Second Captains Part II

Miguel Delaney on the ball.

Murph in fine form this week.

Top, top journalist

Just like last year, I'll believe it when I see it about Messi never playing for Barca again.

Fair play to the lads, they slated RTE and Murph had his piece about the lack of coverage the LOI teams get. I thoroughly enjoyed their coverage of the great results from last night for Dundalk and Rovers.

They are incredibly hypocritical! There were two unreal goals in the Dundalk game against a really strong Vitesse team. The guy that scored has signed a pre contract with Derry. The guy that scored the winner for Rovers was a 17 year coming off the bench making his European debut. There are story lines there that the lads just like RTE don't tap into.

The wonderful Henry Winter. He was slated in the comments and was trying to defend himself, but failed miserably.

Enjoyed malcolm gladwell being on second captains Saturday with the lads. Think it was Eoin a few years ago who put me on to the revisionist history podcast.

There isn't much point having him on them? He says hardly anything. He might pop up with one question and then you realise "oh Ken is actually there". He could well be on the call but not say anything.

I would agree with you 90% of the time, but, let's face it, the football wasn't the big story this weekend.

On a normal Monday yeah, but, they'll give most of their time over to Kellie Harrington today I'd imagine, which seems fair enough to me. It's been a while since they've had two separate hour plus shows on a Monday. I'm sure the rest of the week will be all full of football chat.

Don't get me wrong I wouldn't have complained if we got a full football show, but they were always going to do a full show on the Olympic gold medal stuff and we have to be a bit realistic about the likelihood of them producing another on top of that on the same day.

Probably true, but sure normal business will resume next week.

I don't think he had the idea fully formed in his head. But I thought he was pointing towards a kind of class angle. That the inner city Dub family was more open to people. Pretty unfair really.

I think Andy was off the mark in his insinuation that the rowers weren't as accessible as they weren't as working class. The silence from Eoin and Murph was telling and, as the episode was so jovial, they likley didn't bother opening up an unnecessary debate. Thankfully Gavan Casey rightly pointed out that they are from Skibereen whereas Kellie literally lives on a main road in the City Centre of the Capital.

I think Jamie Wall is good and articulate (which is hard to find for GAA) but my god does he say 'like' a lot.

Over-use of "like" is forgiveable in the overall scheme of things. Jamie Wall and Derek McGrath were excellent last week. Gavin Cooney on the boxing is great too.