Second Captains Part II

I was listening to Niland today and I thought that he would actually be a good second captain if a space ever opened up. Seems to be on the same wavelength as Eoin with knowledge and humour. Still love Caitlin too

Murph’s inability to say what he knows to be true about Mickey Harte is remarkable. A holy roller dinosaur doing the rounds on rubes who don’t know enough to know he’s a busted flush and has been since his last four or five years in charge of Tyrone.

The improvement he brought to Louth is severely overstated and underrates what Ger Brennan did this season massively. The less said about the Derry job where the panel were essentially in open mutiny by the time of the Ulster championship the better. Now he’s found a county board so stupid it thinks keeping last year’s manager on and making a Celebrity Bainisteoir his ‘co-manager’ is going to end in anything but a flaming wreck.

Mickey’s going to get plenty of ‘mileage’ money travelling to Offaly for the collection basket, anyways.

You just knew Rovers were screwed the moment Branno gave it large. Still managed to find a way to slide under that low bar of expectations.

And he either speaks in a very low tone or they needed to push his levels a bit. I couldn't take to him, not a great interviewee

I spent the whole interview picturing Graham Linehan in my head for some odd reason. Maybe because they sound kinda alike

Won't be giving that book a read anyway, his whole argument seemed to be that the Anti Treaty started it which justified the Free State's actions, he also kinda dismissed Ballyseedy because of what happened in Knocknagoshel. Bit of a weird opinion he has on it all really

No, not for me

I agree with the above about the interview, but my main take away is that Ken appears to be unbelievably well-read across so many topics OR works incredibly hard to prepare for interviews such as this which is almost equally as impressive.

You take that back they defined my teenage years 😎

I'd disagree and would go to see them in Croker if i got ticket, but the frenzy around almost all big events since Covid is getting a bit much now.

What I don't like about interviews like this (with people from sports that they don't follow) is that interviewers like Eoin (and he's not alone with this) can't help but ask a drug related question.

They wouldn't ask a rugby player about drugs - "how did you feel like playing against those dodgy South Africans?"

To my mind, it doesn't add anything to the chat and we never get a good answer, except the obvious one.

Considering it probably cost her a medal it seems like a genuine question but there's not really much she could say outside of what she said

So much better than Flynn and Murphy. First GAA pod I've enjoyed in quite some time.

You're an absolute bore when it comes to Stephen Kenny.

Loved today's rambles from Ken, it's what differentiates second captain's from other sports podcasts and they do it dam well... Or should I say Ken does

Listen again and you might understand the nuance of his argument. If your MAGA hat is down over your ears, perhaps remove it for a few mins.

Well ken said it was daragh not Ronnie that did it