RTE Panel

**Crosby87** · 04/04/2014, 3:41 PM

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.

**DeLorean** · 04/04/2014, 10:24 PM

Phil Babb & Jason McAteer coming up next on the Late Late.

**kennedmc** · 04/04/2014, 10:31 PM

Tubridy may have been stretching it a bit with the 'soccer legends' tag though.

**Charlie Darwin** · 04/04/2014, 10:32 PM

I wonder if Macca will put forward his case for LOI management again. Sligo might have a vacancy soon.

**DannyInvincible** · 12/04/2014, 11:10 PM

Came across this on Ball.ie earlier:

The RT� 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.

**tetsujin1979** · 13/04/2014, 12:54 AM

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.

**DannyInvincible** · 13/04/2014, 1:57 AM

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.

**tetsujin1979** · 13/04/2014, 10:51 AM

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

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 13/04/2014, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

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.

**tetsujin1979** · 13/04/2014, 12:42 PM

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.

**DannyInvincible** · 13/04/2014, 1:33 PM

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.

**Charlie Darwin** · 13/04/2014, 1:50 PM

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.

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.

**tetsujin1979** · 13/04/2014, 4:13 PM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

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.

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 that
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.

**DannyInvincible** · 13/04/2014, 5:57 PM

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.

**Dodge** · 14/04/2014, 10:19 AM

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...

**The Fly** · 01/05/2014, 4:13 PM

**Charlie Darwin** · 19/05/2014, 10:10 PM

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.

**Charlie Darwin** · 08/06/2014, 9:10 PM

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.