Euro 2012 RTE Panel Watch

Skid

"Are social media polls a load of cack?" :D:D

BaZmO*

murpho999 wrote: »

Nice showing how Swansea play with ordinary players but do they really expect a stubborn Italian in his seventies is going to change his philosophy?

No chance!

Exactly. Ridiculous to say otherwise. Trap was tasked with getting us to a major tournament. He nearly got us there on the first try and done so on the second. He's not the man for the job if we now want free flowing football, and he's not going to change his philosophy now.

Dean820

We would get destroyed if we tried to play like Swansea. We wouldn't have qualified for this tournament if we had. We are not a top class side, this tournament proved this. We have to play a certain style to get results.

Laois_Man

Did they seriously take 2 clips of a few players taken out of the last 2 years and make it sound like they would have been running rings around Spain and Italy?

Skid

The RTE Soccer Facebook page now has an actual question:

Social Media Polls: Are they a load of cack?

https://www.facebook.com/rtesoccer

Love it

Jimmy Iovine

Dunphy is on with the wine on Craig Doyle's show. Knew he couldn't keep off it that long.

peterswellman

Dunphy on the sauce on Craig Doyle. Pity he didn't have a few in him already.

Marty McFly

Laois_Man wrote: »

Did they seriously take 2 clips of a few players taken out of the last 2 years and make it sound like they would have been running rings around Spain and Italy?

No i love how people take certain things and twist it to suit themselves, what they were saying was you dont need Fabregas etc to play nice football we can play decent football in a more entertaining way than what we are now and they used Swansea, Norwich as an example of this.

It was never said we would have beaten Spain, Italy. We could have lost the three games regardless but its the manner in which we lost all games.

Dunphy on autopilot

Mr.Crinklewood

Irish fans are not as generous as the players Eamonn.

Mr.Nice Guy

Thought it was great seeing Bill trying to read Kazakhstan on the autocue. Sounded like he was saying we were playing away in Craggy Island. We'd have no problems there of course, as long as we kept Trap away from the annual all-priests five-a-side over 75s indoor football challenge match...against Rugged Island.

SeantheMan

Where are the Spain highlights ?
I'm actually disgusted they didn't show them, what kind of Euro coverage can you call that.

Laois_Man

It's wonderful how they manage to present a guy like Wes Hoolahan in a presentation "for Ireland's future" and then just happen to forget to mention that he's 30 years old.

They seriously think they're talking to an audience who haven't a bog what they're looking at!

Laois_Man

Marty McFly wrote: »

No i love how people take certain things and twist it to suit themselves, what they were saying was you dont need Fabregas etc to play nice football we can play decent football in a more entertaining way than what we are now and they used Swansea, Norwich as an example of this.

It was never said we would have beaten Spain, Italy. We could have lost the three games regardless but its the manner in which we lost all games.

Before critisising someone for claiming the panel said something they never said, you might first check I made such a claim! I never said they said we'd have beaten Spain and Italy.

The crux of the point is the likes of Coleman isn't one iota better than the player who did play in that position in this tournament.....Duff!

Marty McFly

Laois_Man wrote: »

Before critisising someone for claiming the panel said something they never said, you might first check I made such a claim! I never said they said we'd have beaten Spain and Italy.

The crux of the point is the likes of Coleman isn't one iota better than the player who did play in that position in this tournament.....Duff!

Ah but i would say he could be classed as better, Duff is still a fantastic player with huge experience, but at 33 he doesnt have the pace or energy anymore especially for the amount of demands of three games in such short space, much rather bring Coleman on right wing instead of pushing doyle out wide, so Coleman could have been a better option and most certainly should be in the team for the world cup qualifiers considering they were talking about the future and the changes theyd like to see made, plus dont forget Coleman is versatille and can play right full aswell.

Corholio

Laois_Man wrote: »

Before critisising someone for claiming the panel said something they never said, you might first check I made such a claim! I never said they said we'd have beaten Spain and Italy.

The crux of the point is the likes of Coleman isn't one iota better than the player who did play in that position in this tournament.....Duff!

Younger, more pace, actually right footed. Duff is past it and offered nothing. I'm a huge fan of the old Duff, but he hasn't done it for Ireland for a while now. Coleman, when he shakes off those injuries, is a very good player.

Laois_Man

Marty McFly wrote: »

Ah but i would say he could be classed as better, Duff is still a fantastic player with huge experience, but at 33 he doesnt have the pace or energy anymore especially for the amount of demands of three games in such short space, much rather bring Coleman on right wing instead of pushing doyle out wide, so Coleman could have been a better option and most certainly should be in the team for the world cup qualifiers considering they were talking about the future and the changes theyd like to see made, plus dont forget Coleman is versatille and can play right full aswell.

upon what basis do you say Coleman can play at full back?

Coleman isn't very different to Kevin Kilbane in his day. Limited ability. Knock it past the full back and chase it. That's all Kilbane could do. That's all Coleman can do!

Marty McFly

Laois_Man wrote: »

upon what basis do you say Coleman can play at full back?

Coleman isn't very different to Kevin Kilbane in his day. Limited ability. Knock it past the full back and chase it. That's all Kilbane could do. That's all Coleman can do!

Upon seeing him play there, sure if you even check the official Everton website they have listed as a right back first and foremost, upon what basis do you hint that Coleman cant?

So your your trying to say that Coleman shouldnt be playing ahead of Duff in one post and then comparing him with Kilbane who earned plenty of caps playing for Ireland? Also a player although with "limited ability" had a fairly successful career in England and at international level.

Corholio

Laois_Man wrote: »

upon what basis do you say Coleman can play at full back?

Coleman isn't very different to Kevin Kilbane in his day. Limited ability. Knock it past the full back and chase it. That's all Kilbane could do. That's all Coleman can do!

Wow. Thats actually funny. You haven't watched much of Coleman if you think thats all he can do. Thats doing Kilbane a big unjustice too as well by the way.

bookie basher

Laois_Man wrote: »

upon what basis do you say Coleman can play at full back?

Coleman isn't very different to Kevin Kilbane in his day. Limited ability. Knock it past the full back and chase it. That's all Kilbane could do. That's all Coleman can do!

thats very noticeable about coleman alright, when he has alot of space to run into he's alright, he's poor in tight spaces though, dosnt have the ball control or awareness in tight spaces, still he has alot of energy and pace so he might make a good overlapping fullback coming from deep, but trap dosnt like overlapping fullbacks!!!

Laois_Man

Corholio wrote: »

Wow. Thats actually funny. You haven't watched much of Coleman if you think thats all he can do. Thats doing Kilbane a big unjustice too as well by the way.

I'm an Everton supporter and I watch every single Everton game. Coleman played in about 20 games this past season and we didn't see one single good cross from him. So taste them apples!

The Radiator

Arra shur they're grand

Corholio

Laois_Man wrote: »

I'm an Everton supporter and I watch every single Everton game. Coleman played in about 20 games this past season and we didn't see one single good cross from him. So taste them apples!

LOL Your original point wasn't even about crosses. Coleman can go past players and ive seen plenty of good crosses from him. Not gonna judge a player on a season broken up by injuries. Did you really say 'taste them apples' by the way? Could imagine you sticking your thumb on your nose and waving your fingers.

Laois_Man

Corholio wrote: »

LOL Your original point wasn't even about crosses. Coleman can go past players and ive seen plenty of good crosses from him. Not gonna judge a player on a season broken up by injuries. Did you really say 'taste them apples' by the way? Could imagine you sticking your thumb on your nose and waving your fingers.

What do you think was my point. He plays wide right. Wtf do you think the main purpose is if it's not crosses? He's a massive liability tracking back too. You saw a few good crosses from him in his first spell in the Everton team....and during a spell in The Championship on loan at Blackpool before that - but now PL full backs have him sussed out. And he doesn't go past anyone any more.

Laois_Man

Marty McFly wrote: »

Upon seeing him play there, sure if you even check the official Everton website they have listed as a right back first and foremost, upon what basis do you hint that Coleman cant?

So your your trying to say that Coleman shouldnt be playing ahead of Duff in one post and then comparing him with Kilbane who earned plenty of caps playing for Ireland? Also a player although with "limited ability" had a fairly successful career in England and at international level.

Coleman has never ever once played right back for Everton. So you must have saw it at either Sligo Rovers or while on loan at Blackpool. Hardly a good yardstick

I never said Coleman shouldn't play for Ireland. I've said he'll be no improvement on Duff.
The Duff of 2012!

Corholio

Laois_Man wrote: »

Coleman has never ever once played right back for Everton. So you must have saw it at either Sligo Rovers or while on loan at Blackpool. Hardly a good yardstick

I never said Coleman shouldn't play for Ireland. I've said he'll be no improvement on Duff.
The Duff of 2012!

The Duff of now is a shadow of the player he was. Coleman should at least get a chance don't you think? Then again we have a manager who doesnt really do chances. Coleman is very good going forward and I think he'd be more of a threat than Duff has been lately.

Laois_Man

Corholio wrote: »

The Duff of now is a shadow of the player he was. Coleman should at least get a chance don't you think? Then again we have a manager who doesnt really do chances. Coleman is very good going forward and I think he'd be more of a threat than Duff has been lately.

of course. I think Coleman should get a chance. I'm convinced Duff just played his last game tonight so I'm not sure what else we can do. I also think Gibson should get a chance. I'd give Greg Cunningham a go at left back. I hope he'd get a permanent move away from Man City tho. We also need Westwood out of Sunderland. I have good hopes for Duffy at Everton too. And a couple of young fella's at Villa not including Ciaran Clark (Caruthers and Grealish). Young Brady at Man Utd. Clifford and Henderson - 2 young midfielders at Chelsea and Arsenal - the latter is thought extremely highly of by Arsne Wegner. Most of these guys will see Brazil 2014 come too soon for them. But I'm very upbeat about our medium to long term prospects. The short term prospects - grim.

Orando Broom

I felt the player supercut was a Dunphy driven agenda. The pointed thanking of the VT analyst and the risible attempts to goad Brady into passing comment.

One thing from this Euros; Brady is a silent partner in the Ireland set up. Much like the way he has an audience with Wenger; more than we'd believe, he has never betrayed the trust of either man for the RTE shilling.

Dempsey

Dunphy did exactly what Brady said he would do in the opening match.

His Wes Hoolahan/Swansea rant doesnt hold much water tbh.

fryup

kitakyushu wrote: »

My fellow Irish. As a young boy, I dreamed of being Liam Brady.

didn't we all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ILpVJ_DVY

monkey9

Laois_Man wrote: »

It's wonderful how they manage to present a guy like Wes Hoolahan in a presentation "for Ireland's future" and then just happen to forget to mention that he's 30 years old.

They seriously think they're talking to an audience who haven't a bog what they're looking at!

Are the next two years not the future??

Laois_Man

monkey9 wrote: »

Are the next two years not the future??

In the context of "2014 and beyond"......no!

And that is a quote!

SarahBM

Jesus Mary and st Joseph!!! We get ger "and he puts it over the bar for a point" canning for the eng v Ukraine game. I might just have to watch this on mute.
But at least its the a team in studio (I miss Didi)

Ps. Ukraine have the longest national anthem ever!!!

markie29

Good man Ger...talks before the ends of the Ukraine anthem...and says 'oh its not finished yet' ...he really should stick to GAA.

monkey9

Felexicon

markie29 wrote: »

Good man Ger...talks before the ends of the Ukraine anthem...and says 'oh its not finished yet' ...he really should stick to GAA.

Nah we don't want him either

SarahBM

According to Ger, Parker is now known as Scottie Parker..... *facepalm

Neil3030

Ah here, where the f*** is Brian Kerr. :mad:

noodler

Orando Broom wrote: »

One thing from this Euros; Brady is a silent partner in the Ireland set up. Much like the way he has an audience with Wenger; more than we'd believe, he has never betrayed the trust of either man for the RTE shilling.

I'd have to ask you more specifically what you mean by betray but I also think, on the otherhand, he isn't doing his job as a pundit if he consistently sugarcoats or cops out of legitimate criticism because of previous relationships.

Jimmy Iovine

Neil3030 wrote: »

Ah here, where the f*** is Brian Kerr. :mad:

In Poland.

Neil3030

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

In Poland.

Ah right, fair enough.

(Thought you were being smart there until I understood your point!)

Neil3030

"Yarmolenko, could he be the match winner here!"

..... on 41 minutes... :rolleyes:

kitakyushu

monkey9 wrote: »

Speaking of which, where's the fool who "dreams colours" and who predicted Ireland were gonna win Euro2012?

Cantona's Collars

kitakyushu wrote: »

Speaking of which, where's the fool who "dreams colours" and who predicted Ireland were gonna win Euro2012?

I think the green was meant to be the Germany away kit.:pac:

kitakyushu

RTE still showing those *looooosers* and their "3" ads.

"Go on Dave, take up Rugby." :mad: :pac:

noodler

kitakyushu wrote: »

RTE still showing those *looooosers* and their "3" ads.

"Go on Dave, take up Rugby." :mad: :pac:

Hahahahah.

Oh god.

SarahBM

what the hell kind of accent does Trevor Stephens have *confused*

SarahBM

another gem from Canning "very nearly broke his duck"

like he even knows what that means! First GAA, now Football, what next? Cricket?? have mercy!

windsurfer99ie

mike65 wrote: »

Dunphy will never miss an opportunity to win some cheap points from the home crowd when talking about England.
QUOTE]

Subliminally, at least one Englishman living in Ireland knows that Dunphy is an anti-English bigot.

Samich

SarahBM wrote: »

another gem from Canning "very nearly broke his duck"

like he even knows what that means! First GAA, now Football, what next? Cricket?? have mercy!

When he says it's a corner, it's really hard for him to say it. It pains him not to say a '45

Also now an overhit corner is a "huuuuge one"