Miguel Delaney on the ball.
Some great balance in the hurling chat today.
Thought I was listening to Waterford Local Radio
Murph in fine form this week.
Ken back just in time for a Messi special.
They haven't mentioned Joe Canning retiring unless I've missed it, maybe waiting for a quiet 'Other Sport' week to discuss?
Top, top journalist
They have. Murph gave a several minute eulogy on it last week near the end of one of the shows
Just like last year, I'll believe it when I see it about Messi never playing for Barca again.
One of Ken's favoured UK journalists opening paragraph on the news last night. To say it's melodramatic is probably understating it.
"Remember the date, August 5, 2021, and the time, 6.51pm. It is no exaggeration to claim that noone who loves football will ever forget it. What happened at that point felt so seismic, strange, sad and wrong. It was one of those jaw- dropping moments, one of those events in history when you will always remember where you were when the administration at Nou Camp tweeted the statement headlined: “Leo #Messi will not continue with Barcelona.”
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.
What the f*ck is that? My God it's nauseating.
Messi's pretend leaving Barcelona. He hasn't been shot.
Christ.
The wonderful Henry Winter. He was slated in the comments and was trying to defend himself, but failed miserably.
That guy fancies himself
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.
Ya, it was very good show. All episodes this year of the radio show have been good. No Ken though again?
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.
Doing micro/ miniature football podcasts is a criminal act.
I would agree with you 90% of the time, but, let's face it, the football wasn't the big story this weekend.
Transfer gossip/premier league preview/ … and of course the world changing Messi news…..definitely enough for an hour
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.
Yeah I think that was a tidy bit of house keeping. Get the weekend foitball stuff into the out tray, do a full Olympics and then do a full football show during the week on the upcoming Premiership.
"Lenny Kravitz!!!"
Probably true, but sure normal business will resume next week.
Enjoyed the chat today. As I'm abroad I'm not that up to speed with the rowers and how they act. Andy Lee seemed to reference them and their families a couple of times, can't quite remember how he phrased it but seemed to imply, I dunno it seemed negative to me. That they are less genuine than kellie and her family? Maybe I picked it up wrong. First I thought he stumbled unto a random weird point but he returned to it later in the interview.
Maybe some of it was that the media expect kellies family to have an open door policy and that the rowers were given privacy. Maybe it was more a criticism of media than the rowers /family?
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 the point he was trying to make was that it was odd to him that for Kellie Harrington's family were being approached at their house at every point, whereas the rowers were given a bit more distance. Eoin pushed back though, pointing out that they had cameras in one of the rower's houses, and also pointed out the remoteness of Skibbereen versus Dublin 1.
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.
The Kellie Harrington audio bed is superb. I didn’t see any of her fights or the interviews with her family but I still got a bit emotional listening to it. Mark Horgan is a talented boy
I think Jamie Wall is good and articulate (which is hard to find for GAA) but my god does he say 'like' a lot.
Perfect music too.
For those interested the have a Spotify account with their selection on it.
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.
I like Jamie Wall. A lot. But Derek McGrath doesn't do it for me at all.
