What annoys me is the fact that they show the matches that were shown live earlier in the day first leaving less time to show the other matches.

AthboyGael (Meath) - Posts: 75 - 28/05/2012 11:46:50    1181726

TheGateKeeper
County: Tyrone
Posts: 475

1181433
The bbc coverage is much worse thann rte, the game between
monaghan and antrim is bad enough without sidebottom's
meanderings!

Agree I listened to the game on Radio Ulster far better analysis and presenters, sidebottom gets to carried away and the use of pet or nicknames grinds my gears !. also good to here Logie on the airwaves once again.

fortyfive (Tyrone) - Posts: 5929 - 28/05/2012 12:04:26    1181747

In response to forty five:-

".........the use of pet or nicknames grinds my gears !. also good to here Logie on the airwaves once again. " No Tyrone double standards here then!!!

billclinton (USA) - Posts: 26 - 28/05/2012 12:30:34    1181787

fortyfive Here, here! Let's hope someone in the BBC sees sense and installs him as television match commentator where he belongs! I agree with gigoer and Coylers Elbow too. Tony Davis is never done talking nonsense, and Ciaran Whelan, much as I disliked him when he was a player, he certainly knows his stuff.

peter_venkman (Down) - Posts: 320 - 28/05/2012 12:35:03    1181795

Lads, i know the bbc's coverage isn't great, but fair play to them for attempting to promote our games. UTV is a disgrace, sends cameras to all Irish League games when most of them attract crowds of no more than 200. Laughable.

Also, can i echo the sentiments of above, great that 'Logey' is back.. At least he knows what hes talking about.

MourneArmy (Down) - Posts: 1787 - 28/05/2012 14:08:19    1181905

sedico
County: Kildare
Posts: 480

1181603 RTE are scraping the bottom of the barrell with Parkinson. David must have a short memory too - Tompkins and Fahy were in the team team that won him two AI's. Was there no such thing as Ethos in the Gaa then Tony?

great point with regards Tompkins and Fahy but why do ye Kildare lads despise Parkinson so much - think he just likes a bit of banter and is self depreciating much of the time?
Ger Gilroy is a massive gaa fan according to regular utterings by himself on Newstalk?

sportsfan14 (USA) - Posts: 281 - 28/05/2012 14:12:27    1181910

Have to say have been very disappointed with the opening two evening programmes of the Sunday game so far this summer,last week they showed less then 5 minutes of the Laois V longford and Louth v Westmeath games,yet showed longer highlights of the Roscommon and Galway watch dispite showing it live a few hours earlier!!!!

Yet again this week,the best game of weekend, Meath V Wicklow is afforded 5 minutes(bad enough it wasnt the live game)then we have to sit through extended highlights of the Kerry v Tipperary game,even though it was shown live NO LOGIC IN THIS AT ALL RTE.

Also as pointed it they made no recognition of the Christy Ring,Nicky Rackard or Lory Meagher games played at the weekend.

Then to some it up,the commentators and coverage havnt been up to scratch,with mistaken identifying of players,Des Cahill hasnt enough knowledge,while the Dan Shanahan piece on the MFC was beyond scandalous.

The whole programme seems very rushed, no stats on non live games,with some games getting little mention( 5 minutes highlights with 2-3 scores of some teams shown) and this at a stage were there isnt too many games on,what will it be like during qualifiers. Given the tough economic times less people can travel to matches so more supporters are relying on comprehensive GAA tv coverage,but unless it improves the ratings of Sunday Game will plummet. Perhaps they should start the programme at 9pm and allow more time to each of the games.

BBC are doing there best as they are showing full mathces of all Ulster Championship games,either delayed or live(starting June 10th)however the commentary pairing of Mc Conville and Sidebottom dont work,too drowl,no life(even if poor game,still make an effort lads) and at times are ridiculous,for example Sidebottom mistaking Kieran Hughes for Tommy Freeman,even after a replay he wasnt 100%!!

Never thought id say it but perhaps TV3 look like they could be best tv coverage of the GAA yet,although they only show the Dubs on most occasions.

At the moment the best coverage of GAA is on the radio,better pre match discussions about real issues,exclusive interviews and in depth analysis of the games, BBC Radio Ulster
, NewsTalk and Today FM are covering the GAA championship in great depth with better commentary and guests.


SO SUNDAY GAME and other TV GAA coverage,step it up a few notches!!!!dont forget the Euros be starting soon so if you want to compete with them provide equal coverage for all matches!!

macca999 (Fermanagh) - Posts: 1168 - 28/05/2012 18:03:27    1182186

A great game of football yesterday between Armagh and Tyrone. The only thing that was disappointing watching it was Tony Davis' awful cliched soundbites. This guy, in my opinion, is by far the worst of RTE's deadwood analysts. He adds absolutely nothing in terms of analysis. He adds a sentence every now and again but nothing ever that would stir debate. We know that if your hamstring goes, it is a difficult to play on! He admitted that in his research for yesterday's game he watch tyrone and Westmeath playing each other in the league and then spoke about how good Kyle Coney was that day (a player not even on the field yesterday). It was quite simply awful awful awful awful.

bennybunny (Cork) - Posts: 3917 - 11/06/2012 11:13:33    1191489

I don't think that he's as bad as Joe Brolly, who after watching a team shoot 19pts in an excellent game of football starts comparing them to George Graham's Arsenal, even mentioning the old 1-nil cliche. It was puke analysis not puke football yesterday. Lyster had to plead more than once that he 'enjoyed that', but I'm afraid that Joe was having none of it.

Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 4148 - 11/06/2012 11:32:59    1191510

They didn't have their homework done re Seanie Johnston last night either. Suggesting that Kildare manipulated fixtures in order to get Seanie to play was blatantly wrong. Even when they realised their mistake I didn't hear Ciaran Whelan apologising either. If you're man enough to say it you should be man enough to apologise. Shocking stuff.

sedico (Kildare) - Posts: 1682 - 11/06/2012 11:40:20    1191522

RTE coverage of GAA very poor. It is clear that the groupthinkers there dont like to cover it. The sports section of the Kenny show today for instance covered Rugby Euro and tennis no GAA. The highlight show of the GAA games on Sat which was supposed to run from 10:15 to 11:10 finished at 11:00 no analysis and no Clare v Limerick footage just Sligo v Gal. The short GAA section on the Sunday news highlighted 2 nasty tackles of Cork v Kerry. Still it is testament to our national game that they attracted 40 - 50 thousand spectators this weekend in spite of the lack of hype.

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 11/06/2012 12:31:29    1191609

Tony Davis was awful yesterday. He was mixing things up for the whole game. Whenever any type of incident would occur, he would give his opinion, then see the replay and realise he was wrong. He never corrected himself though. I think it was Darragh Maloney, not sure though, commentating with him and I could picture him cringing beside Davis at some of his analysis.

Whelan did get the bit about Seanie Johnston wrong, but he is the best pundit on RTE at the moment.

mayoboy1 (Mayo) - Posts: 1654 - 11/06/2012 13:49:04    1191743

I'm afraid Mayoboy it wouldn't take much to be the best GAA analyst on RTE, they all are just aweful. As for Tony Davis I can't understand how he gets on the panel and to make it worse he's been there for years. There has to be better past or present players who are more in touch with the modern game and who would be prepared to do their homework before coming on. But then RTE are just happy to provide the minimum cover for GAA.

OntheWhiteSide (Kildare) - Posts: 452 - 11/06/2012 14:04:31    1191770

the TV3 pundits are much better to listen to.

BettystownRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 3353 - 11/06/2012 14:20:28    1191799

I must say I heard Brolly mention some Ty players in very complimentery words which surprised me. Now I was switching between stations so may have missed his worst.

As for Sunday game & specifically Ciaran Whelan, alledging that a Club League game fixed since March was "maniplutatiing" were totally and absolutely wrong and then when partially back-tracking Whelan did not have the guts to open his mouth.

Brave boy Ciaran !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just in case they think its a secret that was Round 9 & Round 10 is fixed for Sat 16th ( changed from Sun 17th after Leinster switched Offaly v Kildare from Sat 16th to Sun 17th so Ciaran can call that maniplulating the Kildare team & crownd in Portlaoise if he wants)and Round 11 is on Sun 24th.

KELF (Kildare) - Posts: 775 - 11/06/2012 14:36:32    1191824

AthboyGael
County: Meath
Posts: 16

I agree showing the main highlights off the live games earlier is stupid just plain dumb. As for UTV - quaintly known as Unionist TV - a pile of rubbish all of it as is its satillite station TV3 - County Londonderry - where the hell is that? Don't even know their own geography.

BBC Norn Iron at least try.

arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4954 - 12/06/2012 09:03:53    1192366

The highlights of the Galway - Sligo game were appalling. I was looking forward to sitting down and seeing how this game panned out after Galway were so impressive against Roscommon. The highlights were edited in such a way that they had post match interviews mixed in with action from the match. There was also a filter on the camera, which gave a blurred and blackened effect and made watching the highlights near impossible. Whoever in RTE thought that was an appropriate way to show highlights of a match should be sat down and made watch it forty or fifty times so it never happens again. Disgraceful.

RoyoftheRoyals (Meath) - Posts: 36 - 12/06/2012 09:44:29    1192385

what are ye on about it was des cahill who broke the stroy to whelan and mcstay by saying we believe seany johnston played his first match for the kildare club today which would make him eleigable so obviously the two guys whelan and mcstay thaught he ment they changed the championship fixture list to get him to play as i thaught this myself when cahill said it and both of them said as far as i know this wasnt going to happen that they must have manipulated the fixtures list which is what they would have had to do to put a championship fixture on that wasnt due to be on.
so theres no point in blaming whelan or mcstay it was rte fault for giving des cahill the wrong information

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 12/06/2012 10:29:15    1192437

Have to agree with the comments on Davis, in my opinionhe's always very poor on his analysis. If you listen to the comments he makes, they are very inconsistent and he changes his views on football every week. He continues to berate teams for playing a defensive game on the Sunday Game yet thought it was a great effort by Tyrone on Saturday Live when Penrose was back on his own 14 making a tackle and Tyrone had got men behind the ball. This is only the most recent sway in his opinions.

Tir Conaill Abu (Donegal) - Posts: 1677 - 12/06/2012 10:46:20    1192452

hill16no1man
County: Dublin


Look at it again, Cahill said he played a game.

Whelan jumped in with his two big size 12's in his own gob, saying championship & maniplutation

Could not wait to have a dig and presumed.

When later corrected he did not have the guts to admit he was wrong, just sat there with a puss on him.

Brilliant analysis Ciaran, a short TV career beckons

KELF (Kildare) - Posts: 775 - 12/06/2012 12:13:43    1192536