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Replying To Horsebox77: "Seò Sport on a Friday night - can anyone please tell me why this was dropped - one of the best sport shows the set up production and presentation was top notch. Darragh O'Cinneide was an excellent presenter lovely tone to the voice and a show that more like friends talking in the pub about sport more than a live show presentation. Dropping this show is the one sports blot on TG4 copybook cos every other thing they have done sports wise has to be commended but this show yes's this isn't what I most miss about the Gaa" Never watched it as I wouldn't understand a word they were saying. Does it matter if you have a nice tone to your voice if 80% of your target audience hears jibberish coming out of it? Can't wait for Joanne to take over actually, now there is someone who knows the gaa inside out. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 26/04/2018 20:40:32 2095171 Link
Better to be thought a fool... m_the_d (None) - Posts: 1099 - 26/04/2018 21:03:42 2095176 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Never watched it as I wouldn't understand a word they were saying. Does it matter if you have a nice tone to your voice if 80% of your target audience hears jibberish coming out of it? Can't wait for Joanne to take over actually, now there is someone who knows the gaa inside out." I'm far from a gealgoir but there was subtitles and at least 80% of the player interviews were in English Horsebox77 (Kerry) - Posts: 5491 - 26/04/2018 21:59:46 2095183 Link
Packed terraces and a full house in Carrick for Leitrim and Roscommon championship matches. salvador (Roscommon) - Posts: 439 - 26/04/2018 23:36:11 2095196 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Never watched it as I wouldn't understand a word they were saying. Does it matter if you have a nice tone to your voice if 80% of your target audience hears jibberish coming out of it? Can't wait for Joanne to take over actually, now there is someone who knows the gaa inside out." If you can't understand a single word of it having gone to school in Ireland then that is your own problem and issue, and says a lot in itself. I'm always surprised when people wear their ignorance with pride. Once a show is subtitled it doesn't matter what language the show is in, if it is good it is good. Agree that Joanne Cantwell is a good shout for the Sunday Game gig. I think she's a good presenter. Michael Lyster, though a competent and affable broadcaster, has always just let the pundits away to say whatever irrelevant waffle they want to, and when the pundits are Brolly, Spillane and O'Rourke that is an issue. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 27/04/2018 08:10:22 2095209 Link
Replying To MesAmis: "If you can't understand a single word of it having gone to school in Ireland then that is your own problem and issue, and says a lot in itself. I'm always surprised when people wear their ignorance with pride. Once a show is subtitled it doesn't matter what language the show is in, if it is good it is good. Agree that Joanne Cantwell is a good shout for the Sunday Game gig. I think she's a good presenter. Michael Lyster, though a competent and affable broadcaster, has always just let the pundits away to say whatever irrelevant waffle they want to, and when the pundits are Brolly, Spillane and O'Rourke that is an issue." Excellent reply - fully agree Horsebox77 (Kerry) - Posts: 5491 - 27/04/2018 10:33:45 2095231 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Never watched it as I wouldn't understand a word they were saying. Does it matter if you have a nice tone to your voice if 80% of your target audience hears jibberish coming out of it? Can't wait for Joanne to take over actually, now there is someone who knows the gaa inside out." If you can't understand what the panellists are saying, how do you know it's gibberish? thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1746 - 27/04/2018 14:38:33 2095297 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Never watched it as I wouldn't understand a word they were saying. Does it matter if you have a nice tone to your voice if 80% of your target audience hears jibberish coming out of it? Can't wait for Joanne to take over actually, now there is someone who knows the gaa inside out." Describes his native language as 'gibberish', oh dearie me.Would it kill you to learn even a little Irish? Barnowl94 (Galway) - Posts: 3150 - 27/04/2018 15:35:26 2095310 Link
I miss michael o muircheartaigh'S Match commentary. When there was No Sky Deal. - - No Back door. - - No 6 day turn around. - - No Super 8's - - No Black cards. - - No Eletism. - - No Helmets. - - No Gum shields. - - No Hawk Eye. When Referees were infallible, and post match comments were made before the match started.?? - - Those were the day's, supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2908 - 23/05/2018 21:27:14 2103392 Link
The crowd singing"Faith of our Fathers,holy faith,We will be true to the 'til death" No need for a pep talk after that. worple (Roscommon) - Posts: 340 - 23/05/2018 21:52:53 2103399 Link
Replying To supersub15: "I miss michael o muircheartaigh'S Match commentary. When there was No Sky Deal. - - No Back door. - - No 6 day turn around. - - No Super 8's - - No Black cards. - - No Eletism. - - No Helmets. - - No Gum shields. - - No Hawk Eye. When Referees were infallible, and post match comments were made before the match started.?? - - Those were the day's," Micheal was on radio 1 with Sean O Rourke yesterday...he has one of those voices I could just listen to all day. There will never be another one like him. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11236 - 23/05/2018 22:22:45 2103405 Link
Meath!!! moros (Roscommon) - Posts: 1080 - 23/05/2018 23:37:55 2103420 Link
Replying To MesAmis: "If you can't understand a single word of it having gone to school in Ireland then that is your own problem and issue, and says a lot in itself. I'm always surprised when people wear their ignorance with pride. Once a show is subtitled it doesn't matter what language the show is in, if it is good it is good. Agree that Joanne Cantwell is a good shout for the Sunday Game gig. I think she's a good presenter. Michael Lyster, though a competent and affable broadcaster, has always just let the pundits away to say whatever irrelevant waffle they want to, and when the pundits are Brolly, Spillane and O'Rourke that is an issue." I have no interest in it. Btw latest census would suggest I in majority. And also could point to way it is thought. Funny thing I rose through my employment to become a large employer myself, and never once did I need it. It has never held me back. So it's pointless royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 24/05/2018 07:49:08 2103442 Link
Pitch invasions on AI Final day unclegerry (Mayo) - Posts: 1222 - 24/05/2018 09:38:19 2103463 Link
Going to matches with my Dad when I was a kid. It didn't matter a bit when Roscommon used to beat us regualry in the 70s. He was and still is The King. I think that's the reason many people love the GAA. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7360 - 24/05/2018 10:18:20 2103471 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "I have no interest in it. Btw latest census would suggest I in majority. And also could point to way it is thought. Funny thing I rose through my employment to become a large employer myself, and never once did I need it. It has never held me back. So it's pointless" From reading you last post, the way you were taught English could do with a little work too. Kurt_Angle (Dublin) - Posts: 567 - 24/05/2018 10:46:58 2103480 Link
Replying To worple: "The crowd singing"Faith of our Fathers,holy faith,We will be true to the 'til death" No need for a pep talk after that." Those were the days. Life was simple and uncomplicated. That expressed our identity along with the flag and anthem. We still have the latter two. Still feel a huge sense of pride in other. I miss thedays when football was a 15 man game, no massed defences. thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1746 - 24/05/2018 10:51:36 2103484 Link
I have no interest in it. Btw latest census would suggest I in majority. And also could point to way it is thought. Funny thing I rose through my employment to become a large employer myself, and never once did I need it. It has never held me back. So it's pointless royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 13263 - 24/05/2018 07:49:08 Aren't you great? I doubt you are in the majority at all actually. The majority of people educated in Ireland can understand a couple of basic sentences and words in Irish, unlike you who only hears "jibberish". I mean to go through at least 13 years of school with Irish everyday and still only hear "jibberish" takes some doing to be fair. It says more about you than anything else really the way you wear your ignorance with pride. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13718 - 24/05/2018 11:20:00 2103500 Link
the bishop of cashel getting his ring kissed and throwing in the ball......those were the days. perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 24/05/2018 11:26:18 2103503 Link
Replying To MesAmis: "I have no interest in it. Btw latest census would suggest I in majority. And also could point to way it is thought. Funny thing I rose through my employment to become a large employer myself, and never once did I need it. It has never held me back. So it's pointless royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 13263 - 24/05/2018 07:49:08 Aren't you great? I doubt you are in the majority at all actually. The majority of people educated in Ireland can understand a couple of basic sentences and words in Irish, unlike you who only hears "jibberish". I mean to go through at least 13 years of school with Irish everyday and still only hear "jibberish" takes some doing to be fair. It says more about you than anything else really the way you wear your ignorance with pride." He must have been one of those special opt out cases for the leaving! Spoddgy (Mayo) - Posts: 660 - 25/05/2018 10:59:22 2103757 Link