Mns - 5/03/12

[Macy]

I remain to be convinced that the average viewer would see much of a difference between the divisions in terms of quality to be honest. It may be there, but compared to the difference between the premier and most of the other football on TV it's minuscule.

Have to agree. And even some of the crowds, although decent still had plenty of empty seats not helped by camera positions (the missus was laughing at the away fans in Turners Cross, given the number of them, and the number of empty seats around them). So I don't see how it'd be that negative to have one 1st division game. However, my main issue is still the lack of discussion - a few minutes talk wouldn't take away from the precious premier division.

[osarusan]

I don't have any problem at all with first division games not being shown.

What I would like is for Con to actually read out the scores though, instead of saying something like "...and good wins for Wexford and Longford too." The least they can do is mention the names of the first division clubs each week.

[legendz]

Is it not something to aspire to? One's club to be in the Premier and their games covered on TV. Hopefully as the season goes on if there's a big game in the promotion battle, it will get some coverage.

[Macy]

Promotion for it's own sake is something to aspire too - TV coverage doesn't come into it at all, for me at least. As for them doing it later in the season - can't see it, if they didn't do it last year, especially as there's an extra game in the premier. Just bloody discuss Con! It's about all that really lets the show down now all the gimmicky crap has gone.

[CuanaD]

Another good show this week IMO - I enjoyed J.Mac's piece on the Ref's course, it was good to see players & Managers admiting that they didn't understand the rules; hopefully the PFAI can keep running this course & get as many as possible up to speed on the Laws of the Game.

Pat Dolan was a bit subdued (for him) in his first outing I thought.


Link to the show on RTE player:
http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1141139

[nigel-harps1954]

I thought the refs course was a load of rubbish and had no real place in the show. Aside from that, it wasn't bad. Disappointing though after how good it was last week.

[legendz]

I thought the refs course was a load of rubbish and had no real place in the show. Aside from that, it wasn't bad. Disappointing though after how good it was last week.

I didn't have any qualms with the show and the refs course either.

[Schumi]

Why did they show so little of Cork v Rovers? The players mentioned a penalty appeal in the first half that hadn't been shown, seemed a bit silly. The picture quality on that game seemed to be worse than the rest to me too.

[nigel-harps1954]

Why did they show so little of Cork v Rovers? The picture quality on that game seemed to be worse than the rest to me too.

Looked awful. Could they not have just done a proper report on the match? It's like something Match of the Day would do, but then follow it up with a proper report..

[Seagull]

I didn't have any qualms with the show and the refs course either.

Best bit of that was Johnny Mc pulling up and parking his car in a handicapped parking spot outside Abbotstown, good man Johnny!

[Mr A]

Saw that. Good man Johnny!

[bullit]

Anyone know what the name of the MNS twitter a/c is ? The website seem's to have dissapeared.

[Dunny]

http://twitter.com/#!/rtemns

[bullit]

Cheers Dunny,the thanks button here seems to have dissapeared as well.

[bluewhitearmy]

O'Flynns miss is a joke.

[Macy]

Missed the 1st 20 minutes or so, but unless that contained a feature on the first division, the same complaint remains. It's much improved this season, but I still don't see why they can't spend a couple of minutes talking about the 1st. It'd be more interesting, and definitely more positive, than spending time giving out about the quality of bohs football (long balls into the "square" ffs), or the state of pitches.

[nigel-harps1954]

I did love Cons little quip about the Bohs v St.Pats match on Monday, simply saying "Well done to our editors for getting 3 minutes and 45 seconds of action from that match".

[harpstilidie]

They are still while for getting players names wrong in the reports. They done it last night with Johnny Dunleavy, called him John Flanagan twice and one of the times it showed a close up of him with Dunleavy on the back. Unbelievable!

They also made a silly mistake with the caption that runs along the bottom of the screen. They had 'gaols' instead of goals at one stage.

[brendy_éire]

No mention of the LC either, which I thought was strange.

Liam Coyle was certainly improved over his first appearance.

[askmehoop]

I did love Cons little quip about the Bohs v St.Pats match on Monday, simply saying "Well done to our editors for getting 3 minutes and 45 seconds of action from that match".

i think he was being genuine, they really did great job