Off the Ball crew gone from Newstalk.

[BlackpoolTerrier]

Disappointed, but maybe it's better this way before it got stale.

The "Fr. Ted" effect - go out at your absolute peak

 

[Eoin]

But if the show was popular shouldn't the proc to cool for school gang hate it?

I'm confused. I'm going to wait for the Sfi's line on this.

Or maybe people take things on their own merits and hate things they think are shit, like the harlem shake, and like things they think are decent, like Off The Ball.

 

[Rebelred]

Wow, that's some shock. If they go to RTE they'll be following a well-trodden path - but one that eventually leads to blandness.

The only hope is that it's the four of them - and that the guts of the show will therefore remain intact wherever they go.

They won't be gone to Today FM so that doesn't leave any proper nationwide option within Ireland other than RTE -they're hardly going to an online-only venture. I just can't see it working on "official" RTE though.

Gilroy is OK but the lads brought a whole new approach to sports radio.

Outstanding show - really got inside all the stories. McDevitt is a brilliant anchorman - allowing the other two to flip-flop all over the place. Blew the competition out of the water. As well as the humorous side, they covered the serious stuff too. Nobody has touched them on the Lance Armstrong story over the past two years for example.

Their coverage on that in particular was unrivalled. Can't see myself tuning in to listen to Gilroy. RTE launched their own version with that dull as ditchwater Damien O'Reilly a few weeks ago, have the lads jumped ship to there? Seems to have taken everyone in the media business by surprise too

 

[Tabackle]

Or maybe people take things on their own merits and hate things they think are shit, like the harlem shake, and like things they think are decent, like Off The Ball.

Ya I agree but that doesn't happen much around here.

 

[corkoniense]

It was the GiftGrub sketch wot done it. Or Denis O'Brien. Or perhaps Ho Chi Feen from his base on the Ramblas......

 

[Pontipine]

Gilroy is a smug arse kisser.

McDevitt is a huge loss.

I thought the show was going a bit stale recently.No harm having a shake up but this is as good as chopping the show completely and renaming it.

Has the 2fm sports show started?.Might some of the otb guys pop up there?

 

[Jim Comic]

not a big fan of it, too much of them tying to be funny and failing, it was good when they kept it more serious and factual



gilroy is beyond awful though, absolutely brutal

 

[mightyquark]

ROG in line for a call up

 

[blackie]

Independent.ie ‏@Independent_ie

Newstalk's 'Off the Ball' wanted to take an hour off George Hook's show and start at 6 but this was rejected. http://indo.ie/ikD75


Andy Mitten ‏@AndyMitten

Off the Ball team have left Newstalk in Dublin. It's the best football show on radio. Sad if it doesn't reappear in some form.

 

[Rebelred]

Independent.ie ‏@Independent_ie

Newstalk's 'Off the Ball' wanted to take an hour off George Hook's show and start at 6 but this was rejected. http://indo.ie/ikD75


Andy Mitten ‏@AndyMitten

Off the Ball team have left Newstalk in Dublin. It's the best football show on radio. Sad if it doesn't reappear in some form.

The lads clearly had a bit of strife with a key pillar of the Robgy media and look what happened...