RTE League Sunday

[Denn Forever]

GAA 2012 seemed to concentrate on Div 1 and 2 games.   I doubt it has the budget to get to Div.3 and 4 games.

[Sportacus]

Whichever channel unearths a great commentator will have it nailed.  God I used to love listening to O'Hehir in my youth. He had a great tone and really added to the atmosphere. There's nobody commentating at the moment who I enjoy. I really think it's actually doing damage to the GAA - like do you ever see a child running about with a ball impersonating Morrisey?

[Jinxy]

I couldn't care less about that to be honest.
The problem we have now is commentators that try to be 'characters' with pointless anecdotes and folksy mucksavagery.
Give me someone like Darragh Maloney, who just says what's happening on the pitch, over that tired stereotype any day of the week.

[Ciarrai_thuaidh]

I couldn't care less about that to be honest.
The problem we have now is commentators that try to be 'characters' with pointless anecdotes and folksy mucksavagery.
Give me someone like Darragh Maloney, who just says what's happening on the pitch, over that tired stereotype any day of the week.

This.
Moloney, despite not being a GAA man at all, is the best RTE commentator right now. No bullsh*t or ramblings a la Morrissey/Canning.

[blewuporstuffed]

I couldn't care less about that to be honest.
The problem we have now is commentators that try to be 'characters' with pointless anecdotes and folksy mucksavagery.
Give me someone like Darragh Maloney, who just says what's happening on the pitch, over that tired stereotype any day of the week.

This.
Moloney, despite not being a GAA man at all, is the best RTE commentator right now. No bullsh*t or ramblings a la Morrissey/Canning.

Yeah, Maloney is the best by a mile

[Orangemac]

An hour is not enough for highlights from 16 games. Match of the Day covers only around 7-8 matches and it takes an hour and a half.  Premier Soccer Saturday is over 2 hours long for the same number of matches.

Ten minutes is the minimum time that should be given to each Division 1 game, 6-7 minutes for Division 2, 2-3 minutes for division 3 and a minute for division 4. Throw in about 20-30 minutes chatting and analysis, that would give a show that was approximately an hour and 45 minutes long for all games over the weekend.

That is an appropriate length for a highlights show. Not a meseley hour where half the show is one game and some other Division 1 matches get less than 2 minutes, let alone what happens to lower division games!

This sounds logical. Unfortunately not to RTE. It is in the GAAs interests that the skills/scores of GAA are showcased properly particularly for younger viewers. With modern technology it is not expensive to have highlights from all games. Maybe the GAA needs to launch it's own channel.

[mylestheslasher]

Marty was commentating on radio 1 last Saturday and it was shocking. The nature of radio means commentators must talk more than on tv which is a big negative where Marty is concerned. He is just brutal.

[Farrandeelin]

He's a reporter, not a commentator. He shouldn't be allowed to commentate.

[Croí na hÉireann]

Marty was commentating on radio 1 last Saturday and it was shocking. The nature of radio means commentators must talk more than on tv which is a big negative where Marty is concerned. He is just brutal.

Was listening to him at the match. With Kerry a point up Marty was telling us "There is no score after three and a half minutes of play". 30 seconds later his next comment up "And after four minutes Kerry are up by two points". I'd have fucked the phone at him if he was within range, I'd say Dessie was doing his nut.

[Denn Forever]

Just watching Seó Spóirt repeat this morning with subtitles.  Great show. See Tony Fearon won their weekly competition.  That man wins again.

[Aaron Boone]

Tomorrow this show will hv highlights of the two games Setanta have already shown tonight and the two games TG4 have tomorrow. Pointless really.

[Jinxy]

Not if you don't have Setanta.
Plus, they're the the two most attractive fixtures from a viewers perspective.

[Farrandeelin]

Tomorrow this show will hv highlights of the two games Setanta have already shown tonight and the two games TG4 have tomorrow. Pointless really.

It'll be one and a half setanta games so!

[Hoof Hearted]

It's like the sundaygame tonight - lyster and O'Rourke both on

[Sportacus]

That was a fair discussion on kildare monaghan dust up.  Wasn't much but it won't look good in Monday papers, and it comes quickly after the derrytresk thing.  And any sanctions handed down when these things happen will be watered down - nail on the head.