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The Sunday Game - Awful Coverage

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Replying To PyatPree:  "The coverage is about 50/50 now, why do football fans think you should get the majority coverage, they'll be more football when super 8s come around so stop crying"
Dublin are aiming to be the first inter-county team to win 5 in-a-row yet RTE were wise not to show them last week. Competitive Championship games with edge of the seat entertainment is what people want to see. What we've had from weeks and weeks of hurling is akin to target practice. Hurling have had their days in the sun but 2019 is heading towards football year. There have been shocks, drama, draws, replays with a final yet to be played. Football people should not be afraid to highlight how good the Championship has been so far. Hurling on the other hand......meh.

sam1884 (UK) - Posts: 999 - 02/06/2019 21:20:05    2189989

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Replying To sam1884:  "Dublin are aiming to be the first inter-county team to win 5 in-a-row yet RTE were wise not to show them last week. Competitive Championship games with edge of the seat entertainment is what people want to see. What we've had from weeks and weeks of hurling is akin to target practice. Hurling have had their days in the sun but 2019 is heading towards football year. There have been shocks, drama, draws, replays with a final yet to be played. Football people should not be afraid to highlight how good the Championship has been so far. Hurling on the other hand......meh."
Well they can't predict to scorelines before they happen are they

PyatPree (Cork) - Posts: 376 - 02/06/2019 21:46:02    2189996

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Replying To Thelonesomegoose:  "Tipperary and Clare?"
You don't really know much about hurling. In the last 3 years, Tipp 2016 and Limerick 2018 on tv today.

Yourself and the 'the hurl would make fine fire kindle' fella from Meath speak about hurling as 'whack the ball anywhere'. Those are idiotic statements. Have a look at the move that finished with a Cian Lynch second half point.. Majestic.

It's easy make a county footballer bar the cream like McManus, Clifford, Jamie Clarke, Michael Murphy etc. Basically the top fifth of intercounty players are really skillful, one in 3 of most county footballers with higher percentages in the top teams and practically all the Dubs.

You can't make a hurler like a footballer with athleticism and stamina. You either have it or you don't.

We'll be bored stuff with football in 2 mts time in the 'super' 8s.

BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 02/06/2019 22:04:51    2190005

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Replying To sam1884:  "Dublin are aiming to be the first inter-county team to win 5 in-a-row yet RTE were wise not to show them last week. Competitive Championship games with edge of the seat entertainment is what people want to see. What we've had from weeks and weeks of hurling is akin to target practice. Hurling have had their days in the sun but 2019 is heading towards football year. There have been shocks, drama, draws, replays with a final yet to be played. Football people should not be afraid to highlight how good the Championship has been so far. Hurling on the other hand......meh."
You cant make a silk purse out of a pigs ear (re Football). The hurling storm will come and blow audiences away. Big ball is just that.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4954 - 02/06/2019 22:13:05    2190009

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Replying To Longfordbaz:  "
Replying To Pullhard1985:  "like the championship structure The Sunday Game has just become stale and outdated

Brolly wont offer any analysis outside of the the narrative he is always plugging in is newspaper articles...

Lets go through his analysis on last nights games....
Mayo v Roscommon - Dublin are great, what would dublin do, Hennelly is a bottler, nothing on Roscommon or how they won the game
Tyrone v Antrim - Dublin are great, what would dublin do. Then he had the cheek to criticize Tyrone for throwing bodies forward and leaving themselves too open at the back, he has been slating them for years for not doing this the massive hypocrite
Donegal v Fermanagh - Dublin are great, what would dublin do. Fermanagh horrible to watch, no shit sherlock
Kildare v Longford - Dublin are great, what would dublin do. Zero analysis or insight on the game of the weekend
Wmeath v Laois - Dublin are great, what would dublin do. Zero analysis

I must say i did laugh out loud when he mentioned Stevie Poachers 'Triple blastoff transition' though

Would much prefer to see proper analysis and discussion like the one you get on the Joe.ie hour with Parkinson and Cian Ward, that is excellent"
Love this post....soo acurate. Then if they're not talking dublin, they're telling us how the "big" team were beaten by the "weaker" team, as "big" team played sooo bad.

Eg the rossies beat mayo. Nothing against either team and would love to see mayo win an all ireland. Last night however, there was very little about how da rossies actually went about beating mayo, game plan, team structure etc. It was all about how shocking mayo were, and where mayo go from here. How rossies management went about stifling mayo was an afterthought.

Cavan beat Monaghan last week. Again i like both sides yet the analysis was basically why Monaghan were finished. Very little about cavan and Mickey Grahams tactics on actually beating Monaghan.

The best game of last weekend, was longford v kildare. It got 4mins 58 s air time. This is why a second tiered championship will never work. It would be totally disregarded and disrespected by media and tv. It would never see the light of day on the box. Justask any of my mates who are mad into hurling in Westmeath or laois."
I'm not going to defend RTÉ, but I will point out that the Mayo obsession extends throughout all football media coverage. I enjoy his podcasts, but yer man from Laois practically writes the Championship off the second Mayo are eliminated.

festinog (Galway) - Posts: 3150 - 02/06/2019 22:47:07    2190022

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Replying To BliainanÁir:  "You don't really know much about hurling. In the last 3 years, Tipp 2016 and Limerick 2018 on tv today.

Yourself and the 'the hurl would make fine fire kindle' fella from Meath speak about hurling as 'whack the ball anywhere'. Those are idiotic statements. Have a look at the move that finished with a Cian Lynch second half point.. Majestic.

It's easy make a county footballer bar the cream like McManus, Clifford, Jamie Clarke, Michael Murphy etc. Basically the top fifth of intercounty players are really skillful, one in 3 of most county footballers with higher percentages in the top teams and practically all the Dubs.

You can't make a hurler like a footballer with athleticism and stamina. You either have it or you don't.

We'll be bored stuff with football in 2 mts time in the 'super' 8s."
The hurling was great last year but it's woeful tack this year. Ash doesn't burn that well anyway!

Thelonesomegoose (Leitrim) - Posts: 204 - 02/06/2019 22:51:48    2190025

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I rarely post these days. RTE are showing hurling matches because football is dead in the water and RTE know it. The only football worth broadcasting is the Ulster Championship as it is still a bit competitive. Dublin will canter to another All Ireland because that's the agenda and plan the GAA set out a decade ago. Dublin's football success generates mega dollars but now it seems even the Dubs are bored of their annual coronation. Hurling has produced some cracking games and edge of the seat excitement and the broadcasters are on the ball. Football died a good while back.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9818 - 03/06/2019 01:06:59    2190051

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Replying To Ulsterman:  "I rarely post these days. RTE are showing hurling matches because football is dead in the water and RTE know it. The only football worth broadcasting is the Ulster Championship as it is still a bit competitive. Dublin will canter to another All Ireland because that's the agenda and plan the GAA set out a decade ago. Dublin's football success generates mega dollars but now it seems even the Dubs are bored of their annual coronation. Hurling has produced some cracking games and edge of the seat excitement and the broadcasters are on the ball. Football died a good while back."
Don't forget Kilkenny had a period of dominance which killed the hurling championship. I agree football has witnessed the greatest team to ever play the game and it's likely they'll add the 5 in-a-row.

However football is starting to see some hope, Galway, Meath, Roscommon, Cavan, Armagh etc all big football counties are starting to make some progress at their own level which will generate interest in football provinces/super 8's. Add in the underage success of Kerry, and teams like Mayo/Tyrone and football is heading in the right direction. Hurling folk have enjoyed the demise of football and used it try and kill football, helped by RTE. However I've always felt football is the most popular sport and this hurling in the sun period wouldn't last.

After 2019 RTE will not give exclusive early year coverage to hurling again, they'll be disappointed with what hurling has produced in 2019 compared to a fantastic football championship so far. As mentioned on the Sunday game football is coming out of recession and media companies will acknowledge that with future decisions. To think of the great games we've had and it's only early June, 2019 is the year of football which is great to see.

sam1884 (UK) - Posts: 999 - 03/06/2019 09:49:43    2190083

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I love giving out about RTE Television's GAA coverage, their little or no coverage of so-called weaker counties, some poor analysis, boring analysts, Joe Brolly not making a point again.

I love the radio though on Saturdays and Sundays, jumping from game to game, John Mullane telling us about Davy's Wexicans, I'm even developing a fondness for Bernard Flynn's not mincing his words co-commentary and there's Marty.

They don't have a psychic guaranteeing they will show great games every time. There's a good chance that some Super 8 games will be dour defensive games with everything on the line. Any dead rubber games will probably be great games, unlikely to be broadcast live. But even if there was a balance between hurling and football in early championship it wouldn't be RTE's fault if some of them were awful one sided games. This is unpredictable sport and not meant to be primetime entertainment.

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 8005 - 03/06/2019 13:37:22    2190160

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To be fair to the Sunday game, i wouldn't have known Clare are a mighty football force or that Cork are the coming football super power, if Pat Spillane hadn't of provided that expert opinion and analysis last night.

And you all said Munster was was a flush!

Jokes on you now! ;)

TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4517 - 03/06/2019 14:14:25    2190172

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12 games in the football championship this weekend and only one of them is live on TV.

Concerned_Supp (Westmeath) - Posts: 71 - 05/06/2019 11:30:41    2190793

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Just seems to be the same hurling teams on live every Sunday.

sean og (Armagh) - Posts: 1072 - 05/06/2019 12:25:47    2190820

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Replying To sean og:  "Just seems to be the same hurling teams on live every Sunday."
Waterford hurlers are on live for the fourth time in the championship this weekend. RTE have already shown them three times. Now Sky on Saturday. Mind you theres nothing worse than watching Fermanagh footballers.

summerof09 (Meath) - Posts: 328 - 05/06/2019 12:53:35    2190834

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Replying To Concerned_Supp:  "12 games in the football championship this weekend and only one of them is live on TV."
With all these football games not being covered by RTE in recent weeks, did that not leave them open to Sky and if so, does anybody know why they didn't show some of them?

midlands (Westmeath) - Posts: 604 - 05/06/2019 22:21:44    2191036

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Joe who gives out about teams playing defensive football slates Tyrone for falling into donegals blanket and wants them to copy donegal you can't win with Joe, he slated Gooch for going missing in games but gave Murphy outs for the same reasons for going missing, also whelo and Tomas telling Tyrone to go back to defensive football noooo lads jaysis they'd a bad day at the office don't give up on what their doing over one bad game.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 10/06/2019 08:58:54    2192584

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Replying To midlands:  "With all these football games not being covered by RTE in recent weeks, did that not leave them open to Sky and if so, does anybody know why they didn't show some of them?"
Sky have it in their contract that no one else can show a game live at the same time as them with the exception of the All Ireland semis and final.

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 10/06/2019 09:41:26    2192610

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Watched the highlights last night. The way they suggested it was that Lee Cullen got sent off just before the Monaghan goal. 15 minutes before the end of the game he got the line and the Monaghan goal was the last shot of the game. Didn't mention the missed free about 1 minute before that goal which would have tied the game up. Their highlights gave the impression that Monaghan won it handy enough.

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 10/06/2019 09:46:29    2192615

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My main gripe with coverage is playing highlights of featured live games, total waste of time. RTE player is available to those who wish to watch game again. Or indeed just run the other games on player. Very frustrating.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4954 - 10/06/2019 09:52:18    2192623

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Replying To clondalkindub:  "Joe who gives out about teams playing defensive football slates Tyrone for falling into donegals blanket and wants them to copy donegal you can't win with Joe, he slated Gooch for going missing in games but gave Murphy outs for the same reasons for going missing, also whelo and Tomas telling Tyrone to go back to defensive football noooo lads jaysis they'd a bad day at the office don't give up on what their doing over one bad game."
Joe changes like the wind. Which is a shame, because I think if you sat with him over a mi-wadi and analysed a game, he'd give a great insight. He's the television version of clickbait basically.

Whelan is a very good analyst but Tomas is desparate IMO. I just look forward to him backing Donegal to beat us in 2 weeks because he's gone against us 3 times now and been wrong each time. On the contrary, his brother Marc, who was actually at the Cavan Kerry game earlier in the year, can see that we have improved considerably this year. Could give the big bro a few pointers.

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5251 - 10/06/2019 09:54:38    2192626

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Brolly is a windbag, surprised anyone pays any heed to him, O'Rourke and Spillane should have been retired long ago.

O'Shea and Whelan are good,though I don't always agree with them which is fair enough.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3205 - 10/06/2019 11:38:37    2192741

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