Newstalk: Off The Ball

You seem to have this great habit of using information to prove the other person’s point for them. If Wooly was on there, there might not be such an issue with all the infantile and nuance-lacking evil Djokovic debate because at least there’d be someone to represent the other side of the story. At the moment, your John Duggans and your Marie-Treasas run riot with their safe, facile, dopamine-generating opinions and there isn’t even a whisper of anyone saying “hold on a minute…..wouldn’t a potentially more accurate version of events be X”. At least have some f’ing balance as an alternative to the woke circle jerk where everyone agrees with everyone else and they all nod in contentment with each other. I’m pretty sure a lot of the listenership do not buy into this culture. For example, they speak regularly about cancelled/postponed rugby/soccer matches as if these are a necessity to “protect public safety”. That’s one side. The other side is that we stop dancing around Covid and allow the world, sporting fixtures and all, to start functioning again. We can’t do this forever. Where is this opinion represented on there? It isn’t, because it’s evil, controversial, call it whatever you want and, that, to me, is a/the problem.

You couldn’t be more wrong. I’m perfectly happy to hear other opinions as long as there is balance on both sides. With OTB, you only ever get one side. Like I said, it’s a circle jerk.

Enjoyed today's episode,Ken's analysis of City and Pep was very well done. Even Miguel's input was pretty good

Took me a while. Off to Second Captains I go

It will be on YouTube

Used to listen to the OTB podcasts religiously when I was younger. Wanted to listen to the Premier League when on a long drive on Saturday so threw on Newstalk but was subjected to an absolute circle jerk of cliché ridden coverage from lads that think they know a tonne about every sport. Unbearable.

Don't know how you got that.

Based on what I've heard from female presenters on OTB, they know plenty to be on the airwaves.

The reaction to them on here would enforce the view that them being women is a significant factor in them being deemed to not have sufficient knowledge.

99% of what we get on this thread is people complaining about the show.

Do you see any hypocrisy in saying that the people on the show appear like they know it all about sport and then you saying that it's aimed at a pub chat audience and you won't get anything from it?

I understand that on the show on Saturday they had a panel of people competing under the Irish flag in the winter Olympics, is that something you were already acutely familiar with?

I wasn’t listening at that part. Winter Olympics people are fine and because it’s so niche I wouldn’t expect a knowledge anyway from the presenters. As mentioned, it’s when they throw out clichè-ridden nonsense about stuff they don’t actually know, or throw hyperbole about, that’s why grates me. They should just not talk about it.

Not sure why you’re getting so upset

Absolute drooler stuff

What the feck is wrong with you? It’s an opinion forum. I listened to two hours worth of coverage and gave an opinion. How can you get so worked up over something so trivial?