Second Captains

ballsymchugh · 27-10-2014 3:34pm

in the headline for today's podcast, it says fairytale of dundalk. is this the first time, bar a couple of seconds talking to roddy collins about athlone town last year, that they will mention the league of ireland?

Meathlass · 27-10-2014 5:03pm

Atrocious sound quality on Gerry Thornley's phone line - very hard to listen to.

uggybear · 27-10-2014 7:12pm

Re: ways of listening to the show, I've completely given up on apple's laughable attempt of a podcast "app" called Podcasts. Stitcher app has poor sound quality, listening to the show via the stitcher app sounds more like an internet web stream rather than DAB radio-like sound quality. Instacast's Ui is so unuser-friendly which means I'm stuck with the Downcast app, not a huge range of free podcast apps to choose from if you're an iOS user tbh.

BoJack Horseman · 30-10-2014 4:43pm

Surprised the Monday episode didn't mention Sid Lowe's revelation on Football weekly about Ken's premature ejaculation.

Ol' Donie · 30-10-2014 5:01pm

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Surprised the Monday episode didn't mention Sid Lowe's revelation on Football weekly about Ken's premature ejaculation.

They don't call him Ken Early for nothing!

Mr.Prodston · 30-10-2014 6:31pm

Almost in tears listening to Ken dissect that Keane interview in his report on sport :pac:

wnolan1992 · 30-10-2014 7:56pm

The interview with the Kenyan marathon winner was excellent. I love when they do interviews like this, it makes a nice change from the normal GAA/rugby/soccer coverage.

dr.kenneth noisewater · 31-10-2014 6:28am

Yeah got a few looks on the bus laughing at the keane interview bit, i sing for no one! Also love the John Delaney jingle!

PIORUN · 03-11-2014 4:25pm

Don Givens???? must have been a slow day guest wise!

wnolan1992 · 06-11-2014 3:41pm

It sort of annoys me that the podcast titles no longer have "Second Captains: " or "Second Captains Football: " in them.

I know it's generally pretty obvious which is which, and I pretty much listen to them in order of release regardless, but still... :P

nicedryturf · 13-11-2014 8:21pm

Ken's description of the initial, misleading reports on last night's Roy Keane incident is hilarious:

"a 19th century faction fight... a man as big as a bear... chews up and spits out the autobiography at Keane's feet... Keane whips out his shillelagh from under his rags... suddenly everyone jumps in... bottles smashed over peoples heads... people whirling socks with stones in them... and there's a fiddle player who never stopped playing during the whole thing!"

Loafing Oaf · 13-11-2014 9:32pm

nicedryturf wrote: »

Ken's description of the initial, misleading reports on last night's Roy Keane incident is hilarious:

"a 19th century faction fight... a man as big as a bear... chews up and spits out the autobiography at Keane's feet... Keane whips out his shillelagh from under his rags... suddenly everyone jumps in... bottles smashed over peoples heads... people whirling socks with stones in them... and there's a fiddle player who never stopped playing during the whole thing!"

Came on to post about this, sheer genius!:D

nicedryturf · 14-11-2014 10:26am

Ken is a legend. I recall quite a few people complaining when him and Murph would go off on those mad tangents when they were on Newstalk and the same peoople were part of the "good rriddence" brigade when the old team left NT. Well now those people have the wit and wisdom of Colm Parkinson.

Trent Houseboat · 14-11-2014 10:28am

nicedryturf wrote: »

Ken's description of the initial, misleading reports on last night's Roy Keane incident is hilarious:

"a 19th century faction fight... a man as big as a bear... chews up and spits out the autobiography at Keane's feet... Keane whips out his shillelagh from under his rags... suddenly everyone jumps in... bottles smashed over peoples heads... people whirling socks with stones in them... and there's a fiddle player who never stopped playing during the whole thing!"

Wasn't there also a man drinking straight from the beer tap?

nicedryturf · 14-11-2014 10:36am

Trent Houseboat wrote: »

Wasn't there also a man drinking straight from the beer tap?

Ha yeah I forgot that bit.

PIORUN · 17-11-2014 12:41pm

jaysus what would they do without Roy Keane?...he farts and do a segment on it. give it a rest lads, change the record. The media obsession includes yourselfs...f**king talking about his beard, this is Joe Duffy/Ray Darcy stuff.

wnolan1992 · 17-11-2014 6:21pm

Devoting 15 minutes of the main show to Roy Keane and soccer was a bit overkill. That entire thing could have been folded into the Report on Sport...

Strongbow10 · 17-11-2014 8:00pm

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Came on to post about this, sheer genius!:D

Was never a fan of his pseudo intellectual musings. Pure rubbish

foxtrot101 · 17-11-2014 9:32pm

Strongbow10 wrote: »

Was never a fan of his pseudo intellectual musings. Pure rubbish

It wasn't pseudo or intellectual. It was just very funny.

ozexpat · 18-11-2014 7:12am

jaysus what the hell is with the podcasts this week, bairly a mention of the actual ireland soccer match, constant diatribes on why the media wins the roy keane v media ongoing nonentity they are obsessed with.

rreeaaaalllllyyy time to stop talking about keane

boccy23 · 18-11-2014 10:18am

Is it not just because the match was s***. There was very little other sport on. Ireland v's Georgia was the best!!

It's the usual story of having to fill time when they would be better off just having gone with 1 podcast this week.

nicedryturf · 18-11-2014 12:45pm

foxtrot101 wrote: »

It wasn't pseudo or intellectual. It was just very funny.

Agreed. This is why I'm kind of glad the lads are doing the Podcast now - Ken can go off the deep end without people complaining how they are ruining radio... That said, I would love to see them back doing live radio.

Swan Curry · 18-11-2014 11:04pm

Ken's also quite knowledgeable about events, even if it's hidden behind his unconventional approach to broadcasting.I doubt any of the sports radio presenter in Ireland knows as much about the FIFA corruption report he was talking about on today's podcast as Ken does.

Diabhal Beag · 19-11-2014 5:34pm

Ken's picnic trip to Ibrox was very funny. Usually the podcast can be taken of left for me but I try to never miss Ken's pseudo/intellectual/gimmicked/however-you-want-to-criticise-it section.

glued · 19-11-2014 10:19pm

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Ken's picnic trip to Ibrox was very funny. Usually the podcast can be taken of left for me but I try to never miss Ken's pseudo/intellectual/gimmicked/however-you-want-to-criticise-it section.

Ken is brilliant. Eoin is a good interviewer but he's quite an annoying analyst. Murph is the 'expert' on everything non-soccer related. He's far too rehearsed IMO.

Strongbow10 · 19-11-2014 10:23pm

Ken is the poster boy for people who really don't like football all that much, but they like his delivery

Diabhal Beag · 20-11-2014 12:27am

Football podcasts are all the same IMO. You have serious Football Weekly types who are unlistenable (Sean Ingle, OptaJoe guy with the lisp etc) with a lethal dose of Barry Glendenning to hurt your soul. Ken is a great change of pace.

nicedryturf · 20-11-2014 6:59am

Strongbow10 wrote: »

Ken is the poster boy for people who really don't like football all that much, but they like his delivery

I love football and I love listening to Ken. If you don't like his style, that's fair enough. God knows, there's plenty of other football shows to choose from (although, like Diabhal Beag, I find most of them unlistenable). I think you're somewhat correct insofar as I know people who have little or no interst in football but still download the podcast for Ken and Eoin. Thats not a bad thing as the 'poster boy' description seems to imply.

Slobbery · 21-11-2014 11:29am

nicedryturf wrote: »

I love football and I love listening to Ken. If you don't like his style, that's fair enough. God knows, there's plenty of other football shows to choose from (although, like Diabhal Beag, I find most of them unlistenable). I think you're somewhat correct insofar as I know people who have little or no interst in football but still download the podcast for Ken and Eoin. Thats not a bad thing as the 'poster boy' description seems to imply.

That's the genius of the show, I rarely if ever watch football, the only games I would watch are the odd Championship league games when all the crap teams have been knocked out, but I listen to the podcast every week. the boys are naturals and they make you want to listen, the show is entertaining and funny and cuts through the sky sports BS hype we hae listened too since the early 90's.

I would probably listen to them talking about anything, I reckon they could have a very successful prime time radio slot

bren2001 · 21-11-2014 11:33am

Slobbery wrote: »

That's the genius of the show, I rarely if ever watch football, the only games I would watch are the odd Championship league games when all the crap teams have been knocked out, but I listen to the podcast every week. the boys are naturals and they make you want to listen, the show is entertaining and funny and cuts through the sky sports BS hype we hae listened too since the early 90's.

I would probably listen to them talking about anything, I reckon they could have a very successful prime time radio slot

They did. It was called Off the Ball. They fell out with management and made a few demands and left. Show still runs with new presenters, its still very good imo.

wnolan1992 · 21-11-2014 12:32pm

bren2001 wrote: »

They did. It was called Off the Ball. They fell out with management and made a few demands and left. Show still runs with new presenters, its still very good imo.

Apart from Parkinson who's unlistenable.

Slobbery · 21-11-2014 1:52pm

bren2001 wrote: »

They did. It was called Off the Ball. They fell out with management and made a few demands and left. Show still runs with new presenters, its still very good imo.

That wasn't prime time - i am talking drive time radio

PIORUN · 21-11-2014 3:14pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Apart from Parkinson who's unlistenable.

i'm actually flabbergasted as to how or why he is on the radio. Aside from Laois and Everton , he hasn't a clue about anything else but yet feels he has an opinion on everything!

nicedryturf · 21-11-2014 4:00pm

PIORUN wrote: »

i'm actually flabbergasted as to how or why he is on the radio. Aside from Laois and Everton , he hasn't a clue about anything else but yet feels he has an opinion on everything!

His gormless boob routine also makes otherwise-okay presenters act like complete tools. All that "what's he going to say next?" stuff from Ger and Joe is awful.

callaway92 · 28-11-2014 11:13pm

Do people dislike Barry Glendenning? I thoroughly enjoy him on Football Weekly.

Ol' Donie · 29-11-2014 1:50am

callaway92 wrote: »

Do people dislike Barry Glendenning? I thoroughly enjoy him on Football Weekly.

Totally agree. He's brilliant.

Ol' Donie · 29-11-2014 1:55am

nicedryturf wrote: »

His gormless boob routine also makes otherwise-okay presenters act like complete tools. All that "what's he going to say next?" stuff from Ger and Joe is awful.

Totally agree with this too. He has some moderately amusing moments, but it's all fairly cringeworthy.

wnolan1992 · 01-12-2014 8:55pm

Burst out laughing at the exchange on today's football show:

Ken: "It wasn't so bad back then, after the second game they could..."
slight pause
Eoin: (casually) "Go out on the rip-roaring piss?"

:pac:

Honey Monster · 01-12-2014 9:01pm

Jesus I love Barry glendenning!

Diabhal Beag · 02-12-2014 5:14pm

callaway92 wrote: »

Do people dislike Barry Glendenning? I thoroughly enjoy him on Football Weekly.

I always felt he was so out of place and they'd constantly throw him in as comedic relief that wasn't funny at all, in spite of how good an Offaly hurling story it is. He's a better Colm Parkinson basically.

PIORUN · 03-12-2014 9:50am

Denis Hickie just had to get his little dig in at Munster there a the end...good man , up the guys!

Cartman78 · 03-12-2014 10:12am

Honey Monster wrote: »

Jesus I love Barry glendenning!

Yeah...always prefer the Guardian podcast when he's on it.

I think he's actually quite an intelligent, informed & articulate journalist who's happy to play the comic relief role on the podcast.

Whereas Parkinson (and to a slightly lesser degree, Murph) are basically barstooling spoofers. Parkinson is just about tolerable when he's talking about GAA but when he starts chipping in on other sports it's really cringey.

Murph has deteroirated too in the last few months imho - his schtick is getting a bit annoying at this stage and his humour is a increasingly laboured and very hit and miss.

Ciaran · 03-12-2014 11:09am

Cartman78 wrote: »

Murph has deteroirated too in the last few months imho - his schtick is getting a bit annoying at this stage and his humour is a increasingly laboured and very hit and miss.

It's not even that he's not especially funny, what annoys me more is that his interruptions derail some potentially interesting discussions.

Loafing Oaf · 04-12-2014 5:08pm

Info on new footie podcast up but not podcast itself. Come on lads get the finger out...

wnolan1992 · 04-12-2014 6:25pm

It's up now. Isn't it usually 6pm it goes up?

Loafing Oaf · 04-12-2014 7:17pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

It's up now. Isn't it usually 6pm it goes up?

Yes it went up a couple of minutes after I posted actually. I was just being

wnolan1992 · 09-12-2014 1:39pm

Well, they have enough material for a year's worth of musical interludes now with Ken's American accent. :pac:

Mr.Prodston · 10-12-2014 12:23pm

Duffman can never die, only the actors who play him. Oh yeah :pac:

Loafing Oaf · 12-12-2014 2:53pm

"You get this kind of craic Götterdämmerung to which the Ireland under Jack Charlton team unfortunately succumbed":D

Ciaran_B · 13-12-2014 12:40pm

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

"You get this kind of craic Götterdämmerung to which the Ireland under Jack Charlton team unfortunately succumbed":D

That was hilarious. The whole Alan McLoughlin interview and the bit after it were excellent. Really good show.

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