RTE Premiership coverage gripe (SCORES ENCLOSED)

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Am watchign premiership here on RTE and have seen two really dodgy amaturish decidsions.

1) Showing the Man U game first. If you're one of those who doesn't know the scores (or want to) and you watch Man U win 4-0... there's no need to watch the Liverpool game. Bill O herlihy summer it up "now that we've seen Man U win, the Liverpool game is rendered effectively meaningless". I thought the idea was to show the team trailing first...? Even showing only the goals of the Pool game and then extended highlights of the Man U game makes more sence.

2) No showing of Alonso's injury...? Would have thought that was a 'viewing point' considering the FA cup final's only 6 days away...

ditpoker

agree completely with this! am watching premiership now and it is poorly produced. the best end of season highlights hsow was several years ago, when blackbrun won the prmeirship on the last day with united drawing at west ham, it was Match of the Day on BBC and they kept jumping between matches and making it really tense.. EVEN if you knew the outcome! was great tv, rte just not up to standard.

SteM

Part of the problem is the 3 hour turn around for editing 10 matches I'd guess. Normally when the Premiership is shown on Saturday there are less games.

Of course another part of the problem is RTEs ineptitude.

Guy:Incognito

I dont see the point of it being on so early. On saturdays they are on too soon to show the late game.

seabee

I was switching over between the spurs game on rte1 and the gaa game on rte2 today and noticed that rte2 displayed "The Den" logo on the top right hand corner of the screen during the gaa game....:rolleyes:

mike65

Typical! the programme is made by public servants not people who understand TV or sport!

Mike.

Mossy Monk

funnily enough, the 9 o clock news covered the Arsenal and Spurs games by jumping from one game to the other

Roddy23

Did anyone see when Johnny Giles started slagging off the UEFA Cup"pointless", and then Bill interrupts " eh john we're showing that one". Thats why I love the coverage on RTE, you're always guaranteed a laugh.

Pepe LeFrits

Roddy23 wrote:

Did anyone see when Johnny Giles started slagging off the UEFA Cup"pointless", and then Bill interrupts " eh john we're showing that one". Thats why I love the coverage on RTE, you're always guaranteed a laugh.

haha, class

moshpit77

Mossy Monk wrote:

funnily enough, the 9 o clock news covered the Arsenal and Spurs games by jumping from one game to the other

...which shows that the news department are more in tune with sports than the sports department!

Chardee MacDennis

Ikky Poo2 wrote:

Am watchign premiership here on RTE and have seen two really dodgy amaturish decidsions.

1) Showing the Man U game first. If you're one of those who doesn't know the scores (or want to) and you watch Man U win 4-0... there's no need to watch the Liverpool game. Bill O herlihy summer it up "now that we've seen Man U win, the Liverpool game is rendered effectively meaningless". I thought the idea was to show the team trailing first...? Even showing only the goals of the Pool game and then extended highlights of the Man U game makes more sence.

mach of the day did the same thing, obviously they aren't catering for people who havent heard the results anymore.

mchurl

Roddy23 wrote:

Did anyone see when Johnny Giles started slagging off the UEFA Cup"pointless", and then Bill interrupts " eh john we're showing that one". Thats why I love the coverage on RTE, you're always guaranteed a laugh.

only in RTE:D

~Rebel~

I was really pissed off they didnt show more of the liverpool game. Showing uniteds and then glimpsing the goals in the pool game quickly before commentary on united. Surely with the number of pool fans in the country and the fact that its the last prem match we get to see for months AND that its the only one of the big 4 games that wasn't covered live earlier, would have been nice to see a bit more. Especially, as someone else said, the Alonso injury.

The way they were talking about RVN was hilarious too, yer man (cant remember his name, not Giles or houghton) saying Fergie had come to his senses (woken up and smelled the coffee i believe were the words) that Ruud wasn't doing it anymore and dropped RVN for Saha. RVN was the leagues leading scorer at the time, sounds like a pretty poor point to me..