George Hamilton

Maybe I'm being hyper critical but I thought George Hamilton's take on the incident which led to Kevin Doherty being sent off last night was woeful. He claimed IAN Doherty must have been booked seconds earlier before the mini-melee. He had actually been booked in the 49th minute - the only booking up 'til that stage in the game. Granted, it was hard to stay focussed on a very dull second half, but he's getting paid to do it.

Even I knew Doherty was going off as soon as he got that yellow and his first booking was seventy yards away from me with no TV replay, for taking down Shelley.
He was poor for not knowing that but at least RTE had 3 cameras there.

Originally Posted by Sniffer

Maybe I'm being hyper critical but I thought George Hamilton's take on the incident which led to Kevin Doherty being sent off last night was woeful. He claimed IAN Doherty must have been booked seconds earlier before the mini-melee. He had actually been booked in the 49th minute - the only booking up 'til that stage in the game. Granted, it was hard to stay focussed on a very dull second half, but he's getting paid to do it.

He had a chance to make up for the mistake but proceeded to Call him Ian 5/6times after.

Chipmunk

Hamilton also kept referring to United Park as O2 Park , has'nt been called that for many years now.

Originally Posted by iceman

Hamilton also kept referring to United Park as O2 Park , has'nt been called that for many years now.

Thats shocking bad!

Typical of RTE TV Sport's lack of real interest in the domestic game

was watching the premiership last night and he was covering the man u -v- birmingham match when he said (towards the end of the match) " It looks like Birmingham have shot their load early". The missus and myself were roaring laughing !!!!!

P.S. sorry for going slightly off topic.

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

Typical of RTE TV Sport's lack of real interest in the domestic game

Hamilton had plenty of interest in the domestic game when he was advising the Cypriots as to how ****e we and our league were last year.

Idiot

Originally Posted by harry crumb

He had a chance to make up for the mistake but proceeded to Call him Ian 5/6times after.

Chipmunk

Heard that myself, when he said it first Ithought he'd surely get it right
the next time but no, he stuck to his guns.

Then I thought he was gonna do a Michael Ó Muircheartaigh and go on with
a big story about how he was named Kevin but his middle name was Ian and
he preferred to be called that in memory of a relation or something!

Turns out Gerogie boy just didnt know his name and said the 1st one that
came in to his head!

Poor old Georgie boy doesn't have a clue beyond his beloved ManUre. He spent most of last year's FAI Cup semi-final calling Trevor Molloy "Morley". There's a noticable 20 second pause in the commentary when, I'm guessing, his co-commentator Pat Morley finally has enough and sticks one on him. After that he didn't make the mistake again.

Originally Posted by Stato

Poor old Georgie boy doesn't have a clue beyond his beloved ManUre.

He's an Arsenal fan?

My bad. Maybe it's just the way he is about the premiership in general.

At halftime he goes Its Longford UNITED 0 Drogheda United 2. See you after the break!!

He has also claimed to be a Glentoran fan.

Originally Posted by Stato

Poor old Georgie boy doesn't have a clue beyond his beloved ManUre.

Some people think RTE sports coverage is great because the star pundits have the same argument over & over. Shoddy work like that from "star" commentator show up RTE for the incompetents they really are.

Heard Ger Canning at the weekend & I think he would use the same terminology if he was commentating on football or water polo.

Originally Posted by pete

Heard Ger Canning at the weekend & I think he would use the same terminology if he was commentating on football or water polo.

Years ago I read a comment about Ger Canning that still makes me laugh, along the lines of 'if Ger Canning had written the bible, instead of "Jesus wept" he'd have put "Jesus started crying"'!
It is a mystery why we can't produce a decent commentator though.

Originally Posted by stann

It is a mystery why we can't produce a decent commentator though.

Talking about shi*e commentator's, did anyone else notice the TV3 commentator at yesterday's rugby game kept calling Geordan Murphy, Dempsey?

Presume thats Conor McNamara, shining light of BBC sports radio?

Anyway, as a rule all commentators suck. Hamilton more than all others. My favourite lazy RTE line at a LOI game was a few years ago when Paul keegan was on loan to Pats from New England Revolution. Johnny Giles do the co-commentator bit called him the "American lad"

Originally Posted by micls

Hamilton had plenty of interest in the domestic game when he was advising the Cypriots as to how ****e we and our league were last year.

Idiot

What's wrong with that? The league is ****e!

Originally Posted by Dodge

Presume thats Conor McNamara, shining light of BBC sports radio?

He used to be Irish, didn't he?

Anyway, as a rule all commentators suck. Hamilton more than all others. My favourite lazy RTE line at a LOI game was a few years ago when Paul keegan was on loan to Pats from New England Revolution. Johnny Giles do the co-commentator bit called him the "American lad"

I remember that well, he actually referred to him as "the Yank."

That was after his legendary opening gambit, "It's been a long time since I saw any Irish football, George."