Irish sport, Gabby, rugby shirts, and Scotland
Hello and thanks for the comments this week to .
As ever, a selection of your points and questions are published . So, a few answers for you.
Some of you have asked for more featured, I agree Gaelic football and hurling are excellent games and I used to watch a lot of them when I lived in Northern Ireland for a year back in the β80s. Unfortunately, I'm not sure theyβre broadly popular enough to put on Inside Sport.
Just to reply to one viewer, Tony Livesey doesn't work for the News of the World, he's a sports presenter for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's North West Tonight. But he was a newspaper man in his past. His view on England players' commitment was his view and the points you make, for example about the millions of pounds that weigh on every manager's decision about letting their players play, were precisely the points Des made in response to Tony - Des very much agreed with you. The comment about βtightsβ, I think, was just a bit of fun late at night.
Gabby says thanks very much to the viewer who gave her such nice comments!
More praise for - thanks again.
RWC shirts - I'm afraid John isn't doing us another but I shall try to find out the answer about the shirts!
To the viewer who says we are a football programme and do not cover enough rugby union: I'm afraid I have to disagree about that. was the first football interview we've done this run, which began seven weeks ago with a , no less. As you probably know, we have no rights to the Rugby World Cup and that makes it difficult for us to cover. We came up with the idea of getting John Inverdale - a man who knows his rugby - to do a series of five for us over the course of the competition. We felt this was a way of adding something different to the acres of coverage elsewhere and was quite a big commitment. In total it added up to nearly 30 minutes of coverage.
We have also invited members of the English rugby team to come on the programme next Monday.
To the Scottish viewer β Iβm sorry you donβt feel weβre highlighting Scottish football success enough. There was a long piece and discussion we did about the Scottish football renaissance on our programme on Sept 17th. .
