Newstalk: Off The Ball

I like OTB. It's an easy listen but if you're only interested in football scope out much much better content via specific podcasts. TalkSport and countless others have fantastic football stuff.

I think if you have only an interest in any one sport, there are better shows. There's tons of football, GAA, rugby, golf specific podcasts which cover it better than OTB. I like the bit of variety they give and then the occasional deep dive into somebody or some topic which I had never heard of.

Like I'll probably read up this weekend about the Rumble in the Jungle as it was 50 years ago yesterday. I've no real interest in boxing but they talked about it last night so I might have a read about it over the weekend. If I hadn't listened yesterday, I'd not have even thought about it.

Did anyone hear the start of AM this morning.

Ger was not enjoying the hair related conversation. Had a right little snap at Colm.

Funny stuff

There seems to be more off the ball stuff free on Youtube. Things like Vinny Perth and Gareth McGlynn were normal behind a paywall.

I presumed that was a 1 off with the title deciders tomorrow night.

Just Watch it on the tV...

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No I didn't, but what was said wasn't my point. My point is that the whole football analysis is a circus of nonsense.

I never listen to football analysis because its all about the social media clip and follow up. Complete rubbish across the board.

i subscribed recently. Travel a lot so find the pod really good for catching up. However the pundits on the soccer in particular are disappointing. They seem to have went away from using journalists like Dan McDonnell and a host of UK journalists who used to give a decent insight into the game. We are now left with Vinny Perth Keith Doyle Shane Keegan etc who are fine if LOI is your thing but for the PL are very poor. I’ll stick with it a little longer but disappointed so far. GAA would be my other option for listening to OTB for. Have zero interest in Rugby, none in American sport or womens football so can’t comment on the content there. Find Eoin a decent host though to be fair but Joe Molloy a big loss.

You prefer "owight mate, at the end of da day, early doors" of the English pundits/players or "in these moments" of the non-native English speakers of the EPL instead? Pep Guardiola gets the "shoots" occasionally and he finds it hard to keep clean sheets or as he says "sh!ts".

Even more of an odd complaint when you consider that soccer is a predominately working class sport, played by working class people. Therefore it is self evident that the players are predominately going to have working class Dublin accents. As Irish soccer is dominated by Dublin in the majority.

They are not suddenly going to become erudite, well read, and knowledgable about the game of soccer, with better elocution as well. Most ex-footballers left school at 15/16.

Maybe you preferred Robbie Keane when he started using the phrase "Ever so well" from his time in England. Or better still when the same Robbie referred to "D-fence" when conversing with his American colleagues during his time the MLS?

I think your post is probably a microcosm of what is wrong with Irish soccer. A preference for "Engerland" and all that entails when it comes to soccer.

"Shure lookit" your complaint is the equivalent of a fella giving out about country accents, in the game of hurling!

A daft complaint, when you step back and think about it.

Once a pundit is knowledgable on a sport, it should not be relevant what his/her accent is. Enthusiasm should be the second prerequisite after knowledge of the sport.

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I agree on Vinny Perth though.

Paper review was an awful listen this week.

Usually I really enjoy it but the combination of Adrian and the guests just didn't work.

They need to nail down a presenter for it as it is one of tye best segments of the week but has dipped since Joe jumped ship.

Keith Treacy can be hard on the ears.