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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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humberklog

The "cuisine of georgia".

Salivating already.

dulux99

thenightman wrote: »

Two talentless leeches arguing about social meeja and leaks to rag like the Sun isn't a big thing. You might want to subscribe to the Heat magazine pod instead.

Lighten up mate.

Ol' Donie

thenightman wrote: »

Two talentless leeches arguing about social meeja and leaks to rag like the Sun isn't a big thing. You might want to subscribe to the Heat magazine pod instead.

Or Off The Ball.

yermandan

thenightman wrote: »

Two talentless leeches arguing about social meeja and leaks to rag like the Sun isn't a big thing. You might want to subscribe to the Heat magazine pod instead.

It's not the content of the spat that's important or even interesting, it is Ken's regailing of it and point of view on it that never fails to be amazing content

thenightman

Battery Kinzie wrote: »

Big things always seem to happen when Ken goes away for a bit. Colleen vs Rebekah can be added to that list now.

Two talentless leeches arguing about social meeja and leaks to rag like the Sun isn't a big thing. You might want to subscribe to the Heat magazine pod instead.

deisedude

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

Sure even a colleague of mine was dismissed for personal tweets deemed to be racist. It is commonplace for organisations to include clauses regarding Social Media usage in employee contracts. I imagine it would be even more important in the contracts of the likes of professional footballers.

+1. I used work in hotels before and everyone who joined the company had to sign a social media policy regardless of what role they were doing. If you did something that reflected the company in a bad way on social media you could be reprimanded

Dante

The Davestator wrote: »

I see your point, but if you made a 'racial' joke on your own personal social media on your own time, would you accept your employer and possibly, the umbrella organisation for your industry punishing you? i.e Man City & FA

Sure even a colleague of mine was dismissed for personal tweets deemed to be racist. It is commonplace for organisations to include clauses regarding Social Media usage in employee contracts. I imagine it would be even more important in the contracts of the likes of professional footballers.

[Deleted User]

The Davestator wrote: »

I see your point, but if you made a 'racial' joke on your own personal social media on your own time, would you accept your employer and possibly, the umbrella organisation for your industry punishing you? i.e Man City & FA

That "personal social media" has "Manchester City FC football player" as the only entry in the bio and nearly every image is of him in a Man City kit.

https://twitter.com/BernardoCSilva

Battery Kinzie

Big things always seem to happen when Ken goes away for a bit. Colleen vs Rebekah can be added to that list now.

Beersmith

I am looking forward to some Ken Georgia travel japes

dulpit

The Davestator wrote: »

I see your point, but if you made a 'racial' joke on your own personal social media on your own time, would you accept your employer and possibly, the umbrella organisation for your industry punishing you? i.e Man City & FA

If you are in a public-facing, well-known role then yes.

jaykay74

The Davestator wrote: »

I see your point, but if you made a 'racial' joke on your own personal social media on your own time, would you accept your employer and possibly, the umbrella organisation for your industry punishing you? i.e Man City & FA

I'd be checking my contract with my employer (Man City) and possible notice some clauses related to my behaviour.

The Davestator

Dots1982 wrote: »

Dunno really, it’s hard to see the wood from the trees on these things. I’m white so I don’t know/can’t say how offensive the average black person finds these things.

I think he should be fined and given sensitivity training. A match ban is too harsh. But Man city is a work place (Not your average one to be fair) But I don’t go around my work place making japes about people’s race, never mind publicizing them on social media. I would regard anyone who did that kind of thing to be a walking liability in the office.

I see your point, but if you made a 'racial' joke on your own personal social media on your own time, would you accept your employer and possibly, the umbrella organisation for your industry punishing you? i.e Man City & FA

Dots1982

Deleted User wrote: »

Completely disagree with kens critique of Pep' s handling of the Bernard Silva racism non-story.

Ken thought Guardiola should have said something along the lines of "Silva is not a racist but he messed up here". Thus accepting the premise that he was being racist when he clearly was just joking with his friend with no intent to harm or upset him.

I admire pep sticking up for his player. At some point in society we need to start saying No to these fake manufactured Twitter outrages. As I say, I think I disagree with Ken' s appeasement approach on this.

Dunno really, it’s hard to see the wood from the trees on these things. I’m white so I don’t know/can’t say how offensive the average black person finds these things.

I think he should be fined and given sensitivity training. A match ban is too harsh. But Man city is a work place (Not your average one to be fair) But I don’t go around my work place making japes about people’s race, never mind publicizing them on social media. I would regard anyone who did that kind of thing to be a walking liability in the office.

Eire-Dearg

Richie interview was pretty good. Felt a bit short, but I suppose that's the trick to leave you wanting more to actually go out and buy the book!

jaykay74

Ken going to Tbilisi for a few days in advance of the irish match. Hopefully some decent stories to come

Arghus

Think Ken is spot on on the issue to be honest.

[Deleted User]

Completely disagree with kens critique of Pep' s handling of the Bernard Silva racism non-story.

Ken thought Guardiola should have said something along the lines of "Silva is not a racist but he messed up here". Thus accepting the premise that he was being racist when he clearly was just joking with his friend with no intent to harm or upset him.

I admire pep sticking up for his player. At some point in society we need to start saying No to these fake manufactured Twitter outrages. As I say, I think I disagree with Ken' s appeasement approach on this.

tomwaits48

Nokotan wrote: »

In what way? I'm not having a go at you at all by the way, just curious as I thought he sounded like a sound lad.

I definitely got an aloof/arrogant vibe off what he said. there's a bit of a Cork/Roy Keane superiority complex off him.

Arghus

Nokotan wrote: »

In what way? I'm not having a go at you at all by the way, just curious as I thought he sounded like a sound lad.

Maybe he is a sound lad, this is only my totally subjective gut opinion gleaned from just an hour long interview.

But, to me, he seemed a bit in love with the idea of being a truth teller and seemed a bit shocked when people have a problem with that. There's a fine line between being a straight talker and being tactless as well. I'm not saying M'O N was right to have a go at him, allegedly, over the phone, but I can understand him being pissed off.

This is another really minor trivial detail, but his micro-impression of the bartender coming up to to talk to him - "uggghh, I'm a big Wolves fan" - before the interview was recorded, just made him sound a bit dickish to me. But, I wasn't there, I don't really know. And it probably was nothing of any consequence.

At the end of the day if the lad performs well for Ireland, I don't really care what kind of dude he is!

deisedude

Obrieski wrote: »

Ken is going to be insufferable in the football pod this week after David Luiz scoring for Arsenal in their 1-0 win today

The Luiz joke is so stale now.

Obrieski

Ken is going to be insufferable in the football pod this week after David Luiz scoring for Arsenal in their 1-0 win today

[Deleted User]

Arghus wrote: »

deisedude wrote: »

Each book is a number 1 bestseller. Some dead horse that is

Eighteen, sorry, nineteen books of a one joke character - he's a South Dublin posh-boy who speaks funny - gets pretty stale. Fair play to him for making an industry out of it.

The new one was out there a fortnight ago - an ideal present for fathers and brothers that you can't think of anything else to get, especially coming up to Christmas.

I seem to receive the latest one as a Christmas present every year and I always assume the joke is stale and tired but the books always find a way to give me a chuckle. There's some very fine topical satire in there if you know how to spot it.

Salvation Tambourine

Arghus wrote: »

It was a good interview with Matt Doherty, even if I'm not sure if he's really that likable a guy.

In what way? I'm not having a go at you at all by the way, just curious as I thought he sounded like a sound lad.

Arghus

It was a good interview with Matt Doherty, even if I'm not sure if he's really that likable a guy.

Say Your Number

Was at Volbeat last night, they came on stage to Red Right Hand, so when they were coming on all I could think was 'What you've said isn't really true' and 'Fuuh f*cksake'

Young Horgan has a lot to answer for.

Beersmith

The Doherty interview was great but I don't think richie added anything to it.

Obrieski

yermandan wrote: »

I think Ken broke his own PB for question length around 3 times in his convo with Wilson today. Comical

Actually ended up skipping most of this interview after listening to the first 4 or 5 minutes. Ken was very disjointed, focusing on stuff like the Red Bull project etc with long rambling questions, tripping over himself and generally making no sense.

yermandan

I think Ken broke his own PB for question length around 3 times in his convo with Wilson today. Comical

dastardly00

Cienciano wrote: »

DOD is great, I love when he's on

I was enjoying the post-Japan match podcast until DO'D came on stage. It was probably funny if you were there... but I'm not a fan of him