MNS (Monday Night Soccer)

**passinginterest** · 18/03/2008, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon

Yeah, saves it into Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\My Videos\RealPlayer Downloads. You should be able to zip or rar it and email it.

I did this with last week's show and while it all looks like it downloaded perfectly it refuses to play. Did you check that it'd play when the download completed?

**pixiehead** · 18/03/2008, 10:54 AM

Watching the show abroad and its ten outea ten for me. Well done RTE for a change. Great show!!! If i was not a fan of the EL sitting at home on a monday nite i think id watch it anyhow!! Thumbs up

**Boo_Boy** · 18/03/2008, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

I did this with last week's show and while it all looks like it downloaded perfectly it refuses to play. Did you check that it'd play when the download completed?

yep,same problem for me,it just says 'loading'.

**pete** · 18/03/2008, 11:36 AM

The sixty 60 thing in cringe worthy & needs to be dumped. Team line outs before highlights would be an improvement too.

Seems they may be using a combination of RTE cameras & club/fan cameras for alternative view?

**Dodge** · 18/03/2008, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by green army

i wouldnt have sent brennan or ryan off.

brennan headbutted Jamie Harris. He had to go. Rest of it was just hand bags. Interesting that mckeon had songled out keepers before hand. seems like his mind was made up before the game to sent Ryan off.

Thought he was pathetic at half time. "It took me ten minutes to find a free kick" and then avoiding the question of whehter he was looking to give them or not.

Enjoyed the show. Actually like the "lighter" bits and think they work well as the show heads to a break.

**Boh_So_Good** · 18/03/2008, 12:33 PM

You know what would be brilliant for MSN - a big mid season special with a studio audience made up of fans, managers and players. Have all the best goals from the games so far and maybe a feature on LOI players who played for the national side. The panel would be awesome if it included the likes of Paul McGrath, Trapatoni and Laro. If promoted well by RTE the ratings would be phenomenal and it would place the LOI well in the Irish soccer fold for the great unwashed. Especially if it was done in a Top Gear format with a good-natured bit of banter and slagging.

One episode of MSN done like that, would push the league into a new level. Especially if the likes of Trap and Laro were talking about how amazing such and such a goal or save was. It would end the "LOI is fookin shoite" carry on in one swoop.

We should get writing to the FAI and RTE about it.

**thischarmingman** · 18/03/2008, 1:12 PM

Originally Posted by pete

The sixty 60 thing in cringe worthy & needs to be dumped.

It was the one part my girlfriend looked up from her magazine and watched. If it's a way of getting people in any way interested then it's worth it.

**passinginterest** · 18/03/2008, 1:16 PM

Originally Posted by thischarmingman

It was the one part my girlfriend looked up from her magazine and watched. If it's a way of getting people in any way interested then it's worth it.

Now you mention it same thing happened in mine. She was ignoring most of the show but watched the 60 second interview. I think it's an OK section anyway, maybe some of the questions need a bit of work.

The Archive clip was good this week. I was laughing out loud at the OG.

Overall it's an impressive show, beats the hell out of Eircom League Weakly anyway.

Some of the footage definitely looked dodgy this week, I'd be concerned if this was to become a trend. Maybe it's more to do with the standard of lighting in the grounds, as I think was suggested earlier, if it is something needs to be done.

**Dodge** · 18/03/2008, 1:21 PM

Originally Posted by thischarmingman

It was the one part my girlfriend looked up from her magazine and watched. If it's a way of getting people in any way interested then it's worth it.

its to humanise the league. Every other league in the world is sold on the back of the players. Its about time ours was too.

**BohsPartisan** · 18/03/2008, 1:24 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

its to humanise the league. Every other league in the world is sold on the back of the players. Its about time ours was too.

Bobby Ryan for league pin-up?

**el punter** · 18/03/2008, 1:54 PM

The 60 second thing isn't very informative, but that's not its point. If some of us can remember back to when we were little and read Shoot and Match magazines, it was full of that inane kind of stuff but I still remembered all my favourite players favourite colours and meals just because I was young and thought of pro footballers as super heros.

It's light and it's honestly the first time I've heard Ronan Finn or Ryan Guy speak, it helps with the profile and as Dodge says selling the league on its players is a good thing.

No need to take it all so seriously, I think the laid back feel of the show is great and for successive weeks I give it a massive thumbs up.

**Sin�ad K** · 18/03/2008, 1:57 PM

Now BohsPartisan, that's an idea for a calender

**Rory H** · 18/03/2008, 2:01 PM

Stephen Rice bit was quite funny.......wonder if they could find a player who dislikes sean connor every week

**passinginterest** · 18/03/2008, 2:19 PM

The MNS section of the RTE website is looking pretty interesting too. Con Murphy's behind the scenes column is good reading, he explains his error when he though they were going to an ad break, but it was actually the Bray highlights, blames the editors Birmingham accent!

**Mr A** · 18/03/2008, 2:48 PM

That's a pretty cool stuff. As has been noted several times before one of the coolest things about MNS is the obvious enthusiasm and commitment about what they're doing. Minor blips aside that makes all the difference, you get the feeling that the people involved are knowledgeable fans of the league and genuinely believe that it's important and worthwhile, a feeling never quite created by TV3. That said- TV3 provided coverage when no one else did, so fair play to them as well.

**Pauro 76** · 18/03/2008, 2:53 PM

Ive got to say well done to RTE's website. Their Eircom League focus on their website is excellent reading as are the columns from MNS presenters. You can tell their enthusiasm for the League. Do they give any mentions to the First Division as opposed to the quick readouts of results and tables as on EL Weekly?

**bigmac** · 18/03/2008, 2:53 PM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

The MNS section of the RTE website is looking pretty interesting too. Con Murphy's behind the scenes column is good reading, he explains his error when he though they were going to an ad break, but it was actually the Bray highlights, blames the editors Birmingham accent!

That's a good idea alright - definitely gets it across that he actually has some interest in what he's presenting. The music playing during the highlights really annoys me though - think I'll fire off an email about that (I'm probably not the only one I'd say)

**bigmac** · 18/03/2008, 3:24 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

brennan headbutted Jamie Harris. He had to go. Rest of it was just hand bags. Interesting that mckeon had songled out keepers before hand. seems like his mind was made up before the game to sent Ryan off.

In fairness, he said before the game that he wanted the assistants to look for whoever ran the furthest to get involved in any melee - he mentioned keepers as they are obviously at the furthest ends of the pitch.
I think he got it spot on myself and I think it's good that we see the rationale behind the decisions. Any time I see something like that happen I always think that someone who runs 20 or 30 yards to get involved should be at least booked and it's good to see that refs are prepared to stamp down on it.
I can't understand why players get involved in retaliation and "sticking up for a teammate" and then try to defend their actions. When something like that happens, let the ref deal with it and punish the other team. For a perfect example look at the Leinster rugby match recently in Leicester - Julian White starts swinging at Malcolm O'Kelly and gets yellow carded (should have been red) - end result is Leicester are down a man for 10 minutes. If O'Kelly defends himself and swings back, then they're both in the bin....

**Sheridan** · 18/03/2008, 3:49 PM

Since when is running 40 yards to confront someone a sending off offence in and of itself? I'll give a shiny shilling to anyone who can unearth that in the rulebook. It's what you do once you get there that counts. I don't know whether Ryan's subsequent actions warranted an expulsion, but the fact is that the ref had prescribed a punishment which has no basis in the laws of the game before the match even started. Unbelievable.

**Buller** · 18/03/2008, 3:52 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

Since when is running 40 yards to confront someone a sending off offence in and of itself? I'll give a shiny shilling to anyone who can unearth that in the rulebook. It's what you do once you get there that counts. I don't know whether Ryan's subsequent actions warranted an expulsion, but the fact is that the ref had prescribed a punishment which has no basis in the laws of the game before the match even started. Unbelievable.

The fact is you are inciting confrontation and trouble by running that distance. Completely unnecessary. His own manager said it warrented a punishment...