The Sunday Game

[Owenmoresider]

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:

Sunday 4 June

2pm Down v Armagh (USFC Quarter final)

Does that mean the Clare-Limerick Munster hurling semi is on Sky instead?

[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.

they should wear jerseys instead of suits

[The Trap]

Ranked in order:
Ciaran Whelan (knows what he is talking about)
Joe Brolly (might talk rubbish but worth watching)
Oisin McConville (very good to date and will hopefully improve)
Tomas O'Se (makes some good contributions)
Pat Spillane (useless but controversial)
Com O'Rourke (one of my fav players but just sitting there taking easy money for doing nothing)
Dessie Dolan (very boring)
Martin Carney (I turn over to another channel as soon as I hear his voice)
Com Cooper (I am very sceptical)

Michael Lyster - does my head in - wont let them answer the questions anyway even if they were any good!

[Farrandeelin]

Thanks for that CF. Agree with The Trap re Cooper. Probably full of clichés. Hope I'm wrong.

[seafoid]

Audiences for TSG and the Gaaboard are quite different imo. TSG has to be at least 50% cliche, you know Marty.
If it was about 100% quality they wouldn't have Ger Canning.
Pat Spillane would have gone a long time ago.

[illdecide]

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:

Sunday 4 June

2pm Down v Armagh (USFC Quarter final)

Does that mean the Clare-Limerick Munster hurling semi is on Sky instead?

4:00pm?

[Owenmoresider]

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:

Sunday 4 June

2pm Down v Armagh (USFC Quarter final)

Does that mean the Clare-Limerick Munster hurling semi is on Sky instead?

4:00pm?

That's the only game shown as on for that Sunday. Would be quite rare for a Munster hurling game not to be on live.

[Owenmoresider]

Incidentally looking at that list, does that mean we won't have to suffer Tommy Carr this year?

[joemamas]

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.

I can't say for sure Ger, but I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt 

[joemamas]

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.

So true on O Se. Terrible.

Cliché city,

"Look Michael, I suppose",
"I remember the day we played them ten years ago"

ZZZZZZZZZZZ, Please go away.

[Jinxy]

Can we not just get the hurling analysts to do the football as well?

[Beffs]

So true on O Se. Terrible.

Cliché city,

"Look Michael, I suppose",
"I remember the day we played them ten years ago"

ZZZZZZZZZZZ, Please go away.

Yeah and Daragh is nothing but wall to wall stories about Paudi. Nothing personal against Marc & he does bring recent experience of playing the Dubs to the table, but does the planet really need yet another O'Se brother doing pundity? I wasn't a bit surprised to see him pop up in Eir Sports during the league, but it would be nice to see someone from other counties than Kerry (in particular) getting all the punditry gigs. There is too much shadow box going on with that crowd, as they all have an eye on potential meetings in August and September. How about just analysing the bloody game that is on in front of you, on its own merits, just for bloody once?

[macdanger2]

Audiences for TSG and the Gaaboard are quite different imo. TSG has to be at least 50% cliche, you know Marty.
If it was about 100% quality they wouldn't have Ger Canning.
Pat Spillane would have gone a long time ago.

You're on the money there Seaf, most people watching the Sunday game are the relatively casual observer

[BennyCake]

I'd be happy for Spillane to go, but please please get rid of Ger Canning!

[Jinxy]

Cian Ward and Anthony Moyles are two of the best analysts around.
Wouldn't suit the soundbite-driven style of TSG though.