Just checking tickets, still some available.
Do you check every day or what?
Sold out now
And they've announced another show! this one a week later in the Liberty Hall. Must have a lot of confidence there's demand for more.
Liberty Hall is tiny. They'll sell it out in minutes.
I'd much prefer to go to LH over the National Stadium. Frankly, It's embarrassing. I feel sick to be part of this.
I'd hoped there'd be only one show, now they've to spread the guests across two.
Second show is great imo as I can't go to the Dec 1st show.
Ah, the Liberty Hall show is so tiny, I expect that to be the ordinary people (Johnaton Wilson etc.). The National Stadium show should have a very big guest you would imagine.
Saying that, I'm always happy to listen to the normal contributors at a live show.
Id prefer wilson, i could listen to him and ken talk all day
I would love if they did Ken vs Marcotti. Just them and a ref, really small table, like they do with the boxing.
That'd be torture, especially as Ken seems to really value his opinion
I'd say the guests for the big show will have been well established with dates locked in long ago at this stage. Doubt that will be impacted at all by a second show.
Ken vs Gary Neville and Chris Sutton
Did he get the euros Ken?
Fer fùck sake...
Did he get to the euros Ken?
Etc
The fai cup final preview was a little underwhelming. May have been better to not bother covering it
Sutton's cheek of saying "have a bit of balance" infuriates me every time that bed is played. What a w*nker!
He came across as a complete dick, but he was kinda right
No my problem with it was his complete lack of balance. He was blindly defending MON because he was his former manager. Refused to acknowledge the shite state he left us in and how poor his final 18 months in charge had been.
I liked hearing about that Japanese baseball team, especially given it was wall to wall soccer all week, I know it was a quiet week almost every other sport.
Yeah, I always enjoy those total switches into something separate and unique. The story itself was really just a gateway into learning more about the culture of it, the crazy ways they celebrate - and love that all the players have their own dedicated songs that are so specific and detailed they sound like full anime intros or something!
Really sounds like the culture of baseball support over there is totally distinct from the American one (which imo is pretty bloody sedate and boring!).
Yeah, I liked the contributor singing one of the players songs.
Just finished watching The Deepest Breath, found it suffocating.
Mad bastards.
is ken early black. he sounds black. very deep voice
…the fück?
I mean...
Disappointing they didn’t give more time to the premier league today… some great games
ken literally said he couldn’t use the Saturday games for his piece because they didn’t have any interesting talking points. They talked plenty about the City Chelsea game which was the main tv game. If a fai cup final that fills the Aviva isn’t going to be the story then I don’t know what you expect, it’s literally the game that would have many listeners actually there.
The biggest game of the weekend was our national cup final. You are spot on 👏 Delighted it was their man focus.
I get that LoI heads are proud they can draw a crowd one time a year but let's be real, it isn't even in the same conversation for actual attention as a decent EPL game is here. Hell even the meaningless matches against Netherlands and New Zealand will probably have more widespread attention.
Gavin Cooney convincing himself the FAI Cup success is repeatable down the schedule is just plain mad stuff. It's akin to the LGFA AI finals where there's a big push to get people out and about for the big day once a year. It's an event and as Ken said, just something to do. It isn't going to mean anything for the crowds moving forward. Glad it's made progress but a bit of realism is desperately needed in LoI circles.
Crowds have more than doubled at LOI league games since 2016. Gav cooney said this, maybe you missed it.
the LGFA tickets don’t get sold in most of the cases, they bus in youngsters and give them free tickets. The seats last Sunday were almost all sold.
there are huge problems in LOI football, no doubt but you talk about realism. Well after reading your post I’d talk about the accuracy of youre saying.
