The Sunday Game 2016 Thread

OldMrBrennan83

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Joe_ Public

Patww79 wrote: »

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Harsh I think. Maybe it's just a case that instead of having every reporter in the country ringing him for a comment, he decided to put out a statement - clear and unambiguous - so he could save himself some hassle. It's a possibility anyway.

keeponhurling

DuffleBag wrote: »

. As Tomás said, why did they felt the need to reply to a pundit?

there is a distinction between a pundit saying "that was a poor performance" , "in my opinion team X are rubbish " etc.

And simply making something up which is not true, and reflects badly on individuals

If Brolly kept to the facts, and said Armagh were poor v Cavan, there would be no fuss. Doubt Armagh themselves were particularly pleased with the Cavan game.

Jayop

If pundits are being paid to talk about sport then they should be prepared to have what they claim to be facts put right. No surprise that Brolly's buddies are circling the wagon for him, I'm sure none of the rest of them want a situation to arise when they get called up on their bull****ting.

Dirty Dingus McGee

I always find it to be very precious of journalists when they say sports men should ignore the media and not pass any remarks on comments about them.

It's as if the media feel they are entitled to a free shot and nobody can dare respond to their criticisms and show them to be complete bull****ter.

I think sportsmen should ignore them because what the media say as it is irrelevant but I have no problem with them having a pop back as the media get a free hit to criticize whoever they want.

ultrapercy

DuffleBag wrote: »

A decent point, but it's a storm in a teacup. Get on with it and play football. Whats said on tv or in newspapers shouldnt affect how a team kicks a ball around a field.

Always keep in mind that pundits are paid for the words they speak and not by the weight of truth in those words. If pundits were paid for accuracy only Colm OROURKE kevin Kilbane and Gary OTOOL would make money.

Stoner

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote:

It's as if the media feel they are entitled to a free shot and nobody can dare respond to their criticisms and show them to be complete bull****ter.

I think sports people should ignore them as it does their form no good but also because lads like JB are closer to trolls here, best ignored but entitled to nothing.

Say Your Number

Wherever I may roam by Metallica in the intro, it's off to a good start tonight.

paulie21

2 minutes of highlights. Disgrace

Dr. Bre

Pathetic. Why the few mins highlights only.?

Kerrydude1981

paulie21 wrote: »

2 minutes of highlights. Disgrace

Was just to about to post the same,the biggest result in the Munster Championship in a long time and it gets very poor coverage,

Like they surely had the time to put together a proper highlights package.

OldMrBrennan83

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Say Your Number

In fairness I think they expected a routine win for Cork, before today it wouldn't have looked like the most attractive tie for most neutrals, given it's the big story that forced them to move it to the front.

Kerrydude1981

But they had the footage so why not show more of the game.

ProudDUB

What they expected to happen, isn't really relevant imo. If they had the cameras running the entire time, then they have the footage of the entire game in the can. It's just a matter of editing down the highlights into the time frame allowed. This was a massive result for Tipp & it's criminal that the highlights time frame allowed, was a mere two minutes.

Mantis Toboggan

Joke

Say Your Number

ProudDUB wrote: »

What they expected to happen, isn't really relevant imo. If they had the cameras running the entire time, then they have the footage of the entire game in the can. It's just a matter of editing down the highlights into the time frame allowed. This was a massive result for Tipp & it's criminal that the highlights time frame allowed, was a mere two minutes.

Depends if he had time to do some off-tube commentary on it or double the length of his report.

The only viable option is to go back in time and tell RTE that a big shock is going to happen and to put more effort into the match coverage.

In fairness these games are usually a routine win for the likes of Cork so generally they are not really worthy of more time than that.

Xenophile

I am glad I did not spend the Ten Euro on GAAGO to watch the Sunday Game at 9.30.

TCDStudent1

I missed it because it was so short and tuned in a couple of minutes late :mad:

Extremely poor by RTE. Tipp match should be the feature piece tonight. I'd also be questioning why we dont have a larger analysis team working tonight, given the amount of matches that were on today.

Stoner

It was a big result, but if so few went to the game that says something. Looks like they wanted some face time afterwards with Kearns but only got a phone call as his daughter had a child today. There was no back up plan. They might have him on the panel soon like they did with McGrath last year.

TBH I watched both matches on RTE today I only tuned in to see Tips win.

El Chapo

Two minutes of highlights of Tipp's historic win yet we'll have 15 minutes of highlights of games that were shown live.

Amateurs.

OldMrBrennan83

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TCDStudent1

Stoner wrote: »

It was a big result, but if so few went to the game that says something. Looks like they wanted some face time afterwards with Kearns but only got a phone call as his daughter had a child today. There was no back up plan. They might have him on the panel soon like they did with McGrath last year.

TBH I watched both matches on RTE today I only tuned I to see Tips win.

I am the same. I always wondered why the live matches seem to be featured in the evening when most fans would have already seen it earlier. I understand that for high profile matches later in the championship but not as this stage. The munster & Leinster championships should be the focus tonight. But at the moment, they seem to be showing a significant portion of the Ros - Sligo match.

ProudDUB

Say Your Number wrote: »

Depends if he had time to do some off-tube commentary on it or double the length of his report.

The only viable option is to go back in time and tell RTE that a big shock is going to happen and to put more effort into the match coverage.

In fairness these games are usually a routine win for the likes of Cork so generally they are not really worthy of more time than that.

No it's not. The game ended hours ago. If the original plan was to give the game 2 minutes, as they presumed it would be yet another routine Munster champo win for Cork, then it's hardly rocket science to bump up the 2 minutes to 6 minutes, not with all the resources, man power and technology that RTE have available to them.

Someone in RTE needs to put some thought into their policy of giving bare bones coverage to game that were not shown live, and giving the majority of coverage to games that were shown live. It is an utterly daft policy imo. They seem to decide how much time each game gets, before the games even start. If a game winds up being very interesting/exciting/momentous, it's tough luck, 2 minutes are all ye are getting. So a routine win for Kerry gets triple the time that the best/worst day in Tipp/Cork for years gets. It a bad arrangement and the show is the poorer for it imo. In this day and age, the technology exists to present a highlight package, based on what happens on the day itself & not some prearranged format.

Joe_ Public

El Chapo wrote: »

Two minutes of highlights of Tipp's historic win yet we'll have 15 minutes of highlights of games that were shown live.

Amateurs.

+1

OldMrBrennan83

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Stoner

I'd say that the editing crew are all at the live games.
I wouldn't say they have anyone who knew anything significant about the game, they decided to get the manager into the studio to close the knowledge gap and give it more time, but that fell on its backside, the two boys had their homework done on the "main" games.

In this day and age we can all record games that we might not get either chance to watch live. Highlights are only useful if there is more analysis, or if something worthy of review happened

Royal Legend

It would be more interesting to hear what Martin said to the offaly player at full time that made him get off the ground follow him down the field and break his nose?

Did not hear either of the westmeath dessies mention that bit

Kerrydude1981

El Chapo wrote: »

Two minutes of highlights of Tipp's historic win yet we'll have 15 minutes of highlights of games that were shown live.

Amateurs.

Ya this sickens me each week,the live games get all the coverage in the night show even though they have been shown earlier in the day,fair enough analysing them and giving out the MOTM and have short highlights of the game

But give the games that weren't on TV some proper air time.

Remember The Monday Game,RTE should bring that back.

Dyr

Stoner wrote: »

I'd say that the editing crew are all at the live games.
I wouldn't say they have anyone who knew anything significant about the game, they decided to get the manager into the studio to close the knowledge gap and give it more time, but that fell on its backside, the two boys had their homework done on the "main" games.

In this day and age we can all record games that we might not get either chance to watch live. Highlights are only useful if there is more analysis, or if something worthy of review happened

I would imagine they send a skeleton crew, two cameras or whatever, to certain games with the view of only capturing a few minutes of highlights

Steven81

Patww79 wrote: »

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No the game was muck, Heslin putting over a few nice points but poor game overall, Martin went over to celebrate in front of Offaly lad at end is typical westmeath, showing him his badge and putting out chest, he then wonders how someone could break his nose.

TCDStudent1

Royal Legend wrote: »

It would be more interesting to hear what Martin said to the offaly player at full time that made him get off the ground follow him down the field and break his nose?

Did not hear either of the westmeath dessies mention that bit

While not condoning Martin (as it looked like he instigated things), it was still the wrong reaction from the Offaly player

Say Your Number

ProudDUB wrote: »

No it's not. The game ended hours ago. If the original plan was to give the game 2 minutes, as they presumed it would be yet another routine Munster champo win for Cork,en it's hardly rocket science to bump up the 2 minutes to 6 minutes, not with all the resources, man power and technology that RTE have available to them

I was being facetious with that comment

I don't disagree, maybe it's just they are given a certain amount of time to show however many games and they have to have the time allotted to each game pre-planned before they are played, and on the rare occasion their is a shock like Tipp today they end up looking foolish.

Kristopherus

Hopefully TG 4 will give better coverage tomorrow night.

dr.kenneth noisewater

Can never understand why the Sunday Game spends so long showing highlights of the games that were on that day. The Tipp/Cork highlights were the same as what you would see on the 6 news. I can understand the lack of replays of scores with only one camera but surely they could have showed more scores(their was 36 and a missed peno!) and had the 2 lads talk a bit more about it

Must say I was surprised they showed the Martin incident in the Westmeath game, they usually shy away from these incidents but fair play for bringing it up even though he never got Dessie to comment on it. I was at the game and it was poor but there was some lovely scores that could have been shown as part of a longer package.

OldMrBrennan83

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Say Your Number

Does Eddie Brennan think he's commentating on Golf, he's almost whispering every word.

El Chapo

How in the name of Jesus does Martin Carney have a job with RTE? He is absolutely terrible.

It must be said.

Dyr

El Chapo wrote: »

How in the name of Jesus does Martin Carney have a job with RTE? He is absolutely terrible.

It must be said.

Very much so

BENDYBINN

Say Your Number wrote: »

Does Eddie Brennan think he's commentating on Golf, he's almost whispering every word.

Yea, A father stone if ever there was one!

Say Your Number

Marty on Mayo Galway 'Is this the first shock of the 2016 Championship'

He's forgotten about last week already :P

Jayop

Hard to believe someone in the studio couldn't point out that the square ball rule changed years ago.

Davys Fits

I cant suffer that Martin Carney fella anymore. His language and terminology in descibing basic skills is not 'delightfull' to listen to.

Jayop

Jayop wrote: »

Hard to believe someone in the studio couldn't point out that the square ball rule changed years ago.

It changed but if you're saying that on the basis that the third Cavan goal wasn't a square ball you'd be wrong.

Its "when the ball enters" from a set piece and from play, its when the ball was played.

Jayop

gilberto_eire wrote: »

It changed but if you're saying that on the basis that the third Cavan goal wasn't a square ball you'd be wrong.

Its "when the ball enters" from a set piece and from play, its when the ball was played.

Ah **** yeah.

Nidgeweasel

Cannot abide Jarlath Burns.

Dyr

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

Cannot abide Jarlath Burns.

Start a club, I'll join

homerjay2005

Say Your Number wrote: »

Marty on Mayo Galway 'Is this the first shock of the 2016 Championship'

He's forgotten about last week already :P

Tipp beating cork was not a shock to many people, Tipp should have beaten them the last time they played and Cork got out of jail.

homerjay2005

Jayop wrote: »

Hard to believe someone in the studio couldn't point out that the square ball rule changed years ago.

in what sense? both Cavan goals were square balls yesterday, even taking the new rules into account.

Jayop

homerjay2005 wrote: »

in what sense? both Cavan goals were square balls yesterday, even taking the new rules into account.

YA Gilberto pointed that out. I didn't watch the highlights and just seen the two boys talking about it so I hadn't noticed they were in the square before the ball was played.