Dunphy, Giles, Brady with Bill O' Herlihy was the golden era of sport analysts, we'll never have the likes of them on RTÉ again, the banter and arguments was the main reason we all watched the analysis of football games, just look at these 3 on this off the ball programme, they're enough to put a valium to sleep.!! 😴
Unfortunately, the English viewing public have little knowledge of Dunphy, which is a shame really as he is more charismatic and intelligent a pundit than anyone we have this side of the water. Our loss sadly. A real sui generis.
Come on.... the fella was pantomime terrible predictions and no real analysis, the equivalent of a pundit shock jock. He became a parody of himself. He should have gone 15 years ago.
Well, I've only watched him from afar to be honest, so the occasional snippet off RUclips probably doesn't make me qualified to contest your point of view, nevertheless compared to what we have in England, he makes our lot seem so dull and robotic. Even when Dunphy talks nonsense, which i'll concede he does in some videos, it's passionate nonsense all the same. Then again, most UK broadcasters would feel threatened by his shoot from the hip approach to analysis, hence why he's probably never featured on our networks.
Most English TV pundits are the other extreme of dunphy. They are afraid to say anything controversial in case they might offend someone. At times there is such reverence given to players English ones in particular, they almost seem like royal correspondents! I have been watching and listening to Dunphy for 30 years now. He knows how to get noticed and make himself the star. An extremely good self-publicist. But the inconsistency and the amount of flip flopping he did became laughable, in the last decade or so.
With respect (as the real Gerry used to be fond of saying) if you made a collage of things he said about the same subjects over even a short period of time there is ZERO consistency. If you fired out comments about everything and anything. Then kept changing your mind like Dunphy did. I would hardly call it correct. I would call it bluffing. Or to use a phrase the Dunphy himself was fond of saying about others he was 'a bit of a spoofer'.
Love Dunphy. What was wrong with him? I watch the program in Brazil just for Dunphy. He always has an opinion whether right or wrong. He is certainly not boring and if it is agism, young people also enjoy a difficult ol' man telling is view. He creates conversation too.
Dunphy is right. ...people demand honesty and openness . Just because, we have different views it doesn't mean We hate or Want to win the argument it just a Point of View .
I only watched rte coverage over other channels because of the Dunphy Giles Brady generations opinions and disagreements, watch for the drop in viewers the second the fulltime whistle is blown
He often told it how it was, and that's to be respected. But he was also the king of contradiction, spouting on about players and leagues he knew little or nothing about just for the sake of something controversial to say.
I think in years to come - if not already - people will look back on the bill eamon giles and brady panel with nostalgia. It was entertaining! At least they spoke their mind and were able to have debates...some punditry these days can be boring at times.
Dunphy has a major point... just 2 words; JOE BROLLY....rte is anodyne beyond belief; in the words of Brian Lenihan Sr. as he popped his head around CJH's door to manifest forgiveness & friendship ( which CJH ill-merited ): "They're all running around like headless chickens, the bland leading the bland.. .."
Giles, Dunphy and Brady were excellent at a time, but I just think that over the last few years they really haven’t known their stuff and done their homework on other teams. Like, I don’t think they’d be able to tell you the first thing happening about somebody like RB Leipzig, and I don’t think they knew much about that Croatian side and some of their lesser known players. He talked about Hoolahan as if he was Lionel Messi, but he couldn’t start for Norwich in the championship, and was something like 33, 34 at the Euros, and while he was the only guy in the team who seemed to be able to string passes together, you couldnt build a team on that. He’d a good personality and he gave his opinion, but so does Roy Keane and Dunphy called him out for the very same thing. I think the man is a clown, albeit an entertaining clown.
It's happening in England too...anybody with personality has been disposed of and to take their place are robots who have all swallowed a coaching manual who will not criticise anybody.
People are too hard on RTE. The greatest crisis facing humanity today is that people at home on couch's feel like their gender, race and sexuality is under represented on TV. RTE lost the rugby, some soccer, and GAA coverage, but it was all worth it, because they could afford to fly Hope Solo all the way from the U.S and pay her lots of money to readdress the balance. My only hope is that we eventually have Ru Paul replace Joe brolly...
Dunphy was great TV. Why so bitter, RTE1 coverage of football over the years was top class, everything changes, only time will tell if the new pundits have the same drawing power.
Although I don't always `agree with him, Dunphy is very much an individual in a media world that has become bland, safe, and predictable. RTE is in financial disarray because the organisation suffers from inertial forces and a lack of innovation. RTE was a leading institution in Ireland prior to satellite TV, cable TV, the Internet, the Mobile Network, and all the innovations that have emerged in the digital media ecosystem (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, gaming, social media etc.). The competitive space has radically changed and incumbent like RTE are not flexible enough to respond to these changes. They need to scale down (begin by reducing the ridiculous wages they pay presenters) and then maybe set up a separate company that has complete autonomy to innovate in the digital space while complementing the more traditional (and scaled down) business model. Lastly, although I grew up in Ireland, I am now living in London. It strikes me as strange that a state broadcaster like RTE that demands a rather high TV licence fee while also generating revenue for the sale of advertisements and yet be in such financial disarray? Dunphy is jumping from a sinking ship…
Dunphy was a great pundit but he was certainly no journalist. If watching, analyzing and being opinionated on games make one a journalist then so is everyone who watches sport.
We miss the likes of Dunphy, Giles etc, nothing wrong with the new bunch or Chippy but they do not have the cutting edge.BTW you guys allowed George Hook to run amok with his anti-pc, anti vaccine etc on our airwaves for years.
Dunphy is spot on. RTE dislikes anyone who is un-PC, who says it as it is
Alan Gregg nail on the head!
Dunphy, Giles, Brady with Bill O' Herlihy was the golden era of sport analysts, we'll never have the likes of them on RTÉ again, the banter and arguments was the main reason we all watched the analysis of football games, just look at these 3 on this off the ball programme, they're enough to put a valium to sleep.!! 😴
RTE soccer is done.
Unfortunately, the English viewing public have little knowledge of Dunphy, which is a shame really as he is more charismatic and intelligent a pundit than anyone we have this side of the water. Our loss sadly. A real sui generis.
Come on.... the fella was pantomime terrible predictions and no real analysis, the equivalent of a pundit shock jock.
He became a parody of himself.
He should have gone 15 years ago.
Well, I've only watched him from afar to be honest, so the occasional snippet off RUclips probably doesn't make me qualified to contest your point of view, nevertheless compared to what we have in England, he makes our lot seem so dull and robotic. Even when Dunphy talks nonsense, which i'll concede he does in some videos, it's passionate nonsense all the same. Then again, most UK broadcasters would feel threatened by his shoot from the hip approach to analysis, hence why he's probably never featured on our networks.
Most English TV pundits are the other extreme of dunphy. They are afraid to say anything controversial in case they might offend someone.
At times there is such reverence given to players English ones in particular, they almost seem like royal correspondents!
I have been watching and listening to Dunphy for 30 years now.
He knows how to get noticed and make himself the star.
An extremely good self-publicist. But the inconsistency and the amount of flip flopping he did became laughable, in the last decade or so.
nigefal he said what pundits on the BBC and sky would never say, he had his opinions correct about a lot.
With respect (as the real Gerry used to be fond of saying) if you made a collage of things he said about the same subjects over even a short period of time there is ZERO consistency. If you fired out comments about everything and anything. Then kept changing your mind like Dunphy did. I would hardly call it correct. I would call it bluffing.
Or to use a phrase the Dunphy himself was fond of saying about others he was 'a bit of a spoofer'.
RTÉ is a joke. Look at Damien duff. Nice guy but you just fall asleep when he starts to talk.
duff.....what a joke.
nail on the head!
Love Dunphy. What was wrong with him? I watch the program in Brazil just for Dunphy. He always has an opinion whether right or wrong. He is certainly not boring and if it is agism, young people also enjoy a difficult ol' man telling is view. He creates conversation too.
I always find OTB so patronising.
I will miss him ...
RTE is out of date and out of touch since Dee Forbes took over. Time for a new director general.
Dunphy is right. ...people demand honesty and openness .
Just because, we have different views it doesn't mean We hate or Want to win the argument it just a Point of View .
I only watched rte coverage over other channels because of the Dunphy Giles Brady generations opinions and disagreements, watch for the drop in viewers the second the fulltime whistle is blown
Off The Ball has all the character of a local radio station in Coventry. EPL obsessed.
He often told it how it was, and that's to be respected. But he was also the king of contradiction, spouting on about players and leagues he knew little or nothing about just for the sake of something controversial to say.
Dunphy wasn't so bad considering level of pundits nowadays.
I wish I lived in Ireland . We’re the issues aren’t as apocalyptic
I think in years to come - if not already - people will look back on the bill eamon giles and brady panel with nostalgia. It was entertaining! At least they spoke their mind and were able to have debates...some punditry these days can be boring at times.
Dunphy has a major point... just 2 words; JOE BROLLY....rte is anodyne beyond belief; in the words of Brian Lenihan Sr. as he popped his head around CJH's door to manifest forgiveness & friendship ( which CJH ill-merited ): "They're all running around like headless chickens, the bland leading the bland.. .."
Giles, Dunphy and Brady were excellent at a time, but I just think that over the last few years they really haven’t known their stuff and done their homework on other teams. Like, I don’t think they’d be able to tell you the first thing happening about somebody like RB Leipzig, and I don’t think they knew much about that Croatian side and some of their lesser known players. He talked about Hoolahan as if he was Lionel Messi, but he couldn’t start for Norwich in the championship, and was something like 33, 34 at the Euros, and while he was the only guy in the team who seemed to be able to string passes together, you couldnt build a team on that. He’d a good personality and he gave his opinion, but so does Roy Keane and Dunphy called him out for the very same thing. I think the man is a clown, albeit an entertaining clown.
It's happening in England too...anybody with personality has been disposed of and to take their place are robots who have all swallowed a coaching manual who will not criticise anybody.
Ireland didn't beat Egypt in Italia '90. Was the pencil throwing incident not after we drew this game 0-0?
Forward To The Past lack of research.
Didn't England win one nil v Egypt. Mark Wright heading the winner.
People are too hard on RTE. The greatest crisis facing humanity today is that people at home on couch's feel like their gender, race and sexuality is under represented on TV. RTE lost the rugby, some soccer, and GAA coverage, but it was all worth it, because they could afford to fly Hope Solo all the way from the U.S and pay her lots of money to readdress the balance. My only hope is that we eventually have Ru Paul replace Joe brolly...
Dunphy, Giles , Brady still box office
That last point was ridiculous. He slagged off various people who he could easily have run into. People you mentioned throughout this clip even.
Dunphy was great TV. Why so bitter, RTE1 coverage of football over the years was top class, everything changes, only time will tell if the new pundits have the same drawing power.
aidan kearney They wont
aidan kearney they wont
They didn't.. they hav women on the panel now😂
Although I don't always `agree with him, Dunphy is very much an individual in a media world that has become bland, safe, and predictable. RTE is in financial disarray because the organisation suffers from inertial forces and a lack of innovation. RTE was a leading institution in Ireland prior to satellite TV, cable TV, the Internet, the Mobile Network, and all the innovations that have emerged in the digital media ecosystem (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, gaming, social media etc.). The competitive space has radically changed and incumbent like RTE are not flexible enough to respond to these changes. They need to scale down (begin by reducing the ridiculous wages they pay presenters) and then maybe set up a separate company that has complete autonomy to innovate in the digital space while complementing the more traditional (and scaled down) business model. Lastly, although I grew up in Ireland, I am now living in London. It strikes me as strange that a state broadcaster like RTE that demands a rather high TV licence fee while also generating revenue for the sale of advertisements and yet be in such financial disarray? Dunphy is jumping from a sinking ship…
Molloy is exactly the type of presenter that Dunphy was talking about. Safe and boring.
Dunphy saw through the RTE stooges years ago.
All you have to do to see how right Dunphy is is look at the clowns on this panel
those 2 analysts are very bland, exactly the type RTE want to replace Dunphy
Dunphy was a great pundit but he was certainly no journalist. If watching, analyzing and being opinionated on games make one a journalist then so is everyone who watches sport.
For someone who got it wrong so many times the question is how did Dunphy last so long on RTE??
The woman makes some good points but my lord let the guys finish a thought.
Mistake rte. Personally I find liam Brady quite boring
I'm fine with all this as long as they keep Apres Match Eamo. He's far more interesting than RTE Sport Eamo any day..
Hypnotherapy 101 that will be "sanitized" soon enough
Why are gee bags commenting on male sport? go and crochet or something
We miss the likes of Dunphy, Giles etc, nothing wrong with the new bunch or Chippy but they do not have the cutting edge.BTW you guys allowed George Hook to run amok with his anti-pc, anti vaccine etc on our airwaves for years.
go on eamo
Me thinks Joe wants a job in RTE.
there is no excuse for not knowing players etc.... surely that is the bread and butter been a soccer analyst. thats what i didnt like about him.
Glad to see the back of him !
Youre just jealous because nobodies ever seen the front of you
Ask him, HOW HE GOT HIS WINDOWS SMASHED IN SAGGART!!!
Amateurs
These 3 think they are incredibly interesting and intelligent LOL.......as they explain the paper to people hahaha