There is too much sport covered everywhere these days, every Tom, Dick and Harry has a podcast.
Twitter, YouTube, radio, newspapers, tv. It’s saturation levels now. And a lot of the time the analysis is something lads propping up the bar at the local would come up with.
Personally I’d watch live sport but the majority of the time not watch any pre or post match stuff. I turn off Giles any time he appears on OTB now, have heard his shtick a million times before. Haven’t watched a full The Sunday Game in years either.
TSG still has can be good when they get their best pundits. The problem is the token woman who hasn’t a clue, the bland shits like Paul “Rockshore” Flynn and last but not least, Shane Dowling.
Yeah thats it for me too. I used watch Match of the Day, Sunday game and other highlights programmes religiously before but plenty of good analysts are doing it in real time now. You see good stuff from Ray Boyne, Gaelic Corner and a load of other random sources. Often the level of Analysis is far superior. One guy last year went into fairly intricate detail analysing Shane Walshs movement for one of his points in AI final against Kerry. It was something like you’d see from analysts at the combine.
There’s a good few of the Tg4 underage games on YouTube and there’s loads of analysis on it also.
In the medium to long term, we are probably heading for a GAATV which will prob cost €200-€250 for club and county action in a similar manner to racing tv.
In an era where you had everyone from Stelling, Giles, Dunphy, Souness, Phil Thompson, Charlie Nichols, Joe Brolly, Ger Loughnane, Cyril Farrell you now have likes of Matt Dawson, Clinton Morrisson, Richie Sadlier Stephen Kelly, Paul Flynn, Sean Cavanagh and Shane Dowling. Is it any wonder…
And somehow Ger Canning and Marty Morrissey are still going strong.
Hurling wise, I wouldn’t agree with all of his views, but Donal og has strong opinions. Dalo is your modern day Cyril which is needed. Sheedy is excellent. Tj Ryan also. Joe canning has potential. It’s ruined by Ursula & Dowling.
From what I remember, Tomas Mul was a fierce sound man but never added anything extra to what the father would say boiling the kettle on the add break. Pete Finnerty was a grump. Loughnane was box office.
The live feed of the morning show on YT and the evening show on the radio aren’t effected, its the 20 or 30 mins YT videos and podcasts that are effected.
The less than 24 hours notice is unbelievably tone deaf whatever about the rest.
Is there any equivalent of the copying and pasting of newspaper articles behind paywalls when it comes to podcasts?
I definitely think a tenner is pitched too high. Wooly and second captains are a 5er I think and they are in direct competition with them. I would listen to the odd second captains free one and the odd otb football and hurling ones.
If they are all pay I might consider paying for one. Which Irish sports one are free now?
work from home about 90% these days so handy for that and handy for a walk, run or cycle.