Euro 2012 RTE Panel Watch

kitakyushu

Keane is an "MSL" player apparently.

ciano1

MSL...

flyswatter

kitakyushu wrote: »

Keane is an "MSL" player apparently.

All dunphy said was that he was playing in a substandard league. Fair enough.

sandt

Giles: "that wave of optimism is a bit optimistic"

Will I Amnt

flyswatter wrote: »

kitakyushu wrote: »

Keane is an "MSL" player apparently.

All dunphy said was that he was playing in a substandard league. Fair enough.

Munster Senior League is a fairly low standard in fairness.

Zonda999

chughes wrote: »

Do they show La Liga matches in Lillies?

He probably uses sky+..

missingtime

Liam is gonna murder bill

Taco Corp

missingtime wrote: »

Liam is gonna murder bill

Just missed that, saw Bill say he'd withdraw his comment. What did he say?

missingtime

Something about bill thinking Liam thought Ireland has no chance.

Renn

Good old Aiden McGiddy.

Renn

The dvd men!

tdv123

Liam given Eamo his bandwagoness there & Bill coming out with his 87% poll result. Lol :pac:

That_Guy

Half time after the game last night.

Bill: Well that was a bit of a bummer wasn't it?

Hilarious.

gnfnrhead

Any idea who is on today?

Chardee MacDennis

kitakyushu wrote: »

Keane is an "MSL" player apparently.

PMSL maybe after last nights performance...

steelcityblues

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Any idea who is on today?

Sadlier and Hamann, with Maloney I think. They seem to be the 'Ukraine team', while the senior guys seem to be the 'Poland team'.

That_Guy

steelcityblues wrote: »

Sadlier and Hamann, with Maloney I think. They seem to be the 'Ukraine team', while the senior guys seem to be the 'Poland team'.

Ugh. Sadlier is quite awful. Nice seeing Hamann though. Think he's an excellent pundit. Pity they've not got Irwin back. Thought he was very good during the World Cup coverage.

steelcityblues

That_Guy wrote: »

Ugh. Sadlier is quite awful. Nice seeing Hamann though. Think he's an excellent pundit. Pity they've not got Irwin back. Thought he was very good during the World Cup coverage.

I like him, not a 'yes man' like so many ex-Irish players turned pundits.

SlipperyPeople

sadliers the best one IMO

steelcityblues

Apparently Steve Wilson has yet to commentate on a match for the BBC, despite being listed as one of their 4 guys in Poland/Ukraine. Wonder what's up.

ambid

Sadlier always sounds pissed off though - he seems to start every answer with a sigh and a monotone mumble. He is pretty insightful once you get past that though.

klose

Good panel here today! Didi is a great pundit

cyrusdvirus

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Any idea who is on today?

England v France then Ukraine v Sweden

sorry, couldn't resist the tap in

theoneeyedman

Ger 'consternation ' Canning commentates.....Jesus wept .

windsurfer99ie

whippedcream wrote: »

Good panel here today! Didi is a great pundit

Didi just did a very good pre-match assessment on England. Good panel selection, RTE Sport.

Speaking as an England fan, I'm relieved that Dunphy has been rested again. Gabby Logan will be able to conduct her post-match interviews and England fans will be able to sing their songs without being verbally abused by the bandwagon chaser.

Land of Hope and Glory ... !

God Save Our Gracious ... oh I forgot, Dunphy pretends to like her, but the old bigot doesn't fool me.

Leslie91

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Ger 'consternation ' Canning commentates.....Jesus wept .

Is he commentating on Eng game?.

If so then must get missus to change recorded channel to UTV. Lad is so out of his depth (nevermind comfort zone, he doesn't have one of them).

Cardinal Richelieu

whippedcream wrote: »

Good panel here today! Didi is a great pundit

Yea, he knows something about European football unlike Dunphy who just repeats 5 mins later what Brady told him about an Italian player.

Mars Bar

Who's commentating with Trevor Welch? He's trying a posh English accent some times. That'll drive me mad.

Neil3030

ambid wrote: »

Sadlier always sounds pissed off though - he seems to start every answer with a sigh and a monotone mumble. He is pretty insightful once you get past that though.

I take your point. However, if that's his personality, then I would rather he stays true to it, rather than have his natural persona media-trained out of him. I watch a fair bit of US sporting analysts and they are all essentially homogeneous puppets with identical vocal styles and hand gestures. It really has you pining for a moan, if nothing else to restore a sense of realism.

kitakyushu

Mars Bar wrote: »

Who's commentating with Trevor Welch? He's trying a posh English accent some times. That'll drive me mad.

You never been to Fronce then?

kitakyushu

England playing like a more expensive Ireland so far. France look quite good.

flyswatter

No, Ger Canning, a lot of people don't say Joe Hart is the best keeper in the world. I haven't met any anyway.

kitakyushu

flyswatter wrote: »

No, Ger Canning, a lot of people don't say Joe Hart is the best keeper in the world. I haven't met any anyway.

Carragher on ITV is quite confident him and Neuer are the best in the Euros and in time will both be the best in the world.

Renn

ambid wrote: »

Sadlier always sounds pissed off though - he seems to start every answer with a sigh and a monotone mumble. He is pretty insightful once you get past that though.

He's been pretty terrible imo. Reminds me of this every time he opens his mouth - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beN7FftWNCM&t=1m50s

devotional1993

ambid wrote: »

Sadlier always sounds pissed off though - he seems to start every answer with a sigh and a monotone mumble. He is pretty insightful once you get past that though.

Bit of a balding moany head on him but hes better than the humpty dumpty show

ambid

Thing is, without Dunphy, the panel is a little bland as they agree with each other a lot. Dunphy mixes it up a bit by saying controversial things.

kitakyushu

ambid wrote: »

Thing is, without Dunphy, the panel is a little bland as they agree with each other a lot. Dunphy mixes it up a bit by saying controversial things.

Dunphy is like the Xavi/Pirlo in there making it all work. Without him all you've got is a bunch of Andrews.

devotional1993

He's entertaining but a caricature of himself at the best of times. Bit muted so far though by his own standards.

IvySlayer

RTE graphics mess up!

HazDanz

IvySlayer wrote: »

RTE graphics mess up!

Doing there best to confuse people. The producer's there I reckon must be on the sauce for some of these matches

windsurfer99ie

kitakyushu wrote: »

Dunphy is like the Xavi/Pirlo in there making it all work. Without him all you've got is a bunch of Andrews.

Where England is concerned, Dunphy is a cheap pub bigot. If RTE are serious about keeping racism out of football, keeping Dunphy away from England games would be a good start.

The RTE team played a blinder today (even if England didn't) and this one license fee paying England supporter was able to enjoy the match without being abused.

Renn

Hamann wondering which Ibra will turn up

1999–2001|Malmö FF|40 (16)
2001–2004|Ajax|74 (35)
2004–2006|Juventus|70 (23)
2006–2009|Internazionale|88 (57)
2009–2011|Barcelona|29 (16)
2010–2011|Milan (loan)|29 (14)
2011–|Milan|32 (28)
2001|Sweden U21|7 (6)
2001–|Sweden|77 (31)

Dempsey

Renn wrote: »

Hamann wondering which Ibra will turn up

1999–2001|Malmö FF|40 (16)
2001–2004|Ajax|74 (35)
2004–2006|Juventus|70 (23)
2006–2009|Internazionale|88 (57)
2009–2011|Barcelona|29 (16)
2010–2011|Milan (loan)|29 (14)
2011–|Milan|32 (28)
2001|Sweden U21|7 (6)
2001–|Sweden|77 (31)

You do realise that despite all he's done in the game he still goes missing in alot of matches and quite a few high profile games at that

missingtime

Ibra has never done it at club level according to ray Houghton.

Seaneh

JEsus the ****e they talk about Ibrahimovic is mental.

For example.

Giles:Great players don't move, the fact that he's moved clubs a few times suggests to me he isn't that good, managers won't let great players move.

HE left Ajax for a much bigger club in a bigger league.
He Left Juve because they were relegated.
He left Inter to join the best club in the world for massive money.

The only place where the manager "let him go" was Barca where himself and the manager apparently hated each other.

kitakyushu

missingtime wrote: »

Ibra has never done it at club level according to ray Houghton.

Ibra has more trophies than Houghton has shoddy product endorsements.

Drumpot

Dempsey wrote: »

You do realise that despite all he's done in the game he still goes missing in alot of matches and quite a few high profile games at that

Look at berbatov. His statistics two seasons ago had him joint top scorer. Statistics can hide a players weakness. For me I didn't see zlatan in most games, only big ones for Sweden or his clubs and he more often then not looked an average player at best.

Some players are great at being effective in alot of their teams games but no so
Effective in harder games. I would put him in that bracket.

Renn

Dempsey wrote:

You do realise that despite all he's done in the game he still goes missing in alot of matches and quite a few high profile games at that

I do realise that that's pretty much BS.

Date|Fixture|Goals|Assists
06/08/2011|Milan-Inter|1|0
09/09/2011|Milan-Lazio|1|0
28/09/2011|Milan-V Plzen|1|1
19/10/2011|Milan-BATE Borisov|1|0
29/10/2011|Milan-AS Roma|2|0
01/11/2011|Milan-BATE Borisov|1|0
23/11/2011|Milan-Barcelona|1|0
15/02/2012|Milan-Arsenal|1|2
24/03/2012|Milan-AS Roma|2|0
03/04/2012|Milan-Barcelona|0|1
06/05/2012|Milan-Inter|2|0

Any of those high profile games?

missingtime

Its a lazy, tabloid comment. He might "go missing" but you can't say he's never done it a club level with the amount of club trophies that he has won.

Dempsey

Renn wrote: »

I do realise that that's pretty much BS.

Date|Fixture|Goals|Assists
06/08/2011|Milan-Inter|1|0
09/09/2011|Milan-Lazio|1|0
28/09/2011|Milan-V Plzen|1|1
19/10/2011|Milan-BATE Borisov|1|0
29/10/2011|Milan-AS Roma|2|0
01/11/2011|Milan-BATE Borisov|1|0
23/11/2011|Milan-Barcelona|1|0
15/02/2012|Milan-Arsenal|1|2
24/03/2012|Milan-AS Roma|2|0
03/04/2012|Milan-Barcelona|0|1
06/05/2012|Milan-Inter|2|0

Any of those high profile games?

If you watch enough of him, there is no argument that he is inconsistent to a certain degree. I'm sure if I bother I could pull stats to counter the ones you have.