I signed up again in January hoping a break would have recaptured my interest in the pod, but still seems as stale as ever. My 7 quid will be going elsewhere in March anyway. Wish they'd give Ken a regular-ish current affairs pod or something along those lines, not just a random politics pod every few months. Basically anything different from the current output.
The near-constant VAR, XG, reactions to Sky Sports presenters' stupid takes chats, plus student union Branno (who has taken the title of most annoying SC member from Murph!) aren't remotely interesting to me these days.
It has the advantage of novelty.
I really enjoyed the LOI pod yesterday. I find the LOI coverage has a great balance between banter and commentary compared to the Prem coverage.
"S**t I'm out of ideas, better put in a few more LaVars"
What episode was the Shane Curran Kayne West interlude on
Semi second captains related, watching the City vs Madrid match on Premier Sports, first time watching the Champions league on it. They’ve really upped their production budget compared to their PL coverage.
The Shane Curran one is a masterpiece
Took me a wee while to get around to this one, but it really was brilliant.
I agree.
The Rest is History Club is greedily eyeing up my fiver.
Yeah it was poor. Sounded like a request the way they teed it up. Best ones are unexpected. That Shane Curran Kanye West one I think is the best.
I kept waiting for something good to happen on it ha.
That new audio bed by Mark Horgan is truly awful.
I'd say the house was decked out in tricolor bunting.
Watched Celtic win, France lose, Ireland win . Perfect weekend.
Scotland are a disgrace to world sport.
I'm not sure we watched the same game if that's your conclusion.
Nearly pished meself laughing at Thornley, Trimble and Shaggy making France red hot favourites only to flop against an England team we had in departures by the 50th minute.
Beat Scotland tomorrow and even a close loss to France might be enough to become the first team to ever do three-in-row.
A lot of their football talk these days is reacting to some shïte that someone has said on TV or on twitter
The football talk was today was terrible, 30 minutes could have been edited out and nothing would have been lost
"Let's spend 10-15 mins talking about the latest stupid crap Jamie Carragher has said"
The Superbowl preview was on the 28th of January, I think. "The Superbowl that nobody in America wants".
I love Branno, needs more air time.
Henry Farrell was excellent, really enjoyed an educated take on global affairs from somebody who clearly had a lot of experience.
Branno arrives in then, full socialist effort. Absolutely painful. Quite clear that he believes that he has a better understanding of the world than those who are running it. No tech jobs = no fivers a month for second captains lads = no Branno. Clearly hasn’t thought of this as he cheers for the global system to disintegrate from the sidelines.
Henry Farrell was great today and very generous with his time. Hopefully he comes back again for some updates regularly.
Its great to see the lads cover our league more these days. Better late than never. As said earlier it's on the rise and it's getting far more coverage these days across all media and long may it continue. Can't wait for the start next week. Nothing like going to a game in person every week or two.
I can only assume the Trump interview was released today because they want the Super Bowl preview to be as close to the event as possible. Still better than LoI coverage.
I thought it was a good interview.
I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore LOI fan, even though, when I tot them up, I've gone to hundreds of games over a twenty year period and I have to say the league itself has never been as good or as popular in that time as it is now.
And I'm based well outside the traditional Dublin heartland of it in Galway. The ground was wedged for most of last year. There's more interest, more media coverage and the quality of the football is, in the main, pretty decent.
IMO it's a bit sad if people want to shyte on that. No one is pretending that the LOI is ever going to be one of the top leagues in Europe, but that's alright: it has its own appeal. It's a very interesting and enjoyable league to follow in its own right.
So what if, to a certain extent, the SC boys are a bit late to the party in terms of covering it. It's a sign of the League's good health and increasing relevance with the public that they are. Maybe it's a bit parochial to cover the domestic league, but it's no more parochial, IMO, than covering the GAA. And it's sure more interesting than the corporate zoom meetings that are the rugby chats.
4/10 effort
Great interview with Gannon, he's seen a lot and is well positioned to give his takes on how things have changed over the years. I'm very happy with the increased LoI coverage. More Branno, Sneyd and player interviews will do me very nicely.
Branno is literally the only member of the team who cares about the LoI beyond rubbernecking when Duffer or King Steo say something stupid or get in a fight with the media or another manager. It feels like tokenism covering it just because they're an Irish podcast but at least they forget about it for most of the soccer season when more interesting things are happening. I'd just replace it with more coverage of the womens' national team. Far more valuable.
It's good to see them giving it decent coverage. They didn't give a toss about it when that brilliant Dundalk them were in their prime and Cork City were doing well.
