The Joe Brolly tells porkies thread

[Julio_Geordio]

@Juhniallio

Brolly goes way over the line with Mayo and O Shea. I’d love to know why. Can he just not help himself and loves stirring shit?
On the other hand, he lives and breathes Gaa and community and chatity. He actually gave a fella his kidney ffssake. So hes not all bad.

Joe is gone fierce nasty and sour of late. Somethings changed in him. He’s angry over the RTE thing you’d imagine, but he’s been going this way for a while. He likes to think he is calling out bullshitters when in reality he is a fair bullshitter himself.
I enjoy him generally, no harm to have a fella not afraid to give an opinion around, but that article was a very personal attack on an amateur player and very much against the ethos of the game he supposedly loves.

Joe was always spikey and opinionated, but now he’s becoming a contrary bitter auld fucker

[dodgy_keeper]

He’s certainly very black and white.

Dublin footballers - above criticism.
The likes of Rory Gallagher, Mayo, AOS and even Derry - open season on them, always.

He has a valid point about O’Shea and his antics but goes too far at times.

[Tank]

Brolly is a wanker, the Sunday Game was becoming gradually unwatchable with him on it. They should have stopped him being in the box for Derry games long ago.

Similarly Spillane shouldn’t be in the box for Kerry games or Cavanagh for Tyrone games.

[the_man_himself]

Would I be right in thinking Brolly was essentially seen as just another pundit before the Sean Cavanagh thing and then afterwards he became a lot more confrontational in his style more consistently?

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

No.

He was always that way but over the years he’s became a lot more personal about it and doesn’t seem to know where the line is with regard to being critical and taking things too far.

[Bisto]

You walked him into that you scoundrel … setting traps like the Tyrone defence…

[Batigol]

Aidan O’Shea was still on the pitch applauding after the match.

[starryplough]

Culture eats strategy for breakfast

I’m not sure why lads wouldn’t want someone with a perceived bias in the studio on their counties match? Its far more interesting having someone who is up-to-date and aware of their counties fortunes as opposed to people who are bland and don’t have a dog in the fight or as dull as dishwater. Take Cavanagh v Spillane for example, give me that any day of the week as opposed to Dolan and McStay in studio for the same game. I think Spillane can be a right prick but I’d still much rather hear him talk about Kerry than Dolan, I’ll then form my own opinion on the analysis/ debate, doesn’t bother me if I don’t agree with Spillane for example. There’s nothing wrong with it imo

[Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy]

There was plenty of cameras and photographers about.

[glenshane]

@Tank

Brolly is a wanker, the Sunday Game was becoming gradually unwatchable

It’s a much safer space now

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

can you correct the lie about getting money? the state pays him 3k a year

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

what in the article was personal?

[gilgamboa]

@Bandage

There’s a time and a place for a well directed barb but he was constantly shouting across people to go off on self indulgent rants and personalised attacks on players/managers

We all remember he was v v quick to resort to calling on the law when he felt he was hard done by himself

[kerry1891]

@Bandage

Great analogy and spot on. Brolly is a very decent sort in many ways but he was insufferable as a pundit for a couple of years before he got the bullet. There’s a time and a place for a well directed barb but he was constantly shouting across people to go off on self indulgent rants and personalised attacks on players/managers. I became quite irked by him and I’m a very patient and reasonable person. I think his stuff on Aidan O’Shea is completely over the top and unnecessary. I actually agree with that little ballbag (note measured criticism here) Kevin McStay and his take on O’Shea’s final display. But I was amused by the point about O’Shea deserving credit for being in the gym a month after losing a final, and having done a session a week before that too even.

the stuff on AOS and Horan was ott and lousy

by all means have a pop, but dont go ott, it smacked of kicking men who must be in a bad place when they are down. I m borrowing McStay’s words but to me there was something a bit lousy about the whole thing

You would swear AOS had a stinker on Saturday , he made a decent contribution.

[Johnbird]

What’s the story with his relationship with Joe Biden? How did that come about?

[cowpat]

Maybe AOS isn’t a “fíor Gael” something which some northern folk seem obsessed with.

[Raylan]

Laurita claims to be a distant relation

[Raylan]

Most particularly the fíor gael that never played the game and hadn’t a breeze of what Paudie Hampsey was saying during his speech

[Johnbird]

Is that actually true? I listen to the podcast with herself and the two boys and one episode they were kind of drawing her out on her partner.She wasn’t biting anyway.
Hed be a good bit older than her I would have thought.

[Raylan]

I never enquired much into it tbh