Second Captains

Baggly

He should have signed more than one defender and the ones he previously bought haven't set the world alight improving goals condeded though?

I didn't think Ken was majorly off balance, he did concede that the defense got Liverpool to the top 4 last year. He is just pointing out they haven't bought to improve the defence, havent made any obvious changes in training to improve it, and mistakes keep happening in the defence.

It's a fair point imo

corwill

Pter wrote: »

He should have signed more than one defender and the ones he previously bought haven't set the world alight improving goals condeded though?

I didn't think Ken was majorly off balance, he did concede that the defense got Liverpool to the top 4 last year. He is just pointing out they haven't bought to improve the defence, havent made any obvious changes in training to improve it, and mistakes keep happening in the defence.

It's a fair point imo

Ah yeah, like I said, didn't entirely agree with Ken, as a LFC fan I'm a bit puzzled that up to £70m couldn't buy anyone on the planet that would be an improvement on Lovren, but I didn't fall to the ground frothing at the mouth and soiling myself with rage at the suggestion that Klopp knows what he's doing.

tomwaits48

genuinely lol'd at Ken's chin story.....an accident that could only happen to a DRINKER.

dastardly00

tomwaits48 wrote: »

Also really enjoy the various snippets about US sports. The chap who planted the flag at his rivals ground sounds like a right laugh, must look up the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBL9iKC5H8c

lawred2

Would have been better if he got the flag to actually stick in the ground

dastardly00

lawred2 wrote: »

Would have been better if he got the flag to actually stick in the ground

^^^
Spoiler alert! :pac:

Gbear

corwill wrote: »

Klopp hasn't even been 2 full years in the job, and the above is reductio ad absurdum,

Whatever it is, it's not that.

yosser hughes

dastardly00 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBL9iKC5H8c

Souness did that in Turkey.

corwill

Gbear wrote: »

Whatever it is, it's not that.

Well it's a reduction to absurdity, but it's not a 'reductio ad absurdum' in the technical sense in context of Logic. So wrong on Logic, right on Latin.

Baggly

corwill wrote:

Well it's a reduction to absurdity, but it's not a 'reductio ad absurdum' in the technical sense in context of Logic. So wrong on Logic, right on Latin.

You write fluently and think cogently, but I think you are wrong.

styron

Pter wrote: »

You write fluently and think cogently, but I think you are wrong.

Fluent, rationally convincing ... but wrong *



* Now that's a reductio ad absurdum :pac:

corwill

Pter wrote: »

You write fluently and think cogently, but I think you are wrong.

Good luck getting me to admit it!ðŸ˜

Running Balance

God I ve spent the last week on and off listen to that trimble interview..

So boring - racked by self doubt. I just don't believe it - almost seems like an excuse if he played crap.

Dots1982

Arghus wrote: »

I thought it was a noticably weak football show yesterday. Ken was allowed to ramble on for twenty whole minutes about De Boer story - which is an interesting story, but really not that important in the context of the wide world of football - no one apart from Palace fans, which there are fck all of in Ireland, is going to give a flying fck about all of it in a fortnight's time.

He really hyped it up - "the most stupid thing in the history of The Premier League" - almost it felt to justify talking about it at such great length. Ken is great and all, but from time to time he just becomes fixated on a subject and starts parsing it for deeper meaning and ends up like a dog chasing his tail. I gave a sigh of relief when they moved on to talking about Liverpool and, of course, the inevitable Mourinho conversation - based, as always, around something he said in an interview or press conference.

Then they spent fifteen minutes talking to Miguel Delaney about the De Boer sacking. Jesus Christ.

He did the same about Oscar's move to china last season. Built it into some massive epoch event when no one realistically gave a flying fcuking if Oscar or FdB were ever seen again. He employs a rant to pass the time on a podcast or fill an article. It's an occasional Ken tactic.

Arghus

Braved the waters of the Paul Galvin interview:

It started off quite well, but things took a nausea inducing turn when Paul referred to Dunnes Stores as a "cultural institution" and started going off about how he prefers to think of himself of a storyteller - one who mainly works through the medium of flogging derivative genseais and onesies and the like, largely, I'd imagine, to misguided mammies on behalf of sons who are glad that someone bought them some clothes, otherwise they'd have to do it themselves.

He talked the talk - he was "conceptual" and saw the purpose of his tales, manifested in fabric, as being one of "elevation" - but the only time when his burring monotone rose with any sincere feeling was when he assured Ritchie that the most important thing about his gear was that it "sells and sells and sells."

You're a hack Galvin! A hack!

Running Balance

Christ I hope you are joking!!

I also hope that since eoin hasn't been on since Wednesday he is working on some massive interview..

Say Your Number

I thought Galvin was interesting, especially the stuff about being too intense during his career and trying to change his approach.

Eoin's cameo at the end was....bizarre.

yosser hughes

Deedsie wrote: »

I got one of the jumpers. Its grand. Chill out ta feck

Did your Mammy buy it for you?

tomwaits48

Yeah what was going on with Eoin at the end, strange.

Paul's interview was interesting on the sports side but the waffle coming out of him about clothes was hilarious.

riemann

tomwaits48 wrote: »

Paul's interview was interesting on the sports side but the waffle coming out of him about clothes was hilarious.

He was there to promote his "menswear label", nothing else. Completely pointless interview, especially so since it came up in my podcast player as "Paul Ga" so I was expecting tales of Colin Henry and fishing for cans of tenants.

Brock Turnpike

weadick wrote: »

Got so sick of the cringy 'banter' on Newstalk between 'Killer' and 'the lads' after the last few Ireland games.

This is the reason I struggle to listen to OTB. It's as if they have been instructed to make out like they are having loads of craic. But it comes across massively cringe. So forced.

riemann

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

This is the reason I struggle to listen to OTB. It's as if they have been instructed to make out like they are having loads of craic. But it comes across massively cringe. So forced.

The Football Ramble live at Fallon & Byrne

lawred2

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

weadick wrote: »

Got so sick of the cringy 'banter' on Newstalk between 'Killer' and 'the lads' after the last few Ireland games.

This is the reason I struggle to listen to OTB. It's as if they have been instructed to make out like they are having loads of craic. But it comes across massively cringe. So forced.

What else would you expect from craic master general Gilroy?

Say Your Number

Ken's put on smugness will be off the charts tomorrow.

NavyandBlue

The hard-on for Mayo (particularly from Murph) was a bit much to take. And not even a Fair View to compensate!

Baggly

NavyandBlue wrote: »

The hard-on for Mayo (particularly from Murph) was a bit much to take. And not even a Fair View to compensate!

Id imagine Ken is hanging and hence not around today?

OldMrBrennan83

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yosser hughes

Pter wrote: »

Id imagine Ken is hanging and hence not around today?

I very much doubt Ken is hanging. No interest in the GAA,Like a lot of people.

Say Your Number

I remember Ken saying way back on OTB that when he was 5 he played a game of Gaelic Football and he kicked the ball into his own net and everyone started giving out to him and he's had a negative association to it since, I don't think he hates it, he seems more indifferent towards it.

Baggly

I have zero interest in gaa but recognise a chance to go on the beer when I see one.