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Xpro wrote: I`d agree with a lot of that "Terzino" and I hope the SR production crew take your points on board. You`ve a huge amount of content or angles covered there and it could be quite challenging to fit it all in within the 50 minute slot, if you exclude ad breaks? Actually I thought last night`s show was one of the best yet. Collins looked relaxed and moved the show along at the right pace. Croly and Cawley were cheerful and laid back and the overall vibe in the studio came across well. Plus, the analysis wasn`t half bad either. I`ve no idea of the budget that SR is working with. I`d imagine it`s tiny compared to MOTD or Sky or BT. But even a regular Skype interview with former LOI players across the water like Forrester, Towell, Gaffney, Stevens, Doyle etc would be interesting. Also, some great archive footage of the past involving LOI clubs, showing stuffed-out grounds, (when Irish football fans supported their own league), might remind viewers of a vanished era.

Maybe this is the way it could be done to make everyone happy:

25 minutes of uninterrupted highlights.

then an ad break

When the programme returns you have a panel to discuss, for ten minutes, what we just witnessed.

then another ad break

Finish the programme with a ten minute profile of clubs/ players / upcoming important match - top of the table clash, derby, Ireland game, relegation battle, etc, etc.

Better off just scrapping this, improve the highlights package from each match, put them to music from young Irish bands, a few quick post match quotes from the bosses and done. 25 minutes, shove it in that 7 o'clock spot on RTE2 as well as getting it on a weekend morning. Cheaper and better.

It's RTE all over. Even when they had the Premier League highlights, they would show 2 minutes highlights of the game and use the rest for "showcasing" their pundits. They are completely set in their ways of thinking that their pundits opinions are equally important to the actual football. Even though their pundits opinions are forgotten about 5 minutes later.

It's not even like they are even giving expert analysis. They only give their opinions on Player X, Manager X or Team X, opinions that would rarely differ to many people that regularly watch the games. If they want to give their expert opinions on defensive techniques or marking on set-pieces, that's great. I dont care if they think Team X might struggle this season or Manager X is doing a good job, who cares????


Just give us the goals, and if they are not going to analyse them then we will do it ourselves.

The singing taxi man tonight! They need to kill this song for Ireland sh*te now.
Is the winner of it actually going to be the official song?

Well said

They need Roddy on it.

PanteirA wrote: And Joanne Cantwell to present it. Lets make Irish football sexy again.

Nobody can enjoy that, nobody! And I bloody know what egocentric means, thank you. Trevor Croly doesn't take himself seriously? How can you tell he is alive? The show is an unmitigated disaster from start to finish without any redeeming features whatsoever. I don't know of anyone who enjoys it who follows the league.

Agree with the last part in particular. I don't think you can accuse Croly of being passionate though, you have to be alive first!
Regarding Collins, there are plenty lads who have done jobs for a long time with little interest, I imagine Motorsport is really his thing and that is why he talks like an engine.

By the way, I am pretty sure the fella in that video isn't from Cork, anyone I have asked at City said he was from Dundalk