Smaller Fish GAA Magazine Show - Virgin Media 2 - Got my wish for a GAA magazine show that I called

I couldn't disagree more with his politics. But he knows GAA and he knows how to present, antagonize, and get the best out of analysts. He's very good on long form interviews too.

Just refreshing to hear someone passionate about the sports rather than the drab, non-insightful, nonsense we get on RTE.

They're looking for a sponsor alright... it's hoping to return for a 16 show run next year.

For anyone who missed it:

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Basketball also had similar problems with possession and teams being defensive and closing out games. They had to change the rules. And it worked.

Done very well. Think there's a significant drop off once inter county season ends though. He said the first time it happened he was going crazy but now realises the popularity comes and goes with the inter county season.

He is. They all have their strengths. Even Hayes's bewilderment as to why everyone takes it all so seriously is refreshing. He has good contrast.

Kernan is also excellent:

"It's tough to play in, because I know there's a better alternative," he told RTÉ Sport's Damian Lawlor.

"It's harder to coach the better alternative, but there's a better alternative to play than the modern day, and there's a better alternative to watch than the modern day. I don't think it needs a radical overhaul, but I do think that an awful lot of what is being coached at the moment is basic to coach, easy to understand and easy to implement.

"But teaching somebody how to create space, how to create separation if you're a half-forward from your half-back to receive a pass, giving the player at half-back the confidence to take on that pass, the earlier a half-forward gets the ball the earlier he can get it to a full forward - all these things flow if you're coached properly and you have the right plan in place.

"There was a stage when football was extremely enjoyable to watch - contests all over the field.

"Contests are what excite people, it's what gets crowds going. Players say you block out everything - but when you hear a crowd getting involved getting excited, it radiates onto the field. One complements the other.

"I just feel that if we keep going the way we're going, you are going to lose the key players, the marquee players, in every position in the field because at the moment they're not being coached in those positions.

"We're all being coached in a bland format where everybody runs up and down, everybody is supposed to be able to defend and attack in the same way."