Was former Irish International Eamonn Dunphy a good player or not?

[OwlsFan]

Can't wait for the day Jamie Redknapp comes out with a line such as "Jose Mourinho is poisonous venom injected into the game" .

For a start BBC or SKY commentators can't make personal remarks like that because they would never get an interview again. BBC dared to make an adverse comment on SAF once and he hasn't given the BBC an interview since. So it's ok to make derogatory and unprofessional personal comments across the Irish Sea but you'd pay for it if it was made on national TV in the UK.

Hook is similar. Neither were superstars in their pomp but they've found their true calling in being unuique analysts. Thats essentially why RTE is light years ahead of the beeb in that dept. And while I'm on that subject, Owlsfan, Tom McGurk knows nothing about Rugby.

Dunphy is not a unique "analyst". He not even an analyst. He's just someone who shoots his mouth off and makes personal attacks which appeal to some people.

Tom McGurk certainly knows more about rugby than Laughing Bill does about soccer.

[Donal81]

Some interesting analysis from the boys on Sky Sports last night. Once the match ended, Ray Wilkins and Jamie Redknapp spent the entire ten minutes talking about Ronaldo, how immense a player he is, how delighted they are he's stayed in English football, just how bloody brilliant he is and how lucky they are to have him. This included a montage of pics over which could be heard Ray and Jamie approaching orgasm, although they neglected to mention the various pieces of trickery that ended with Ronaldo giving the ball away.

Give me Laughing Bill, Dunphy, Giles and Brady any day of the week over these jokers. For all their flaws, at least they don't indulge in this disgraceful blow job 'analysis' about one of the more disgusting players of recent times.

Their lack of any independent thought is one thing - the sheer bloody blandness of the likes of Sky is almost vomit-inducing. Nothing but style over substance.

And just to round it off, Jamie said he thought that the bloke who went to take a swing at Frank Lampard last night ought to go to prison. This, of course, won't go down well with any judge presiding over this case, if and when it comes up. Well done Jamie.

[lopez]

Sorry to have to correct this (no I really am sorry)....... but old Eamo Grumpy was on the winning side on two occasions:

Ireland 2 -1 Turkey 16-Nov 1966
Czechoslovakia 1 - 2 Ireland 22-Nov 1967

Just sometimes, the truth spoils it all.

Anyone ever see that old Millwall team photo which had Dunphy sitting there in the front row with his Mickey popping out of his shorts?

[NeilMcD]

Was that his brain.

[OwlsFan]

Some interesting analysis from the boys on Sky Sports last night. Once the match ended, Ray Wilkins and Jamie Redknapp spent the entire ten minutes talking about Ronaldo, how immense a player he is, how delighted they are he's stayed in English football, just how bloody brilliant he is and how lucky they are to have him. This included a montage of pics over which could be heard Ray and Jamie approaching orgasm, although they neglected to mention the various pieces of trickery that ended with Ronaldo giving the ball away.

Give me Laughing Bill, Dunphy, Giles and Brady any day of the week over these jokers. For all their flaws, at least they don't indulge in this disgraceful blow job 'analysis' about one of the more disgusting players of recent times.

Their lack of any independent thought is one thing - the sheer bloody blandness of the likes of Sky is almost vomit-inducing. Nothing but style over substance.

And just to round it off, Jamie said he thought that the bloke who went to take a swing at Frank Lampard last night ought to go to prison. This, of course, won't go down well with any judge presiding over this case, if and when it comes up. Well done Jamie.

The truth is some place in the middle from the Sky hype to the RTE mocking. Personally, I prefer praise (even if it is unjustified) to ridicule (when unjustified).

[lopez]

Was that his brain.

I always thought it was his post playing career personality.

[Donal81]

The truth is some place in the middle from the Sky hype to the RTE mocking. Personally, I prefer praise (even if it is unjustified) to ridicule (when unjustified).

The RTE lads were harsh on Ronaldo recently, fair enough, but I wouldn't call it ridicule. The hype surrounding so many players in the Premiership is phenomenal - Ronaldo is the new David Beckham - and so few pundits ask hard questions because they either (a) don't have the intelligence or (b) are too close to the industry over there to risk it. If the boys going over the top is the only way we get hard questions asked of Stan, the Ireland team, the FAI and the Premiership hype, then it's unfortunate but we're a lot better off than the unfortunate fans in England.

I certainly didn't find their coverage of England xenophobic, more a reaction felt by most Irish soccer fans to the mindless hyping up of the English team by English pundits (see Garth Crooks, Gary Lineker, Ian Wright, etc, etc, etc). Again, some of it was over the top and they seem to have certain standards of questioning for England that they don't apply to other countries' football teams.