League of Ireland fans must be one of the toughest audiences about. Years and years of nothing from our Tv networks, now we have a prime Monday night slot to cover LoI and its still a big moan! MNS - Monday Night Soccer, not purely a LoI review so they can mention other football(soccer) related matters even if it is about that cretin S. Ireland. Lets face it maybe there is a lot of padding on the show cause the league highlights may not be that high. No offence to 1st division clubs (Dundalk fans know only too well) but with if all games looked as well attended as Tallaght and Brandywell well they would be covered. On specifics, Ray Houghton and other guests especially J Giles can add somthing to the programme. A (kind of) independant view point might be good particularly when we get to referee bashing. Houghton did ok for a chap with limited knowledge and seemed to have done a bit of homework(i'm pretty sure Paul Cook got a call from him to get a heads up).
I agree that is not a perfect show, but we are a long way off from getting a MOTD, and that isnt nevessarily to do with RTE. Some pundits are better than others and if Roddy stopped trying to play the Dunphy role what he says is not always wrong, Richie Sadlier usually calls it well although he looks as if he is desperately trying not to laugh at Roddy. Fran Gavin should grow a pair but do we really expect him not to tow the FAI line..he has a family to feed too.
