Second Captains

jaykay74 · 27-11-2018 10:45AM

Beersmith wrote: »

So with so much to talk about they didn't even touch on the boca/river game nor the premier league at the weekend! Very strange. There should be no constraints on the time they spend. This episode was only 50min. Very disappointing they don't go on for longer.

I would think on the boca-river stuff Wilson, Rory Smith, Miguel and others were probably travelling back so there'll be an eye witness account during the week rather than just the lads account of following it on social media. Need to save some good stuff for paying members

Dont think there was anything particular interesting in PL this week was there ? Jose disaster continues, Pool/city march on. Spurs look good. No new twists.

Beersmith · 27-11-2018 11:33AM

jaykay74 wrote: »

I would think on the boca-river stuff Wilson, Rory Smith, Miguel and others were probably travelling back so there'll be an eye witness account during the week rather than just the lads account of following it on social media. Need to save some good stuff for paying members

Dont think there was anything particular interesting in PL this week was there ? Jose disaster continues, Pool/city march on. Spurs look good. No new twists.

Fair points, just irks me when there is a lot going on we only get the 50mins. I had forgotten that they had two pods yesterday and its fair that the kenny presser was on. Also forgot it was sponger Monday.

threein99 · 27-11-2018 12:07PM

Beersmith wrote: »

Fair points, just irks me when there is a lot going on we only get the 50mins. I had forgotten that they had two pods yesterday and its fair that the kenny presser was on. Also forgot it was sponger Monday.

I'd imagine it takes a lot of effort to get an hour long podcast out in one day. So the fact they had two yesterday probably left them pushed for time especially with the managerial changes for the rugby and the soccer team taking priority coverage

Ciaran_B · 27-11-2018 12:53PM

dastardly00 wrote: »

Best performance by Ken in a long time today in the football pod. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant

Mick McCarthy giving Declan Rice the puss-in-boots eyes to get him to declare for us amazing pod.

ecksm · 27-11-2018 12:53PM

just found out about this show recently from my m8
its soo funny

ken is such a expert on soccer. were lucky that hes still on a show like this
you could say hes the letiser of the podcast world

dulux99 · 27-11-2018 02:11PM

I'm judging a book by it's cover here but are they seriously talking about chess again today? With all that's going on in the world of sport, between domestic soccer and rugby, premiership, champions League, Fury vs Wilder..... it's not the week to be talking about chess.

Baggly · 27-11-2018 02:14PM

dulux99 wrote:

I'm judging a book by it's cover here but are they seriously talking about chess again today? With all that's going on in the world of sport, between domestic soccer and rugby, premiership, champions League, Fury vs Wilder..... it's not the week to be talking about chess.

Love a bit of pawn myself tbh.

Hotblack Desiato · 27-11-2018 03:55PM

Beersmith wrote: »

Fair points, just irks me when there is a lot going on we only get the 50mins. I had forgotten that they had two pods yesterday and its fair that the kenny presser was on. Also forgot it was sponger Monday.

Football yesterday was 59 mins
Rugby yesterday was 52 mins

yermandan · 27-11-2018 04:29PM

dulux99 wrote: »

I'm judging a book by it's cover here but are they seriously talking about chess again today? With all that's going on in the world of sport, between domestic soccer and rugby, premiership, champions League, Fury vs Wilder..... it's not the week to be talking about chess.

It was only at the start for around 4 mins, and it was fookin gas

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-11-2018 08:41PM

Not sure how long they're doing it but I like how they're putting section times in the episode descriptions now so you can skip to the bit you want.

Smell the glove · 27-11-2018 10:04PM

Great pods lately but if they don't have a Wilder vs Fury preview (and a proper one) I'll be disappointed to say the least.

dulux99 · 27-11-2018 10:18PM

Smell the glove wrote: »

Great pods lately but if they don't have a Wilder vs Fury preview (and a proper one) I'll be disappointed to say the least.

Please god they will. Hopefully with Gavan Casey.

RedRochey · 27-11-2018 10:37PM

Isnt Mark a big boxing guy? He'd surely push to have someone on to talk about it

Hotblack Desiato · 28-11-2018 03:00AM

You have to hand it to Ken, publish an article in the Irish Times on Saturday, recycle all the same tropes on SC on Monday and get paid twice over for the same thing...

There's just about enough humour injected in to get away with it

Takes a fair bit of chutzpah all the same to call for respect for the achievements of a manager in a league to which they show no respect at all.

The Davestator · 28-11-2018 11:06AM

Somebody made the point here that maybe Ken has lost some gusto as he bored of the repetitive and sterile nature of the premier league.

After this weeks pods, I 100% agree with the observation. He has shown his quality with some meat to dig his teeth into!

Quality stuff

kippy · 28-11-2018 11:46AM

The Davestator wrote: »

Somebody made the point here that maybe Ken has lost some gusto as he bored of the repetitive and sterile nature of the premier league.

After this weeks pods, I 100% agree with the observation. He has shown his quality with some meat to dig his teeth into!

Quality stuff

I think it may have been me that made that observation some time back.
I think, as you get older and you find other things to fill your time with, you realise how relatively meaningless watching the premierleague (and indeed other things you would have spent major time doing in your 20's) is.
Now, when a major part of your job revolves around watching and reporting on it, year after year, I think you can get bored of the whole thing. Granted, still not a bad job to have!

I enjoy the humor and indeed the different angles that lads have on various sports more than watching any of the sports these days.

dulux99 · 28-11-2018 05:03PM

Ah jaysus. Another Brexit podcast. In the middle of one of the most story filled news weeks in recent memory. Snooze

lawred2 · 28-11-2018 05:06PM

dulux99 wrote: »

Ah jaysus. Another Brexit podcast. In the middle of one of the most story filled news weeks in recent memory. Snooze

Brexit is fairly relevant and topical at the same time - especially for a politics episode

dulux99 · 28-11-2018 05:29PM

lawred2 wrote: »

Brexit is fairly relevant and topical at the same time - especially for a politics episode

But overall second captains is a sports podcast. I listen to other current affairs podcasts where Brexit is covered daily. Sports should surely take precedence. How many people sign up for the world service for the political poegasts? Most of them have been fairly poor

lawred2 · 28-11-2018 05:40PM

dulux99 wrote: »

But overall second captains is a sports podcast. I listen to other current affairs podcasts where Brexit is covered daily. Sports should surely take precedence. How many people sign up for the world service for the political poegasts? Most of them have been fairly poor

it is what it is really - they advertise that they will do an occasional political podcast - they can hardly be criticized for delivering on their promises.

dulux99 · 28-11-2018 05:44PM

lawred2 wrote: »

it is what it is really - they advertise that they will do an occasional political podcast - they can hardly be criticized for delivering on their promises.

But that occasional podcast has come in a week where there is tonnes of other things in the sports world they could be covering. It's not as if the political podcast has been a staple of every week for months, every Wednesday.

Arghus · 28-11-2018 07:41PM

dulux99 wrote: »

But that occasional podcast has come in a week where there is tonnes of other things in the sports world they could be covering. It's not as if the political podcast has been a staple of every week for months, every Wednesday.

I'd imagine that the timing of the podcast is as much to do with the availability of the guest/guests as anything else.

Gbear · 29-11-2018 11:51AM

Fintan O'Toole has been excellent on Brexit and it was a good listen.

deisedude · 29-11-2018 12:06PM

Gbear wrote: »

Fintan O'Toole has been excellent on Brexit and it was a good listen.

Wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. I think Fintan may have been reaching a bit with some of his logic but it was an entertaining listen

dulux99 · 29-11-2018 01:15PM

Arghus wrote: »

I'd imagine that the timing of the podcast is as much to do with the availability of the guest/guests as anything else.

The podcasts don't exactly go out live, why not keep it for another day. They often pre record podcasts anyway.

Anyway I won't whinge about it anymore!

dastardly00 · 29-11-2018 01:29PM

The lads will be gutted that there is no Armageddon

:pac:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46376998

D.Q · 30-11-2018 12:28PM

long shot lads, anyone looking to swap their sunday tickets for my friday ticket?

CiaranW · 30-11-2018 03:04PM

Is there any spare tickets going at all for the shows?

dulux99 · 30-11-2018 05:26PM

How the hell do they hit the hotkeys so fast and in the correct context. This has always intrigued me

Baggly · 30-11-2018 05:39PM

Id say they go through the topics they are going to cover in the production meeting and have a fair idea of whats going to come up during the shows.

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