Darwin week incoming
Ken is off next week so very unlikely :-)
Remember when Ken was comparing Nathan Collins to van Dijk? 🫣
She’s always a hard listen and she was a hard listen on Fridays pod.
A lot of time devoted to the enhanced games which is essentially a troll by Peter Thiel. I'd be very surprised id it took place
While I highly doubt it'll ever take place I still thought it was an interesting discussion.
Yeah, i enjoyed it.
I don't think it'll happen as an olympics alternative but we live in a world of cross fit games, ninja warrior, gladiators, Ireland's fittest family and various other sport competition entertainment shows. If he gets 15 athletes then someone will make a show out of it.
I couldn’t believe they had almost a full podcast on it. Way too much time spent on an absolutely nonsensical notion in my opinion.
Sterling with the perfect level of celebrating against a previous team.
Peter Thiel and his machinations are far from meaningless. A ghoul among ghouls. Whatever his goals are they're certainly worth investigating. Something they didn't mention was that Thiel is deep into life extension research and this concept even as a way of gathering data would feed into that.
It was a lot more interesting than 20 minutes on why Duffer is going to get Shels to a top four finish in the cut-throat League of Ireland.
Joining a competitor is an official act. Ken’s point is he could be on gardening leave - NOT officially join Utd yet - but still have phone calls and pass on any player knowledge from his magic laptop etc. Obviously wouldn’t be able to surreptitiously do the full role, but could certainly provide guidance.
20 million King dollars for the bestest Football Manager player in the British Isles
From that article; “Ashworth was never part of Howe’s inner circle”.
The head of all things football was never part of the manager’s inner circle? Surely that’s a bit mad?
Saudi FC fans are not happy.
I love how probably the most naturally historic and huge football club on the planet is the plastic club in this context
Gurban Gurbanov been confirmed for the Ireland job yet?
He'll tell us when he's ready.
Dion is like Ken if you took him out of the oven too early
The actual Olympics should be the enhanced games. It's always been a crazy notion that athletes participating in sport are required to submit themselves to a 24/7 surveillance program, like they're on parole, or on a terrorist watch list.
We already know sport isn't "clean" and even if it was "clean", there are still untold advantages in terms of access to facilities, training and nutrition that give some athletes a massive advantage over others. The sports that ignore this bureaucratic nonsense like Football, Basketball and American Football are better and healthier for it.
On yesterday's GAA podcast, what is Eoin apologizing for? For calling Mark a friend of the show?
Not sure I've heard the hippy crack bed in a while, but they've cut out the bit about the host nation at the end. Weird they didn't just drop it entirely.
Did anyone count how many times Jamie Wall said "loike" on yesterday's GAA podcast?
It would be weird if they left in the last bit! What's happened since doesn't alter the facts that Ken enjoyed the WC there
I have to hand it to the FAI for managing to hire executives more incompetent than John Delaney, it's quite an achievement.
The end of the Delaney era and the start of the new era replaced bad corporate governance with good corporate governance but still employed the same failed financial model that the Irish men’s senior national team is expected to fund everything in Irish football from top to bottom. That failed model is the problem and until that is rectified Irish football will suffer.
I don't get this POV and BTW, JD was MUCH MUCH more than incompetent!
I also dont see what the rush in getting a manager is?! Better to get some decent within budget. The FAI should be very careful about who they appoint and at what salary.
I was actually pretty dissapointed in the second captains of all people to be saying splurge the extra 200k to get Carsley (who the hell is he anyway in the football world) when they were nearly wound up a few years ago.
We have friendlies coming up! So what?! It's not like we are going into the euros without a coach.
500K is already VERY generous for a national team coach outside the big teams.
Totally agree on all points. It’s a media feeding frenzy. There’s no huge advantage in having a coach in June or in February. I would also say it’s no an extra 200k, it’s another 800k over the contract term.
If Carsley was your first choice from day one it's embarrassing it's taken this long to discover his wage demands.
It's utter incompetence from the FAI.
Personally? Just give him the 200k if that's who ye want.
Delighted you’re willing to give a dig out, we’ve been waiting for someone like you to step forward.
Just hire Keano for the bit of fun at this point, at least it’ll be more entertaining than watching whatever Kenny’s slow-motion car crash of a reign was and it will wind up football purists like Ken and Dion.
My fear would be the FAI executive is so incompetent they think someone like Anthony Barry is going to be free when he gets sacked with Tucel. Give me someone who has a least managed a bloody team over him, not that he’d take the job to begin with.
