[quote=“Sledgehammer”]That’s all well and good, but there is no reason why in the current climate, RTE employees shouldn’t shoulder a bit more responsibility in order to cut costs - they do say that they are committed to cutting costs.
So why not have the commentator and co-commentator presenting the programme from pitchside a few minutes before KO? Do we really need the full treatment, not to mention the rumours doing the rounds of the lavish expenses?[/quote]
Yes, I agree with you here. There’s absolutely no need to have full studio treatment for some Confederations Cup game. I imagine they fly lads like Trevor Steven in from England or wherever too to analyse South Africa/Iraq.
[quote=“Bandage”]Personally, I don’t think there’s a significant general interest in rugby football in Ireland. People are into Ireland and the provincial brands in ever increasing numbers but in terms of watching a European Cup quarter final between Cardiff and Perpignan or something, then I don’t think the interest is widespread at all, never mind a Magner’s League game between Edinburgh and Newport/Gwent.
Dare I say*, lots of the mongs who follow Munster and Leinster do so largely for the social aspect, especially the sheer amount of birds to be found out in groups for a ‘big rugby football occasion’, if that’s not a contradiction in terms. Because rugby football is utter shit.
I did say it in the end.[/quote]
There are plenty of them alright bandage, they are easily spotted at matches…I would follow the rugby but wouldn’t consider myself a die hard yet I would watch most European Cup matches and if I was at home of a saturday afternoon a good bit of the Guinness Premiership and often would rise early to watch Tri Nations…
Anyone know what kind of a wedge the pundits would be getting a match…Had a lad tellling me before that Dunphy and Giles would be getting 10k+ a match but would find this very hard to believe…Surely he was talking through his hole
Well Toms Mul etc get €1000 a throw for those Sunday Game matches, I’d say Dunphy surely gets a multiple of this. €10k seems alot but RTE do piss it away like confetti so maybe…
Think Dunph was on a total package of 350k for all his TV and radio work. I’d say his output is higher than the likes of Finuncane but still nice money if you can get it
[quote=“Bandage”]Fair play to Ryle for responding, he makes some decent points.
I was meaning to mention the Confederations Cup point. It was my understanding, and he seems to have confirmed it, that this is sold by FIFA as part of the World Cup rights package. The cunts probably argue that the Confederations Cup is a valuable event is its own right and demand more for the overall package from broadcasters worldwide as a result.
I imagine it’s similar with UEFA and the Super Cup, which they’re showing this weekend.[/quote]
Fair play to Nugent indeed. A good reponse and not a standard issue response, he actually adressed the points raised in a reasonable manner.
Most reasoned analysis seen on TFK in a while
Did he not know who he was dealing with?
He could have just played the man and not the ball and thrown in a few smiley faces and rolleyes for good measure
[quote=“W.B. Yeats”]Most reasoned analysis seen on TFK in a while
Did he not know who he was dealing with?
He could have just played the man and not the ball and thrown in a few smiley faces and rolleyes for good measure[/quote]
[quote=“W.B. Yeats”]Most reasoned analysis seen on TFK in a while
Did he not know who he was dealing with?
He could have just played the man and not the ball and thrown in a few smiley faces and rolleyes for good measure[/quote]
You make it sound like playing the man is a bad thing. Its the only thing that lights this place up sometimes, a nice bit of scelping never goes astray.
I’d be fully in agreement with Nugent on this. If anything RTE shows a bit too much LOI and far too much rugby. As the national broadcaster they are behooved to show as much GAA and horse-racing as possible, if anything their not showing enough of these sports.
If fans of alien sports dont like it they can go and fuck.
i cant but its not the point and i even agree with you.
but LOI is easily accessible, if people want to see it they can go along, but they don’t, they go to the pub instead to watch the epl, they subscribe to sky to watch epl, they get a ferry or a flight to watch the epl and the spl and they spend their money on epl jerseys.
i wouldnt do it but many thousands do.
if the arguement here is simply RTE spending too much money on the Premiership then i absolutely agree, but if the argument is that RTE should spend more on LOI than on the Premiership then id need more to convince me than the simple ‘its Irish’ argument.
I accept that RTE are giving the LOI decent enough coverage, in an ideal world I’d have liked to see even one European game on the TV but that’s not a massive thing for me and I’d rather the games got better attendances for not being on live.
So when I say we can’t afford the Premiership, I mean it in the overall context of what RTE are all about, not in the context of whinging for more LOI coverage. Two irritations though, on which points made by several people on this thread still stand, would be the news bulletins, and also the constant rumours that MNS is on the verge of being chopped, or at the very least being moved to a much later slot.
[quote=“Lazarus”]I’d be fully in agreement with Nugent on this. If anything RTE shows a bit too much LOI and far too much rugby. As the national broadcaster they are behooved to show as much GAA and horse-racing as possible, if anything their not showing enough of these sports.
If fans of alien sports dont like it they can go and fuck.[/quote]
See my earlier comments re rugby. I would estimate RTE will show no more than 15 live games in 2009 and deferred HEC matches, 1 live game every 3.5+ weeks on average. I wouldnt deem that excessive.
