Second Captains Part II

Just started listening to Monday's episode and it sounds like Murph does the classic punditry thing of doubling down when faced with a possible embarrassment. Hopefully Scotland end in the top half now!

humberklog wrote: »

I was expecting Melissa Reddy to appear on the show like the video that did the rounds a few years ago of a young man in distress at how Britney Spears was being treated by the media and public..."leave him aloooone!". But no, she's over her crush and is willing somewhat to except that Klopp has some flaws after all. Don't we all.
She'll need to re-visit her book.

Hopefully she never gets asked back on. Possibly the most annoying voice you'll ever hear. Her and Miguel into the bin please.

humberklog wrote: »

I was expecting Melissa Reddy to appear on the show like the video that did the rounds a few years ago of a young man in distress at how Britney Spears was being treated by the media and public..."leave him aloooone!". But no, she's over her crush and is willing somewhat to except that Klopp has some flaws after all. Don't we all.
She'll need to re-visit her book.

Yeah I thought she was good. Considering she obviously has some sort of contact with the club it's not beyond reason that her guesses may have some sort of basis in truth.

sigmundv wrote: »

Just started listening to Monday's episode and it sounds like Murph does the classic punditry thing of doubling down when faced with a possible embarrassment. Hopefully Scotland end in the top half now!

Dun' back doon. Double doon.

See klopps mother died yesterday. Suppose you never know what's going on in a person's life.

Kind of shows you the limits of narritivising the deeper reasons behind managers quotes to the media, when you often can have no real idea what's truly going on.

Ken laughing at Murph thinking there wouldn’t be another Ciaran and Frances Murphy in Ireland was fecking gas!

Smell the glove wrote: »

Bunce & Costello did a pod on it last year and again talked about it on this week's pod.

Was it any good? I used to listen to that pod weekly but had to give up on it because they would always dance around any accusations like that.
Bunce loves being beside people with dodgy backgrounds. He couldn't sing the praises of Saudi high enough when the Joshua Ruiz fight was there.

I couldn't take them seriously when they refused to accept any criticism for going to Saudi because in the past people went to the rumble in the jungle and the thrilla in Manilla. They couldn't see any issue in it at all despite the fact that they obviously know all three events were held in countries where terrible things were happening to the people living there. They are complicit in the sports washing and BBC should have higher standards than that. They are meant to be a public service broadcaster not a for profit organisation like sky/bt/hbo etc.

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

The Kinihan story is everywhere now, a lot of developments . It will be one of the big stories in sports journalism this year.

I think the key point is, the fans (generally) don't really care about the morality or otherwise of the people involved in at the "back end" of sport - even if the media draw attention to it.

The failing here surely is not that the fans don't care enough about this, but that people like this who are alegedly tied up in criminal and questionable enterprises aren't behind bars in the first place.


This one is a difficult topic for Journos to go after as it's a thankless game and can even lead to major issues for them.

kilns wrote: »

Is it me or is Murph being extra annoying in the past few podcasts, butting in with irrelevant points.

It is annoying they try to show horn in some topics of conversation which arent even funny to keep him relevant on the show

Ya sometimes I think he tries too hard to be like Ken and it comes off as cheesey. I do like him when the GAA is on and his chats with US Murph.

I for one am so glad that “rhys” is genuinely one of the nicest guys you could meet in rugby. It’s honestly like a troll at this point. He is a parody of himself.

unplayable wrote: »

I for one am so glad that “rhys” is genuinely one of the nicest guys you could meet in rugby. It’s honestly like a troll at this point. He is a parody of himself.

They should really just go with Simon for the rugby and a rotating cast of guests like they do with the football. I'm sick and tired of Shane Horgan at this point and i really liked him when he first became an analyst on RTE but it's overkill at this stage.

Simon was very interesting on the concussion stuff and the changes around rugby, could listen to a lot more from him.

TXPTGR1 wrote: »

Rugby is going to be in a bad place after this pandemic- both financially and the concussion elephant in the room.
No responsible parent would let their kid play at this stage.
Give it a few years and it’ll be tag rugby in all but name and we can forget about this provincial joke of a sport and all the bores who play and follow it.

It's not just rugby when you come to the concussion debate. It's likely Soccer will be in a much different place too. With headers being banned at almost all underage levels and potentially greatly changing the adult game also. What is soccer with a greatly reduced number of headers?
Financially soccer will probably be OK but there's a massive rights bubble about to burst at some stage, it will wipe out the smaller PL clubs coupled with the pandemic and it's after effects.