Exactly. It's ludicrous.Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
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Exactly. It's ludicrous.Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
It was on RTE News later on in the night anyway...at 11 I think?
They interviewed a load of Pat's fans in McDowells...
I'll try one more time for the hard of understanding.Quote:
Originally Posted by sfc red
The national broadcaster for Ireland is : RTE.
The country that I am a national of is : Ireland.
Just like your national anthem or your national football team doesn't change when an Irish national changes physical location, neither does their national broadcaster.
Please don't reply.
I disagree, I think your national boradcaster is purely defined by your location.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Why would you buy an Irish TV licence while living in London?
Why would I buy an Irish football ticket while living in London....? (grammatical note : it should be 'whilst', not while)Quote:
Originally Posted by razor
Why would I receive RTE while living in London ?
Why is the milka cow so lilacy ?
Why am I bothering to even respond to this nonesense......?
Good point Steve - I won't...... :D
So you have an Irish TV licence then?Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Purple Hay?Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
I'd like to point out that Steve never actually says it is his licence fee they are wasting - he never specifies or implies that he pays one. No doubt RTE will asusume he lives in Ireland and pays his licence fee, but that's their problem.Quote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
RTE are nothing short of a disgrace - worthy neither of the title 'national broadcaster' nor of the TV license money that you continue to have handed to you on a plate under that pretence.
Earlier today, Irish football club St Patricks Athletic pulled-off a fantastic late away comeback against a quality Russian side to advance further than any Irish club has ever gone in European football. With only 20mins left in the game, and looking dead and buried at 3:0 down, Pats rallied to finish the game 3:2 and progress past the Russian's on an aggregate scoreline.
The game finished at 5pm Irish time - over 4hrs before the sports section of this evening's 9 o'clock news. Yet despite this, RTE deemed the event unworthy even of a passing mention.
To add insult to injury, you instead did an in-depth story on the visit of an Under 18 Z team of professional bench-warmers playing under the badge of English club Liverpool FC to a village in West Cork. A big day no doubt for that village in Cork, and probably also a big day for the Liverpool players - most of whom are doomed to never start a senior game for their club. Yet was it more worthy of mention thatn a thrilling and spirited away performance by a senior Irish club in European competition, and their progression to a level never before reached by an Irish team ? Any sensible or balanced analysis would say not. But you couldn't even bring yourself to mention the St pats score in your programme tonight.
RTE are nothing short of a disagrace. You are NOT by any stretch a national broadcaster - as if you were you'd be mentioning Irish news, rather than triping over yourself to chase after nobodies from the youth section of a British football team. You don't deserve a penny of license payers money for your disgraceful and continuing ignorance of Irish football, and this view will be made verty clearly to my local politicians.
Yours in disgust,
Steve Bradley
P.S. Please don't respond to tell me all the wonderful things you do on MNS. Yes, it is a good show. But as we both know, you only air it because the FAI forces you to. Your coverage to Irish football is, and always has been, nothing short of pathetic.
The issue here is RTE's lack of acknowledgement of the result on the 9pm news, though I gather it was mentioned elsewhere. If you think Steve's point is valid, it's a bit pedantic to question the method he chooses to make the point.
I mean, if you want to be pedantic towards him, there is always this -
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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
No doubt they'd show a possible game v Villa.
I hope Celtic Vs. Arsenal clashes with St. Pat's game, will be interesting to see what game RTE would show then...
To state the obvious they'll cream themselves over it.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by longfordjames
Look, I would be, and have been, the first to criticise RTE in the recent past for the relative prominence given to LoI teams in Europe V premiership 'news'. In this case however, i think folks are going off without actually looking at the format of the 9 O'Clock news - check any other night and i think you'll find they generally don't carry a sports report at all. The Liverpool story last night was a colour piece carried on every other bulletin as part of the news and not as part of the sport coverage. RTE did lead with the Pat's result on every other news i saw or heard last evening.
Yes, you're right. (And I think the onus is clearly on DC Steve to voluntarily pay a TV license fee to RTE).Quote:
Originally Posted by sonofstan
'Off the Ball had it as their top story as well. They spent a good few mins at the start of the show talking about the result.'
sorry for changing subject slightly but reminds of when when the wall fell over at bray with those rovers fans. the clown on newstalk said ''hopefully there are not to many fatalities there''
i hadn't heard the full news and thought there was a major disaster
The RTE website is all about Arsenal and Celtic it doesnt even tell us who Pats got. F*****g Joke
It was St.Pats first, Cork City and Dunmanway last, proper order!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue-Army
Could start a thread on that actually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
"Declan 'Fabio' O'Brien got the crucial goal for Pat's."
"Why's he called Fabio?"
*Awkward silence*
"I think he's got Italian relatives somewhere"
Eejits.
Why is he called Fabio?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
He signed for Drogheda from LSL side Verona, is the most plausible reason I've heard. Someone texted that into the show too.
In fairness, how the hell are they going to know that?
Just say "I don't know" rather than making a guess and looking like an eejit.
You could hear the glare from yer man as well - "Don't do this to me..."
Maybe I'm tainted by my dislike of the presenters anyway, from the little I've heard of it.
I remember it gave the explanation on one of our matchday mags. It wasn't that he signed from verona or that his relatives where where of italian desent, I am 99% certain that he was called it from childhood because he looked italian.
Yes because there are soooo many facts/stats to be learned off about Man U /Liverpool /Chelsea etc before the season "starts" :rolleyes: and its not like journalists ever do any prep workQuote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
ppffffft these are getting more and more funny. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
maybe fabio was his confirmation name...anyone think of that eh eh!
I've herd him called a couple of other names over the years (pretty sure they had little to do with confirmation though :))Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie
wonder is there any chance of them showing this tie ?
They will, and Pat's will be hammered and the barstoolers will go "What's the fuss all about? They're rubbish."
Always the way.
Don't forget, George Hamilton will be wheeled in because it's now a designated "big" match for the LoI.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
No way I'll be tuning into RTE to watch it. I'd rather watch it on a Romanian channel and make do with the foreign commentary than give RTE my viewership :rolleyes:.
He'll get Ryan Guy and Bobby Ryan mixed up. He'll mention Keith Fahey a few hundred times even though he has nothing to do with the game. He will say Jeff Kenna is 'vastly experienced' because he played in the premiership.Quote:
Originally Posted by amaccann
I think he always refers to him as Barry "Bobby" Ryan, though that could have been Trevor Welch.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonofstan
Those Pats guy last week were calling him that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hitman
The only reason they had a conversation for more than 30 seconds about the match was that Ken "EPL" Early wasn't on the show. So when one was talking and stopped the other continued,which as we all know wouldn't have happened with Ken ,as he suddenly comes over all mute once the LOI is being discussed.Quote:
Originally Posted by saintmaniac
Actually, i seem to remember Barry is his real name. "Bobby" is just a nickname. Like 'Shergar' or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hitman
That's correct. He goes by Bobby simply because he prefers it.
Would they not be more likely show LOI if they get alot of viewers?Quote:
Originally Posted by Boo_Boy
A Drogs fan told us once he got it from Fabrizio Ravanelli who played for Verona.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
(although according to wikipedia, he never did play for them.) There's probably some connection though.
couldn't agree with you more.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Thats what I logged on to say but you have already said it!
... All in my brain? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tiktok
Oops, sorry, wrong thread. :ball:
In a sense it would be better if the game wasnt on tv, for the reason you have mentioned above. There was i screaming at the uefa updates in work yesterday and people looking at me like i was losing it. The very same people today were asking me who did pats get in the draw, did they get villa, valencia and so forth. Amazing turnaround.Quote:
Originally Posted by the-blue-harp
They would probably tune into the game next week but if pats lost, it would justify their reasoning for not following LOI because its nowhere near as good as the EPL and so on.