RTE World Cup Coverage

Pauliedragon

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Itv have Keane and Bilic. Worth a watch. Plus copying BT sport they have a ref (Mark Clattenberg) to review contentious issues.

For the French penalty yesterday, the RTE panel, including Given and Didi, thought it wasn't a penalty because the Australian got a touch on the ball. The pro ref on ITV knew it was a certain penalty on review and the RTE panel were talking through their hat.

Pro refs can get it wrong aswell. I've read a decent cross section of press on that incident and there is no clear consensus. I think it's one of those where it can go either way to use a cliche. I'm supporting Aus in the cup but don't really have any complaints about it. It's half the fun of the game I suppose.

Skid X

Keith Andrews and American Country Singer Lyle Lovett must have been separated at birth

lertsnim

Arthur Daley wrote: »

The pro ref on ITV knew it was a certain penalty on review

Not one English referee at the world cup. Yeah they're great.

NIMAN

razorblunt wrote: »

Sam Matterface is on ITV as a main commentator and he's ok but he comes out with some sh too, yesterday when Pavon came on he went for "he's a small lad, 5'5, the same height as Kirstin Dunst or Mel from Mel & Sue".

I mentioned that in another thread, probably the most obscure line of commentary ever.

Why not say he's same height as Maradona?

And why Kirsten Dunst or Mel from Mel & Sue?

You can tell he probably cracked one off looking at Dunst photos in his hotel the night before the game.:eek:

Go Harvey Go

flazio wrote: »

Overall Canning did quite well in my opinion, good identification of the players no slip ups or forgetting who's who. He was paired up with Jim Beglin and I was able to watch the match with no complaints or eye rolling.
Only thing is though I get the feeling that RTÉ were saving a few air fares by commentating from Dublin rather than sending the boys over to Sochi.

Ger's definitely doing his World Cup commentaries from Dublin - because he's commentating on Clare v Limerick right now.

He's actually been commentating on soccer almost as long as he's been commentating on GAA - and he sometimes lets the odd soccer term slip into his GAA commentaries, too (e.g. "free kick", "7-4" when the score is 0-7 to 0-4).

On a slightly related note, here's a relatively rare GAA commentary by Tony O'Hehir (courtesy of none other than KillianM2):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrErml9YHGg

Probably fair to say that he's more accustomed to commentating on the gee-gees - unlike his father, who of course commentated on nearly 100 All-Ireland finals as well as many Aintree and Fairyhouse Grand Nationals.

Brendan Bendar

AnneFrank wrote: »

He's a donkey, worst pundit ever, nearly as bad as the token woman the other day

The juries out on him, I’d say, gets a lot of work on Sky,so must have ‘something’

I can’t warm to the lad, even though I’d like to see him doing well, don’t really know why, could be the element of smugness he seems to emanate.

There’s just something about his punditry which seems to say ‘punditry by numbers’ with little personal input or passion.

Just my opinion though, would like to see the lad do well.

lawred2

Light bulb exploding over Brady's head

Drag00n79

lawred2 wrote:

I almost died a death laughing at Clattenburg's fake tan.. he is a grade A tool.

He's been working in Saudi Arabia for their referees' association for over a year now, so I'd be surprised if he didn't have a tan.

mcmoustache

deisedevil wrote: »

Anyone watching online?

I have a 450mb connection and connected direct with ethernet but once again picture is either terrible or dropping out. Same for anyone else?

Trasna1 wrote: »

Rte doesn't have enough bandwidth to stream mass audience programmes. So it's not you, it's them.

I made the mistake of watching the Iceland-Argentina game on the RTÉ player as I was booted into Windows at the time and didn't want to chance the cancerous streaming pages.

It was a mistake. Every 10 or 15 minutes it would just cut out and I had to watch some stupid ads before it started up again. That was bad enough but the most infuriating part was that the stream cut with around 5 minutes to go and didn't come back online. By then it was too late to find alternative sources so I just read the result on the BBC site.

I really don't get it. Streaming isn't exactly cutting edge technology and server resources are fairly cheap. They should be able to figure this stuff out.

Joe Dog

Someone really needs to tell Brian Kerr to shut up, he talks way way too much and to be honest he's ruining the match experience.

Why can't TV commentators realise that people can see what is happening and don't need non stop commentary.

Really wish there was a red button option to not have the commentators I'd choose it for pretty much every match.

Ol' Donie

Brian Kerr is the greatest.

Edit: if anything is ruining anything, it's constant ads for those parasitic bookmaker dipsticks.

jack presley

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Brian Kerr is the greatest.

Edit: if anything is ruining anything, it's constant ads for those parasitic bookmaker dipsticks.

Don’t forget Maroon 5 and their Three F’ing Little Birds too!

wandatowell

jack presley wrote: »

Don’t forget Maroon 5 and their Three F’ing Little Birds too!

EVERY BLOODY AD BREAK!!!!

Ol' Donie

jack presley wrote: »

Don’t forget Maroon 5 and their Three F’ing Little Birds too!

Normally that kind of thing fills me with rage, but I've had Bob Marley in my head for 4 days now, and, frankly, my life is better for it.

Arthur Daley

Whatever happened to child locks

OldMrBrennan83

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DJIMI TRARORE

Kerr:he's also won Sweden's best dressed man,now that's proper research!!!!!

Wombatman

Remus Uomo

Come down to our stores if you want to get kitted out with an ill-fitting gray blazer over a zip neck black polo neck.

Say Your Number

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Brian Kerr is the greatest.

Edit: if anything is ruining anything, it's constant ads for those parasitic bookmaker dipsticks.

Especially Paddy Power hiding behind that "mad lad bants" image, shower of bastards.

That Zlatan ad is sh1te but weirdly amusing.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I like your man Michael O'Neill, the Northern Ireland manager.

spanner555

So which commentators from rte are actually in Russia I wonder.
Seen earlier that people reckon ger canning is commentating from a studio in Dublin.
Surely George Hamilton is over there.
I have my doubts about John Kenny. Football was never really his main sport. Good on the motor sport though.

Ol' Donie

spanner555 wrote: »

So which commentators from rte are actually in Russia I wonder.
Seen earlier that people reckon ger canning is commentating from a studio in Dublin.
Surely George Hamilton is over there.
I have my doubts about John Kenny. Football was never really his main sport. Good on the motor sport though.

George and Ronnie are definitely in Volgograd. They did a report from there earlier.

Skid X

spanner555 wrote: »

So which commentators from rte are actually in Russia I wonder.
Seen earlier that people reckon ger canning is commentating from a studio in Dublin.
Surely George Hamilton is over there.
I have my doubts about John Kenny. Football was never really his main sport. Good on the motor sport though.

George Hamilton and Ronnie Whelan did an Outside Broadcast from downtown Volgograd earlier, they are definitely over there.


Edit: Like what Ol' Donie said

Go Harvey Go

spanner555 wrote: »

So which commentators from rte are actually in Russia I wonder.
Seen earlier that people reckon ger canning is commentating from a studio in Dublin.
Surely George Hamilton is over there.
I have my doubts about John Kenny. Football was never really his main sport. Good on the motor sport though.

Ger's definitely commentating from Dublin. He surely wouldn't be able to commentate on Gaelic and hurling if he was in Russia.

Pussyhands

There's so many commentators you'd think with how competitive it is there'd be less ****e ones.

Richard Dunne must be doing it for free. The most boring man ever to do punditry.

Kerr is great on commentary and is literally the best co-commentator from all the channels, as he seems to have done research. Great knowledge on the costa rican centre back the other day.

I like Keith Andrews. I think he's top 3 pundits for RTE, alongside Didi.

Duff is a knob. Why is he sitting in his chair and acting like a hard man?

Sadlier too slow and ponderous...always looking up at the ceiling while he's talking as if he is making sure not to forget anything.

Ol' Donie

Nice to hear Ray Houghton defending the slow start of many, many teams and players, citing his first hand experience.

11 minutes, Ray.

It took you 11 minutes to put Italy to the sword.

lawred2

Say Your Number wrote: »

Especially Paddy Power hiding behind that "mad lad bants" image, shower of bastards.

That Zlatan ad is sh1te but weirdly amusing.

I like it

Brendan Bendar

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Brian Kerr is the greatest.

Edit: if anything is ruining anything, it's constant ads for those parasitic bookmaker dipsticks.

That accent,mate

Nah

gmisk

Pussyhands wrote: »

There's so many commentators you'd think with how competitive it is there'd be less ****e ones.

Richard Dunne must be doing it for free. The most boring man ever to do punditry.

Kerr is great on commentary and is literally the best co-commentator from all the channels, as he seems to have done research. Great knowledge on the costa rican centre back the other day.

I like Keith Andrews. I think he's top 3 pundits for RTE, alongside Didi.

Duff is a knob. Why is he sitting in his chair and acting like a hard man?

Sadlier too slow and ponderous...always looking up at the ceiling while he's talking as if he is making sure not to forget anything.

Spot on i really like Brian Kerr, tells it how it is, I thought he didnt get a fair crack at the Ireland job tbh.
Keith Andrews excellent as well, Richard Dunne would put you to sleep.

lawred2

Richard Dunne makes me sad

gmisk

lawred2 wrote: »

Richard Dunne makes me sad

I think he makes himself sad as well...

Brendan Bendar

Only lad not mangling the English language apart from Darragh and Brady is Didi, and it’s not his first language!

jojofizzio

gmisk wrote: »

I think he makes himself sad as well...

His eyes are always watery-poor bloke looks about 10 years older than he is:(

no.8

Brendan Bendar wrote:

That accent,mate

Lots of countries don't chastise their own because they have a strong native accent. Instead they're bloody proud of it.
You go Brian!!! Feck the begrudgers

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Brian Kerr is an absolute gem at commentating. And I can find the Dublin accent fairly irritating much of the time, especially the D4, but also the scummy one.

Kerr does his research, and brings personality to the role. I'd put him in with Hamilton as the best commentator's.

Brendan Bendar

no.8 wrote: »

Lots of countries don't chastise their own because they have a strong native accent. Instead they're bloody proud of it.
You go Brian!!! Feck the begrudgers

Sorry mate, I don’t like it.

If it’s your preference, fair enough.

I tend to just switch off.

horseofstone

Duff, too narky and moaning
Hamann,honest and sincere
Ladies, have nothing inciteful to say
Andrews,too mouthy
Dunne,looks too worried looking
Dunphy, legend

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Are Kenny Cunningham's eyebrows going to make an appearance?

Ol' Donie

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Are Kenny Cunningham's eyebrows going to make an appearance?

It's not looking good at this particular moment in time.

Have they done away with any sort of discussion on the highlights show? That's where Kenny did his best work.

Rothko

no.8 wrote: »

Lots of countries don't chastise their own because they have a strong native accent. Instead they're bloody proud of it.
You go Brian!!! Feck the begrudgers

Who's begrudging him?

Relikk

Where's Hope Solo?

shockframe

Maloney and Hamann are decent but I'd say ratings will slide dramatically once Brady and Dunphy go.

Some of the pundits on RTE have no charisma whatsoever.

Say Your Number

lawred2 wrote: »

I like it

The Zlatan ad? it's so sh1te it's actually entertaining.

I remember they only had Brad Friedel for a few days last time, and Ozzy Ardiles was only there for about a week, I think Hope Solo will only make a handful of appearances too.

As usual Dunphy, Brady, Duffer, Richie and Didi will be probably be there till the end of the tournament.

shockframe

Dunphy just stated that it's great for Senegal to beat Poland as they've never been to a world cup before!

Beechwoodspark

Ronnie w adds nothing extra than yer average bar stool expert in countless pubs around the country would say.

Still I like him up to a point.

Brendan Bendar

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Ronnie w adds nothing extra than yer average bar stool expert in countless pubs around the country would say.

Still I like him up to a point.

Apart from the annoying accent and mangling of the language he’s not bad.

There’s only so much one can say,I suppose.

odyssey06

Kerr's commentary while the Polish defence were like sheep in a heap for the 2nd goal is priceless. You can't fake that.

liam7831

odyssey06 wrote:

Kerr's commentary while the Polish defence were like sheep in a heap for the 2nd goal is priceless. You can't fake that.

I think people are like sheep in relation to feedback on his commentary

DEFTLEFTHAND

Sheep in a heap is a famous Babs Keating quote.

He used it to the describe the Offaly hurling team back when he was their manager for a brief spell in the 90s.

Yer Da sells Avon

I bet Peter Collins has driven to Dundee in his bare feet.