The Saturday/Sunday Game Thread

Master of over statement
Brilliant play. Showing character, leadership, spirit and indeed self-belief.

Going up into the clouds and driving it long. Very long.

Master of 'call and responseā€™
What can he do? He can score.

He lets fly. Whereā€™s it going to go? Itā€™s going to go between the posts.

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Heā€™s an awful awful awful commentator
He actually puts me in a bad mood if I have to listen to him

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Well if itā€™s between him and Canning, I know who Iā€™d take

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Marty Morrissey has become a serious pain in the hole with his commentary.

Almost like describing a Bond film now. ā€œTwo goals today. The names Fennelly! Colin Fennelly!ā€

ā€œA wonder goal! His name? Gleeson. Austin Gleeson. From the county of Waterfordā€

ā€œA point for the county of Galway!ā€

ā€œFrom Boherlahan-Dualla in the county of Tipperary!ā€

Him and Brendan Cummins - ā€œthatā€™s wan-wan for Richie so farā€ - are a painful combination.

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Brendan Cummins has you seething. :smile:

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Youā€™d need to have a heart of stone not to laugh

Neither. They are both a disgrace.

Donā€™t mind Cummins. Heā€™s earnest enough.

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Earnest is a tremendous word.

At least he played the game to a good standard.

Marty is high on his opinion of himself. That cunt Canning is just plain stupid, screws loose in that chap.

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Isnā€™t it?

Saw him at the red cow a few months ago. Beetroot are paler looking

Marty is way the better of the two. You can tell for all his limitations (and there are many) that he really loves it.

Canning the cunt wouldnā€™t even be watching the matches only RTE are paying him to spew shite during them.

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Iā€™m pretty sure Marty played for Clare at one stage*.

He was cutting it up in junior, playing for Clonbunny or somewhere out west.

Got a run against Galway in some pitch opening or something.

Sylvie put an end to things.

*I could be completely wrong

Canning always looks like a used car salesmanā€¦ Ger now, not Joe!

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Clonbony? He might have been on a minor panel. Born in Mallow so we can put him down as a Cork weirdo.

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Thatā€™s a fair point. You can imagine Marty going to club matches long after he is retired from RTE.

You get the impression Canning, on the other hand, has no real feeling for the game and is content to brown nose the big name intercounty stars.

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He is fairly tight with Quilty anyway and helps them out with local fund raising and what not.

In fairness to him, he looks like a lad who is delighted to be in the job heā€™s in and goes for it.

Cork can have him though.

Marty can be irritating but at least heā€™s genuinely interested in the sports he covers. Canning knows astoundingly little about a game heā€™s been commentating on for 30 years. It took him 20 of that 30 to learn that you canā€™t catch the ball three times.

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Think he claimed to have scored 1-1 in a trial before Sylvie cut him in half.