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Newstalk: Off The Ball

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    #182
    Mr Burny
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭Mr Burny


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118454858#Comment_118454858

    What do you think it means?



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    #183
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118455068#Comment_118455068

    Why do you think I asked you?

    Or are you one of those who uses these buzzwords and you’ve no idea what they mean?



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    #184
    Mr Burny
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭Mr Burny


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118455119#Comment_118455119

    Are you?



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    #185
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Next thing we'll be seeing Ger Gilroy getting a breast augmentation.



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    #186
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    In all seriousness though, surely people can't be ok with having women just because they're women.

    I think it says a lot that they have these token women hanging off the coat tails of the men. You won't see papers hiring crap women journos for the sake of it because the clicks wouldn't come. But tagging a woman onto a mens show won't affect advertising so they can do it.

    Doesn't make for pleasant listening for the audience when they have these token women who are terrible.



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    #187
    Mr Burny
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭Mr Burny


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118455162#Comment_118455162

    challenged?



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    #188
    BringingSexyBack
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭BringingSexyBack


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118452437#Comment_118452437

    I remember that Ireland game lol. RTE even televised the girls game (Think Ireland men got beaten so the mood would not have been great) ! The smarter thing would have been to have the girls play first, with about half hour in between so that the grounds men /women could fix the pitch . Just like the GAA use to hold minor games before the Seniors

    From what I recall, the crowd emptied out really quickly. Brian O'Driscoll came out (in his suit) for about twenty minutes to watch the game and fecked off back in for dinner. None of the other players bothered their backside to watch the game from the side lines


    Similar thing happened in the ladies GAA All Ireland Semis . The lads u20s All Ireland was held first. They got a big crowd from Roscommon . Emptied out when the girls (Meath) came out . To be fair the girls came was decent



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    #189
    BringingSexyBack
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭BringingSexyBack


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118453038#Comment_118453038

    Funny enough, neither AIL or the League of Ireland get much coverage on National stations like Newstalk. Next to none in fact unless there is something negative to talk about in the LOI . Bear in mind, in or around 2010s , Newstalk took from RTE Radio (an excellent service on Friday night) the coverage of league of Ireland games. They had their bill boards around many club's grounds. Bar the odd UEFA Cup game, the level of live coverage of said League of Ireland games on their radio station was next to none

    So in comparison to two leagues that can still get 1,000 plus PAYING customers (and no discounts) to attend games every weekend, the girls are still getting far more attention on the radio

    Jaye's point was the women got a chance to show what their product was worth by having their game held at Twickenham and said game televised. It said a lot that the vast majority of the ground left the stadium immediately after the men's game, knowing well that the girl's game was on next. As he pointed out, and as the cameras showed, a very sizeable proportion of the 80,000 who watched the men's game were women. Even the women couldn't be bothered.

    Radio and tv stations are there to make money , by the way. They aren't always going to show any interest in broadcasting events that simply don't attract an audience. RTE barely even bother showing any AIL and LOI games . But for TG4 , things would be worse

    LOI have decided to set up their own match day streaming and it apparently is going really well.



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    #190
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118455534#Comment_118455534

    I only asked you a question, no need to be so rude.

    You speaking like that because your description is a little closer to home?



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    #191
    Mr Burny
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭Mr Burny


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118455575#Comment_118455575

    I’d venture it’s closer to your home….



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    #192
    Butson
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭Butson


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZG1U9QyGqs



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    #193
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118455534#Comment_118455534

    I'd wager the virginal chaps are the ones on here taking breaks from whatever they get up to in their mother's spare room to gnash their teeth and mash their fists at the keypad over some women on the radio once a year. I'm not sure there's too many other than the angry men of Boards and the concerned citizens to impress on here.



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    #194
    BPKS
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    It would be a better use of people's time to actually help out at female sports - playing, administration, fundraising, coaching etc - rather than going on boards looking for thanks by taking the high moral ground when somebody criticises having female presenters and guests who are poor at their job.


    Although it's easier just to go on boards isn't it.



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    #195
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456235#Comment_118456235

    But it's not just 'criticism', some of the stuff written in this thread is pure hatred, and some of them make it very personal whether it's towards male or female presenters.

    As for your little lecture about helping out with female sports, how do you know I and others here don't do that already?

    EDIT: Just to add to this, people here wouldn't give a ****. I'm just a 'virginal' chap looking for a sympathy ride going by the logic here. Why should I entertain that bollocks and just chuckle along with it? It's not going to change the minds of some misogynistic scumbags here.

    Watch them all reply being all offended and telling me I'm disgraceful for just throwing that phrase about when the most activity in this thread in a while has been about the women being let on the radio and they're trying to fool us and themselves by saying it's nothing to do with the fact it's women on the radio.

    People here have said they listened to very little on the show yet seem to know everything about it. They're either bullshitters or they're making assumptions on what the thick girls were saying.

    And then some of them are called out on it and they give you troll-y answers and don't even bother their arses to engage.

    But yet I'm the one that has to go out and support women's sport?



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    #196
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456235#Comment_118456235

    It's pretty easy to come on here moaning about women too, though, isn't it?



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    #197
    Jayesdiem
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Jayesdiem


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456265#Comment_118456265

    That’s some very strong language there. I can safely say there’s absolutely no “hatred”, as you term it, here. We likely all have wives, girlfriends, sisters, female bosses etc who we hold in the highest esteem. What you are seeing here is annoyance at the show dropping in quality and the presenters of the show repeatedly imposing their social politics on the listenership. By the sounds of it, they’ve done a good job on you. Look at the Djokovic coverage this week. An ugly, grotesque, politically-motivated witch hunt that seeks only to describe the characteristics of a “good person”. Good people vaccinate themselves so Djokovic = bad man. And before you go there, yes, I am vaccinated.



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    #198
    Dr Fred
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Dr Fred


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456278#Comment_118456278

    I doubt you know much about making a woman moan !



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    #199
    Mr Burny
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭Mr Burny


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456462#Comment_118456462

    Strange how Callum Robinson avoided such criticism with his anti-vax stance. Wonder why that was?



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    #200
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456506#Comment_118456506

    Wow! Pretty unbeliavable stuff.

    There's no travellers or disabled players on the team either!



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    #201
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,291 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Appears there are no local mods around. Closing this thread for a while as there have been a lot of reports that I will work through later on



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    #202
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,291 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Re-opening thread - Mr Burny threadbanned



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    #203
    DeadHand
    Registered Users Posts: 2,747 ✭✭✭DeadHand


    Ugly sentiments from the anti-Djokovitz journalist last night. She stopped just shy of openly wishing harm on the man. A spiteful performance.

    No counter argument permitted, predictably.

    For a sports programme, OTB is extraordinarily agenda driven.



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    #204
    hawley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭hawley


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118457551#Comment_118457551

    I commented on that last night but it got lost in all the squabbling afterwards. I don't think I've ever heard such a nasty contribution from a sports journalist before.



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    #205
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,630 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456235#Comment_118456235

    As your post indicates, if you want to get thanks on Boards these days, any sort of moral high ground is definitely not going to help you achieve your goal.

    I post a lot of the time knowing I'm going to be met with hatred and venom for having the audacity to not row in with the denigration and apathy aimed at anyone who has the audacity to advocate for anyone other than themselves.

    This thread in particular has long been a psychologists wet dream for the insights people give in to their true characters. Some very nasty glimpses which makes me feel sorry for anyone who has to deal with it in real life, but particularly the females in their lives.



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    #206
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118456494#Comment_118456494

    I'm married with children but high five for the classic line 🤣



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    #207
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118457663#Comment_118457663

    Do you not find their stupidity and immaturity amusing? I have no problem hopping the ball with someone who disagrees with me, but some of them are not worth much more than your sympathy. Just complete sure Gold help us characters.



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    #208
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,630 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118457979#Comment_118457979

    No, I find it depressing because it is a growing percentage of the voices on this site. There's always going to be some characters and no one has to love every show or presenter, all the time. But, for a long time on this thread the vast majority of content is ripping to pieces people who host what is the most successful sports show in the country, by some distance.

    And while I always found the extreme of this annoying, lately, across the site it is similar, the vast majority of conversational or non subject specific type threads which are started are done so in order to be judgmental about others. Lambasting radio and TV personalities, complaining how sport, music, entertainment, political, public figures are talentless/useless/hope their own a*se etc

    All the time complaining about a 'woke agenda'. The only narrative that comes any way close to being an agenda on here is the one driving people to complain, insult, belittle. It was bad enough when it was an annoying but relatively small number of voices but more and more it's all you see on various threads/forums.



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    #209
    Acosta
    Registered Users Posts: 2,362 ✭✭✭Acosta


    Glad to see Gilroy and Sheahan back on OTBAM. The lads filling in weren't doing it for me at all.



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    #210
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,630 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118458475#Comment_118458475

    What time does the morning show run now, is it 7-9?



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    #211
    Chucky Q
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭Chucky Q


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118457592#Comment_118457592

    The anti Novak thing is quite odd. What’s their agenda here. I can’t think of any other sports shows or podcasts so down on a player and that was even before the latest Australian situation

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