Newstalk coverage of the eL

Is it just me or has their eL coverage got worse & smaller?

Used to have the eL hour once a week & now barely 15 minutes & they use Roddy to talk about boxing or other sports anyway. Seems if they have anything else to talk about the eL gets squeezed.

I think that they were happy to cover "minority" sport such as eL when they starting off but now going for the populist option with premiership commentary now they think they a bigger station. I think their Premiership commentary on week nights of pointless matches with no irish interest is one of their worst decisions.

send the muppets an email. its poor coverage alright

They still do the saturday afternoon 3-4pm EL show which is usually very very good. Unfortunately it's on at a rubbish time.

I don't think they liked my Shelstalk rants before so not reading out texts or replying to email.

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newstalk are a joke of a station.it pretends to be a EL friendly station but in reality its nothing more than a token gesture .

20 minutes of roddy spouting sh!te a week and a a sat show and that it - try waiting on them for scores on a fri nite - they get their updates from aertel ...swear to god,that how quick they are

and even worse ,they think that havin some shels fan do live commentry of their 1 european game a season is enough to keep the country happy

they will commentate on wycombe v somebody , or ipswich v someone else instead of doing cork city , or derry , or even a dublin derby , and the excuse they give is that "sure its a dublin station" which doesn't bear up to scrutiny seeing as they've spent the last 4 days beatin themselves off to the cork/ galway game

the ONLY station that shows any real interest is radio 1 - at least they try
newstalk have no interest in the EL

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Originally Posted by pete

I don't think they liked my Shelstalk rants before so not reading out texts or replying to email.

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Here , don't you be trying to steal my limelight , shelstalk was my conception :p

My read is that NT probably have some decent EL-appreciating people there, but they have to fight an uphill battle against those who feel bigger when they are commenting on Chelski or Royal Madrid.
And cricket. With all due respect to those who actually play the game, is there anything more post-colonially pathetic than someone who develops an instant obsession with this game?

what is the best time to listen to radio 1 for EL coverage ?

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And cricket. With all due respect to those who actually play the game, is there anything more post-colonially pathetic than someone who develops an instant obsession with this game?

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Like the Bohs supporters cricket team perhaps???

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Originally Posted by thejollyrodger

what is the best time to listen to radio 1 for EL coverage ?

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During Friday's games and 3:00 (I think) on Saturdays.

Friday nights eL on RTE Radio 1 is best league coverage across all the media. Its as close to Five Live type Uk football coverage that we have here.

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Originally Posted by pete

Friday nights eL on RTE Radio 1 is best league coverage across all the media. Its as close to Five Live type Uk football coverage that we have here.

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Thats part of the problem with newstalk's coverage. They used to do excelent live coverage but RTE signed an exclusive agreement with the FAI and stopped Newstalk doing the live commentary. I presume they lost quite a bit of interest in it then

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Originally Posted by BohDiddley

And cricket. With all due respect to those who actually play the game, is there anything more post-colonially pathetic than someone who develops an instant obsession with this game?

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No, nothing. Nothing annoys me as much as thatm see rugby in 2003.

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Originally Posted by BohDiddley

My read is that NT probably have some decent EL-appreciating people there, but they have to fight an uphill battle against those who feel bigger when they are commenting on Chelski or Royal Madrid.
And cricket. With all due respect to those who actually play the game, is there anything more post-colonially pathetic than someone who develops an instant obsession with this game?

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last season, in the middle of citys run to try (and almost) catch shels ,they decided to ignore city game on the monday night for a meaningless wycombe game .Now if it was one of the big prem teams or a CL game ,while I'd be p'd off that they were doing what tv already had live I'd accept it but not wycombe ffs

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Originally Posted by Drumcondra Red

Like the Bohs supporters cricket team perhaps???

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Now why didn't I anticipate that? :rolleyes:
If you read my post you would see that I except those who genuinely play the game.
What I question is the sudden rush of wicket wannabes.

did anyone here newstalk there about 20 minutes ago having a go at this thread ??

They said that the Eircom League did a deal with RTE and so they cant cover the EL like they wanted to.

Well thats not good enough NEWSTALK .

Newstalk's so called EL hour is barely a quarter hour these days. Losing live rights to RTE is not a valid excuse. And as for Friday night's... you barely get scoreline updates nowadays. SO I have reverted to Radio 1 which is starting to get better with it's EL coverage on Friday nights...even if Stephen Alkin keeps getting players names wrong.

NEWSTALK if you are reading this, WERE ALL MOVING TO RTE FOR PROPER EIRCOM LEAGUE COVERAGE.

While in total the Irish soccer output of the national broadcaster is derisory, RTE medium wave 252 gives comprehensive and intelligent coverage if you can't make a game. Just a pity they don't do pictures!
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/story/1041449.html

problem is i cant get MW!