The Stand With Eamon Dunphy

The last two football podcasts have been entitled:

27th Feb - Manchester United becoming a force to be reckoned with

6th Mar - Manchester United hype exposed by class and passion of Liverpool

Gave me a chuckle anyway.

I've always assumed that Dunphy is friendly with the Monk, or at the very least sympathetic to him. He's always been much softer in his coverage of him versus the Kinehans

In fairness, there's lads in Ireland who have never lived in England and are equally obsessed with them.

I agree with you though that a lot of his content on US and UK I couldn't give a fiddlers about.

Kieran Cunningham making quite a stretch to compare the dangers of Katie Taylor continuing to fight to the life changing consequences of Muhammad Ali fighting into middle age.

eamon lapped it up of course but the fact that both fighters have had very very different careers in terms of the difficulty level of fights they faced up to to now wasn’t even mentioned

I used to listen to The Stand a bit but I gave up when Eamon kept giving a platform to the zero covid frauds.

Can’t say I miss it

Is Liam Brady done appearing on the podcast? I know he finished with RTE this week, not sure if Eamon's goodbye at the end was for good or see you when the football season starts back.

One of the best episodes of a podcast ever

Tbh I don't think that was a particularly spiky episode.

He just asked a question of John Waters, not even a very confrontational one, at the start and Waters completely lost the plot and stormed out shouting and swearing - looking like a total headcase.

The episode with Diarmuid Ferriter was pretty good.

Dunphy is way out of his depth when he attempts to go toe-to-toe with someone in an argument and Ferriter let him away with absolutely nothing - "I think you're being very emotive" - in the debate and in, my view, absolutely schooled him.

Dunphy was absolutely desperate to get the last word in too, twice he tried to score some points after he appeared to be wrapping it up and twice Ferriter came back, forcing Dunphy to retreat to his avuncular Eamo mode - "Thanks for (heh-heh) indulging me" - to save some face at the close.

I got the impression from later comments by Eamon that he'd changed his mind on zero covid. I think Tomás Ryan really scared the sh*t out of Eamon. I noticed that even when other contributors to radio shows had started to come into studio, Eamon stayed at home and spoke over the phone. Having said that, it's easy to see why he's nervous about catching covid. He has emphysema after a lifetime of smoking and even a common cold can cause problems for a sufferer. Who's to say the early strains of covid wouldn't have made him very ill or worse? It's easy to be wise after the event.

giles on this morning's podcast saying stephen kenny should get a contract extension. but also saying we've a great crop of players now. doesn't really make sense.

Is there anyone left alive who was on the plane?

Good listen right enough.

Makes a change from John's usual lazy ramblings about what he read in the paper with reminders from Eamo that the whole country was hanging on his every word and didn't want to hear from him.

Eamon and John are too far out of touch with the modern game. John is still very good and I could listen to him all day but for that slot to work they need someone else on to bounce off and to correct their obvious mistakes! I think John is much better when he's on to talk about some specific topic thats close to his heart, e.g. the Bobby Charlton tribute a few weeks ago rather than yet another episode bitching about Pogba and his ilk.

it was also far better when Liam Brady used to join in, it really needs that different viewpoint, someone a little more in-tune with the modern game, but sadly Liam has retired from it all now (he confirmed as much in his own dedicated episode earlier in the week).

I'm no great fan of Gary Neville but I think he's a solid pundit, so Eamon calling him a "windbag" is a bit ridiculous. The irony seems to be lost on him.

I agree that Liam is a big loss. Even occasional disagreements gives it a bit of variety. Otherwise ED is too inclined to agree with JG, even if it reflects how much he respects his opinion. They have had Didi on a few times a while back if im correct? Could do with him back.

Is Liam up to anything now?..did he just retire due to his disdain for the modern game?

I did think Liam would keep up the podcasts and occasional radio contributions but it seems he's decided to step away entirely. Its a shame because I think he's still pretty sharp on the modern game.

Love John and Eamo but I tend to agree with most of what you've said here. The "Kids don't play ball on the streets" line has gotten very old at this stage

I agree. Maybe he doesn’t want to end up like what John and Eamon have become. Thought he was still by far the best on the RTE panel when he finished up though

It feels like we are coming near the end of an era doesn't it?. Liam gone, Souness retired, John and Eamon (for all their faults) wont be around forever and will be greatly missed.

Maybe I'm being overly nostalgic but apart from Roy Keane (like him or loathe him) it feels like the whole scene will be very dull and sanitised. Even Didi almost seems irritable having to analyse alongside his new restrained colleagues. God be with the days when I looked forward to the half time studio row as much as the game itself.