Second Captains

ballsymchugh · 23-04-2014 8:31pm

themink wrote: »

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

i've said it from the start, they need to sort out the volume with his voice. i used to listen to this with earphones, and would have to turn it up occasionally, only to be deafened by the shouting a few seconds later.

they're quite lucky with their timing. they started the football podcasts at the start of this season, and have the world cup to carry them on into the summer. i wonder would they cut back on them if it was a free summer, esp since they don't dare talk about the LOI?

dulpit · 24-04-2014 4:01pm

glued wrote: »

Jesus Richie Sadlier is useless. Terrible to listen to

What? I disagree on this, I'm not much of a soccer person but I think he's great listening.

Ol' Donie · 24-04-2014 4:06pm

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i've said it from the start, they need to sort out the volume with his voice. i used to listen to this with earphones, and would have to turn it up occasionally, only to be deafened by the shouting a few seconds later.

I think there's a problem with the volume in general.

I have to turn it up to full volume so i can hear it in the car. Have to listen to the radio on my earphones in the gym, because i can't hear the lads over the piss poor half arsed Ibiza music they seem to think everyone wants to hear in there.

themink · 24-04-2014 5:22pm

dulpit wrote: »

What? I disagree on this, I'm not much of a soccer person but I think he's great listening.

I think Richie often sounds like a guy down the pub having a bit of a rant. Often starts asking Eoin/Ken questions which i don't think works. As a guest he shouldn't he be the one providing the expertise. The GAA contributors like Oisin McConville come across much better.

sigmundv · 24-04-2014 11:11pm

themink wrote: »

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

I like the voices Ken does when he quotes someone. Adds a comedic element to it, which I quite like.

ballsymchugh wrote: »

they're quite lucky with their timing. they started the football podcasts at the start of this season, and have the world cup to carry them on into the summer. i wonder would they cut back on them if it was a free summer, esp since they don't dare talk about the LOI?

Good point. Why do they never talk about League of Ireland? Perhaps they never watch it, but then they could bring someone in who does.

foxtrot101 · 02-05-2014 5:10am

Ah no, Murph is back on the football show.

Say Your Number · 07-05-2014 10:45pm

Ah Ken is brilliant, loved his line about Moyes a few weeks ago 'when he's in his bathroom winning the argument he should have had with Rio Ferdinand' or something along those lines.

adamski8 · 08-05-2014 8:04pm

the last two shows with murph hosting has lots of background noises coming from someones computers, pretty rookie stuff. Sounds like gchat messagea and skype opening up. Come on guys turn off the computer sounds.

wnolan1992 · 08-05-2014 9:25pm

adamski8 wrote: »

the last two shows with murph hosting has lots of background noises coming from someones computers, pretty rookie stuff. Sounds like gchat messagea and skype opening up. Come on guys turn off the computer sounds.

To be fair, that happens a lot even when Murph isn't hosting.

I actually thought Murph did a very good job hosting the Football Show on Tuesday. Think it suited him a lot more to be hosting than trying to contribute to it.

ballsymchugh · 08-05-2014 9:34pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

To be fair, that happens a lot even when Murph isn't hosting.

I actually thought Murph did a very good job hosting the Football Show on Tuesday. Think it suited him a lot more to be hosting than trying to contribute to it.

i agree, i was listening to it and thought ah shyte when he started off, but he was pretty good. didn't seem to cut in as much as eoin usually does. seemed to flow nicely.

dulpit · 09-05-2014 9:36am

adamski8 wrote: »

the last two shows with murph hosting has lots of background noises coming from someones computers, pretty rookie stuff. Sounds like gchat messagea and skype opening up. Come on guys turn off the computer sounds.

This was fierce annoying, but Murph was decent to be fair...

smellmepower · 13-05-2014 1:44am

Was half tempted to leave todays football show when I heard Murph was filling in for Eoin,but he was surprisingly alright.His annoying Republic of Telly like sense of humour was definitely toned down too.

Think the football show (and Ken) are both just more suited to having two people contributing instead of three.Eoin/Ken and Murph/Ken are both grand,but it gets a bit messy when all three are involved and competing to get their voices heard.

soc160 · 14-05-2014 3:24pm

adamski8 wrote: »

the last two shows with murph hosting has lots of background noises coming from someones computers, pretty rookie stuff. Sounds like gchat messagea and skype opening up. Come on guys turn off the computer sounds.

That's coming from the contributers comouters, was it Miguel Delaney on the line, he obviously has Facebook open, nothing the lads can do about that.

On another note....has anyone signed up to a KBC savings account or is that just an utter waste of time?

Skid X · 14-05-2014 3:29pm

soc160 wrote: »

That's coming from the contributers comouters, was it Miguel Delaney on the line, he obviously has Facebook open, nothing the lads can do about that.

It wouldn't be too hard to ask all the contributors to mute their computers and phones before the interview starts.

Their audio issues do let them down too often.

dulpit · 14-05-2014 4:14pm

Skid X wrote: »

It wouldn't be too hard to ask all the contributors to mute their computers and phones before the interview starts.

Their audio issues does let them down too often.

Headsets would also solve the problem, and stop Miguel Delaney sounding like he's in a big empty kitchen...

foxtrot101 · 14-05-2014 4:26pm

Skid X wrote: »

Their audio issues does let them down too often.

I don't get that. It's not live - so they have time to fix things by stopping and starting again, but even if the line is really awful they seem to just plough on regardless. It could just be down to not having a sound engineer, which they would have had on the radio show.

sigmundv · 14-05-2014 6:44pm

dulpit wrote: »

Headsets would also solve the problem, and stop Miguel Delaney sounding like he's in a big empty kitchen...

Indeed. They should pay for headsets to the contributors.

browne_rob5 · 17-05-2014 11:19am

Does anybody know the name of the song that plays at the start of US Murph's segment.

Thanks

dulpit · 17-05-2014 12:41pm

browne_rob5 wrote: »

Does anybody know the name of the song that plays at the start of US Murph's segment.

Thanks

LCD Soundsystem - All my Friends.

Cracking tune, great intro too...

Ciaran_B · 23-05-2014 3:32pm

I thought last nights football show was excellent - best one for ages. Good interview with that guy who wrote the book on penalty kicks, quality preview of the Champions League final and some good interplay between Eoin and Ken.

I thought the monkey chat just about overstayed it's welcome.

adamski8 · 29-05-2014 9:47pm

Some really great episodes lately alright. The penalty interview was particularly interesting. I still hear the odd computer sound and it's not from miguel (he is actually my least favourite guest).

Say Your Number · 30-05-2014 12:51am

Love the new B-Hop jingle.

smellmepower · 06-06-2014 5:07pm

Eoin and Murph will be hosting a weekly GAA show on Radio 1 at 6pm every Sunday from June 22nd according to Second Captains Twitter.

Ken's own radio 1 philosophy hour can't be far away now!

wnolan1992 · 06-06-2014 5:38pm

smellmepower wrote: »

Eoin and Murph will be hosting a weekly GAA show on Radio 1 at 6pm every Sunday from June 22nd according to Second Captains Twitter.

Ken's own radio 1 philosophy hour can't be far away now!

Great news! The boys are burrowing their way in there as time goes by! :pac:

Swan Curry · 06-06-2014 5:45pm

Hopefully they'll replace the Angelus with "Ken Early's Daily Musings"

uggybear · 06-06-2014 5:52pm

Congrats to them and delighted to see them back on radio but I think rugby is one of their more stronger topics and also, I feel there's already enough GAA coverage and analysis in the media

drogdub · 06-06-2014 6:11pm

uggybear wrote: »

Congrats to them and delighted to see them back on radio but I think rugby is one of their more stronger topics and also, I feel there's already enough GAA coverage and analysis in the media

Good news. Will be interesting to see how they will go down with much of Radio 1 listeners I.e. the 50+. But I assume that has been thought of and will be tailored to suit a wider audience than for there podcast

yohan the great · 06-06-2014 6:18pm

uggybear wrote: »

Congrats to them and delighted to see them back on radio but I think rugby is one of their more stronger topics and also, I feel there's already enough GAA coverage and analysis in the media

There was already a GAA show on at that time so they are just replacing that

Ol' Donie · 06-06-2014 11:39pm

Delighted to hear this.

The lads best work by miles is live radio.

Stavro Mueller · 07-06-2014 11:48am

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Delighted to hear this.

The lads best work by miles is live radio.

Got to agree with this. I still tune into the OTB show on Newstalk because it's live but I'd love an alternative. Hopefully this is a good omen. I can't see RTE ever airing a 2-3 hour nightly sports show though.

dulpit · 07-06-2014 1:13pm

When they said on show Thursday that there'd be a big announcement I figured it might be something to do with the world cup, but it's GAA instead... Fairy nuf, GAA is big, but alas I am not a fan.

With OTB getting BOD I wonder are they feeling the heat? Or do they consider themselves in any competition now?

Ol' Donie · 07-06-2014 2:26pm

Are they doing any world cup specials? Surely Ken is going to do more than the usual two shows, considering he's going all the way over for it?

(I understand The Guardian Football Weekly with James Richardson will be daily during the tournament. I've only started listening recently, I heartily recommend it to anyone who doesn't listen.)

foxtrot101 · 07-06-2014 4:10pm

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Are they doing any world cup specials? Surely Ken is going to do more than the usual two shows, considering he's going all the way over for it?

They haven't said anything about doing anything different for the world cup. I suspect Ken will be doing more writing than just his usual monday column though. His piece on England's lost decade during the week was brilliant.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/international/england-s-lost-decade-1.1813927?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The King Harold reference still cracks me up.

ballsymchugh · 07-06-2014 5:18pm

am i the only one who can see this being the end of the second captains as a 5 man team. eoin and murph are taking over the 'take your point' slot which is kinda like 606 on 5live. RTE have no use for the other 3 at this point on the radio.

foxtrot101 · 07-06-2014 5:30pm

ballsymchugh wrote: »

am i the only one who can see this being the end of the second captains as a 5 man team. eoin and murph are taking over the 'take your point' slot which is kinda like 606 on 5live. RTE have no use for the other 3 at this point on the radio.

Mark Horgan will be part of the radio show as well and the TV is going to be on 3 nights a week in the autumn. So...I think any talk of their demise is a bit premature. Who knows, RTE might have other plans for them on radio once the gaa season is over.

ballsymchugh · 07-06-2014 5:34pm

foxtrot101 wrote: »

Mark Horgan will be part of the radio show as well and the TV is going to be on 3 nights a week in the autumn. So...I think any talk of their demise is a bit premature. Who knows, RTE might have other plans for them on radio once the gaa season is over.

ah.. completely missed the news of the tv show being on times a week.

foxtrot101 · 07-06-2014 5:40pm

ballsymchugh wrote: »

ah.. completely missed the news of the tv show being on times a week.

Nothing's confirmed yet...

http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/showbiz/5576870/Captains-5-are-Second-time-lucky-RTE-deal-is-extended.html

but it was the same journalist who broke the original story about them being in talks with RTE over a TV series.

Skid X · 07-06-2014 5:43pm

ballsymchugh wrote: »

ah.. completely missed the news of the tv show being on times a week.

That was only mentioned in one report, in The Irish Sun a few months ago.

I would be sceptical about it until it is confirmed. It's hard to see how they would have enough material for three programmes a week.

drogdub · 08-06-2014 11:55am

ballsymchugh wrote: »

am i the only one who can see this being the end of the second captains as a 5 man team. eoin and murph are taking over the 'take your point' slot which is kinda like 606 on 5live. RTE have no use for the other 3 at this point on the radio.

There is no need for Ken, who is a complete one trick pony soccer and soccer only. His ignorance of any other sports is incredible and when I hear him talking about other sports I fast forward.

Not to be totally negative Horgan is an excellent presenter in his own right

foxtrot101 · 08-06-2014 2:53pm

drogdub wrote: »

There is no need for Ken, who is a complete one trick pony soccer and soccer only. His ignorance of any other sports is incredible and when I hear him talking about other sports I fast forward.

Quite a few more people listen to the football podcast than listen to the general sports one. Ken is their biggest draw. I bit surprised that RTE haven't figure this out yet, then again RTE does tend to move in mysterious ways.

smellmepower · 08-06-2014 3:01pm

drogdub wrote: »

There is no need for Ken, who is a complete one trick pony soccer and soccer only. His ignorance of any other sports is incredible and when I hear him talking about other sports I fast forward.

Not to be totally negative Horgan is an excellent presenter in his own right

Ken's the most entertaining part of SC for me.He's a soccer journalist so why would to know much or talk about other sports in depth?

Murph is the most dispensable imo.He's essentially a culchie version of Eoin (not nearly as good as him) with a crap 'trying too hard to be funny' sense of humor and a penchant for interrupting people.

wnolan1992 · 08-06-2014 8:37pm

Calling Ken a "one trick pony" just because he only really knows about soccer is a bit harsh IMO. He's excellent at talking about soccer, that's all that matters. I'll often skim through the first show picking out segments to listen to, but I'll almost always listen to the entire Football Show. Granted that's also because soccer is the sport I'm most interested in, but Ken's a big draw too.

It will be interesting to see though, as time goes by, will they continue to do four shows a week when this new radio show starts and if a new series of the TV show begins...

Meathlass · 09-06-2014 12:10pm

Football podcast up early this morning as Ken is heading to the airport.

They announced they'll be doing two extra World Cup shows every week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays as well as the normal football shows on Monday and Thursday.

4 hours a week of WC coverage from Ken - very, very happy

Utopia Parkway · 09-06-2014 8:09pm

Meathlass wrote: »

Football podcast up early this morning as Ken is heading to the airport.

They announced they'll be doing two extra World Cup shows every week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays as well as the normal football shows on Monday and Thursday.

4 hours a week of WC coverage from Ken - very, very happy

Jaysus between that and Football Weekly podcasting daily there won't be enough hours in the day to listen to everything. A good complaint I guess.

Skid X · 10-06-2014 4:19pm

Richie Sadlier's story about how the Ireland Under 20 team relieved their boredom in Nigeria was entertaining.

That's the kind of revelation you wouldn't get from Richie when Bill O'Herlihy is grilling him on RTE!

Swan Curry · 11-06-2014 12:46am

Once again Richie was the highlight of the podcast,he's got a great ability to explain what he means simply without using soundbites.I don't think I've ever not enjoyed a segment with him.I even watch the RTÉ panel if he's on,and I'm not particularly interested in football.

foxtrot101 · 12-06-2014 6:47pm

More Ken, this time on video...

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/international/big-phil-s-brazil-built-for-power-and-pace-1.1828868

adamski8 · 15-06-2014 3:19pm

I hope and fully expect SC pod to be better than football weeklys WC daily. They have basically just recapped the results, play a few national anthems and make some predictions. Very short pods with barely any discussion or analysis. Very disappointed in it.

Cartman78 · 16-06-2014 10:47am

Not sure if I heard him being interviewed on Second Captains, OTB or Football Weekly but Fernando Duarte's book "Shocking Brazil: Six Games That Shook the World Cup" is available for just 99p on Amazon at the minute.

Catching up on a backlog of podcasts now....still decent overall quality but starting to find the GAA coverage a bit lifeless/flat

uggybear · 16-06-2014 1:58pm

Anyone else having trouble with episodes taking longer to download on the iOS podcasts app?

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