World Cup Punditry Gold 2014

Billy86

FunLover18 wrote: »

I presume you're referring to the TV licence. Do you watch everything RTE produce? You've technically paid for all of it

And a good deal of it I have been quite vocally opposed to, while in many areas I am not the target audience so it is not a point for me to argue on personally. But their football "punditry" is one of them most glaring examples of celebrating wilful ignorance and celebrating it, to the extent of it actually being bad for the sport in this country.

FunLover18

Billy86 wrote: »

And a good deal of it I have been quite vocally opposed to, while in many areas I am not the target audience so it is not a point for me to argue on personally. But their football "punditry" is one of them most glaring examples of celebrating wilful ignorance and celebrating it, to the extent of it actually being bad for the sport in this country.

I still don't understand why you insist on watching it when you've freely admitted that if ITV or BBC were available you'd be watching them regardless of the fact that you've paid for RTE and are a member of the target audience.

Billy86

FunLover18 wrote: »

I still don't understand why you insist on watching it when you've freely admitted that if ITV or BBC were available you'd be watching them regardless of the fact that you've paid for RTE and are a member of the target audience.

Because almost anything is preferable to RTEs coverage when Dunphy is on, it's quite simple really. And I don't have an option whether or not I pay for RTE so long as I own a TV.

Given the option of ITV, BBC or RTE with two or three of Sadlier/Cunningham/Hamann or Ossie/Friedel, I would pick RTE. Especially with Darragh over Bill. Yet RTE persist with the clownish Old Boys Club as per usual more often than not.

Anyone notice that Ossie has vanished?

Fudge You

Billy86 wrote: »

Because almost anything is preferable to RTEs coverage when Dunphy is on, it's quite simple really. And I don't have an option whether or not I pay for RTE so long as I own a TV.

So basically your silly problem is just Dunphy.
He is the most entertaining person on Irish tv.
Just stop your crying!!!!

Hank Scorpio

Giles always tried to cut Bill off when hes moving on to another point, some kind of stubborn mental reflex

Say Your Number

Billo: ROBBEN GETS ON MY NERVES :pac:

LordAwesome

Stop defending the indefensible Giles.

Charlie19

Canavaro has such a stoners head on em. He always looks baked.

LordAwesome

Dunphy says the WC should always be played in Europe.

Please. This has been the best WC in forever. Wouldn't have been 1/10th as good in Europe.

AllGunsBlazing

LordAwesome wrote: »

Dunphy says the WC should always be played in Europe.

So I didn't just imagine he said that? Phew!

Dempsey

Dunphy is having another brainfart!

yohan the great

buyer95 wrote: »

Gilesy-"Here's Holla.., oh sorry, The Netherlands doing what they do."

Then Billo says 2 mins later. " They hadnt got much magic there in the first half, Holland."

Bear in mind Billo scolded Eamon and Giles the last time the dutch played, for saying Holland!

Pardon my ignorance but what is the difference between the two names?

Pawwed Rig

yohan the great wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance but what is the difference between the two names?

Holland is a provence in the Netherlands

Say Your Number

LordAwesome wrote: »

Dunphy says the WC should always be played in Europe.

Please. This has been the best WC in forever. Wouldn't have been 1/10th as good in Europe.

That's more down to the attacking attitude of a lot of teams rather than because it's in Brazil, they do have a point though it shouldn't be in a place where the temperature is extreme.

artanevilla

yohan the great wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance but what is the difference between the two names?

Holland is simply a provence of The Netherlands, like Leinster is to Ireland.

inforfun

yohan the great wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance but what is the difference between the two names?

Holland is generally just the western part of the country. So if there are any Dutch taking "offence", which there are very few, they will be from the north, east or south.

But those were just shouting Hup Holland Hup a couple of hours ago as well.

It is really a non issue (in Holland*), dont know why they make such a fuss about it.



*See what i did there

Muahahaha

Did a memo go round RTE to only call them the Netherlands ? Both Giles and Dunphy have called them Holland and then corrected themselves to the Netherlands. Over on ITV they're still called Holland. Much ado about nothing on RTE it seems.

Brian017

Surprised he never mentioned that the AI Finals are always held in Croke Park. He comes out with some ****e at times

A Primal Nut

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

So I didn't just imagine he said that? Phew!

In the same venue each time.:eek:

Dempsey

Dunphy doesnt realise that Samaras has left Celtic

monkey9

Dempsey wrote: »

Dunphy doesnt realise that Samaras has left Celtic

Not for a couple of days he hasn't.

Lapin

LordAwesome wrote: »

Dunphy says the WC should always be played in Europe.

Please. This has been the best WC in forever. Wouldn't have been 1/10th as good in Europe.

+1

Also, being in Brazil the match times are perfect for us.

5pm and 9pm kick offs (our time) are ideal.

Even the 11pm games in the group stages were good.

I enjoyed the novelty of late night football !

Slicemeister

Just as well kick off suits European audience times, imagine the stuff coming out of a Drunken Dunphy at 2 o clock in the morning!

AllGunsBlazing

Slicemeister wrote: »

Just as well kick off suits European audience times, imagine the stuff coming out of a Drunken Dunphy at 2 o clock in the morning!

Would watch!

Lapin

Muahahaha wrote: »

Did a memo go round RTE to only call them the Netherlands ? Both Giles and Dunphy have called them Holland and then corrected themselves to the Netherlands. Over on ITV they're still called Holland. Much ado about nothing on RTE it seems.

Wouldn't it be a lot easier if they just called them 'The Dutch' ?


What kind of a screwed up place is it anyway?

It's called The Netherlands.
The fans go 'Hup Holland Hup'.
And the people are Dutch.
None of the names bear any resemblance to each other.


I should know as I lived there for a while but my mind was on other things then. :cool:

Slicemeister

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Would watch!

Used to think the same until this world cup. Better punditry from the Cunningham/Hamann/Sadlier trio has shown up his shortcomings as a pundit no end. A ****stirrer, one of if not the best.

Pdoghue

Lapin wrote: »

+1

Also, being in Brazil the match times are perfect for us.

5pm and 9pm kick offs (our time) are ideal.

Even the 11pm games in the group stages were good.

I enjoyed the novelty of late night football !

Tongue in cheek I presume?

LordAwesome

Say Your Number wrote: »

That's more down to the attacking attitude of a lot of teams rather than because it's in Brazil, they do have a point though it shouldn't be in a place where the temperature is extreme.

The players are clearly feeding of the crowds and atmosphere, which wouldn't be as good in Europe.

Brussels Sprout

dreamers75 wrote: »

Him Ronnie Whelan and Jim Beglin and Lawro and Hansen hate football. Seriously hate it.

I wonder if they're all bitter about the fact that when they were playing they weren't on the ridiculous wages that came in during the mid-late 90's and this just comes out in their punditry.

auldgranny

Infor is the Dutch Football going to adopt you as mascot and pay you to bet against them. Maybe that is the ploy?

Zico

George Hamilton denied!

"IT'S THERE!!....er...it's almost there":D

inforfun

auldgranny wrote: »

Infor is the Dutch Football going to adopt you as mascot and pay you to bet against them. Maybe that is the ploy?

Funny enough, i didnt lose money either on it.





But looking at Greece - CR, the way to the semis is wide open for Holland.

auldgranny

inforfun wrote: »

Funny enough, i didnt lose money either on it.





But looking at Greece - CR, the way to the semis is wide open for Holland.

What bookies does shot to hit the crossbar?

auldgranny

inforfun wrote: »

Funny enough, i didnt lose money either on it.





But looking at Greece - CR, the way to the semis is wide open for Holland.

What bookies does shot to hit the crossbar?

inforfun

auldgranny wrote: »

What bookies does shot to hit the crossbar?

Unibet

auldgranny

inforfun wrote: »

Funny enough, i didnt lose money either on it.





But looking at Greece - CR, the way to the semis is wide open for Holland.

What bookies does shot to hit the crossbar?

auldgranny

inforfun wrote: »

Funny enough, i didnt lose money either on it.





But looking at Greece - CR, the way to the semis is wide open for Holland.

What bookies does shot to hit the crossbar?

Billy86

LordAwesome wrote: »

Dunphy says the WC should always be played in Europe.

Please. This has been the best WC in forever. Wouldn't have been 1/10th as good in Europe.

Corholio

Pdoghue wrote: »

Tongue in cheek I presume?

I enjoyed the late night games too.

LordAwesome

10:56 George Hamilton makes gratuitous but inevitable Genoa 1990 reference.

Lapin

Brady "Samprass".

Charlie19

Lapin wrote: »

Brady "Samprass".

Dunphy wasn't letting that slide.

LordAwesome

Hamilton makes another tenuous 1990 reference this time adding the assumption that "we all remember what happened then", unaware that a vast amount of his audience were either too young to remember or not even born then.

auldgranny

LordAwesome wrote: »

Hamilton makes another tenuous 1990 reference this time adding the assumption that "we all remember what happened then", unaware that the majority of his audience where either too young to remember or not even born then.

Speak for yourself

LordAwesome

I'm hardly the only under 30 year old watching the match.

auldgranny

LordAwesome wrote: »

I'm hardly the only under 30 year old watching the match.

Well under 30's hardly the majority watching RTE

Pdoghue

Corholio wrote: »

I enjoyed the late night games too.

As did I, but in general the games were scheduled to suit a European audience. Not ideal staging matches at 1 pm in the Amazon jungle. But if the matches were on in the evening Brazilian time, they would have been on very late in the night European time.

auldgranny

Pdoghue wrote: »

As did I, but in general the games were scheduled to suit a European audience. Not ideal staging matches at 1 pm in the Amazon jungle. But if the matches were on in the evening Brazilian time, they would have been on very late in the night European time.

If they were on at 3:00 am I would still watch.

LordAwesome

You'd swear Italia '90 was the only time a penalty shoot out was ever taken before.

auldgranny

LordAwesome wrote: »

You'd swear Italia '90 was the only time a penalty shoot out was ever taken before.

I laughed at that too. We were in one in 2002 too.