Second Captains Part II

Ken on politics is so good it should be a weekly thing.

Branno when he isn’t stanning for the LOI Taliban is a beautiful, beautiful boy as well. Great duo.

Ken still thinks Amorim is a better coach than Slot, doesn’t he

Might relisten to Fridays podcast about how Rory cracked under pressure and lost the masters in the first round

As much as I very much enjoyed turning on the golf half way through the final round last night, the Second Captains lads are in a serious bubble as to how little anyone in Ireland cares about golf, it's a total non-entity almost everywhere outside golf clubs. Gavin calling Rory winning a grand slam the greatest Irish sporting achievement of all time without any qualifier would make you bowl over with laughter if you didn't know he was fully serious.

Malachy saying his mother is 70 made me do a double take, he's a great contributor but I would have said he sounded like he was near 60 if you had asked me what age he was before today.

Maybe it was a bit OTT to call it the greatest Irish sporting achievement etc… But Rory winning the masters was a huge story, everyone I knew today was talking about it all day and most - including myself - have never swung a club in their life. The pure sporting drama of it was real - I'd no problem with them going to town with their coverage today.

And I don't usually praise him, but I thought Murph was excellent on the golf today as well.

He's only the 6th person ever to win the grand slam of majors, it's certainly up there as a contender as one of the greatest Irish sporting achievements of all time.

Multiple WhatsApp groups full with non golf fans were gripped by the whole round on Sunday, non stop talking about it and for a lot of yesterday too, many will now start watching more golf, to call it "a total non-entity" is ridiculous.

*edit - Just realised you're the same poster who questioned Tim Vickery's knowledge of South American football. At least you're consistent with nonsense takes.

Tucker Tim is clearly a troll. Can folks stop responding to his nonsense and just block him.

I remember on the Second Captains TV show from years ago they had the Top 10 Irish sports persons of all time and each week a guest was allowed to put a nominated person into the Top 10 and remove one if they wanted. Sonia O'Sullivan was the guest one week and she removed Padraig Harrington and put in Marcus O'Sullivan. When asked to explain she said 'golf isn't a sport'!

Another week Peter Canavan was on and he removed Rory McIlroy from the top 10 because 'he couldn't give a damn if he was Irish or not'.

Who the **** is Marcus O'Sullivan?

If I keep listening, maybe one day, I'll find out all about him.

well, he’s not going to Liverpool, he’s not going to Arsenal, and he’s leaving Man City… so if he wants to stay in the PL, that’s kind of the likely area. I’d say upper mid table tier, but below League challengers. Newcastle themselves are a decent possibility I’d say, a bit of class to help them on their return to Europe.

Music is just down to personal preference so no point in getting into a big debate about it…but, Bob Dylan has tons of great songs. If you don't like them fair enough

Mr Tambourine Man

Like Rolling Stone

Tangled Up in Blue

Blowing in the Wind

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Don't Think Twice It's Alright

Knocking on Heaven's Door

The Hurricane

Lay Lady Lay

Desolation Row

Girl from the North Country

It's Alright Ma

Subterranean Homesick Blues

And that's barely even half of his career.

If you don't like a song, you don't like it.

He's not overrated just because you don't like his music. "Overrated" doesn't really mean anything anyway.

Whatever about Dylan being overrated, he remains the worst gig I was ever at and that was 20 years ago so can only imagine the shambles it would be now

I saw him a few years ago in the 3 arena and he was great