Eurovision Song Contest 2010 (Ireland beat the brits)

[SLIGONIAN]

I had uk as the worst song and germany next to it,

with the phone voting in now Ireland has next to impossible chance, imagine the german population in belguim, holland, etc.. and vice versa, so no one can really blame them, look at all the soviet states aswell, was suprised georgia gave russia 4pts ,Irish population in uk would get us decent points, but its not really on song quality though now,

Some of ones reading out the votes were unreal, ukraine, swiss chick etc..... i was undecided where to go on holidays(as marty kept harping on about) but a rail tour of europe looks likely. Those French wankers aswell, gave us nothing. Cant wait to see them stuffed in SA.

[SLIGONIAN]

Germany winner was just like something kate Nash or Lily Allen would sing/talk & i can't stand those two

IMO Ireland should enter the Corrs -the fella to give me something worthwhile to look at 

Is that a hyphen or a minus sign Ross? 

Haha a big fat minus 

Way to out yourself man  ,

[ross4life]

other years i had to watch a transsexual win it (linda martin) and Dana international another year

[SLIGONIAN]

Ireland should have gone with your man Justin lee Collins and his Ronan Keating penned song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8n3Zp-wyPk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xV16jac50

Did you watch the documentary behind collins doing it? He met Ronan and he said before the Ireland result that the hierarchy in RTE told him that Niamh would win, before the telephone vote...no joke... not a bad song though his, he is releasing it a as charity single on may 26th though.

[ONeill]

Ireland should have gone with your man Justin lee Collins and his Ronan Keating penned song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8n3Zp-wyPk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xV16jac50

Did you watch the documentary behind collins doing it? He met Ronan and he said before the Ireland result that the hierarchy in RTE told him that Niamh would win, before the telephone vote...no joke... not a bad song though his, he is releasing it a as charity single on may 26th though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV9O-tmL5rM&feature=related

[magpie seanie]

Its a good job our politicians have told us that we are taken seriously at negotiations by our European neighbours cos this voting would be worrying otherwise! A bit like Rafa's 4th plac guarantee - oh wait...

Our entry wasn't brillaint but it wasn't crap either. Not a fan of sour grapes but somewhere around 10th-14th would have been about right. Cyprus was a good song and got similarly pissed on. Nice of Israel to pay for those passports.

[The Real Laoislad]

The most bitter poster on the board is not a fan of sour grapes
Best laugh I've had all night 

[mylestheslasher]

Poor old Marty, we woz robbed of our win  Biased voting cannot be blamed for Ireland coming in so far down the list - the song was crap. Georgia had a similar type ballad song and it was sung by a better singer than Niamh and the song was catchier - it came 10th or so I think. There are 4 million odd in the republic and 100's more in eastern europe, who are we to tell them what flavour of crap euro songs they should like. The best way to win this contest is to come up with something different.

[The Real Laoislad]

Something different..... Like a turkey hand puppet in a shopping trolley?

[INDIANA]

Need to abandon ship on this. Its a waste of time now. Could be worse England weighed out huge money at least we didn't

[mylestheslasher]

Something different..... Like a turkey hand puppet in a shopping trolley?

Replace the turkey with a half naked woman and your on the right track

[INDIANA]

Something different..... Like a turkey hand puppet in a shopping trolley?

Replace the turkey with a half naked woman and your on the right track

But we haven't the population for the phone voting. Germany has a large population and it was a modern type song. There is no point in us wasting money over this.

[Bogball XV]

I had uk as the worst song and germany next to it,

with the phone voting in now Ireland has next to impossible chance, imagine the german population in belguim, holland, etc.. and vice versa, so no one can really blame them, look at all the soviet states aswell, was suprised georgia gave russia 4pts ,Irish population in uk would get us decent points, but its not really on song quality though now,

Some of ones reading out the votes were unreal, ukraine, swiss chick etc..... i was undecided where to go on holidays(as marty kept harping on about) but a rail tour of europe looks likely. Those French w**kers aswell, gave us nothing. Cant wait to see them stuffed in SA.

so how come germany don't win it every year?  There's obviously a fair bit of the auld bias at work, but it could also be that certain styles of music appeal more to certain regions as that's what they're used to, if the song is decent the thinking is that a lot of the bias in voting will even itself out, it'll take a while though as it seems that many of the more recently formed states take great pride in the competition and are not yet disillusioned with the scandals behind telephone voting!!

Georgia giving Russia points was a strange one alright, presumably the phone lines in ossetia are still working to some extent!

[INDIANA]

I had uk as the worst song and germany next to it,

with the phone voting in now Ireland has next to impossible chance, imagine the german population in belguim, holland, etc.. and vice versa, so no one can really blame them, look at all the soviet states aswell, was suprised georgia gave russia 4pts ,Irish population in uk would get us decent points, but its not really on song quality though now,

Some of ones reading out the votes were unreal, ukraine, swiss chick etc..... i was undecided where to go on holidays(as marty kept harping on about) but a rail tour of europe looks likely. Those French w**kers aswell, gave us nothing. Cant wait to see them stuffed in SA.

so how come germany don't win it every year?  There's obviously a fair bit of the auld bias at work, but it could also be that certain styles of music appeal more to certain regions as that's what they're used to, if the song is decent the thinking is that a lot of the bias in voting will even itself out, it'll take a while though as it seems that many of the more recently formed states take great pride in the competition and are not yet disillusioned with the scandals behind telephone voting!!

Georgia giving Russia points was a strange one alright, presumably the phone lines in ossetia are still working to some extent!

Germany was a modern type song. Thats why it did so well. The ould ballad day is over.

[SLIGONIAN]

Something different..... Like a turkey hand puppet in a shopping trolley?

Replace the turkey with a half naked woman and your on the right track

Can Georgia Salpa sing?