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the RT Sports Awards have been out. Which part of this now is outraging you the most? Let's get straight into it.
Look, it's another Eamon, it's a sort of a secondary bit on Eamon Sweeney's column. So his main column in the Sindo today, we've just touched on, is Ruben Ameren, but one of his second piece, the second piece that he has here is, The exclusion of the Ireland team makes a joke of RTU Sport Award. Yeah. So the nuts and bolts of it basically being there were seven teams.
What were the highlights of the RTE Sports Awards?
I think they were the four GAA teams. Four GAA teams, yeah, correct. The Kerry senior footballers won it. I think there was the Shamrock Rovers team at Lone Town.
And the Cyclists.
And the Cyclists were the seven shortlisted teams. for RT Sports Team of the Year and that the Republic of Ireland soccer team were not listed. And he called it, he said, the glaring absence made a joke of the award. And we were chatting about it outside as to whether, like Eamon makes a point in the piece that for each of the last four years, there was nine teams shortlisted for this award and there was only seven this year. I don't know the mechanics of how they... They could have just lobbed them in. Yeah, I don't know the mechanics. Yeah, they could have lobbed the Ireland team in.
Why not? Like seven is so random. Sure, might as well be eight.
Why is the exclusion of the Ireland team controversial?
yeah so then you're kind of wrestling with the whole i think we were touched on earlier they didn't actually win anything they haven't qualified for anything so should they be in it so the merit was or sorry the the system of merit is you have to have physically won something it appears so and and qualifying for a playoff
I think that's a very unfair benchmark, isn't it?
Well, for a competition that has, we've said, 16 teams qualify out of 55 nations, isn't it?
For Europe, yeah.
For Europe. So it's quite a high benchmark. If the Galway Camogie team, and no disrespect to them, having beaten Cork, there was four competitive teams in that competition. Does that merit inclusion over the Irish team?
But it's not a fair base. No. as in the numbers that you've said and our history of qualifying for these things, not a good strike rate.
I guess it boils down to are you being included for moments or are you being included for sporting success? Is sporting success what the Ireland team achieved in their last two games? Yes. Yeah. I would think so.
Yeah. And it's not just moments. Like, it wasn't just a goal.
No.
There was a goal. There was five goals. Yeah, exactly.
Over two games.
Against, you know, far superior opposition that we've... I can't understand it.
And at the outset... When this qualification draw, you know, came to the table, we said a playoff was our best case scenario, right? We didn't anticipate that we would assert Portugal.
Oh yeah, that was absolute best case. So we've ended up where we hoped to end up. Beyond where I think reality would have been third, best case would have been second.
And we've ended up ahead of. And I'm not taking from Galway. I'm not taking from the Dublin ladies footballers. You know, the teams that were included. Yes, they did win. Yes, they've ticked a major box in terms of the criteria.
They have a trophy to show for it.
They have a trophy to show for it. But when you consider where Ireland are right now and the potential for the World Cup, I think... it was an oversight on the part 40 not to include them.
And when you consider where Ireland were just a month beforehand in the air van, you know, and everything was just doom and gloom, which has more often than not been the way with Irish football teams. Yeah, like Troy Pirates scores the first goal against Portugal, that's a moment. Then he goes and does another one, scores another one, that in itself is a moment, but then it's something more significant and you have to go and back it up.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:52
2
What were the highlights of the RTE Sports Awards?
0:52–1:40
3
Why is the exclusion of the Ireland team controversial?
1:40–5:21
4
How do team performances affect award nominations?
5:21–7:22
5
What moments defined the Irish football team's recent success?
7:22–15:06
Speakers
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