Kudos to RTE

[Edmund Blackwater]

showing the Bayern-Milan game instead of the other game. This is why tv3 will never be missed from the football broadcasting game. This is a decision that they never would have made.
Now if only we could get them to stop showing manyoo every week, we could really enjoy champs league weeks.

[Goofy Martin]

showing the Bayern-Milan game instead of the other game. This is why tv3 will never be missed from the football broadcasting game. This is a decision that they never would have made.
Now if only we could get them to stop showing manyoo every week, we could really enjoy champs league weeks.

Should be a good game.

Should also be interesting listening to Giles try and pronounce a few of the players names.

Also pay some close attention to the panels lack of understanding of either the Italian or German game and be sure to listen to asessments of only the players who they watched during last years world cup.


BTW i watched the first leg and Milan got a penalty for absolutely nothing.

Going to be a hard call but i will go for the home team to get through either
with a 1-0 or a 1-1 scoreline.

[wayne gayle]

showing the Bayern-Milan game instead of the other game. This is why tv3 will never be missed from the football broadcasting game. This is a decision that they never would have made.
Now if only we could get them to stop showing manyoo every week, we could really enjoy champs league weeks.

It's the right decision to show Bayern/Milan instead of L'pool/PSV but I guarantee you if Man. United were 3-0 up from the first leg they would still show the second leg.

[STEVIEG]

Should be a good game.

Should also be interesting listening to Giles try and pronounce a few of the players names.

Also pay some close attention to the panels lack of understanding of either the Italian or German game and be sure to listen to asessments of only the players who they watched during last years world cup.


BTW i watched the first leg and Milan got a penalty for absolutely nothing.

Going to be a hard call but i will go for the home team to get through either
with a 1-0 or a 1-1 scoreline.

Yup, top post, hope they were googling today!

I also agree with Edmund on this one

Should be a good game

I've no doubt if the other one was still all to play for they would show that (supply and demand) but it is great that the Bayern/Milan one is on

[Goofy Martin]

Yup, top post, hope they were googling today!

I also agree with Edmund on this one

Should be a good game

I've no doubt if the other one was still all to play for they would show that (supply and demand) but it is great that the Bayern/Milan one is on

I remember fondly a few years back when Giles referred to one of the worlds best know players at that time as Des E Eye when referring to Marcel Desailly. (Des Eye E)

Not only once but on three seperate occasions had did he refer to the playe in this way.

[Edmund Blackwater]

Reminds me of something during the last wc where they changed games at half time because one of them was having no bearing on the group outcome while the other one was a cracker.

[STEVIEG]

I remember fondly a few years back when Giles referred to one of the worlds best know players at that time as Des E Eye when referring to Marcel Desailly. (Des Eye E)

Not only once but on three seperate occasions had did he refer to the playe in this way.

I play soccer the odd time with Lionel Hutz and we are always joking about this

Giles or Brady referring to the Ivory Coast during the World Cup

"Well Bill, I just saw them for the first time in the warm-up and they looked fairly handy"

Top class research:)

[STEVIEG]

Reminds me of something during the last wc where they changed games at half time because one of them was having no bearing on the group outcome while the other one was a cracker.

I was hoping they would go straight to Chelseas extra time last time after the United game but Essien scored

[Goofy Martin]

Reminds me of something during the last wc where they changed games at half time because one of them was having no bearing on the group outcome while the other one was a cracker.

Fair play i say but i will agree 100% that if it had been United playing tonight with the same scoreline as the pool then the United game would have been on.

Even Dunphy said it last night that he had seen United over 40 times this season.

[STEVIEG]

Even Dunphy said it last night that he had seen United over 40 times this season.

He was defo lying!

Funniest bit last night was him asking Bill who was gonna win the Grand National

[Forsberg]

Also pay some close attention to the panels lack of understanding of either the Italian or German game and be sure to listen to asessments of only the players who they watched during last years world cup.




Spot fucking on. Brady's opinion on Pirlo was that he's a handy player. He had a good World Cup.

Andrea Fucking Pirlo like. This isn't some young obscure Slovenian U21 international. We're talking about one of the finest players in the world.

An embarrasment

[wayne gayle]

Spot fucking on. Brady's opinion on Pirlo was that he's a handy player. He had a good World Cup.

Andrea Fucking Pirlo like. This isn't some young obscure Slovenian U21 international. We're talking about one of the finest players in the world.

An embarrasment

Yeah, totally agree. A guy that bossed the World Cup Final last year like.
Still, what do you expect, they only watch The Premiershit so no wonder they don't have a clue.

[STEVIEG]

Yet, they share the same view as the Premiership that many posters here do

Hmm

[Goofy Martin]

Spot fucking on. Brady's opinion on Pirlo was that he's a handy player. He had a good World Cup.

Andrea Fucking Pirlo like. This isn't some young obscure Slovenian U21 international. We're talking about one of the finest players in the world.

An embarrasment

Ala Dunphy comparing Rio Ferdinand with Cannavaro.

It was obvious that Dunphy has not watched Real Madrid this season as Cannavaro left his game at last years world cup.

Ferdinand (London geyser "you've been merc'ed" that he is) has had his finest season for United since winning the league a few years back.

Dunphy reverting to calling a player "a clown" is petulant at the least.

He slammed Ferdinand for his actions after the own goal at pompey saying that "he had no class" was a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Dunphy comes out with these wild acusations against certain players but these players prove him incorrect i call his lack of class into question when he doesnt have the balls to say that he made a mistake.

[STEVIEG]

Yup, too true


Sounds like RTE took the right decision

From the BBC

1949: Nice bit of skill from Ronald Koeman at Anfield, flicking the ball from one foot to the other before catching it.

[Forsberg]

Ala Dunphy comparing Rio Ferdinand with Cannavaro.

It was obvious that Dunphy has not watched Real Madrid this season as Cannavaro left his game at last years world cup.

Ferdinand (London geyser "you've been merc'ed" that he is) has had his finest season for United since winning the league a few years back.

Dunphy reverting to calling a player "a clown" is petulant at the least.

He slammed Ferdinand for his actions after the own goal at pompey saying that "he had no class" was a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Dunphy comes out with these wild acusations against certain players but these players prove him incorrect i call his lack of class into question when he doesnt have the balls to say that he made a mistake.


Dunphy's cluelessness is shown up whenever Bill asks him to take him through a teams starting lineup . He proceeds to name every player followed by a one word description- usually "dodgy" , "clown" , "a nothing player" or if he likes them "a real player" or my favourite, simply "good".

Saying that , they provide some moments of TV gold

[STEVIEG]

Dunphy's cluelessness is shown up whenever Bill asks him to take him through a teams starting lineup . He proceeds to name every player followed by a one word description- usually "dodgy" , "clown" , "a nothing player" or if he likes them "a real player" or my favourite, simply "good".

Saying that , they provide some moments of TV gold

Yup, the word's Jamie and Redknapp spring to mind when thinking of worse options

[Goofy Martin]

Dunphy's cluelessness is shown up whenever Bill asks him to take him through a teams starting lineup . He proceeds to name every player followed by a one word description- usually "dodgy" , "clown" , "a nothing player" or if he likes them "a real player" or my favourite, simply "good".

Saying that , they provide some moments of TV gold

Agree completely but were it not for those OTT moments the ratings would certainly be effected.

[RonnyB]

I liked the way Eamon decided to use Juventus being a shambles in this years champions league as a benchmark for the state of Italian football.

[STEVIEG]

I liked the way Eamon decided to use Juventus being a shambles in this years champions league as a benchmark for the state of Italian football.

Serious!!!!!!!!!???? ??

Oh dear

[de mange]

Serious!!!!!!!!!???? ??

Oh dear

loved dunphys assessment of inzhagi.. lazy, contributes nothing to the team, never works back, but can shoot

spot on :)

[RonnyB]

Serious!!!!!!!!!???? ??

Oh dear

Twas a quick little comment when he was on about Juventus' troubles & then just mentioned it in the same sentance and he got all blustered.

[lionelhutz]

I play soccer the odd time with Lionel Hutz and we are always joking about this

Giles or Brady referring to the Ivory Coast during the World Cup

"Well Bill, I just saw them for the first time in the warm-up and they looked fairly handy"

Top class research:)

i miss you too stevie.

i agree with edmund even though im a liverpool fan. rte were guaranteed more ratings for the liverpool match but choose the more important match for footballing reasons. i dont think they would have showed the utd second leg if the roles had been reversed.

[wayne gayle]

i miss you too stevie.

i agree with edmund even though im a liverpool fan. rte were guaranteed more ratings for the liverpool match but choose the more important match for footballing reasons. i dont think they would have showed the utd second leg if the roles had been reversed.

I think they would.

[wayne gayle]

I liked the way Eamon decided to use Juventus being a shambles in this years champions league as a benchmark for the state of Italian football.

He didn't seriously say that did he? Juve weren't even in this year's Champions League ffs!

[RonnyB]

I think they would.

To be fair in the past they've changed games that were to involve United but went to more important fixtures when the United game didnt really matter. A home game against Basle in '03 comes to mind but then again that could have been TV3.

[Lamps]

RTE showed the Lille return leg

[legend76]

I'm almost certain, and the lads who were watching it with me thought so as well, Giles referred to Bayern as "Birmingham" at one stage in the post match analysis

[STEVIEG]

I'm almost certain, and the lads who were watching it with me thought so as well, Giles referred to Bayern as "Birmingham" at one stage in the post match analysis

:):):)

Steve Bruce is the bulb of Hittzfeld (sp)

[EL TORO]

I watched the game on RTE on tuesday night before flying home, and I gotta say the commentary on there from the boys is light years ahead of their English counterparts in terms of entertainment value. In fairness their analytical views are a bit threadbare but arent most pundits? I think that most of us who have grown up watching and playing football already know our stuff. We know how to decipher the intricacies of the game ourselves without the likes of 'Lawro', Redknapp, Gray etc telling us how we should be reading the play. I'm starved of Bill and the boys over here so watching them the other night was a real treat. It wont be long before some 'forwardthinking' RTE programmer decides the boys have had their day and replace them with some idiot like Ryan Tubridy ( Whom I saw for the 1st time the other night...What a twat.) So heres to the old fellas and their own brand of football analysis!

[RonnyB]

I watched the game on RTE on tuesday night before flying home, and I gotta say the commentary on there from the boys is light years ahead of their English counterparts in terms of entertainment value. In fairness their analytical views are a bit threadbare but arent most pundits? I think that most of us who have grown up watching and playing football already know our stuff. We know how to decipher the intricacies of the game ourselves without the likes of 'Lawro', Redknapp, Gray etc telling us how we should be reading the play. I'm starved of Bill and the boys over here so watching them the other night was a real treat. It wont be long before some 'forwardthinking' RTE programmer decides the boys have had their day and replace them with some idiot like Ryan Tubridy ( Whom I saw for the 1st time the other night...What a twat.) So heres to the old fellas and their own brand of football analysis!

I listened to the RTE analysis but the ITV commentary. David Pleat is a small bit more bearable than Houghton.

[EL TORO]

I listened to the RTE analysis but the ITV commentary. David Pleat is a small bit more bearable than Houghton.


Christ no! That fella is feckin terrible. I'd rather listen to an entire game commentated by Stephen Hawkings.

[STEVIEG]

I don't mind Pleat I have to say

[legend76]

Anyone see the article in Four Four Two about RTE's football coverage, great to see them get a bit of kudos from 'the mainland'

[EL TORO]

Anyone see the article in Four Four Two about RTE's football coverage, great to see them get a bit of kudos from 'the mainland'

Twas very good alright. Great to see the English media taking notice.

[Philby]

I don't mind Pleat I have to say

Stevie, I'd have to disagree with you there (...but you knew I would).

Pleat is intolerable.

I've been of this opinion for a long time but he cemented it during the recent world cup while providing some "insight" for Radio 5 live.

Pleat was giving his viewpoint on likely world cup winners, it was at about the 1/4 final stage, and he came out with a ridiculous comment along the lines of

"Yes, I've devised a formula to determine if a team will win the world cup...but we don't really have time to go in to it"

The radio presenter came back with - "This sounds intriguing..I think we've got time for this"

Pleat was a little flustered and came back with a list of 5-6 pre-requisites that you HAD to have in order to win the world cup...I wish I could think of all of them now but they were spoofing of the highest order (1. At least 60% of your squad must be 25 or older. 2. You must have got to the semi-final in the previous World Cup...) - it was madness.

After he listed them out I did a quick check in my head and none of the previous two world cup winners aligned to his fool-proof theory.

What a joker.

[STEVIEG]

Stevie, I'd have to disagree with you there (...but you knew I would).

Pleat is intolerable.

I've been of this opinion for a long time but he cemented it during the recent world cup while providing some "insight" for Radio 5 live.

Pleat was giving his viewpoint on likely world cup winners, it was at about the 1/4 final stage, and he came out with a ridiculous comment along the lines of

"Yes, I've devised a formula to determine if a team will win the world cup...but we don't really have time to go in to it"

The radio presenter came back with - "This sounds intriguing..I think we've got time for this"

Pleat was a little flustered and came back with a list of 5-6 pre-requisites that you HAD to have in order to win the world cup...I wish I could think of all of them now but they were spoofing of the highest order (1. At least 60% of your squad must be 25 or older. 2. You must have got to the semi-final in the previous World Cup...) - it was madness.

After he listed them out I did a quick check in my head and none of the previous two world cup winners aligned to his fool-proof theory.

What a joker.

Yeah fair enough

I never minded him though

[RonnyB]

What makes Pleat a bit more bearable to me than Houghton is the fact he at least managed at Premiership level so might have some idea of what a coach is going through whearas Houghton's a know-all who knows nothing.

[AmadeusDC]

Pleat's a fucking disaster!! I get him on the international coverage of the Premier League about once a weekend here. Brutal commentator. -AmadeusDC-

[legend76]

Pleat's a fucking disaster!! I get him on the international coverage of the Premier League about once a weekend here. Brutal commentator. -AmadeusDC-

Him and his "yellow booking", gets on my nerves