RTÉ Has Bizarrely Scrapped The Panel For Tomorrow’s Euros Quarter Final – And Replace It With Après Match

Well this is really, really odd.

RTÉ have opted to scrap the usual panel for tomorrow night’s Euro 2016 quarter-final between Belgium and Wales – and replace it with the team from Après Match.

Which, of course, is nothing new in and of itself: the comedy troupe regularly ‘takes over’ the coverage for the 3rd/4th place play-off match during World Cups.

But given that this match actually means something, the decision to scrap the analysis altogether seems very strange – and will not go down well with football fans, regardless of how frustrated they sometimes become with Dunphy and co.

Après Match doing Wales v Belgium. All very well for a 3rd place play-off, but this game deserves proper analysis. pic.twitter.com/EHAjHrVoy7

— Tony Cuddihy (@Tony_Cuddihy) June 30, 2016

More to the point, you have to wonder what it says about the importance of analysis to begin with – if it can be completely done away with for a match of such great importance, how important to RTÉ really believe it to be?

A very, very strange move…