What's wrong with women's rugby? I find whenever they cover any sort of minority sport (women's game, tennis, etc) it's a better podcast than the run of the mill soccer/gaa pods.
I don't hate the idea of an all star game, it'd be more interesting than the Charity Shield
Yeah, Ken was talking shite there. UEFA isn't limited to EU countries only, not sure what point he was trying to make
They're really milking this Boehly nonsense which is never going to happen and nobody cares about. Nah not going to listen to that either...
Only the second time I can remember a production blip like that, and the first was earlier this year.
Bit of a rare production mess up in the 27th min of today's pod. Ken fluffed his lines and Murph coughing. They might be missing killian already!
Not sure what ken was on about london not being in Europe. Plenty of European countries not in the eu and still part of Europe.
Only right too. It's their own fault. You can't be extremely righteous only when it suits you to.
Hopefully they will have Andy Lee on after the Parker fight this weekend. Always a good listen and the lads have a relationship with Lee and Parker.
Think they got a lot of listener pushback with the whole Kinehan thing.
They should give Mark more time to discuss boxing imo. He is excellent and not nearly involved enough.
Murph is a huge cricket fan but the listeners I am sure are not, so best to avoid
They used to do a lot more boxing than they do now, Mark is big boxing fan
I hope they dont go the way of the likes of OTB and give air time to something like Womens Rugby
I think Murph has an interest in cricket but he's not allowed talk about it 😁
Took one look at that episode and went "Naaaah."
Who'd want to listen to that except as a cure for insomnia?
I think the guys talk about sports they're interested in. So, they have a small interest in American football so we get some of that. Zero interest in horse racing, cricket, motor racing etc so pretty much none of them.
I have a very small interest in us sports, I watch 3 or 4 nfl games a year so it suits me
In his defence, how someone interviews can be fairly different to them on the pitch/dressing room etc. He comes across like a decent fella though and obviously doing a good job for the U21s, huge improvement on Noel King,
Most people don't to be fair. Honestly it's a very small percentage of people care about American sports let alone actually know the ins and outs of positions/tactics.
Jim Crawford isn't a very inspirational speaker anyway is he?
I think part of the problem is that more people are interested in and exposed to American sports now. So we want actual analysis not being talked down to. I can't remember exactly what he was saying but something like " you guys know there is a punter, a kicker,...he had something else here..well there is also this guy called a long snapper". Most people know the basics of the sport, maybe not the long snapper part but it was a bit like you idiots at least know this much. Most of the first part was about him supporting San Francisco. We get it, you support the 49ers. Maybe give us some analysis though! Murph doesn't help here though. Going on about "oh Brian you are telling yourself that it shouldn't matter but it does, chuckle chuckle".
Let's face it, American sports are all just incredibly dull, there's a reason they're all getting ****-faced in the stands 🤣
US Murph seems like a persona to me where he's trying too hard to be entertaining , it's just a bit too OTT
Although I really enjoyed him a few weeks ago talking about that US commentator who died as he wasn't as full on but he's one of my lower ranked contributors
Found US Murph to be very performative and boring today.
There was a point where he was banging on about the existential angst induced by the '49ers being 0-1 and I just thought, honestly, who gives a fck?
Used to love US Murph back in the day, thought he had a gift for making the seemingly uninteresting interesting. But he's a fairly dull contributor these days IMO.
Maybe it's just me and I know there's been a dearth of sports over the weekend, but I felt the lads have seemed a bit jaded and flat: going through the motions a bit as of late.
They mentioned that they were recording around 10AM so they didn't yet know if the matches would go ahead or not.
I'm fairly sure it was pre-recorded which they seem to do with a lot of friday's stuff.
They also didn't mention that all the football was called off.
Not even one mention of the queen on last Friday's pod - how funny but also refreshing! (I'm fairly sure there was no mention, open to correction though).
Same! I was looking forward to it too, thought I'd love it. Genuinely fell asleep on the bus home listening to it haha.
To touch on Murph's tv guide, it's a bit pointless yeah, but the worst part of it for me is how fast he talks. Last week I was curious to know what was on and I caught maybe 10% of it.
I like Rory and I like Ken, but that interview bored me to tears. Turned it off after about 15 minutes.
Really enjoyed the interview with Rory Smith, he's always a very good listen. Not sure I'll read his book though.
It may be similar to Roman’s early reign at Chelsea. Football was simple back then, you could throw money around and be stupid with it and still have a huge advantage. Now everyone has loads of money so you need to be rich and smart, not just rich.
I meant in the sense of getting rid of managers. Maria is a loss, but cech is certainly not. Great player but out of his depth. I am a Chelsea fan and we dont get attached to managers anymore!
They aren’t copying the old regime. There is no Maria grinowskia or petr cech in this regimes organizational structure.
