RTE Panel

It thought it was a dreadful performance last night.

Had a quick flick through this thread. I can't believe for the life of me that there are some people (albeit a tiny minority) backing the panel.

On social media there is also a small percentage of fans agreeing with what Dunphy and Co sprouted last night.  His 'analysis' before, during and after the game was f**king rotten to the core. It was attention-seeking, unqualified, extremely negative and very, very wrong.

I mean for Liam Brady to say Meyler plays in the Championship and for neither Dunphy or Giles to notify this error is sh*te you wouldn't even get down your local pub.

Listening to the three of them is akin to listening to three owl fellas sitting at a bar half pissed talking sheer rubbish about the sport.

Martin O'Neill got EXACTLY what he wanted last night. In fact, he's got every result he's planned for in this qualifying campaign so far. A brilliant start to qualifying which all Ireland fans would have taken before it started. 7-points from the opening three fixtures - yes please! (I'm not patriotic in anyway, not a huge Ireland fan, but always will them to do well).

For Dunphy to start his 'analysis' last night by suggesting Hoolahan should be on for WHelan in midfield was mindboggling. They don't even play in the same f**king position. Dunphy might as well have said Forde should be out, Hoolahan in. Whelan was in to do a specific job that Wes Hoolahan has never done in his professional carreer. With so many attack-minded midfielders in teh German team, Whelan's job was to restrict that advancement through the centre. He did a brilliant job.Yes, he's not a great footballer, not great on the ball, but being on the ball isn't his job. Dunphy doesn't understand this, he only judges what players do on the ball, which is ludicrous...Being on the ball is only 2.6 per cent of a players' job during any game. Just judging a player on what he does in possession is amateur analysis. It's laughable.

It is no surprise at all that Germany advanced through the middle, via Kroos (who Whelan had kept at bay) and scored ONLY AFTER Whelan had gone off. I've no doubt that Whelan would have filled the space offered to Kroos to shoot. No doubt whatsoever. They wouldn't have scored that specific goal if Whelan was on the pitch in the 70th minute. This wasn't mentioned once by the RTE 'panel'.

After this goal went in, O'Neill rightly changed things up to chase the point that he spent 70-minutes hanging on to (I thought they held on well, not easy to restrict Germany to a lack of clear-cut chances).  Ireland forced the ball in to their box as they retreated and created chances. Ireland almost scored form 6-yards out before they scored from 6-yards out. It wasn't a great surprise that O'Neill's men did get a late equaliser. His teams never die off late in games, and this isn't the first time Ireland scored late in this campaign to turn a result much more positive.

Dunphy and the other two twits had an agenda from the start, but that agenda totally backfired on them and they all ended up looking like f**kwits last night.

It's quite clear to anyone who watches football on a regular basis that Dunphy hasn't got a f**king clue about the modern game. Did anyone hear him last night before the game banging on about McClean and McGeady attacking Germany down each flank when it was quite obvious to anyone who understands how O'Neill sets Ireland up away from home, that McGeady would be playing in the hole? It was cringe-worthy. Dunphy just hasn't got a f**king clue. He really doesn't.

At this stage, he is aware he is clueless, but he knows he gets away with it and can fluff it. So I don't blame him. But I have to question the bleedin' idiots who try to back him up, or who think the RTE panel are good. Most football fans are commenting online (even on this forum) today saying the RTE panel needs moving on. It's the 10percent backing the panel that make me shake my head and laugh. They seriously can't buy in to what the panel are saying, surely? It's horrendous opinion.

Why don't YBIG approach RTE with a campaign for them to change the panel up? You guys are the face of Irish football fans, RTE would certainly be forced to listen to you, at least. Get a petition going, It must be tough for some of you guys to spend thousands on travelling and supporting the national team - getting a great result at the home of the world champions only for the national broadcaster to sh*t on your parade with negativity after negativity after negativity.

I'm sure if YBIG started a petition or a campaign for RTE to change its panel - and sent it out through social media - you would get thousands of fellow arm-chair viewers willing to sign it and it will give you some great exposure. That's really what I came on to say before I found myself typing thousands of words.


Edited by Siralex - 15 Oct 2014 at 3:13pm

The RTE panel have been right for the last decade (bar when Brady had his biased view of Trap). Ridiculous people calling for their heads

Thats a hell of a generalization there Kerz

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/european-championships/opinion-eamon-dunphy-is-the-joke-not-oneills-team-selection-30666897.html

Kerrzy wrote: The RTE panel have been right for the last decade (bar when Brady had his biased view of Trap). Ridiculous people calling for their heads

The Gerk making powerful enemies. 




Bring 'em on!

Kerrzy wrote: The RTE panel have been right for the last decade (bar when Brady had his biased view of Trap). Ridiculous people calling for their heads

Not only are you a caricature of the typical delusional Liverpool fan you come up with this gem.

Just my view FW. Quinn was headless, permanently out of position, never wanted the ball and terrible when he got. While I agree the goal wasn't entirely his fault, Hendrick was poor and I would question Forde's positioning but he stood off the best player on the pitch. I would imagine he got the eye from Roy!