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    #422
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,588 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    dulpit wrote: »

    On a different point, I feel that this week has shown that there is a market for them to be on more often (daily even), the gap between Monday & Today's show felt very long.

    I agree, but moving to Monday was still the right thing to do. Did feel like ages ago, though.

    Get Murph to do a GAA show. On Tuesday. Problem solved!


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    #423
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,385 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Did they mention Rob Penney in yesterday's show? The description said yes, but I was listening while working so may have zoned out...


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    #424
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    dulpit wrote: »
    Did they mention Rob Penney in yesterday's show? The description said yes, but I was listening while working so may have zoned out...

    Eddie O'Sullivan briefly talked about him at about 8 minutes.


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    #425
    foxtrot101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭foxtrot101


    That's two Football Shows without Murph now. So that would seem to be that then. Normal service has resumed.


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    #426
    adamski8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    Good to have kens rants unhindered. His defence of wenger though yesterday was pretty terrible. Like murph on the sports though


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    #427
    foxtrot101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭foxtrot101


    adamski8 wrote: »
    Good to have kens rants unhindered. His defence of wenger though yesterday was pretty terrible. Like murph on the sports though

    Unfortunately it looks like I spoke too soon. Apparently, Murph will be back on it in a couple of weeks. It's beyond me why they think it's better with him there, when it so clearly isn't...but, what can you do?


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    #428
    soc160
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭soc160


    Does anyone else think that the football show is overly centered on the Irish National Team? Or more so Keane and O' Neill, I know this week is fine because we have internationals, but with so much happening this weekend they opened with the Irish football awards, which in its own right deserves coverage, but they don't cover the LOI at any stage, i'm not some sort of LOI warrior, I have no interst in it myself but the national team seems to be central to the show, even with that bloody Roy Keane promo in every show....Maybe it's just me but even when there is nothing happening they have something to say about the irish team.


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    #429
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    LOI got one mention last season, when Roddy Collins was in as a guest talking about the national team and they mentioned in passing that Athlone were promoted. it is poor form indeed.

    Roy Keane is just soundbite heaven for sports reporters, hence all the jingles with him.


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    #430
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,385 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    I think that football gets too much of a showing at times, they spend time in the regular show discussing what's coming up in the football show (they don't do that in reverse if football show is out first) and they still occasionally do football segments in the normal show.


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    #431
    Halloween Jack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭Halloween Jack


    Its pretty much the general sports show and then the david moyes show twice a week.


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    #432
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,588 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    What's the story with the surf holiday ads? They're exactly the kind of thing the lads would have taken the p*** out of back in the good old days.


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    #433
    wnolan1992
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    What's the story with the surf holiday ads? They're exactly the kind of thing the lads would have taken the p*** out of back in the good old days.

    I laughed so hard at those. :P

    Still, any ad is a good ad IMO, shows they're making some money out of it.


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    #434
    splendid101
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭splendid101


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    What's the story with the surf holiday ads? They're exactly the kind of thing the lads would have taken the p*** out of back in the good old days.

    Simon Hick had a travel article in the Irish Times recently about a surf holiday he went on.

    Interestingly, McDevitt had a travel article recently also.

    I agree with the poster above, I hate hearing ads on the podcast, but I'm glad to hear them at the same time. I'm surprised there hasn't been more.


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    #435
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,588 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Really? Hmm. I do remember hearing something about them wanting to do more than sport, back when they left NT.


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    #436
    adamski8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    Its been top quality stuff the last few weeks i must say.


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    #437
    Kilkenny14
    Registered Users Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Kilkenny14


    Ken's apology to Brendan Rodgers in the style of George Orwell's 1984 was a highlight this week.


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    #438
    Sideshow Mark
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Sideshow Mark


    Kilkenny14 wrote: »
    Ken's apology to Brendan Rodgers in the style of George Orwell's 1984 was a highlight this week.

    This week? Highlight of the entire run, for me.


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    #439
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,588 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Even though my favourite sports are soccer, GAA and rugby in that order, my favourite contributor is definitely US Murph.

    I thought it had lost it's momentum slightly there for a little while, but the past few weeks have been great again.


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    #440
    Cartman78
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    adamski8 wrote: »
    Its been top quality stuff the last few weeks i must say.

    Yep...to really appreciate it, you should try to listen to 'Off the Ball' for a few mins :D

    Woeful shoite altogether - the 2FM evening sports show is better than it now imho


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    #441
    wnolan1992
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Even though my favourite sports are soccer, GAA and rugby in that order, my favourite contributor is definitely US Murph.

    Agree 100% with this. I can't stand American Football, bores me to tears, but I'll gladly listen to US Murph talk about it because he makes it interesting. I think he's just one of those guys that, to use a cliche, could make reading out of the phonebook sound interesting.

    I thought Sid Lowe contributed to the SC before? Haven't heard him in ages that I can think of...


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    #442
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users Posts: 7,936 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    what happened the PBESOs??
    a friend of mine met himself in Paris after the match last weekend. was egging him to get a photo with #PBESO written on his face or something.


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    #443
    Ciaran_B
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Ciaran_B


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    I thought Sid Lowe contributed to the SC before? Haven't heard him in ages that I can think of...

    He used to be on OTB all right, don't think I ever heard him on 2nd Capts.


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    #444
    styron
    Registered Users Posts: 904 ✭✭✭styron


    It's only his third appearance of 2014 - nearly a dozen since last May ( no Statto nerdiness from me ... a name search of this).


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    #445
    foxtrot101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭foxtrot101


    I may be wrong, but I don't think Sid has been on the OTB since the lads left.


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    #446
    Cartman78
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    foxtrot101 wrote: »
    I may be wrong, but I don't think Sid has been on the OTB since the lads left.

    Haven't heard him on it either......I'm sure a man of his intellect wouldn't lower himself to a show with Colm Parkinson as a co-presenter :pac:

    The main football analysis seems to come from Graham Hunter and Pat Nevin, two (imho) miserable dreary Scots who sound like they've spent the day sucking lemons


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    #447
    styron
    Registered Users Posts: 904 ✭✭✭styron


    The feedburner summary checks out with content for (at least) Sid's last five appearances on the football show: 20/3, 10/3, 9/1, 3/12 & 12/11. Safe to assume his other six are kosher.


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    #448
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users Posts: 16,070 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Are the podcasts coming out today, the general sports one would normally be up by now, and I can't see any word on the twitter feed.


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    #449
    Ciaran
    Registered Users Posts: 910 ✭✭✭Ciaran


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    Are the podcasts coming out today, the general sports one would normally be up by now, and I can't see any word on the twitter feed.

    It's up now.


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    #450
    foxtrot101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭foxtrot101


    For anyone, like me, who is all David Moyes'd out - Ken is a guest on this weeks Irish Times World View podcast...

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/world-view


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    #451
    themink
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭themink


    Anyone else finding Ken Early's voice a bit irritating? I have no problem with his regular speaking voice but he frequently breaks into this fake pseudo shouty voice on the podcast. Adds nothing & it would be much better if he cut this out i think. Apart from this I do like the show though


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