irelands fittest family

thesultan · 24-01-2021 8:08pm

funkey_monkey wrote: »

What's his background?

Surely was in fossets circus, polish gymnast

PieOhMy · 24-01-2021 8:09pm

What was it that made dearbhla think he would be good in that? Gymnast? He did class! Surely better than they imagined anyone would do when they came up with that event! Amazing.

Mairead talks about a bog like it's some type of sewage pit or abattoir skip or something, it's a bit much.

Cluedo Monopoly · 24-01-2021 8:12pm

PieOhMy wrote: »

Mairead talks about a bog like it's some type of sewage pit or abattoir skip or something, it's a bit much.

There is no bog anywhere near that field. It's just a pit of water.

The family that won the hanging tough are exhausted.

PieOhMy · 24-01-2021 8:21pm

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

There is no bog anywhere near that field. It's just a pit of water.

The family that won the hanging tough are exhausted.

I had intended to put 'bog' in inverted commas !

PieOhMy · 24-01-2021 8:23pm

I think they should at the start rank the team members 1 to 4. If for some reason a team member has to drop out the corresponding team member on the other team drops out too. Loosing a strongest member due to injury is much worse than choose to drop the weakest member.

And it's not even either !

The Princess Bride · 24-01-2021 8:28pm

Both teams looked more shattered going into that eliminator round, than any of the other participants in previous weeks.

AMKC · 24-01-2021 8:34pm

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Both teams looked more shattered going into that eliminator round, than any of the other participants in previous weeks.

They both really worked for it do. The Cojenskis deserved to win the eliminator and go through do even do at one stage the other team certainly looked fitter. Then they just fell back after the ice bath.
The lad that hurt himself over the bail do flew over it he really did. Lucky it was not a broken rip and a punctured lung. He was lucky.

davetherave · 24-01-2021 10:59pm

PieOhMy wrote: »

I think they should at the start rank the team members 1 to 4. If for some reason a team member has to drop out the corresponding team member on the other team drops out too. Loosing a strongest member due to injury is much worse than choose to drop the weakest member.

And it's not even either !

Yeah, or at the very least follow their own rules that "Teams must have at least one member of both genders taking part".

Take the decision of who to drop away from the family that have to make the decision. Dropping a mother when the other team loses the son isn't really fair but you'd have to imagine that the Kulczynskis would never give up the triathlon guy.

Bill Ponderosa · 28-01-2021 9:07am

PieOhMy wrote: »

I think they should at the start rank the team members 1 to 4. If for some reason a team member has to drop out the corresponding team member on the other team drops out too. Loosing a strongest member due to injury is much worse than choose to drop the weakest member.

And it's not even either !

Wouldn't agree as it could easily lead to tactical injuries especially towards the final and could be controversial. Injuries are unfortunate but it's survival of the fittest!

mloc123 · 28-01-2021 9:33am

funkey_monkey wrote: »

What's his background?

Triathlon. He is in the junior development squad I think. So is well used to surpassing pain.

AMKC · 31-01-2021 8:04pm

Anyone watching? Touch going so far.

larko · 31-01-2021 8:05pm

Yeah. The big bulky lads struggle with hang tough. The balance beams on pontoon of pain!! Some wobble on it.

The longest lasting hang tough people seem to go to some place in their mind. One girl kept singing a song. Lasted ages

AMKC · 31-01-2021 8:05pm

Come on the Mileys from Kildare. Hopefully they win hanging touch.

AMKC · 31-01-2021 8:10pm

No way a break. Talk about making us wait for it. Must be good. I say the Mileys get 10minutes between them and win hanging touch.

AMKC · 31-01-2021 8:14pm

Here we go.

AMKC · 31-01-2021 8:14pm

Come on Kildare.

AMKC · 31-01-2021 8:17pm

Noooooooooooooooo

larko · 31-01-2021 8:18pm

Oh dear.... they must polish that bar to an inch of its life.

larko · 31-01-2021 8:40pm

Great eliminator. The Doyle's lost time in the net. Well done Miley family.

Bif · 31-01-2021 10:26pm

larko wrote: »

Oh dear.... they must polish that bar to an inch of its life.

Covid cleaning has a price?

Green&Red · 31-01-2021 10:42pm

Poor showings all round on hanging tough, they’ll be hoping that’s it done for this series

I thought Doyle’s could win it but the Mileys were class. Especially Jean, she was awesome

kippy · 31-01-2021 11:34pm

Green&Red wrote: »

Poor showings all round on hanging tough, they’ll be hoping that’s it done for this series

I thought Doyle’s could win it but the Mileys were class. Especially Jean, she was awesome

I've heard some comparisons of how poor the times were relative to previous years but what I would say in defence of the families:
1. The diametre of the bar was almost certainly different to that of previous years.
2. The bar was nowhere near as stable. Last few years the bar has been part of a solid structure attached to the end of a teleporter - all solid.
3. This bar structure appears to be hanging by a rope/chain from a crane and it appeared to be moving in the wind A LOT, so much so that they had tried to tie the ends to try stabilise the structure however there was far more movement in this than other years.

So, while it was the same for everyone, it wasn't the same this year as last.

01-02-2021 4:28pm

Davy roaring his "motivational" stuff would distract rather than help the participants I think. He does my head in. Anna isn't much better.
Dervla has a far more inspirational, professional way about her and seems to get the best out of her teams.

stargazer 68 · 01-02-2021 6:29pm

inthehat wrote: »

Davy roaring his "motivational" stuff would distract rather than help the participants I think. He does my head in. Anna isn't much better.
Dervla has a far more inspirational, professional way about her and seems to get the best out of her teams.

Wouldn't be able for it! I'd probably stop and tell them to shut up! Or bring ear plugs

doughef · 01-02-2021 7:31pm

inthehat wrote: »

Davy roaring his "motivational" stuff would distract rather than help the participants I think. He does my head in. Anna isn't much better.
Dervla has a far more inspirational, professional way about her and seems to get the best out of her teams.

Derval and her monotone
‘I can’t process this now / need to go away and process this ‘.........

Arduach · 01-02-2021 7:37pm

Davy does so much shouting that it's rendered useless. You can't get a message across that way. He's overhyped as a gaa manager too, burns out his teams.

Dervla is professional. Proper focus, not roaring and bawling.

Bill Ponderosa · 01-02-2021 10:11pm

The eliminator was a great watch, so close.

Green&Red · 02-02-2021 12:27pm

Anna’s voice would go through you, the shrillness of it

AndrewJRenko · 02-02-2021 1:21pm

Arduach wrote: »

Davy does so much shouting that it's rendered useless. You can't get a message across that way. He's overhyped as a gaa manager too, burns out his teams.

Dervla is professional. Proper focus, not roaring and bawling.

Before the Hanging Tough, he told his team to talk to him when they were struggling.

The Mammy on the team tried to do exactly that, calling Davey, Davey but he never heard her with all his shouting.

HeidiHeidi · 02-02-2021 1:23pm

I notice that since Donncha lost the head with a family a couple of weeks ago, he's been a lot quieter and focused - maybe taking a leaf from Derval's book!

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