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Second Captains

ballsymchugh

Thought I'd update the OP with links and stuff for anyone who stumbles across this.

The former Off the Ball hosts have partnered with The Irish Times to do a series of weekly podcasts. They go online each Tuesday and cover a variety of sports, with a number of contributors including Sid Lowe, Richie Sadlier, Gerry Thornley and Shane Horgan.

They can be found:
On The Irish Times' site: http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/second-captains
On Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/secondcaptains-it-com
On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/second-captains-irish-times/id647893016?mt=2

Or if you prefer not to use iTunes for your podcasts, use this link in whatever app you use (Thanks to youcancallmeal): http://feeds.feedburner.com/secondcaptainsitcom

And here are their Twitter and Facebook accounts.

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wnolan1992

so they're almost finished their gardening leave...

where will they end up?

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EltonJohn69

The Delaney saga has really helped second captains deliver the goods the last two weeks

Say Your Number

Thought Colin Regan was excellent on Friday, also liked how Ken couldn't believe that Murph's mammy was honest with those American visitors.

jackal

Say Your Number wrote: »

Thought Colin Regan was excellent on Friday, also liked how Ken couldn't believe that Murph's mammy was honest with those American visitors.

I generally skip the GAA stuff, I have very little interest, but I could listen to Colin Regan all day, really interesting. Murph is contributing a bit more succinctly lately too, plus Ken on a great run of form since his holiday. Good entertainment at the moment!

Ciaran_B

It's not like he put on a Jimmy Saville mask.

lawred2

Actual laugh out loud moment on train at Eoin trying to make an artist metaphor

Some craic today

tomwaits48

Yes very good today. You can’t fake the rapport those lads have.

OldMrBrennan83

Which one? I was going to skip 1437 and just listen to 1438 but I'm a bit short of them so might download the former again.

Ciaran_B

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

Which one? I was going to skip 1437 and just listen to 1438 but I'm a bit short of them so might download the former again.

1437 - football show.

Arghus

A lot of gold on the show today after the farce at the Oireachtas committee.

I never thought Dion Fanning could get so passionate. He sounded genuinely maddened with incredulity at one point.

Dots1982

Arghus wrote: »

A lot of gold on the show today after the farce at the Oireachtas committee.

I never thought Dion Fanning could get so passionate. He sounded genuinely maddened with incredulity at one point.

Check out his joe.ie podcast called the football spin. He rants and raves like a lunatic on it especially about the Irish team. It sounds very forced though.

hankless

Thought Dion's impassioned piece at the end was great. I've never heard him so vexed. John Delaney, and corporate Ireland, are rotten and yesterday was, as Dion put it, a lesson for all of us on how the country works.

threein99

hankless wrote: »

Thought Dion's impassioned piece at the end was great. I've never heard him so vexed. John Delaney, and corporate Ireland, are rotten and yesterday was, as Dion put it, a lesson for all of us on how the country works.

He was absolutely fuming.

They were brilliant at calling out bull**** like the FAI's antics by highlighting it in a funny way without losing track of the seriousness.

Arghus

The bit about the UV lights....

hankless

threein99 wrote: »

...highlighting it in a funny way without losing track of the seriousness.

They are masters of this. I think the familiarity of listening to them for so long, plus their style of friends shooting the breeze over topics really helps them stand (leaps and bounds) ahead of any other Irish Podcast, sporting or other, when it comes to talking about stuff the nation is engaged with.

n!ghtmancometh

hankless wrote: »

Thought Dion's impassioned piece at the end was great. I've never heard him so vexed. John Delaney, and corporate Ireland, are rotten and yesterday was, as Dion put it, a lesson for all of us on how the country works.

I'm sure Dion Fanning (son of former indo & sindo editor Aengus Fanning) is well aware how this country works alright.

Can't respect a journo who works for poxy balls.ie.

Arghus

n!ghtmancometh wrote: »

I'm sure Dion Fanning (son of former indo & sindo editor Aengus Fanning) is well aware how this country works alright.

Can't respect a journo who works for poxy balls.ie.

I don't think any of that had anything to do with the validity of his opinions yesterday.

Sometimes I do think he's full of it - a poor man's Ken - but I thought he was very good yesterday.

Not that I'd necessarily endorse these guys, but I also listened to the Football show podcast from Off The Ball yesterday and they were also pretty good. Obviously, they weren't as entertaining as SC - they're a bit more plodding and self-serious - but they were a bit more forensic in their review of the day and they also had Fegus O'Dowd, the chairman of the Oireachtas committee, on the show. He was pretty unequivocal about how he thinks the entire board should go.

aloooof

Arghus wrote: »

Not that I'd necessarily endorse these guys, but I also listened to the Football show podcast from Off The Ball yesterday and they were also pretty good.

All I could hear while reading this was "Not that I'd necessarily agree with anything Ken Early says about football."

Utopia Parkway

Arghus wrote: »

The bit about the UV lights....

I was so intrigued by his description that I had to check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of5DJ2dtBcM

deisedude

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

I was so intrigued by his description that I had to check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of5DJ2dtBcM

What a heap of sh1te and waste of money. Why dont they give the kids flamethrowers and unicycles and make it more ridiculous while they are at it

styron

n!ghtmancometh wrote: »

I'm sure Dion Fanning (son of former indo & sindo editor Aengus Fanning) is well aware how this country works alright.

Can't respect a journo who works for poxy balls.ie.

JOE.ie not balls - a better class of click harvester than Gilroy's grubby side-line.

Cienciano

aloooof wrote: »

All I could hear while reading this was "Not that I'd necessarily agree with anything Ken Early says about football."

Anytime I hear that clip I remember some of the bullshíte Giles has said. One I remembered today was the time when Fergie put Rooney into midfield and Giles said he was the best midfielder he's ever seen. "Ever" for someone like Giles was a big thing to say too. That was back when they were on Newstalk. But we're not football men, so obviously we just missed something

Dots1982

Cienciano wrote: »

Anytime I hear that clip I remember some of the bullshíte Giles has said. One I remembered today was the time when Fergie put Rooney into midfield and Giles said he was the best midfielder he's ever seen. "Ever" for someone like Giles was a big thing to say too. That was back when they were on Newstalk. But we're not football men, so obviously we just missed something

I’m almost certain he said he had the potential to be the best midfielder in the PL at the time or that at most he said he was the best midfielder in the PL at the time.

Salvation Tambourine

Cienciano wrote: »

Anytime I hear that clip I remember some of the bullshíte Giles has said. One I remembered today was the time when Fergie put Rooney into midfield and Giles said he was the best midfielder he's ever seen. "Ever" for someone like Giles was a big thing to say too. That was back when they were on Newstalk. But we're not football men, so obviously we just missed something

I was listening to the Dunphy pod earlier in the week (I know, it's my own fault) and Giles went on a 'Proper Football Man' rant about how it's players that win games not tactics after Dunphy and Brady dared to suggest that Pochettino might have something up his sleeve for the Man City game.

"Aguero is their best striker, just stop him scoring"

Dots1982

I quite like Giles but I dislike how some people see him as a master analyst.

Giles’ analysis of everything tactically is as follows: you need a midfielder who is comfortable and willing taking the ball off the back 4.

deisedude

Dots1982 wrote: »

I quite like Giles but I dislike how some people see him as a master analyst.

Giles’ analysis of everything tactically is as follows: you need a midfielder who is comfortable and willing taking the ball off the back 4.

It's mainly Dunphys fault. Giles has never made himself out to be a master analyst but Dunphy has portrayed him as that quite a bit

Hotblack Desiato

Dots1982 wrote: »

I’m almost certain he said he had the potential to be the best midfielder in the PL at the time

Which would still have been complete bollo (MUFC fan here.)

Cienciano

Dots1982 wrote: »

I’m almost certain he said he had the potential to be the best midfielder in the PL at the time or that at most he said he was the best midfielder in the PL at the time.

I'm pretty sure it was best midfielder ever. I remember the lads seemed bit taken aback by it.

Giles and dunphy usually covered themselves with the caveat "I'm just going on what we seen on the pitch tonight". Fergie has lost it, Ronaldo is rubbish, Pep doesn't know what he'd doing. Based on the 90 minutes they just saw. But you cannot criticise their opinion because you're not a football man.

EDIT, I googled it and found this article. OK, I didn't get it completely right:
https://www.the42.ie/is-john-giles-right-is-rooney-the-best-midfielder-in-england-271788-Nov2011/

“I played plenty of matches against (Ferenc) Puskas, (Alfredo) Di Stefano… very luckily, I played with Denis Law and I played against Jimmy Greaves and Kenny Dalglish. I don’t think any of those players were capable of playing in the middle of the field as well as Rooney did last night.”

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

The "political" podcast on climate change, what a load of ****. Nothing new, dull and plain rubbish. I like the idea of the odd podcast on a different subject but these political podcasts are awful.

Brock Turnpike

Hunky Monster wrote: »

The "political" podcast on climate change, what a load of ****. Nothing new, dull and plain rubbish. I like the idea of the odd podcast on a different subject but these political podcasts are awful.

They need to stop releasing the political pods on a Friday. Nobody wants to be depressed going into the weekend.

Brock Turnpike

styron wrote: »

JOE.ie not balls - a better class of click harvester than Gilroy's grubby side-line.

The word "class" should never be used in the same sentence as either of those two ****e box websites.