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Between MC on RTE and PE on sky..... Are the channels trying to outdo each other or something......? Shocking stuff Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 31/07/2016 11:05:38 1892698 Link 0 |
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I agree! MC is like a first year trying to hang out with the Leaving Certs - always trying to please! Unfortunately he also has a history of not knowing the rules. For me, there's a tv camera and a commentator - the co-commentator should be trying to add something different that we can't see ourselves - who's picking up who, tactical set-up etc. If they're a past player or manager, maybe trying to give the rest of us plebs some insight into that level of game. You know a pundit isn't up to much when they're harping on about the ref the whole time - easy pickings when you have nothing else to say. There's also an overkill of replays for run of the mill scores, so much that so that we miss a lot of the puckouts/kick outs which are impure at in themselves. The worst of them all is NE, former hurling great, who can't be heard half of the time and whose contribution the rest of the time often extends to wisdom such as "the ball is played in to x, who puts it over the bar for a score for y." 1914 (Clare) - Posts: 92 - 31/07/2016 11:30:02 1892706 Link 1 |
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They are septic aren't they.
waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 31/07/2016 11:52:28 1892718 Link 4 |
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Don't be afraid to mention their names lads FFS! AfricanGael (UK) - Posts: 1947 - 31/07/2016 12:58:38 1892748 Link 0 |
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MC sounds like they've invited the local priest in to co comentate, softly spoken but --t. Oisin McConville is one of the very few id rate as co commentator. SaffronDon (Antrim) - Posts: 2385 - 31/07/2016 13:04:45 1892751 Link 0 |
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Paul Earley is awful on sky I also notice a trend with him, that he will defend every decision a referee makes, no matter how obvious it is, that the referee is wrong. PK57 (Louth) - Posts: 1653 - 31/07/2016 13:25:59 1892757 Link 1 |
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Watching RTE right now - a total mess as usual with Brolly and Whelan trying to talk over each other! sam2008 (Tyrone) - Posts: 796 - 31/07/2016 13:56:32 1892774 Link 0 |
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And now we have to endure Tom Carr for next 70 minutes! Douglas_Hyde (Roscommon) - Posts: 90 - 31/07/2016 13:56:37 1892775 Link 2 |
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Was Dick Clerkin co-commentator for Mayo vs Westmeath? Whoever it was, he was very good. Killarney.87 (Tipperary) - Posts: 2513 - 31/07/2016 14:58:15 1892816 Link 0 |
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Like Duignan's usual comment on a full-blooded tackle; 'I didn't see much in that', as the strike player gathers up his brains off the ground and stuffs them back in his helmet.
neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 31/07/2016 15:19:42 1892831 Link 1 |
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Our lads my playing well notwithstanding, he is the most condescending man. It's a wonder he didn't manage the counties he had to multiple All-Irelands, he knows so much!
1914 (Clare) - Posts: 92 - 31/07/2016 15:27:58 1892839 Link 1 |
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Carr is bad but Martin Carney now in next game - now I think I will be muting the TV.
IrishGael3 (USA) - Posts: 1092 - 31/07/2016 15:50:04 1892857 Link 1 |
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Pauric Lodge and John Mullane are good on the wireless. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7335 - 31/07/2016 16:06:50 1892870 Link 0 |
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How can that happen - they're wearing helmets!
sam2008 (Tyrone) - Posts: 796 - 31/07/2016 16:58:11 1892888 Link 0 |
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Tommy car " Kerry have learned nothing from Today's game" mind you Clare opened their defence up a few times, Martin carney also believed tipp number 6 should have walked the tackle on Bradshaw. Comical stuff plus the núacht thing 222 (UK) - Posts: 691 - 31/07/2016 18:20:05 1893007 Link 1 |
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As an aside, whatever happened to Anthony Tohill as an SG pundit. joncarter (Galway) - Posts: 2692 - 31/07/2016 19:25:34 1893066 Link 0 |
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Anything negative I try to post about co-commentators seems to go astray somehow. Can I just say that Dick Clerkin doesn't keep talking even when he has nothing to say and the others ( I am gritting my teeth ) are doing their best. Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 31/07/2016 21:10:08 1893187 Link 0 |
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Yes muting the sound is the best solution when MC is on. Today when a Tipp forward was pushed in the square and kicked the ball wide after receiving the push, he glossed over the incident. Get Canning had to draw his attention to it and say " Was than not a push in the back?" He responded " It may have been.........but look at the wonderful fielding by blah blah blah.." The man puts bland into bland and never says anything even remotely interesting.
PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1902 - 31/07/2016 22:19:27 1893245 Link 1 |