Oh, haven’t they little to worry about.
RTE lose the television rights to the Six Nations rugby to those upstarts over in TV3 and the country is outraged.
Ok, slight exaggeration you’ll agree. Montrose is outraged. Liveline goes mad.
Joe is apoplectic! That’s Joe. The phones are hopping. He’s great a stirring the shit.
The underdog is Joe’s champion.
That’s Joe, oh, did we mention he earns over €300,000 a year from RTE?
No need for that sort of cheap shot. That was below the belt. We’re better than that!
Joe is the man of the ‘common people’.
He’s from Ballyfermot and he knows what the man on the street is thinking.
And in unison the folks in ‘Ballyer’ roar: “Ah here, Joe. We don’t give a shit Joe, it’s only rugby for God’s sake, Joe. Now, if it were the Dubs, well that’s a different ball game, Joe.”
The Six Nations was the jewel in the crown for Montrose. The kick up the arse they got when TV3 blindsided them to win the rights hit the place like a tsunami.
The heavy hitters awoke from their winter slumber.
George Hook went on a rant. Does George do anything else you may ask?
It’s the end of the world as we know it. Rugby on TV will never be the same again. Blah, blah, blah.
Sorry, did we not mention that George earns a good living from his rugby punditry with, ahem, RTE.
Then we had Ryle Nugent.
Hand’s up you knows Ryle? Didn’t think so.
He’s the Boss but he’s also the VOICE.
Still don’t know who he is? Didn’t think so.
Think again and think Tommy Bowe and then think of Ryle. “It’s Tommmyy Boooowwwweeee.”
Now you know who he is.
Ryle was, as they soccer boys like to put it: ‘sick as a parrot’. It was a bad day for Ryle.
Over in TV3 they were, as Joe would say, ‘delira and excira”. Still it’s hard to picture Matt Cooper going all ‘delira and excira’.
They promise that in between all the ads they’ll show us the Six Nations.
After all they tells us that they had massive TV audiences for their ads — with the bit of rugby thrown in for good measure — during the World Cup.
With France in mourning and Europe on a knife-edge, the little oasis in Montrose is in a tizzy over a rugby tournament.
Haven’t they little to worry about?
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