Second Captains Part II

isn't it the same guy? i enjoyed it, better than dion and miguel. i found it interesting explaining why pep isn't as dominant, which i've always wondered. it can't be as simple as just worse players. teams manmarking instead of zonal marking at least is a theory

I find some of what Hamilton has to say interesting, but he takes it all far too seriously.

It works much better on a visual format. Will Still was on MNF when he was at Lens and he covered similar enough topics to what Janie Hamilton covered and it was quite interesting but on an audio format, he just couldn't hold my attention yesterday

Whatever happened to Graham Hunter, haven't heard him on Second Captains or elsewhere for a while, is he still wearing those black sunglasses indoors somewhere? The end of the Messi/Ronaldo era in la Liga wasn't great for him

Tom English embarrassed himself so thoroughly in his coverage of the Old Firm match I would have thought even Second Captains would have stayed away from him on this topic, chums or not.

Utter shíte chat, gang.

I like Smith but him trying to take a pop at Roy for pointing out the obvious, that Liverpool may be one of the most woeful defending champions in living memory, was comically misguided and at least Ken was willing to call him out on it.

Gary Breen was absolutely class. His passion for Ireland just radiates in a way I never really appreciated properly when he was playing. He even talked to some of the old lads to prep for the interview, above and beyond stuff.

Kenny thinks he is a lot more entertaining than what he actually is but when he started speaking seriously he wasn't too bad

I'm not normally someone who likes to be mean on the internet, but Kenny Cunningham is a total dose. I had to switch off after 15 mins. He kept talking over Eoin and interrupting. Unbearable. He did get marginally better when he stopped trying to be funny. Completely disagreed with his assessment of Johnny Kenny too, as I sense the lads in studio did too.

Still no sign of it

Kenny thought he was on OTB, where that exact type of "banter" suits the gormless lads that host it

I thought Cunningham was poor. There's very little discussion about topics he doesn't raise. They talked about "his" team and him advocating for a change in approach in general - that's great but we've a WC playoff this week and we're not going to radically change the approach that got us here. The discussion around the HH extension was pointless, there was zero acknowledgement of any logic behind the approach. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with the extension but its pretty obvious why the FAI did it.