Second Captains Part II

atilladehun wrote: »

Ken should definitely be allowed to bring up the 2007 Galway county final whenever he wants.

Hilarious how he deflty weaved it into the conversation and it took a moment for it to register with Murph, cue his outrage for bringing it up yet again.

Beersmith wrote: »

Do people really enjoy the over the top commentators shouting into the mic clips they and other podcasts have been playing. Never liked commentators doing that and certainly not listening to them all again and again.

The Swiss one - "yah?.... Yah!! YAAHHH!!" - was hilarious: you could tell it was just a guy genuinely losing his mind in the moment. And I got a chuckle out of the audio of the Spanish commentator just flatly and quietly saying "gol" after the Croatia equaliser, but, in general, it's a bit overdone.

Level 42 wrote: »

Should of stayed on News talk except for Murph the unfunniest man on the planet.

have

Top notch contribution otherwise

What did Ken say Luis Enrique had, huevos?
I was sure it was gonna be 'cojones'

siblers wrote: »

They're so far removed from OTB's current lot that it's mad to think they were ever on Newstalk, being on 4/5 nights a week we were blessed back in the day. Always Looked forward to it when I was doing some driving or scuttering about at home.

Could say the same but to a lesser extent about Wolly

I used to listen to them on newstalk a lot. Then stuck with OTB when they left, and only signed up to Second Captains last year. Now that I'm listening to SC every day I simply cannot go back to OTB. I find them so painful.

I do like Joe Molloy, the rest not at all.

Simon Kuper was a great guest yesterday. He's a very rare fixture these days.

OTB had a brief window when it was Kilbane and Cunningham on most nights and it wasn’t a bad listen. Now is the David Delaney show and he is poison.

I'd love to know the listenership figures for OTB. Like most, used to love it, but it is so bad now. Too much 'bants' and not enough humour or insight. I reckon they need to start from scratch with it as its beyond repair.

Thats before you mention the crappy quiz

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

OTB had a brief window when it was Kilbane and Cunningham on most nights and it wasn’t a bad listen. Now is the David Delaney show and he is poison.

His brother Damien is quite good though.

EltonJohn69 wrote: »

OTB had a brief window when it was Kilbane and Cunningham on most nights and it wasn’t a bad listen. Now is the David Delaney show and he is poison.

I know he's an acquired taste, but I don't mind Damien Delaney all that much. Maybe it's only because I've so far only had small doses of him, but when I've heard him speak I think he does an okay job of explaining things from the footballer's perspective. I appreciate that his insight is from lived experience.

With the likes of Ken, Eoghan, Murph most of what they're saying about the how and the whys of a game is probably bullshit at the end of the day. Okay maybe, not out and out crap, but there's probably a million factors that they've overlooked into why a game goes the way that it does, they'll never really know what it was like to be out there on the field playing in the game being analysed- they are just essentially barstoolers, like the rest of us.

That's not to say that the lad's insights have no value. They're great at placing things in a wider context or providing a new way of looking at things or just being downright funny and/or clever with their allusions and analogies as applied to sport and they've got great chemistry as well. All that is great and enriches the experience, but I often think their actual analysis of why something happened on the field of play has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

But the OTB guys are barstoolers too, but from what I've heard,they don't even bring in that other stuff. Their bants sounded painful and forced - really sounded like loudmouth lads killing time talking about stuff, but with zero real value or content. Fcking hell, I thought, this is kinda tragic - it just sounded so basic.

Listening to today's pod now, pissing myself at the Pat Kenny Hygge bit:pac::pac:

Dick Turnip wrote: »

Listening to today's pod now, pissing myself at the Pat Kenny Hygge bit:pac::pac:

Still in shock at that Alan Shearer letter to Gareth.

I definitely pick and choose OTB stuff. Generally I wait for the podcasts, speed through and drop out as soon as I'm done.

I'd give them the benefit of the doubt at the moment. The lockdowns and working from home are going to affect everyone. I'd expect them to improve slightly when normality returns.

Kilbane and Cunningham had enough time there. They both only saw the world from the position of a dressing room in a mid to low take club. They rarely saw things from a different perspective. Sometimes I think Cunningham expects forwards to use magic to play because there's no way he'd change how he'd play to help the attack, eg push up, pass out etc.

I like that team 33 takes a more nerdy approach but their craic is awful.

Anyone know where the audio comes from in the Ken Early Chelsea hard men audio bed. There is some sort of commentator or interview argument. Part of it is.. you are getting it. Something like that. Maybe some mention of channel 5.

jaykay74 wrote: »

Anyone know where the audio comes from in the Ken Early Chelsea hard men audio bed. There is some sort of commentator or interview argument. Part of it is.. you are getting it. Something like that. Maybe some mention of channel 5.

Also you are getting it for sure! It’s so good. PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME!!!