Newstalk: Off The Ball

I mean, I know your giving them the benefit of the doubt, and that's fair enough.

But really, how many people do you think care about celebrity instagram accounts but don't get their updates from, y'know, Instagram? And how many of those have the radio on waiting for the football show?

I can understand that to be fair. I get a local newspaper and the Indo digital edition for under €4.25 a month so I think it was a good deal for me. It is for 1 year admittedly but inevitably they will put their podcast stable behind a paywall, especially if it is a stable of thoroughbreds. Unless advertising revenue is enough for them which it might be I guess.

I probably would have signed up to OTB for €5 a month myself, I would love to know who the genius who thought they could ask for a €10 a month.

I don't know whether it's bitterness over their pet Stephen Kenny not working out but the lads really seem to have a vendetta out against Hallgrimsson.

Appear to be nit picking at every aspect of his managerial style. Vinnie Perth virtually ranting about him " not visiting players" Seems incredibly harsh to me. Give the man a chance.

Yeah, aware of that. Not many trying anything alternative though. They happily persist with the lowest common denominator.

Totally agree. I think to be fair Ashling O Reilly plays Camogie or something and looks pretty athletic. The lads are either overweight or skinny fat beta males.

Yeah they all have the armchair sports fan vibe, who it could be 25 degrees outside when they were kids and they inside watching a test match between England and India……

Yeah, I wasn't aware it was a broadcasting commission requirement myself but it is totally brain dead for a media which is already lost massive ground to podcasts. I hate the ad breaks in radio shows enough but a 5-minute stop for the news is just ridiculous altogether.

Mind you Coimisiún na Meán is probably headed by some luddite whose first job was making tea for the cast filming of Glenroe or The Riordans…….

Seems like you're the one that is offended.

Find a therapist? What an embarrassing post. You can do better.

You bring it up with the lads today, and post updates here. Thanks.

Absolute car crash stuff with ROG on the AM show earlier. Certainly wasn't in the form to discuss Sexton's book 😂

Shane Hannon suggesting a charity boxing match between the two for the "craic", thought ROG was going to turn the camera off 😂 Awful stuff.

I'll never forget the time they attempted to do a triathlon. Pretty sure they all either couldn't handle the training load. Got injured / didn't complete it properly.

I'll concede it's probably a bit harsh to point this stuff out as it's not necessarily a prerequisite to be able at a subject you critique but it does take a way a certain level of credibility in terms of them having any lived experience of basic sporting requirements.

Eoin wouldn't pull a stroke of rowing. He's a beta male. It's going to be difficult if not impossible for him to get into the mindset and appreciate the achievements and sacrifice of someone like Paul O Donovan. I do think this is an issue.

A charity boxing match between Hannon and Kellie Harrington would be way better - now I'd pay a lot of money to see that

I never got the nonsense spouted over Sexton and O'Gara. Yes there was a beef. So what.

Both were supremely driven, and both pushed each other to be even better. Just like O'Gara and Humphries before him, competition makes sports people go to places and levels they did not know they had.

Would either have been the player they were if the first battle they had wasn't to keep the other off the team? I doubt it.

Anybody who ever played any team sport knows competition for places makes it. Kill one another in training for a place, its how it should be and the fact that they ended up together in France just proves that they were both the same and knew it was just the cut-throat nature of sport.

Johnny needs to sell the book so has to talk it up.

The most surprising thing is that there are people who like to listen to OTB AM…..