I always mean to do it but never end up doing it
Out of interest do many on here do the book club?
It’s a full on genocide committed by the state. If that’s not grounds for a boycott then what is ? Those photos that were published shows that there is no separation from their sports team and their military destruction of Gaza and its people. It will be a shameful episode if the game goes ahead.
When the team you are about to play are posing pre-game with the soldiers actively commiting these atrocities then I think all bets are off.
Absolutely scummy behaviour from the Israel team but wouldn't expect anything less.
Yeah... But the basketball team were posing with the army and lots of guns? It is a bit different from say Russian athletes who are playing under no nationality or no flag. I saw Medvedev last week in the Australian open didn't have a nation associated with him on any of the graphics.
There could be atrocities being committed there by both sides for another 80 years; there is absolutely no end to that conflict in sight as one side is unable to accept they have being losing for 80 years. so if we are going to set a precedence that we will not play Israel whenever Israel do this then we’ll be boycotting and suffering the consequences for many many years to come.
Murph was 100% correct about basketball and Israel today. Can’t play a nation that is conducting a genocide and mixing it in with their sports teams.
Thanks. It took 7 hours to update on Castbox today ...not usually that long but routinely 3-4 hours.
I use pocketcasts and it's usually up within about an hour of the episode being released or at least the email being sent. Although it has taken longer at random times it's usually quicker than that.
Random question - does anyone on here subscribe to the world service through the app Castbox? and if so, have you had issues with the latest episodes updating? this is an ongoing problem, even though I know todays football pod was released just after 2pm the episode still hasn't appeared in my feed. There doesn't appear to be a straight forward way to refresh the app or the feed. I just have to wait an unknown amount of time for the episode to appear.
This was as big a statement as the Irish rugby team has ever made
Winning their first 6 nations wasn't bigger? A grand slam wasn't bigger? Beating NZ for the first time wasn't bigger? Beating NZ in NZ wasn't bigger?
Beating a 14 man France is just that, beating a 14 man France.
Nonsense. Ireland were on top with 15v15, France had their best spell when 14v15, then showed nothing when it became 14v14 after a dubious try in the second half and we had four errors all day. It was as complete a victory as you are likely to ever see in top level rugby. The biggest margin of victory in France before Friday was seven points in 1948.
This was as big a statement as the Irish rugby team has ever made, nevermind the context of coming directly on the heels of a World Cup disappointment, essentially at the scene of the crime.
Theres no asterisk beside it, they beat them. Nobody will care looking at the record book.
To say that beating a 14-man team proves something is very different. It proves nothing. Next time Ireland face France, you don't point to this one.
It was me who said they bottled it. It's a term that's overused generally, but I think it's apt here. So many handling errors and poor line-outs against both SA and and NZ. We just about got away with it against SA somehow, but there's no doubt the team performed well below their ability. It's definitely a psychological thing at this stage.
I agree - you hear it a lot particularly in Rugby which IMO is one of the few sports where a man down isn't necessarily a death knell it is in most other team sports.
Ireland wanted it more (much like Arsenal over liverpool at the weekend) France were second best to every ball and i don't think it would have mattered to the result if the French player hadn't been sent off but he was and it's his own fault so matters not. You can only beat whats infront of you as they say.
On a slight tangent i understand where its coming from i hate the term "bottled" in relation to the world cup and Ireland. It's a lot more complex than that but it is infuriating that the team which had perfect prep and build up not to mention the best Irish squad of all time and still didn't get past the quarterfinals AGAIN. Psychology has to come into it somewhere i suppose but the draw was bananas and i still contend France and Ireland were the two best teams at the world cup. I've no doubt we'll break this quarter final hoodoo at some point very soon and most likely with a team not as good as the one which went out last year.
I never get the logic that a win against a team who had a red card needs an asterisk or something. It's as much a part of the game as any other aspect of it, so if France can't keep it together enough to keep all 15 men on the field, that's on them.
2 yellow cards for NZ. The score in that time was 7-3 Ireland.
France played 50 minutes with 14 men. Beating them indicates nothing. Its a great chance at another grand slam.
Didn't they play a decent chunk of the World Cup QF against 14 men too and still lost? Hard to get too excited about the 6 Nations now after they bottled the World Cup so badly.
They beat a 14 man France. It doesn't really prove much. If anything, I couldn't believe it took them so long to acknowledge the red card.
Eoin, Murph and Simon (Simon!) are talking out of their arses suggesting that there’s any World Cup hangover left after that type of performance. Now everyone’s sights are set on what this season can be and not the past, it was the perfect tonic.
I was at all the Paris games and in Marseille over the weekend, there was and is no shortage of happiness to go around. This is one of the wildest takes I’ve ever heard Second Captains produce.
Yes that makes a lot of sense. I reckon he would only be the second player in history, outside of Derry, to choose to play for FAI. ie it would be more odd if he did not choose ni
I did get a good chuckle at the (p1sstake) answer of a "young Joe Molloy" for the competition 😀
Shove it up your arse! He's the best prop in the world!
The ROG bit was hilarious though
The idea that underage sports people are expected to make, or even if they don't are regarded as having made, political gestures one way or the other is fúcked up beyond belief.
I was saying the same thing after the first yellow. I couldn't spake...
Tonight I was going :
Send 'im off! Send tha' dirty get off! Get 'im off the field. Get 'im walking!
and child 1 got it, so SC on the school run when heads are in phones is actually rubbing off
At least they tried to make the competition some bit entertaining with the audiobeds and incorrect answers.
Yeah, not everyone plays u15s gaa because the they want to unite Ireland.
They could just be the best sports person in their area by miles, love it and want to play everything that's available to them. No doubt he was on his school athletics team.
His views on anything with the South may not be conflated with beating everyone else at sports.
I mean, it's a giveaway, at least some listeners are getting a free night away with it. And it's not completely out of the blue, it was the hotel chain that put up Big Sam and/or US Murph I believe, so there is some relevancy to it. It doesn't bother me in the slightest personally.
