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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,389 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Search on Twitter and see if he was corrected on the error?



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach




  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    MMA families are too heavy and bulky for walls and IFF. It suits cross country runners, gaa players, farmers etc.

    It doesn't play to MMA people's strengths. The Greens were gracious in defeat.

    I find the term 'Ireland's fittest family' very subjective. Certain facets of fitness aren't measured at all. Others, like running and crawling probably over emphasised.

    The ideal candidate is a male 20 year old 6ft 3in chap from a farming background who plays GAA and is into athletics. If you're Tadhgh Furlong you may aswell go home. There's no longer pulling airplanes, loading sand bags with a pulley, flipping backwheel tractor tyres.

    Balance, having a body light enough to go through muck and water, having 2 lads tall enough to grip the ramp is King. It needs to be balanced out a bit more.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,551 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    The families have been absolutely wrecked in the eliminator over the last few weeks, noticeably more.so than the earlier qualifiers.

    Those Bungie cords really take it out of them. Great finish to it though!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,048 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    The big heavy units have never done well. Too heavy to hold themselves. Same with the firefighter a few weeks ago, too much muscle and bulk to carry.

    The lads werent able to hold the mothers weight.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    Absolutely. Just the balance has turned more in the whippets favour with the removal of strength tasks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    The guns on the Rice mammy, she was unreal on the heaviest strap, put a lot of others to shame



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,506 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Delighted to see Nina get a family through.

    And fair play (and in fairness 99% credit) to that family - did i hear one of them say he's over 20 stone??? 😱 - and the mother is 61, and got 4 balls in on the strongest bungee - and most importantly between the lot of them they didn't drop a single ball in that round. I think that's the first time we've seen that. If you went at a snail's pace in that bungee round but didn't drop any balls i reckon you'd be almost guaranteed a win.

    The eliminator, I thought that young girl was going to throw in the towel trying to get up the ramp! Good on Donncha talking her through go after go.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 715 ✭✭✭CassieManson


    It seems that this year every eliminator comes down to the ramp. No matter how fast they are on the earlier part of the course. They are wet and the ramp is apparrently higher and steeper this year. I know it's supposed to add to the excitement but somehow it doesn't. No need to watch really until they get to the ramp.



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    And maybe a question of conserving energy pre ramp. The team first to it seems to panic a little and generally lose.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Apothic_Red


    Watching on the Player, love the ads, up to Episode 3.

    How did the Burns family get through selection, the poor mother, how was she ever going to get over the 10ft wall & up the ramp if she couldn't climb over a bale. A few returning families too. must be running out of entrants.



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    Tyred out is a good out and out aerobic event.



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    64 year old McNally man did very well for his age.



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    Danny Nugent hung well for a big man. 2:14 or thereabouts is excellent with that bulk.



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    Ah Donnacha. Grabbing legs is useless on the ramp. You won't get dragged up that way.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,405 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    Not a regular watcher so was thinking what’s the end game once they are hanging on. I was wondering if it’s done by others.



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    I think it was for the trailing leg person to 'crawl' and pull the person up. It seems a very cumbersome way.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,551 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    The leg move was a disaster! Yet again though, it all came down to the ramp.

    Looking at hanging tough though, it seemed much more challenging than previous years? The bar was swaying an awful lot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    You need a second person up there for the leg thing to work. The Cooneys were red rotten at the ramp, those two big lads should have been well able to run up, catch the lip and pull themselves up. The mother for the Gallagher's is a weak link. McNally father is a tough bit of stuff



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,759 ✭✭✭Trampas


    It was a bad overall hanging tough. How much is it to hire a crane that big? Like using a hammer to crack a nut.


    Some want to be lifted completely up the ramp. There’s always one on each team who doesn’t seem to have a try until everyone else is up



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,247 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
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    I am an episode behind but I have said it before and will say it again that the mother ir sister of any family should not be on the toughest rope in the lake ball carryng contest.

    There was team and there mother got into the barrel on it while the lads on the easier rope only managed 5 each. Now imagine she had of been on any of the other 3 robes and one of the lads on the toughest Rope she would have go at least 4 maybe even 5 in and the same with the lad on the toughest Rope then so they would have had at least another 2 in the barrels not that it mattered that much as I think they have this round won.


    I know if I was doing that with my family and my Mum was there is no way in hell I would let her go on that rope (Now it's never going to happen because my mother is in hers 70s and would never be able to do it) Give it 20 or 30 years ago do and it would have been no bother to her. All the boys and men who let there mother or sister take the toughest Rope should be ashamed of themselves.

    For once I would love to see a bit of logical independent thinking not the drone thinking they are all going for on this part of the show.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,301 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    That final ramp in quarter final eliminator this week was brutal.

    Again just goes to show you it's all about not having the weakest family member. Some of them it literally ends with them dragging their ma around practically by the scalp!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,506 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The Finnegans Wicklow family have to be nailed on favourites to go through tonight in 1st place - having smashed the tyres, and being so light for hanging tough.

    Although in that rain, hanging at all must be nearly impossible!

    Poor Nina the exact opposite - heavyweights will never manage the hanging.....

    ETA got my family names confused!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,506 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Well, I'll shut up now!! 🙈

    I'd fancy them in an eliminator though!



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    Darragh Maloney must have done Syllabus C maths for the leaving. With all hanging at 1.14min the Rices had beaten 4.55. It took him until the last 2 Rices hanging at 3min to realise they won. Abysmal commentary.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,506 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Ah, now - do you not think he might have been stringing it out for the sake of the commentary?

    What else was he going to have to say???



  • Registered Users Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Cumhachtach


    Say the truth. The average person watching can count. He sounded like an eejit either ways.

    Yes the Rices defied logic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,506 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    This average person knew exactly what he was at.

    Maybe don't take everything quite so literally!

    What odds this comes down to the last person in each team on the ramp - again??

    My money is on the blues.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,506 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Ah lads, he's not trying to fool anyone!

    Seriously, he has to talk for as long as they're hanging up there - if as soon as they've won he says that, what's he going to say for the next three minutes?

    He has to try to drag it out, we know he's trying to drag it out, he knows we know he's trying to drag it out.....



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,301 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    That ramp in the eliminator is shocking.

    I thought the Fitzsimmons were gonna blooming kill themselves on it. I kind figured the other family would struggle to get the dad and girl up.

    The two wee lads were phenomenal in that first event and the eliminator.

    Nina's family really solid on hang tough, I thought they were in serious problem after that first event.



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