Second Captains

Hippo · 20-06-2020 3:26pm

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 · 20-06-2020 4:42pm

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 · 20-06-2020 4:43pm

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

NavyandBlue · 20-06-2020 8:54pm

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 · 20-06-2020 9:30pm

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 · 20-06-2020 10:33pm

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 · 20-06-2020 10:35pm

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 · 20-06-2020 10:37pm

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

21-06-2020 7:42am

Souness would be one of the best for me too.

Acosta · 21-06-2020 3:46pm

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.

21-06-2020 3:51pm

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 · 21-06-2020 3:54pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

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

Conor McNamara

Brock Turnpike · 21-06-2020 4:01pm

Acosta wrote: »

Conor McNamara

His fake accent is a disgrace. The man who famously called Kenny Cunningham - Cunny Kenningham

Jim Root · 21-06-2020 6:21pm

Hippo wrote: »

Maybe it's a lockdown thing, but the amount of times Murph says "y'know" in a Ger Gilroy-length question is beginning to get to me.

That and Ken’s overuse of the word “like”

Arghus · 21-06-2020 10:17pm

Jim Root wrote: »

That and Ken’s overuse of the word “like”

Pay attention to how many times he says "d'ya know what I mean".

Arghus · 21-06-2020 10:20pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

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

Pearce is a terrible commentator, but what makes him hard to put up with - the pomposity, the overwrought melodramatics, sudden fever pitch delivery - helped make that Cantona commentary so glorious.

Raoul · 22-06-2020 10:13am

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.

To be fair, Darragh is pretty good. I do like Joanne, she has done a few LOI games/Soccer Republics and she was a lot more knowledgeable than Peter Collins. There is a ridiculous amount of abuse for her online though whenever she is on one of the sports shows. A fair amount of it has a sexist sentiment.

healy1835 · 22-06-2020 10:17am

Darragh Maloney & the kid from Jerry Maguire. The greatest pair of look a likes ever.

pow_pow · 22-06-2020 2:49pm

Does anyone else get angsty when they don't have the pod out before lunch?
I can't enjoy my lunch break as much when I'm sat there refreshing the feed in anticipation.

Blanco100 · 22-06-2020 4:48pm

healy1835 wrote: »

Darragh Maloney & the kid from Jerry Maguire. The greatest pair of look a likes ever.

Trevor Steven used to be on RTE fairly regularly but hasnt been around in years

Smell the glove · 22-06-2020 6:30pm

Have to say Ken completely bored the hole off me today. First time in a long time I had to skip it forward. Painful at times.

Ol' Donie · 22-06-2020 7:42pm

Can't believe it's the last week of the isolation podcast.

It's one of those things I know already, I'm really, really going to miss.

I'd love it if they got him to do the odd podcast every now and then. Or, dare I say it, a semi regular pod, once a month or something?

Salvation Tambourine · 22-06-2020 8:06pm

I like David Snyed but I hope he's not back on talking about Premier League football again, contributed nothing but negativity today.

Some of the reaction to the weekend's matches you'd think there was never a bad game of football before when there was fans. Probably a topic for a different thread though.

Jim Root · 22-06-2020 9:13pm

Nokotan wrote: »

I like David Snyed but I hope he's not back on talking about Premier League football again, contributed nothing but negativity today.

Some of the reaction to the weekend's matches you'd think there was never a bad game of football before when there was fans. Probably a topic for a different thread though.

He was a real misery gut today for sure. Poor listening experience for me.

RedDevil55 · 22-06-2020 10:28pm

They really got bogged down talking about Roy Keane today. David Sneyd should be kept for discussing Irish football matters, which he's very good at.

Dante · 22-06-2020 11:05pm

Nokotan wrote: »

I like David Snyed but I hope he's not back on talking about Premier League football again, contributed nothing but negativity today.

Some of the reaction to the weekend's matches you'd think there was never a bad game of football before when there was fans. Probably a topic for a different thread though.

I was just waiting for him to throw out the obligatory 'give me the League of Ireland over this anyday' comment....thought I was going to be left disappointed but he came up with the goods right at the very end.

thenightman · 23-06-2020 1:09am

Is that the lad who goes on about Bohs being sort of like the hip 'punk rock' LOI club? real Emmet Kirwan type if so!

Arghus · 23-06-2020 2:55am

He's generally pretty decent anytime they have him on, but today was an off day. He seemed strangely surprised that games played in empty stadiums felt different to games played in front of tens of thousands of fans.

Ken was obviously reading the thread on reddit that listed Arsenal's stupid defeats going back to 2006.

deisedude · 23-06-2020 9:47am

Nokotan wrote: »

I like David Snyed but I hope he's not back on talking about Premier League football again, contributed nothing but negativity today.

Some of the reaction to the weekend's matches you'd think there was never a bad game of football before when there was fans. Probably a topic for a different thread though.

First Monday podcast back with the premier league and it was very poor. I'd agree, keep Sneyd for League of Ireland and the national team

We all know football without fans isn't the same. Mention it and move on rather than bang on about it how crap it is

There were some brilliant goals this past week. It hasn't been all bad

Raoul · 23-06-2020 10:59am

To be fair to David Sneyd, it seems like Ken feels the exact same. It is like he doesn't really even want to watch the games but has to just for work.

Salvation Tambourine · 23-06-2020 11:17am

Does anyone else have any Second Captains bits they say during a normal day?

I find myself saying Tomas O'Se's "Shcumbag" at least four times a day, sometimes for absolutely no reason.

deisedude · 23-06-2020 12:00pm

Nokotan wrote: »

Does anyone else have any Second Captains bits they say during a normal day?

I find myself saying Tomas O'Se's "Shcumbag" at least four times a day, sometimes for absolutely no reason.

I keep calling my newborn son "A crying big baby" in a Nigerian accent

dulpit · 23-06-2020 12:08pm

Lidl, Don Cheadle, Brad Freidel.

Raisins · 23-06-2020 4:10pm

Vintage Ken on anti vax Djokovic and Lovren.

“Time’s up Bill”.

Arghus · 23-06-2020 4:14pm

deisedude wrote: »

I keep calling my newborn son "A crying big baby" in a Nigerian accent

I read that in the accent in my head.

Dante · 23-06-2020 4:28pm

Nokotan wrote: »

Does anyone else have any Second Captains bits they say during a normal day?

I find myself saying Tomas O'Se's "Shcumbag" at least four times a day, sometimes for absolutely no reason.

I've been regularly using the line bingo bango, jobs a goodun since Ken dropped it on the pod last year. Its so good.

healy1835 · 23-06-2020 4:45pm

Bingo, bango job's a good'un
Cheap shot x4
Then maybe you shouldn't be living here!
He's just a crying, big baby
and basically everything the Kilmarnock fan says in the angry fan remix... They've all slipped into my everyday conversations over the last few years

Salvation Tambourine · 23-06-2020 5:11pm

deisedude wrote: »

I keep calling my newborn son "A crying big baby" in a Nigerian accent

Brilliant, same as another poster, can't read that without the accent

aloooof · 23-06-2020 5:17pm

"I wouldn't necessarily agree with anything <friend> says about <topic>"

Say Your Number · 23-06-2020 5:29pm

I heard Fame by David Bowie on the radio a while ago, and all I think during it was 'He's just a crying big baby' 'Where did you get it all wrong today' 'You wanted victory' and 'COACH!' in various pitches.

Arghus · 23-06-2020 6:15pm

Basically all of that Kilmarnock rant is never far from my thoughts.

Robert McGrath · 23-06-2020 11:38pm

deisedude wrote: »

I keep calling my newborn son "A crying big baby" in a Nigerian accent

My son is one year old and I can’t believe I’ve never used that on him. Will start now

I do tell him his food is “the best thing in the world. Full of proooh-teen” though

healy1835 · 24-06-2020 3:21pm

"These are the types of questions you should be asking...when we're live."
"Oh we are live now"
"We're not live now?"
"Yeah we're live, there you are on televishion!"

franglan · 24-06-2020 3:26pm

Any sort of half bad tackle made at a match I'm at "send him off, send the gravedigger off..." "That's just typical of what he is..."

Still Ill · 24-06-2020 3:28pm

franglan wrote: »

Any sort of half bad tackle made at a match I'm at "send him off, send the gravedigger off..." "That's just typical of what he is..."

Isn't it 'dirty git' rather than gravedigger? :pac:

kippy · 24-06-2020 3:30pm

Raoul wrote: »

To be fair to David Sneyd, it seems like Ken feels the exact same. It is like he doesn't really even want to watch the games but has to just for work.

The older you get the more you realise watching a football match on TV the more of a complete waste of time it is.
It's meant to be entertainment but the vast majority of football matches are dull.
The more matches you watch the more dull ones you get to see. What's the point after a while?
Much easier talk about the drama, the managers spats, the transfer "speculation" the never ending nonsense that goes on around the PL in particular.

When you are younger and have more time, can have a few pints with a few mates in the pub while you watch, it's a different experience - a side show to life.

My own personal opinion of course.
I get more entertainment from people talking about football and having a laugh than watching it.

franglan · 24-06-2020 3:30pm

Still Ill wrote: »

Isn't it 'dirty git' rather than gravedigger? :pac:

I subsequently confirm to people in my immediate vicinity at said matches that's it's "gravedigger".

DrSerious3 · 24-06-2020 3:56pm

I never comment on this thread but I want to be the 10,000th

Sultan of Bling · 24-06-2020 4:03pm

kippy wrote:

The older you get the more you realise watching a football match on TV the more of a complete waste of time it is. It's meant to be entertainment but the vast majority of football matches are dull. The more matches you watch the more dull ones you get to see. What's the point after a while? Much easier talk about the drama, the managers spats, the transfer "speculation" the never ending nonsense that goes on around the PL in particular.

kippy wrote:

When you are younger and have more time, can have a few pints with a few mates in the pub while you watch, it's a different experience - a side show to life.

kippy wrote:

My own personal opinion of course. I get more entertainment from people talking about football and having a laugh than watching it.

Watching sky doesnt help either with the constant BLM virtue signalling. Then we had a WLM banner flown over the etihad. Im sure we'll have an all lives matter banner soon from someone who thinks they're original and clever.

Wish they'd all f**k off to a deserted island and kick the s**t out of each other there.

I want a discussion on the game not politics.

Sultan of Bling · 24-06-2020 4:05pm

DrSerious3 wrote:

I never comment on this thread but I want to be the 10,000th

Ooooooh unlucky son!!!! so close.

If you wete an inter county gaa footballer you'd definitely play for Mayo.

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