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    #1442
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,403 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Also, I wonder if we will hear from US Murph later today??!!


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    #1443
    dr.kenneth noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 5,674 ✭✭✭dr.kenneth noisewater


    dastardly00 wrote: »
    Also, I wonder if we will hear from US Murph later today??!!
    Prob not till Thursday


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    #1444
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Gab Marcotti seems to love getting on Ken's tits.


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    #1445
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,622 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    Gab Marcotti seems to love getting on Ken's tits.

    The only thing that makes me turn off Second Captains. Gabriele Marcotti.


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    #1446
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    The only thing that makes me turn off Second Captains. Gabriele Marcotti.

    He's not my favourite by any means, but I'd rather listen to Marcotti huff and puff - often literally - for hours on end than sit through more than thirty seconds of Graham Hunter talking up Barcelona in those hushed reverential tones of his that make them sound like a combination of The UN and The Knights of Columbanus.

    He's an authority on Spanish football, supposedly. Maybe he is. One thing's for sure: he's definitely a world leader in licking hole and blowing smoke up there too, simultaneously. He's in the wrong field of expertise, if you ask me

    He's barely on it anymore, thankfully, but anytime during a Hunter segment when Ken, inevitably, takes the bait and goes after him in attack-dog disagreement I find myself saying, "break him Ken".


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    #1447
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,622 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Arghus wrote: »
    He's not my favourite by any means, but I'd rather listen to Marcotti huff and puff - often literally - for hours on end than sit through more than thirty seconds of Graham Hunter talking up Barcelona in those hushed reverential tones of his that make them sound like a combination of The UN and The Knights of Columbanus.

    He's an authority on Spanish football, supposedly. Maybe he is. One thing's for sure: he's definitely a world leader in licking hole and blowing smoke up there too, simultaneously. He's in the wrong field of expertise, if you ask me

    He's barely on it anymore, thankfully, but anytime during a Hunter segment when Ken, inevitably, takes the bait and goes after him in attack-dog disagreement I find myself saying, "break him Ken".

    Yeah, I'd actually agree with that.

    Except the bit at the end, because I literally can't listen long enough to hear the first mention of FC Barcelona. Usually 0.5 seconds into the first sentence.


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    #1448
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users Posts: 16,362 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    I know I'm out of touch with current affairs, but I'm a bit taken aback I'd never heard our president was a guy called Michael O'Dea.:eek:


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    #1449
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Listened to the Ken-Marcotti bit.

    Marcotti seemed to be having one of those days where he was just being a pain about everything. He sounded like a grumpy teenager, I felt for Ken.


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    #1450
    NavyandBlue
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭NavyandBlue


    Ken's story about the train back from St Etienne was very good. It's like this tournament's stolen laptop story.


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    #1451
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    NavyandBlue wrote: »
    Ken's story about the train back from St Etienne was very good. It's like this tournament's stolen laptop story.

    Everyone should tweet at Rafa for calling out Ken 'seat-stealer' Early.

    He's the hero we need.


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    #1452
    sigmundv
    Registered Users Posts: 427 ✭✭sigmundv


    I enjoyed yesterday's Euros podcast mostly because Murph was not constantly interrupting.


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    #1453
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    NavyandBlue wrote: »
    Ken's story about the train back from St Etienne was very good. It's like this tournament's stolen laptop story.

    I was about to comment on how enjoyable that story was...


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    #1454
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    No love for the report on goals? I thought it was the best one yet!


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    #1455
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,622 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Arghus wrote: »
    No love for the report on goals? I thought it was the best one yet!

    Yes! Haven't heard it yet, love Ken's Goooooools.


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    #1456
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Yes! Haven't heard it yet, love Ken's Goooooools.

    It was his first one in character.

    Sometimes I think Ken is a legitimate comic genius.


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    #1457
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,622 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Arghus wrote: »
    It was his first one in character.

    Sometimes I think Ken is a legitimate comic genius.

    I agree. He does like a row, the scorpy git, but he's absolutely hilarious. Consistantly. Has been for years.


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    #1458
    dr.kenneth noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 5,674 ✭✭✭dr.kenneth noisewater


    Just realised over the wkd that I now call Robbie Keane "Robbie Robbie Keano" all the time!


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    #1459
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Tomorrow should be good.


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    #1460
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    dr.kenneth noisewater wrote: »
    Just realised over the wkd that I now call Robbie Keane "Robbie Robbie Keano" all the time!

    When it looked like he was about to come on last night I was about to text the lads with Robbie Robbie Keano... :pac:


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    #1461
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Arghus wrote: »
    Tomorrow should be good.

    I expect a great, rambling description of how the Irish beating the Italians is akin to some ancient Roman something or other from Ken. I also look forward to some heart-wrenching, spine tingling audio stings from Mark.

    Get on it lads.


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    #1462
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users Posts: 16,362 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    The McGeady introduction seemed baffling. Nothing about his season or his tournament had suggested he could make a telling contribution. It was the sort of change that suggested O’Neill had been watching too many sentimental sports movies.
    :)

    Brilliant. Is Ken our best sportswriter?


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    #1463
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,403 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Arghus wrote: »
    No love for the report on goals? I thought it was the best one yet!

    So many SC podcasts.... just not enough time to listen to them! :o


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    #1464
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,949 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    What time will it be available?

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



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    #1465
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,622 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Loafing Oaf wrote: »
    :)

    Brilliant. Is Ken our best sportswriter?

    "If Martin O’Neill really is the kind of guy who believes in miracles, maybe he’s exactly the guy Irish football needs."

    *sniff*

    Something in my eye.


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    #1466
    dr.kenneth noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 5,674 ✭✭✭dr.kenneth noisewater


    Out now!


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    #1467
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Here's the video Murph referenced at the beginning....

    https://twitter.com/Carlosophy/status/745734173994909696

    I freakin' love it.


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    #1468
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Works very well.

    God my brain is still a mess from yesterday, can't get anything done.


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    #1469
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users Posts: 19,622 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Arghus wrote: »
    Works very well.

    God my brain is still a mess from yesterday, can't get anything done.

    It's a nightmare. I had a slightly embarassing moment earlier in work when I realised i was singing "and we'll really shake them up when we win the world cup..." at full volume in the office.


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    #1470
    Mr.Prodston
    Registered Users Posts: 16,305 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Prodston


    That intro....Ah lads!!


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    #1471
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Yeah that intro was the result of a solid morning's work, you could tell.

    I liked Dion Fanning's description about how Martin O' Neill had picked a team designed to remind the Italians that they weren't supposed to care about the game. He's a poor man's Ken as far as I'm concerned, but he hit the nail on the head there.


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