Am I the only person who curls up with embarrassment when rte ask the defeated manager if he's going to stay on.

All throughout the year, Fior Gaels who have worked their socks for months, put their life on hold and then 5 minutes after a gut wrenching defeat someone sticks a microphone in their face and asks them if they are going to stay on. I really think that these guys deserve a bit more respect, regardless of the result. I felt like smashing the tv when Jimmy barry Murphy was put on the spot. Surely the questions should focus on the game.

Cherno_Samba (Louth) - Posts: 632 - 24/09/2015 12:40:20    1791762

No you're not it's incredibly annoying. It's normally that Joanne Cantwell as well. It must really **** off the managers that when you lose a game you know what the first question is going to be, they're just looking to jump on something you say. I cringed watching JBM's interview

wee_yo (Mayo) - Posts: 63 - 24/09/2015 12:54:52    1791771

Joanne Cantwell was awful in her interview with EF in my opinion. How he didnt walk off on her I'll never know. However that is her job so in that respect she's doing what she's expected to do. But yeh.....cringe!!!

Jackeen (Dublin) - Posts: 4097 - 24/09/2015 13:04:07    1791775

In my opinion Cantwell is dreadful. Her question to Fitzmaurice along the lines of 'Did the occasion get to your players?' was, in context, one the most stupid I've ever heard. Perhaps she wasn't aware that the same set of players had won the final last year, while some of them were appearing in their 10th ever AI final!

Thomas Clarke (Tyrone) - Posts: 1002 - 24/09/2015 13:17:27    1791782

They are doing this because Sky do it when covering the Premiership.

They do it because if they don't ask someone else will or so they think.

It is cringeworthy - JBM didn't deserve to be asked that question in July.

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 24/09/2015 13:23:13    1791784

'That' Joanne Cantwell. Is there another Joanne Cantwell doing post-match interviews?

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7344 - 24/09/2015 13:24:01    1791786

24/09/2015 12:40:20 Cherno_Samba
Am I the only person who curls up with embarrassment when rte ask the defeated manager if he's going to stay on.
All throughout the year, Fior Gaels who have worked their socks for months, put their life on hold and then 5 minutes after a gut wrenching defeat someone sticks a microphone in their face and asks them if they are going to stay on. I really think that these guys deserve a bit more respect, regardless of the result. I felt like smashing the tv when Jimmy barry Murphy was put on the spot. Surely the questions should focus on the game. What's embarrassing about journalists doing their job? What else are they meant to ask them/say to them?

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 24/09/2015 13:29:31    1791792

Joanne Cantwell has a job to do - carry out the post-match interview. She does push it but let's be fair, if she didn't we would be hearing the same well-rehearsed template answers will have been hearing for a while now.
She's looking for a reaction, she wants them to reveal how they really feel after a match so she tries to get under their skin.

To be fair to managers like JBM - he should have known the question was coming cause it's generally asked to managers in the same situation.
Anthony Daly replied a few years back after losing a game "Joanne, this is not the time to be making a decision on my future" - I think that would have done fine.

Ban (Westmeath) - Posts: 1415 - 24/09/2015 13:50:43    1791802

I like the time Gordon Strachan was interviewed straight after a game a few years back. The interviewer said "Gordon, can we have a quick word? Strachan replied " Aye, velocity" and walked away. Class.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9702 - 24/09/2015 14:15:29    1791815

Cant stomach Strachan at all, he just comes across as a **** in all his interviews.

Re cantwell, Im hoping someone asks her will she be staying on in her job in return.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 24/09/2015 14:47:45    1791831

What's embarrassing about journalists doing their job? What else are they meant to ask them/say to them?

If doing their job is asking stupid questions for no other reason than to get a rise out of deflated managers then thats a pretty embarrassing job and as original poster put it - cringeworthy.
What else can she ask ? I take by that , you would have asked the same silly pre-arranged questions ? I think shes a good presenter but post game interview is for Wannabe lazy hacks ..

Finsceal (None) - Posts: 559 - 24/09/2015 15:29:11    1791880

24/09/2015 15:29:11
Finsceal
If doing their job is asking stupid questions for no other reason than to get a rise out of deflated managers then thats a pretty embarrassing job and as original poster put it - cringeworthy.
What else can she ask ? I take by that, you would have asked the same silly pre-arranged questions? I think shes a good presenter but post game interview is for Wannabe lazy hacks .. How is it a stupid question? In the context its very important?
Its not done to "get a rise" out of anyone?
Your last "comment" is laughable......

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 24/09/2015 17:11:38    1791962

Journalism as a whole had suffered rapidly declining standards over the years. Online sites now aim for quantity over quality on the basis that they are paid from the amount of 'Hits' on the site so the attention grabbing headline rather than being just a frontpage staple is now used on nearly every article. TV Analysis seems to be based nowadays on helping to generate these headlines.

All that being said the post match interview is fairly pointless. Winners prepare all week with only the next game in mind. losers always regroup.

elvistheking (Galway) - Posts: 99 - 24/09/2015 17:36:38    1791983

Asking defeated managers daft questions like 'will you be manager next year' immediately after a game is ridiculous, Eamon Fitz no more than Jim Gavin, Mickey Harte, Holmes and Connelly and every other football and hurling manager was thinking of winning the title not thinking will I stay if we lose. If a manager is thinking that before a game then he should never have taken the job. If you believe you are going to lose what chance have your players. The best answer you could give them is an official scoop 'I intend to be manager for the next 15 years at least' that might shut them up and when they ask again the following year say 'I have 14 years to go yet'. I always think of Trap and Tony O'Donaghue interviewing him, I reckon Trap was swearing in Italian but yer one the interpreter couldn't say exactly what he was saying so she softened his words, I'd say off camera O'Donaghue got a kick up the backside from Trap a few times. RTE are crafty the put a woman asking the questions so the managers wouldn't shout at her, remember Marty Morrissey and Brian Cody 2 or 3 years ago, Cody lost the head with him, don't think Marty was in Kilkenny since

riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 24/09/2015 18:35:42    1792018

It's a pointless question.

The vast majority of times the manager just fobs the interviewer off and nothing comes of it.

Good journalism is about asking the right questions at the right time. If you don't understand when the right time to ask is then you won't get the answer.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13707 - 25/09/2015 08:32:22    1792143

Ormond....do you work in RTE??

It's lazy lazy work from a poor journalist. Off the shelf questions.

If she was any good she would discuss tactics or turning points in a game t get some idea behind the thinking for various tactical decisions. But not up to it.

Also asked the same stupid question to Eamon Fitz.

No matter what you say it is lazy journalism

witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 25/09/2015 10:27:03    1792202

25/09/2015 10:27:03
witnof
Ormond....do you work in RTE??
It's lazy lazy work from a poor journalist. Off the shelf questions.
If she was any good she would discuss tactics or turning points in a game t get some idea behind the thinking for various tactical decisions. But not up to it.
Also asked the same stupid question to Eamon Fitz.
No matter what you say it is lazy journalism How is it lazy? Defeat/out of championship. Are you going to continue next year is a logical thing to ask.
It isn't lazy

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 25/09/2015 10:32:16    1792206

To be fair to her I can understand why she asked EF if he was staying or not. His 3 years were up.

aidan64 (Kerry) - Posts: 665 - 25/09/2015 10:39:05    1792210

Its like a journalist asking Jesus on the cross so how long you going to hang around ? Its not nessecary and how many honest answers have we had
I will take time to take stock
I have never walked away from anything in my life .
I have a wonderfull relationship with the county board
Now is not the time for near jerk reactions .
I feel Im the right man ,
I will sit down with my family and discuss blah blah blah
The list of banal answers is Why its a stupid question , has anyone actually resigned from the 100s of times the question was asked ?

Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 25/09/2015 13:24:56    1792321