Second Captains Part II

Yeah lots of quality issues regarding editing in recent months. Your man (cillian?!) left them and Brano is there now. Not sure what background he has in audio editing

Could've sworn one of them mentioned Cillian last week.

Isn't he meant to be doing another podcast like the George Gibney one? Maybe he's busy at that

He ain’t on much though, they seem to have retired him or they mutually decided to end his involvement in general football discussion and have him on to discuss stuff that half sport, half the human condition. I prefer him used this way as I don’t think he has much to say about stuff that’s just the game.

if I was being unkind about Richie I would say he got his foot in the door in journalism by sharing juicy insights from his playing days.

When he ran out of those he got by on the rte panel by asking questions when asked questions and appearing to think very deeply about questions he was asked but not provide a very interesting reponse. This annoyed the three “wise” men on the rte panel who favored a more straight talking approach.

Now he gets by because the folks on the rte panel are so incredibly boring, stupid and reliant on cliche that Richie isn’t any worst than them and at least he appears intelligent. He’s also cheap and fills out a suit well.

Richie is grand but he's soooooo boooooooring that i'm glad he is no longer really on the general football chat.

Everything seems to get deep with him very quickly. That's not to say i dont like listening to him and on certain subjects he's perfect (players chair or pieces like the Greenwood story) where his seriousness suits the occasion.

The answering a question with a question is the most annoying thing about him

I see OTB are doing all sorts of offers and discounts already. Must not have went as well as they expected.

Exactly. 😀

Because he is terrible at interviewing people

Genuinely though - Why is only Murph & Eoin? Ken was on it in previous years AFAIK.

Murph isn’t great either. Eoin is the best interviewer, he can do both genuine banter and genuine empathy. Ken has had multiple disastrous interviews ( Gary “let me finish” Neville, Roy “I’m surprised you would ask me that” Keane). If he interviewed Conan he would have awkwardly brought up Jay Leno and told Conan he was actually wrong in his handling of the whole affair.

I think he knows when to reel it in. Quite a lot of the political interviews have been great. I think he can be a more disciplined interviewer if he knows the leash is shorter.

He tends to go off script and get a bit improvisiontal when talking football on the show because he can be a bit more loose in that format - and it's kinda his style - and a lot of the time he's talking to people he knows - Johnathan Wilson, Dion Fanning, Miguel Delaney etc, etc - so it's a lot more casual and really, at the end of the day, a bit of a laugh.

Murph does appear, occasionally, to have a wider range of cultural knowledge than either Ken or Eoin. But he just can't keep his mouth shut half the time. I listened to the Radio One show yesterday and he was at it again - interrupting, talking about himself - it's not terrible, but he does butt in more in interviews than the other lads.

Eoin is the best interviewer. Asks decent questions, can alter his tone and approach depending on the guest, seems to listen and doesn't really insert himself, too much, into the conversation.

It's the combination that attracts me. Any of them on their own just isn't as good, they need to bounce off each other.

I think Murph is a better interviewer than Ken, when Ken does interviews, it's kinda hard to explain but I find he has a slightly odd way of asking questions and the back and forth isn't as smooth as you'd have with Eoin

My biggest gripe with Murph would be that he's overly enthusiastic about everything or he can be a bit of a lick arse.

I enjoyed his and Eoin's their interview with Eimear Ryan recently but he acted a bit like she's one of Tipp's greatest camogie players of all time, which she (and she admitted) clearly isn't

I honestly thought the Neville interview was great.

I'd seen Neville occasionally previous to it being interviewed by people who were outside the football bubble - not real football men etc - and I thought he came across as a bit of a bully and I think Ken did a great job bringing that side of him out.

What you think doesn't really matter.

Both those audiobeds are superb

After today's rugby podcast, they should replace Shane Horgan with Andrew Trimble, he's far more engaging to listen to

I think him and Ken are buddies. I like him but he can get a bit stumbly over his words at times. He's no Jonathan Wilson that's for sure

Came here to post the same actually.

I rarely listen to the rugby coverage tbh but was out running and couldn't fast forward it.

His defence was a bit flimsy imho....he didn't sound convinced by what he was saying himself even