Bill: This UEFA Cup Final is something of a local derby between Holland and Germany.
Giles: Er...yeah they've been close to each other for years.
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Bill: This UEFA Cup Final is something of a local derby between Holland and Germany.
Giles: Er...yeah they've been close to each other for years.
Phil Babb & Jason McAteer coming up next on the Late Late.
Tubridy may have been stretching it a bit with the 'soccer legends' tag though.
I wonder if Macca will put forward his case for LOI management again. Sligo might have a vacancy soon.
Came across this on Ball.ie earlier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYuUPeXpid4
The RTÉ panel don't star and it was broadcast by ITV for some reason, but it does feature Colm Murray as victim of an amusing prank by Ronnie Whelan and Andy Townsend back in 1990. Stick with it 'til the end.
completely off topic, but I'm not too fond of balls.ie and their relentless trawling of the net for other site's content (videos, images, match reports, etc) to embed on their own pages and inflate their traffic numbers.
That's kind of what Balls.ie is though, is it not? It's a dedicated repository for amusing sports-related news, images and videos compiled from around the internet and analysed to some degree with a direct target audience in mind. I find the site pretty handy as it often saves me from having to trek around looking for the story of the day or whatever; instead, I get interesting links and updates on Irish sport and football on my newsfeed. To their credit, I've never seen them embed or quote material on the site without hat-tipping the original creator or whoever it was brought it to their attention.
That's a relatively new feature from them, first they didn't give credit, then they gave a text credit (e.g. "from Twitter", "from instagram", etc) and now they include a link
I'd guess about 10% of their site is original content (rugby nerds, what we learned from league of Ireland, wrestling column), but it gets lost in the flood of memes, vines, embedded videos, etc
I have the same problem with buzzfeed, and to a lesser extent thejournal.ie, it's just click-baiting
That's pretty pedantic in fairness.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
is it? they're boosting their traffic using someone else's work - more traffic leads to more advertising money for the site, but the author of the content sees nothing from this.
do they deserve it for copying a few lines of embed code? I doubt it.
I know what you mean, with the ambiguous and teasing "you've got to see this..."-style headlines, but if advertisers want to pay the site money and people want to click, what can you do? That's just the format. I don't see a major problem with it and even keep an eye on the site for its updates. They're only re-publishing freely and legally-available content anyway and channeling it towards a particular audience so the audience don't have to do the trawling. You can always just ignore it if you have a problem with it.
Is what they're doing any worse than the people who record something off a stream, make a gif of it and called it their own "content"? I do hate when they extensively quote from news articles/interviews though.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of that either, but I do respect that there's a level of technical ability involved in thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Just had a look at balls.ie's homepage and there isn't a single post on their front page you could say was their own. No photos they took themselves, no videos they recorded themselves, and only a few lines they've added to whatever is embedded in each post.
They don't pretend to be anything other than a website that unearths and compiles viral sports stories from around the web though. As far as I can see, they're pretty open about the fact that the material they re-publish is secondary and not actually their own original work.
They pay for those photos btw, the same as pretty much any decent website...
If you're interested in the league of Ireland, I suggest bookmarking this ;)
http://balls.ie/football/league-of-ireland/
Loads to keep you entertained...
RTE debate on the merits/demerits of big friendlies against English clubs on Soccer Republic now. Should be interesting.
Dermot Keely has started off on a tranquil note by branding 40,000 Liverpool fans morons.
Saying "not being ageist" doesn't mean you're not being ageist. In fact, your entire argument is one of the most commonly-used examples of ageism in society.
Charlie is one of our grayer eminences and does not take kindly to any suggestion that he has lost a lap mentally.
You're losing it. The old Crosby would have accompanied that with a picture of a geriatric American celebrity nobody has heard of.
Look tv is unforgiving, you make a mistake it's on youtube in 5 seconds... I do think certainly from 70 onwards it is a big ask to anchor a 3 hour long tv programme....Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Sure he's not on the air for most of that.
Your comment was completely ageist.
Jeez maybe I really do need to take a good long look at myself....Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Yup.
Absolutely not for you to be deciding what people in their seventies should or shouldn't be doing.
Sorry!
What mistakes is he making that he wasn't making when he was 50?Quote:
Originally Posted by Grafter
I take your point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Anyone see the johnny knoxville movie when he is the grandpa with the mouthy kid?
None really. To be able to chair a comedy programme about football for 30 years and still not have the slightest idea what is going on is some achievement. At least Dunphy rightly pulled him up (assuming we're talking about O'Herlihy and not Giles as the original post has been deleted) on his questioning there being a Japanese referee for the opening game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
How do you know he's no idea? He's on record multiple times as saying that he's not there to give his opinion, he's there to direct the conversation between the analysts
Because he frequently offers his own opinion on games, Irish managers, styles of play etc etcQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Interesting to hear Ossie A give his opinion on the Nigeria vs Iran game. He does talk very quickly but I did hear him say there is nothing wrong with the long ball game provided the front man is supported by the midfield. Nigeria tried it but left their centre forward totally isolated. Mind you when they tried passing, they were also totally inept at that as well. Still it was interesting to hear one of the best midfielders of his generation not dismissing the long ball game as a way of getting round (over) six opponents in midfield.
Ossie has been in England too long. He has Stockholm Syndrome.
Had to laugh after the England match when they returned to the studio and Bill goes "I don't know about you lads, but I thought England deserved a draw there." Cue five seconds of silence before he goes "or maybe not."
He says that he's not there to give his opinion, that he's there to direct the conversation between the analysts but unfortunately he goes beyond that most everytime he opens his mouth.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
He just cant hide the sense of his importance of being a sneer.
Dunphy reckons Neymar was "****ing ****ting it" when he stepped up to take the penalty against Croatia. "Are we live?"
Just posting this here as well:Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsNS-p6YX0M
I can't stop laughing at it. Bill's shocked gasp of "oooh!" really makes it.
"There are an awful lot of pundits who don't do their homework, don't look at the players, and just go with the flow."
Eamon's ironymeter is broken tonight.
I had to switch away from George and Ray this pm with their way over the top negativity. I know Sky go over the top with their hype but RTE seem determined to go in the opposite direction. BBC were confirming that it was a poor performance by Brazil but also giving Mexico some praise.
Kenny Cunningham is an excellent panellist with his own ideas. I like Dietmar Hamman as well. It is also interesting that Dunphy is far less sure of himself when Giles isn't with him.
Brazil are now without hope apparently. Useless players. However, they are still the most expensive team in the tournament, just ahead of Spain, as regards what each player's value was at his last transfer so they can't be that bad.
Are you for ******* real, mate?Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Dunphy on there being nothing in the game for Lukaku: "There's nothing in the game for Lookookoo."
Vine: https://vine.co/v/MIQUt1HKKeH
Close up of Del Bosque picking his (voluminous) nose. Peter Collins: "Del Bosque has an awful lot on his plate at the moment". Euuuch.
That was my World Cup highlight so far. And he never even flinched a bit saying it!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin