Second Captains Part II

Meant to post in agreement with this the other day. I love the hurling chats. And the football chats although they've a good bit of work to do this year to replace Oisin McConville.

Edit: And nothin but love for Timmy McCarthy and the Timmy McCarthy audiobed.

She's so knowledgeable but at the same time she's really hard to listen to. Could have really skipped the last 15 mins of todays pod.

As soon as the words left Ken's mouth that he predicted an Arsenal win, he sealed them to their doom

She needs to decide if she's a journalist or a fan tbh

She's both really... there's plenty of people in that bracket now, of partisan one-team journos. It's a tightrope to walk, as obviously you can't push the line too far or you're out of a livelihood. So in that sense, fair play to her for publishing that negative Liverpool story in the first place - would have been a lot easier/safer to stick to puff pieces.

Not fond of Branno either... he definitely leans into the smarmy bantz side of things. I'm not entirely gone on Sneyd either tbh, purely cause it can take him so long to say something simple, but he's knowledgeable on the league and tries not to follow Branno down bantz alley.

There surely are other people out there they could have on though? It's such an afterthought of a segment, when it could actually be something they dip into every 3 or 4 weeks for a half hour if it was done properly with more engaging/engaged guests. Like, I'd like to be more invested in the LOI, and an occasional proper segment with better guests would really help to get pulled into the broader stories playing out. If she's kept up with the league's goings-on, Lisa Fallon would be great.

They can keep the twice-a-year check-ins with the two lads as they are if they want, but they could really add to it with more separate LOI shows with different guests - whether that's other journos, or coaches or former players or whatever. Just something to add an extra bit of coverage of whatever interesting stories are playing out through the season.

Christ, that Flynn / Murphy segment was boring! You're in College for **** sake. Not like having a real job or trying to raise a family.

Happy to see them looking like they’ll cover the LOI more although I hope it manifests itself in Ken and Eoin attending games and able to provide their own takes. Right now I think that’s the main problem.

LOI weekly done by Dan McDonnell and Johnny ward is my Favourite podcast and is what got me into the league.

just if you want to increase your knowledge they have interesting debates and insight. Between the stripes seems solid as well but only listened to one show

Was anyone at the live football show at Christmas with Joey N'doh? Boys mentioned he was so over the top with stuff he pissed off the other guests and they never aired the content. Anyone any clue what happened at it!?

Always found Dan McDonnell excellent for LOI and ROI stuff , he's the best football contributor on OTB by a country mile, pity he wasn't brought over to Second Captains

That's what I like about Dan, on OTB a lot of them try too hard to be funny or opinionated(Nathan Murphy being a prime example) , Dan calls it like it is.

The "Dublin happened to it" audiobed is an actual piece of art.

On the subject of sports doc series - been watching Make Or Break on AppleTV+, really enjoyable surfing series following the challengers for the world title. Some incredible surfing cinematography as well.

Would love the lads to do a few more deep dive episodes into some random interesting sports story, away from the usual popular sports. Feels like they've done a bit less of that over the past while. We had one on chess a few months ago, but that's about all I can remember.

They done on one surfing a few years ago. I think one of them is actually into it.