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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.

Cheers,
wnolan1992

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

where will they end up?

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Beersmith

It was a good show. (no Miguel D helped)

Salvation Tambourine

Beersmith wrote: »

It was a good show. (no Miguel D helped)

Cheap shot! Cheap shot!!

NeftDaslari

Nokotan wrote: »

Cheap shot! Cheap shot!!

Go back to lecturing! You have the charisma of a sick bag!

Arghus

No, not you, me.

Loafing Oaf

Boards doesn't normally allow stuff to be posted by scum around the country:P

radharc

And that's only Pat Kenny's second greatest line in the audio beds. It still cracks me up whenever I hear him complaining about the modern players when he would have been well able to play two games of squash in three days.... with Ken grunting noncommittally alongside

Hippo

ongarite wrote: »

Can't wait for tomorrow's football report on sport special on David Luiz. Should be a cracker.

In fairness he put up a pretty spirited defence!

I'm ducking out of today's effort, George Hamilton is not a wonderful commentator and I'm at a loss to understand their apparent adoration.

healy1835

Hippo wrote: »

In fairness he put up a pretty spirited defence!

I'm ducking out of today's effort, George Hamilton is not a wonderful commentator and I'm at a loss to understand their apparent adoration.

The public's adoration for George has very little to do with his skills as a commentator. He's an institution. All of our best (and worst) memories as Ireland fans during those halcyon years are directly associated with him. He was part of it. I never thought he was great but at the same time I never wanted anyone else commentating on the games. If anything his mistakes were endearing; the Baggio brothers, his insistence of using Goodnight Vienna in every game for about 2 years after Ireland went down to Peter Stogers hat trick in the Euro 96 qualifiers, 'close, but no banana!' to just name a few.
And he's a gentleman to boot.

dr.kenneth noisewater

I enjoy George on Ireland games as you can tell he's invested in the team doing well. But he's terrible on CL games and on other sports he's very hit and miss. I enjoyed the chat anyways, didnt relise he had no co-comm at Italia 90

Cienciano

NeftDaslari wrote: »

Go back to lecturing! You have the charisma of a sick bag!

That's probably the one audio bit I laugh at every time. "Oh god...."

Blanco100

radharc wrote: »

And that's only Pat Kenny's second greatest line in the audio beds. It still cracks me up whenever I hear him complaining about the modern players when he would have been well able to play two games of squash in three days.... with Ken grunting noncommittally alongside

i've got to hear that!

Arghus

Think George is great, I don't understand how people don't like him. I don't know really what there is to dislike. He gets a name wrong here and there, so what.

Loafing Oaf

healy1835 wrote: »

the Baggio brothers,

who are not of course related...

Ol' Donie

Arghus wrote: »

Think George is great, I don't understand how people don't like him. I don't know really what there is to dislike. He gets a name wrong here and there, so what.

Nothin but love for George. We'd be listening to him right now on the Euros if it weren't for corona bullshìt.

Say Your Number

Arghus wrote: »

Think George is great, I don't understand how people don't like him. I don't know really what there is to dislike. He gets a name wrong here and there, so what.

The same humourless crowd who would always give out about RTE panel, and would rather some lad saying 'He has a 73 percent pass completion percentage when the sun is facing West and they are wearing their away kit' or some boring crap like that.

Ken's defense of the indefensible was impressive, I wish I had some as blindly loyal as that in my life.

dulpit

Say Your Number wrote: »

The same humourless crowd who would always give out about RTE panel, and would rather some lad saying 'He has a 73 percent pass completion percentage when the sun is facing West and they are wearing their away kit' or some boring crap like that.

A few of my friends would have the opinion that you should always watch football on Sky (or basically any non-RTÉ option), which grinds my gears. Same when you're in a pub and they show the Sky or BBC/ITV option over the RTÉ one (if possible) - not on. :mad:

Ol' Donie

dulpit wrote: »

A few of my friends would have the opinion that you should always watch football on Sky (or basically any non-RTÉ option), which grinds my gears. Same when you're in a pub and they show the Sky or BBC/ITV option over the RTÉ one (if possible) - not on. :mad:

Wow. Your friends are totally wrong. Literally exactly the opposite of right.

dulpit

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Wow. Your friends are totally wrong. Literally exactly the opposite of right.

I agree 100% with you.

Hippo

Say Your Number wrote: »

The same humourless crowd who would always give out about RTE panel, and would rather some lad saying 'He has a 73 percent pass completion percentage when the sun is facing West and they are wearing their away kit' or some boring crap like that./quote]

Not a member of that crowd, just dislike him as a commentator.

Acosta

I do like George.

"He's pulling him off!! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!"

However the glory days off the rte panel are long gone. I remember being absolutely disgusted when TV3 got one of the champions league nights in the mid noughties because it meant less of the lads. Now they have a better anchor and panel.

Acosta

No EOIN MCDEVITT or funny table on Premier Sport today which is disappointing

NavyandBlue

Acosta wrote: »

I do like George.

"He's pulling him off!! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!"

However the glory days off the rte panel are long gone. I remember being absolutely disgusted when TV3 got one of the champions league nights in the mid noughties because it meant less of the lads. Now they have a better anchor and panel.

I agreed whole heartedly. I have enjoyed the Virgin Champions League for the last few years, particularly with Brian Kerr.

Brock Turnpike

NavyandBlue wrote: »

I agreed whole heartedly. I have enjoyed the Virgin Champions League for the last few years, particularly with Brian Kerr.

I think their commentators are terrible. But I do enjoy Kerr and Souness.

Beersmith

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

I think their commentators are terrible. But I do enjoy Kerr and Souness.

First time I ever heard someone liking souness!

Still Ill

Beersmith wrote: »

First time I ever heard someone liking souness!

I think Souness is one of the better analysts out there. Sure, he can be a bit of a dinosaur and his Pogba agenda can be a bit much, but he's interesting to listen to.

EltonJohn69

Should there be a separate Muriniho podcast ( 2-3 hours) on Monday’s ????

[Deleted User]

Souness would be one of the best for me too.

Acosta

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

I think their commentators are terrible. But I do enjoy Kerr and Souness.

Agree about the commentators. I don't mind Trevor, but the guy that's also on the bbc who's name I have forgotten. I can't stand the sound of his voice.

As for RTE, I was hoping Joanne Cantwell would get the gig after Bill retired. She was very impressive when she filled in before getting the GAA gig. But it was always going to be Darragh. It's RTE and it was his turn basically.

[Deleted User]

Acosta wrote: »

Agree about the commentators. I don't mind Trevor, but the guy that's also on the bbc who's name I have forgotten. I can't stand the sound of his voice.

As for RTE, I was hoping Joanne Cantwell would get the gig after Bill retired. She was very impressive when she filled in before getting the GAA gig. But it was always going to be Darragh. It's RTE and it was his turn basically.

Jonathan Pearce? He’s terrible but I always find his Helen Lovejoy overreaction to Cantona hilarious.

Acosta

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Jonathan Pearce? He’s terrible but I always find his Helen Lovejoy overreaction to Cantona hilarious.

Conor McNamara