You’re not fit to lace Nembo Kids boots as a poster so show some respect. Haven’t you a park bench to be sitting on leering at pregnant women, mothers or child minders.
Haven’t watched the show for ages but I imagine it suffers simply because of access to guests. Some of the best Off the Ball interviews are US sports journalists but you can’t do a phone interview on TV.
Both shows became too reliant on rugby - again maybe it is access - a professional rugby player (I don’t like him but O’Gara aside who at least has an opinion) is never going to be interesting as even in retirement they are “handled” to maximise corporate earnings. GAA players typically don’t make good interviews because they will downplay everything lest it ends up on dressing room door of opponent.
A sports “magazine” show is very hard to make interesting given people they can land on it and they know that so they go for a comedic edge which misses the target.
RTE should try and do a decent GAA opinion and analysis show during mid week from May to September. Would be a bigger success ratings wise too I think.
Breaking Ball was as good as it is ever going to get fo the GAA.
Posters who make a big show of “quitting the board” then come crawling back in under a new alias have to stick together I suppose.
Stop trying so hard ffs.
Sexton typically killed the question but I’d be more interested in finding out what a lad with a young kid thinks about 13 people being massacred by loons down the road rather than how he finds kicking practice under the tutelage of ROG
Seriously, Can this thread be locked? It is clogging up the board.
I’d be the exact opposite, I’ll make up my own mind on the loons personally.
Henry Shefflin had plumped for the Sunday Game
Quelle surprise. Go with the safe option where no standards are expected.
I suppose. He’s been in his own bubble lately but it is quite happy in that space.
Jim McGuinness will be on sky as a pundit
Where did you see that? Would be an excellent appointment. Sky bringing McGuiness on board and in the same week RTE announce Shefflin. Chalk and cheese, and really sums up the two stations.
McGuinness would be good alright, say what you want about his teams style but dragging Donegal to an AI (and nearly a second) from where they were when he took over is one of the greatest managerial feats in the history of the GAA.
Hopefully he’d give good insights into the tactics rather than the same old rehashed stuff you get on RTE (bar Brolley) - “they dropped everyone behind the ball, Michael.”
[QUOTE=“dodgy-keeper, post: 1132428, member: 1552”]McGuinness would be good alright, say what you want about his teams style but dragging Donegal to an AI (and nearly a second) from where they were when he took over is one of the greatest managerial feats in the history of the GAA.
Hopefully he’d give good insights into the tactics rather than the same old rehashed stuff you get on RTE (bar Brolley) - “they dropped everyone behind the ball, Michael.”[/QUOTE]
“The blanket defense.” That’s all that bluffing cunt Spillane has in his arsenal, for every game there’s either a blanket or not and it’s his safe default option when analysing a game.
Exactly. Same dull clichéd mundane stuff every year.
The Gaelic football pundits on RTE are, with one or two exceptions, very uninspiring. Their knowledge on teams outside division one and two is limited enough. They know a bit about the top seven or eight teams and little about the rest.
The hurling pundits are better but Shefflin will, I’d imagine, be as bland as you could be.
I heard it last night from a man with connections
Whose the scraggly haired dreary fella? Is that Murph? They have Sadlier on again tonight. Wasn’t this ape on only a few weeks ago and has been on before this season? :rolleyes:
Sadlier. 
what did he do?