. Martin Carney the only fraction (about a quarter Mayo) to give a Connacht Mayo perspective.

Fixed that for you.

Carney is a Donegal man first! The 2012 All Ireland final showed us that. He won't do Mayo (or Donegal for that matter) any favours like Spillane and Plámás will with soundbites for their native county. Sadly, Media presence is important in the modern game.

[Syferus]

Would they just hire Cake already so he can put manners on that Brolly lad.

[Jinxy]

Colm O'Rourke, Ciaran Whelan, Martin Carney, Pat Spillane, Colm Cooper, Dessie Dolan, Oisin McConville, Tomás Ó Sé and Martin McHugh (missing from photo: Joe Brolly).

Leinster = 3
Kerry = 3
Ulster = 3 and 3/4
Connacht 1/4



A very balanced panel. Martin Carney the only fraction (about a quarter Mayo) to give a Connacht perspective.

Very much so.

[Beffs]

It must be said !

So only the 3 Kerry men.

Was the other O'Se lad busy? 

[Farrandeelin]

What games are on? Never mind the panel.

[BennyCake]

Colm O'Rourke, Ciaran Whelan, Martin Carney, Pat Spillane, Colm Cooper, Dessie Dolan, Oisin McConville, Tomás Ó Sé and Martin McHugh (missing from photo: Joe Brolly).

Leinster = 3
Kerry = 3
Ulster = 3 and 3/4
Connacht 1/4



A very balanced panel. Martin Carney the only fraction (about a quarter Mayo) to give a Connacht perspective.

It won't matter. With Brolly there, the only perspective we'll get to hear about is Brolly's.

[Syferus]

What games are on? Never mind the panel.

You won't be saying that when you're five weeks into the dour, defensive Ulsterball in all the games not involving Roscommon.

[Cunny Funt]

What games are on? Never mind the panel.

Indeed who cares about the panel? i switch over or switch off once the game is over.

The full list of televised games on RTÉ2 is:

Saturday 20 May

7pm Monaghan v Fermanagh (USFC Preliminary Round)

Sunday 21 May

2pm Mayo v Sligo (CSFC Quarter final)

4pm Cork v Tipperary (MSHC Quarter Final)

Sunday 28 May

2pm Derry v Tyrone (USFC Quarter final)

4pm Dublin v Galway (LSHC Quarter Final)

Sunday 4 June

2pm Down v Armagh (USFC Quarter final)

Saturday 10 June

5pm Cork/Waterford v Tipperary (MSFC semi final)

Sunday 11 June

2pm Cavan v Fermanagh/Monaghan (USFC Quarter final)

4pm Galway v Mayo/Sligo (CSFC Semi Final)

Sunday 18 June

2pm Derry/Tyrone v Donegal/Antrim (USFC Semi-Final)

4pm Waterford v Cork/Tipperary (MSHC Semi Final)

Saturday 24 June

7pm Down / Armagh v Cavan / Monaghan / Fermanagh (USFC Semi-Final)

Sunday 25 June

4pm Carlow / Wexford / Dublin v Offaly / Westmeath (LSFC Semi Final)

Saturday 1 July

5.00pm, QUALIFIER

Sunday 2 July

2pm Munster Football Final

4pm Leinster Hurling Final

Saturday 8 July

5.00pm, QUALIFER

Sunday 9 July

2pm Connacht Football Final

4pm Munster Hurling Final

Sunday 16 July

2pm Ulster Football Final

4pm Leinster Football Final

Sunday 23 July

2pm All Ireland Hurling Quarter Final

4pm All Ireland Hurling Quarter Final

Sunday 30 July

2pm All Ireland Football Quarter Final

4pm All Ireland Football Quarter Final

Sunday 6 August

3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Semi-Final

Sunday 13 August

3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Semi-Final

Sunday 20 August

3.30pm All Ireland Football Semi-Final

Sunday 27 August

3.30pm All Ireland Football Semi-Final

Sunday 3 September

3.30pm All Ireland Hurling Final

Sunday 17 September

3.30pm All Ireland Football Final



 

[macdanger2]

Colm O'Rourke - very poor, rarely has anything to add, looks decent cos he's usually on with pat & joe
Ciaran Whelan - good, kn**ker of a player but one of the best on TSG
Martin Carney - poor, all clichés
Pat Spillane - useless, repeats the same thing every week regardless of what happened in the games
Colm Cooper - tbd
Dessie Dolan - not great, usually fairly watery
Oisin McConville - very good, himself & Whelan would be my top two
Tomás Ó Sé - similar to Carney, Dolan & McHugh
Martin McHugh - as above
Joe Brolly - useless, offers no insight and just rants

[Syferus]

Colm O'Rourke - very poor, rarely has anything to add, looks decent cos he's usually on with pat & joe
Ciaran Whelan - good, kn**ker of a player but one of the best on TSG
Martin Carney - poor, all clichés
Pat Spillane - useless, repeats the same thing every week regardless of what happened in the games
Colm Cooper - tbd
Dessie Dolan - not great, usually fairly watery
Oisin McConville - very good, himself & Whelan would be my top two
Tomás Ó Sé - similar to Carney, Dolan & McHugh
Martin McHugh - as above
Joe Brolly - useless, offers no insight and just rants

Still better than Jimmy and Peter giving rotten Ulsterball matches verbal blowjobs as if people are too stupid to see the sort of muck they've just watched.

[Beffs]

Agree with you 100% on McConville. I'd say he'd be very good at doing the co-commentary too. For some reason, Dessie Dolan gets a fair few of those gigs. God knows why. He'd put you to sleep.

Tomas O'Se was very good, for about the first half, of his first year as a pundit. He was honest in his thoughts about Cork going soft and he was dead right. He was crucified, but he was dead right. He has disimproved since. He is far too fond of the usual cliches and is the absolute worst for starting and ending every single bloody sentence with "ah shure, d'ja know, I suppose, lookit, I suppose... which completely diminishes the impact of any point he is trying to make. I thought it was just the way he spoke, until I heard him being interviewed on Radio Kerry, by his own people. He was well able to give clear, concise answers to simple questions, when he wasn't overdoing playing the cute Kerry hoor to a nationwide audience.