Not seen the Chin one yet but I really enjoyed the Murphy episode. It is a series that has merit. Okay,there’s those who will knock it and parts of it are twee but at least it’s entertaining. Obviously the hurling trade is a lot harder than the football. I also think a week is not enough. If they could get it to 2 weeks or a month and stretch it to 2 episodes a code, it would be even better. I may have said it before but if they got the hurler over to Hockey, I think it would be a success. They could play a full match with a clubs 2nd or 3rd team and it would still be a decent standard. The Netherlands and Belgium have full time leagues so it’s not a million miles away.
I worked on building sites for 3 years, mate.
aren’t you some little hero
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Whatever you’re into, mate.
The chin one is fucking dreadful. Every cliché in the book. Worse, it’s patronising in the extreme, lads lining up to try and get them a score.
Lee chin did come across as thoroughly decent, and as an outstanding talent, and a bull of a man, but the whole programme had a slightly awkward air to it, and amateurish feel of one in which everyone was trying desperately to make it work, but it never quite flowed.
Most of the episodes are like this. You neither get to know the characters much, nor find out about their lives or difficulties, and the whole series tends to flop uneasily between several stools.
It just about survives as the viewer really wants it to work. Like a poor comedian live on stage, who just about survives through audience goodwill.
It’s an interesting concept which has never worked as well as it should, as it is partly impractical really, especially with hurling, partly poorly edited, and partly at least, because the sportspeople involved don’t really make for interesting viewing
As a programme, the Lee chin one was awful, however much I try to like it.
It could have been so much better.
The whole thing was like an awkward conversation at a cocktail party.
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The kind of thing TG4’d make a decent fist of but RTÉ can only ruin.
One thing that was really disappointing was that we learned very little about ice hockey, other than its on ice and it’s pretty fast. Any conversation Chin had with elite hockey players was focused on how GAA players are amateurs (OMG!). More evidence of our craving for recognition for our “unique” and “amazing” national sports.
A hurling-shinty swop would be interesting but I can’t imagine it would be glam enough for RTÉ.
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Some of the comments on here are laughable. This is an advertising exercise by AIB, you’re not going to get a ‘30 for 30’ style production. They have about a week to shoot the episodes and three weeks or so to edit them. They’ve done a fine job considering.
Are people expecting the producers to allow the players to look completely stupid? That would discourage the filming of any future episodes and make the main stakeholders, AIB and the GAA, look silly.
The Murphy one worked was better as Williams is a decent character who got on well with the Glenswilly chaps. The Canadian guy was as dull as dishwater.
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The people of Wexford as a whole came across as right gormless cunts - Your man O’Gorman is a right simpleton.
The Cannuck hockey players were all in their 60s and were standing back to let the Paddy have a free shot and he still ended up on his arse.
An embarrassing show.
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I had never heard of a spice bag until this show - Is it common enough in Wexford? Looked horrific
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They haven’t done fine job really.
TG4 do far better programmes on a far smaller budget.
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I’ve said it before, but Denis Byrne told me that Larry o Gorman is the best defender he ever played against.
I thought o Gorman came across as thoroughly likeable and enthusiastic. He’s obviously a tough oul boot as well.
He seems an absolute gent to me.
I tell you who is getting annoying is the fucker in the adverts for the club championship.
Oi reeely reeely beleeeve.
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Spoice bag = deep fried leftovers.
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TG4 are not funded by a main advertiser or restricted by their timeliness for shooting and production.
Who paid is irrelevant. I doubt some desk jockey in the bank is dictating the final edit. The timelines are not that important either as whilst the filluming is only a week, they have plenty of time to line it up and plan and stage it, and plenty of time to find a couple of loose cannons as subjects.
Chin was only in Canada a few weeks back. Williams was in Glenswilly at the end of January.
They had an entire week’s footage to get through for two players per episode.
If you don’t like it don’t watch it. It’s an excellent production for what it is.
You don’t buy The Irish Independent and expect to a get a publication with Wall Street Journal standard.
How would you suggest I decide whether I like it or not, if I don’t watch it?
It gets hyped up to the max, and I really try to like it, but it’s a bit shit really.
Your argument is a bit specious.
And it just is not an excellent production.
It’s a missed opportunity.
Are you involved in its making?
he came home and bitched none stop to the press about the people that welcomed him
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Like that Scottish fella outside in Bruff who got the bums rush from Limerick FC.
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I’m not criticising you for watching it. I’m saying saying that you clearly don’t appreciate what went into the production of it.
I could say you have your head up your arse and are simply trying to find fault for the sake of trying to give yourself a bit of credibility as a television ‘afficionado’ but I won’t. I’m sound like that.
Fuck off you AIB lackey
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