Took one look at that episode and went "Naaaah."
Who'd want to listen to that except as a cure for insomnia?
I think Murph has an interest in cricket but he's not allowed talk about it 😁
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
They should give Mark more time to discuss boxing imo. He is excellent and not nearly involved enough.
Think they got a lot of listener pushback with the whole Kinehan thing.
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.
Only right too. It's their own fault. You can't be extremely righteous only when it suits you to.
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 the second time I can remember a production blip like that, and the first was earlier this year.
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...
Yeah, Ken was talking shite there. UEFA isn't limited to EU countries only, not sure what point he was trying to make
I don't hate the idea of an all star game, it'd be more interesting than the Charity Shield
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.
All of those things are 1,000 times more interesting than anything about Man City. Or men's rugby chat.
I'd like to hear more about athletics & even cycling.
Womens rugby is awful, Ireland stink and it gets way too much coverage that it should on all media considering the amount of people who play and go to games.
Other sports deserve much more coverage across media than what Womens Rugby gets
exactly, athletics and cycling for one are much deserving of coverage, with geniune Irish world talents involved, yet Womens rugby as a whole gets more coverage.
The fella they had doing the European Championships was very good and it got lot of coverage but Do listeners really care about national athletics or The Diamond League?
Outside of the major Championships and Olympics, I wouldn't think there would be much interest in athletics
Its funny, I know they're a sports pod but I almost always feel like the best content they produce is the seemingly unplanned, off the cuff bits. I loved them trying to get their heads around Kens friend watching 3 movies at once this week for example which is absolute madness but something that I must try.
Low bar, low bar
"Less boring than the Simod Cup" 🤣
Quality of womens sport is unreal compared to what it was 10 years ago. GAA and soccer anyway. Was watching a womens club camogie game last week and the quality was unreal. But I don't want to hear about it on the pod. Covering ireland if they get to a big tournament, or a big story happening, fine. Doubt they'll be doing premier league weekly match reports.
Incredibly dull interview with someone with apparently zero charisma. In fairness he didn't say much wrong or out of place but it was a struggle to stay engaged with it.
Just the idea of them going off to Abbotstown to listen to an FAI insider justify their existence is enough to make me puke.
Jaysus that tennis talk was tough listen, had to bail out. Pity they didn't have their usual contributor (Caitlin) for tennis on...
Second captains didn’t get nominated for anything on the Irish podcast awards last night; is there a criteria requirement they don’t meet?
Most awards you have to nominate yourself before judges whittle down to finalists so it's possible they never bothered. All these awards are circle jerks anyway
Anyone else find all the mutual hellos at the beginning and thanks at the end grating? Is this a standard thing in a 'group podcast'? Why can't they just have one of them saying hi and goodbye to the listeners?
Yeah. Judges didn't think they were good enough. There has been a dip to be fair.
Pretty sure most industry awards involve not just nominating yourself, but paying for the privilege.
I saw that the Irish podcast awards say they liaise with the British podcast awards (and others) for best practice/etc.
The British podcast awards need you to apply yourself, pay (not much, about £100) and provide a 15 minute clip for consideration. It's an awful lot of hassle, especially when they don't take adverts or sponsorship (I could see an Irish podcast award being helpful to attract sponsors)
I saw blindboy lost to hector and Tommy….. so (for me) these awards have no credibility.
