Second Captains

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

Remember a while back they advertised that they were hiring. Never seemed to go anywhere. Or if it did, the person was taken on very quietly and remains in the background completely.

I had to email them a while ago to get info on how to resubscribe to the patreon feed as I had lost my phone.
The reply was from someone that is not on air so I presume the hiring was for a background admin role

heebusjeebus wrote: »

It's grandchildren to tell time!

IMMORTALITY!

"A RUGBY HATER such as myself."

Never doubted you Ken, never.

I wouldn't go as far as to class myself as a hater, but, yeah, I get a bit tired of hearing about it relentlessly, but the football pod today was good at underlining how comparably incompetent the FAI are.

Dots1982 wrote: »

Hater probably a bit strong. I just wouldn’t ever bother watching a game as a neutral. Have to admire what Schmidt, the team and the IRFU are doing.

Pretty much sums up my position as well. I'd watch Ireland but nothing outside that. Feel that the more physical way teams play, with phase after phase (Ireland are up there for this) has detracted from the game.

Still can and do admire what the team, irfu and Schmidt have done

Enjoyed the football, rugby Ireland teams discussion on Monday. The Commercial s d Marketing arm of the IRFU are destroying the fai

Good football show today. The result last night was made a little bit more bearable today by their mimicking of Seamus Coleman shrilly screaming "FACKK!". I looked like a lunatic at times - well, a bit more so than usual - while walking about in public listening to the show and failing, badly, to stifle a laugh over a joke that no-one else could hear. It was hilarious to get audio of Roy losing it on the sideline .

There's something so funny about hearing Roy swear. When his book came out four years ago I went out and bought it, like the dutiful football saddo that I am. It was a good entertaining read, as I recall. But I also downloaded the audiobook; you could do it for free if you bought the hardback. I had no intention of listening to it in full. I downloaded it just to listen to the intro, which was read by Roy himself. In the intro he talks about the fallout from the comments about Alf Inge Haaland that were in his previous biography. I wanted to hear Roy say those words in his own voice, that was all.

It was worth it.

He read the entire intro like he was a man struggling to stay awake: flat as a pancake monotone throughout. Except for when he had to repeat "The Ball was there(I think)... Take That You C!nt!" That was a different story. You could still hear the emotion, the hurt, the rage. He didn't roar it down the mic or anything - but compared to the rest of the audio cure for insomnia that he was attempting that one sentence, particularly the last word, reverberated in your ears like a gunshot fired by a deranged individual.

Ah, Roy, you crazy bastard.

lawred2 wrote: »

might check that out

Casefile is great.

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Just listened to today’s football pod. They managed to make a pod where Ireland had yet another dour 0-0 draw extremely interesting.

Well a lot of it wasn't actually about the ireland game which helped.

looking forward to the bonus pod on it!