It could be very good but it sounds like he's giving Tubs a run for his money in the misery slot. Struggling to see the appeal of his podcast
Yeah I get what you're saying. I have subscribed to the podcast but I only made it 3/4s of the way through the first one, and every episode since has just been unappealing to me.
Don't you mean Richie?
Yeah, Ritchie's great and I wish him every success with this. But (not to go all Parky on it) most of the podcasts I listen to are at least partially as an escape from the seriousness of everything else.
I liked Ken talking about being intimidated by cyclists in Amsterdam.
The audio seemed odd on the Everton points deduction piece. It seemed to come in and out several times during the discussion.
I do sympathise with him a bit over the Covid false positives and I was in the pro Kenny camp for quite a while but Stephen Kenny comes across as an awful fecking eejit
I do find myself being curious what he got in the leaving.
Yeah I thought today's episode put Kenny's tenure in sharper (and unfortunately correct) context.
Noticed that too. Felt like they had to re-record a section of it using a different audio method
Me every time Jamie Wall says the word "loike"
i started counting them at one stage, it’s averaging one every single sentence!!
Find it kinda odd they refer to him as a Senior Hurling Analyst. Sounds like he's In a senior business role
I thought that was said with a bit of a smirk, to be honest.
It’s like it’s a pisstake of how Bill O’Herlihy used to call John Giles the ‘senior analyst’ on the panel, as if it was a civil service position or something
Ha, I did wonder if it was a reference to that.
Richie is on Living with Lucy this Sunday night on Virgin
I thought that Murph was kinda taking the mick by calling him that. Or else he said it because Malacky Clerkin wasn't there, so Jamie was the de facto "senior" analyst. Either way, I don't think Murph meant it in a serious way.
Eoin absolutely roasted Ken on that McClean debate by making very straight forward points and Ken didn’t even realise it.
Dion Fanning writing this week in the examiner that Martin O’Neill messed up by choosing not to cap both Grealish and Rice. Fair play to him, this point has been virtually totally missed by the Irish media, with only the Five million words written about it by Irish football journalists.
As Keane said, a long career does not mean a great career. McClean has ben woeful for years for Ireland. I cant remember the last good cross he made. He was excellent in one campaign and gave his all in all his caps so fair play to him, but Ken is right about him
This is correct.
Normally I find Eoin to be the voice of reason when either Ken or Murph are going off on one, but I thought his point about McClean missed the mark. Anyone who has ever played or even watched football knows that every professional at whatever level is exceptionally talented compared to the general population. The point about McClean is that he is not, and never was, international class, and it says a lot about the talent at Ireland’s disposal that he earned over 100 caps.
What was the relevance of skin colour meant to be in relation to attending a sports event at Casement Park?
It's truly absurd stuff to be clinging onto the threadbare trope that James McClean was never international class, particularly after you watched Stephen Kenny embarrass the nation playing supposedly expansive football for three and a half years. What is international class is what actually works. It is not a beauty contest.
Ken got dunked on. I think there's a bit of a cult of Ken when it comes to football even when he's come up with some ropey takes, particularly his role pushing for someone with Stephen Kenny's mindset to manage the national team. You win some and you lose some but Ken's definitely lost this battle and war.
Ken didn’t say he wasn’t international class, tucker Tim said that. Ken said he was not a strong technical footballer.
McClean was our Messi.
Casement Park will never be built so we won't have to battle NI for a spot in the Euros.
It's funny how nobody in the North wants the stadium built. It would take a massive push to get it done and there is no will anywhere to do so, including the GAA.
We should swap out Belfast for Cork and use Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Absolutely impossible to listen to.
Do they not have a weekly debrief or listen back occasionally where things like this would be noticed and worked on.
A fiver a month isn't much but I really shouldn't have to be fast forwarding through 75% of a pod because one guy can't string a sentence together.
