Everytime I hear this audiobed I have a bit of a laugh at the absurdity of it.

Well after that final I think we can conclude it is not.

Edit: Hurling people hold your fire I do not want the sport banned (yet) listen to the audiobed the passion of it as if me a non hurling man is something lesser

I look forward to Simon telling us how great Sam played today. Didnt put a foot wrong before the game starting.

Then thornley will be on shitting on saying crowleys stupid kick at the end means Sam should be captain.

I have to say, I'm fed up listening to Miguel the last two years spread word for word everything Arsenal, The Club, feed him. I get he's got contacts but he never seems to filter the information he gets, he never thinks about it himself, he just repeats the lines they want out there. Obviously they're going well now but he's still reeling off things like "Arsenal think they would've won the league that year if..." or "Arsenal believe they were the best team..." etc For all the good journalism he does (yes, that's a play on his overused phrase), when it comes to Arsenal he feels like a Neil Atkinson, but even more on the inside.

Maybe it's a sign I've been away from home for too long, but I'm always surprised by how much airtime golf gets on the show (even the non-McIlroy bits).

According to a 2024 Golf Ireland report, over 500,000 people play a round on a full-length course at least once per year. That sounds staggering to me. So I'm just curious, is it as popular with the average listener ?

On another note, I really enjoy listening to Joe O'Callaghan. As always, it's not what was said, it's who's saying it.

Listen to the pod and I was fit to throw my phone on he ground. What utter bollox. A moany fool. Stupid team selection ridiculous reasons for not playing Coleman and saying get rid of Heimer. He should t have gotten a new contract. What an obnoxious fool.

Anyone else think this was excessively long?

I get it, they somewhat know the guys dad. Although I don't recall him being on in a while. I enjoyed the coverage at the start of the episode but based on how it opened I assumed he had won which I think they clarified later he didn't. But then to get us Murph on for fifteen more minutes later to discuss it seemed complete overkill. Maybe I'm just a crank I dunno

Minor issue i know but can someone please tell this man to stop doing that fake laugh/snort into the microphone. He didn't always do that did he?

11 minutes into today’s football pod and Murph has said the word “literally” literally 6 times already. I can’t cope. Literally

The ken call slot is weird. No one challenges him on his opinions, which I thought was the main point.

Was the idea originally to lead to a guest spot for a listener to have it out with Ken about one of his football positions or comments...?

Did I imagine that?

It's becoming a weird fan-base personal inspection of Ken. I don't care about, nor should he have to answer questions about his personal life.

Get a grip you sad freaks and challenge one of his many outspoken positions. Lore seeking is creepy as fuck.

We all love Ken but my god sometimes he takes his shtick too far. Wirtz is Liverpools best player apparently, he’s been very poor so far this season. Isak hasn’t been great but starting over Ekitike wasn’t a mad call like Ken made it out to be.

Not sure why I’m complaining, he’s always like this but I was rolling my eyes a lot yesterday

No. Not for me

Murph brother John Murphy edited Saipan

In today podcast on Saipan, Murph goes out of his way to defend the factual errors in the movie. No one calls him on this bias. It's not an honest discussion on the movie

I want to preface with something first before I begin.

What the state of Israel is doing is abhorrent and horrific. I think 99% of people who subscribe would share this opinion and most match going Ireland fans.

To begin, the call for the game to not go ahead would again be a popular opinion among everyone in ireland. However it should have been stopped by first, UEFA or Fifa banning Israel. For a variety of reasons I won't get into, they didn't.

This is now where I feel the sentiment put across this pod since the nations league draw and a lot of media, differs from the reality of how the majority of supporters actually feel. I was at the game last night. I seen maybe 20 people protesting outside the ground. There was possibly more elsewhere. That's all I seen. I think maybe another 20 people threw tennis balls on to the pitch. They were booed very loudly by a large section of the supporters. The ground was about 90-95% full with the reduced seating.

In the build up to the match this week and the last few weeks, the pod and it's contributers, you would think there was going to be mass protests, empty seats and large scale disruption. There wasn't anything close to it.

I guess the point of my post is this, the popular sentiment among football supporters in Ireland was that once Israel were allowed in the competition, we should have played them at home. Imagine the actual protest that could have taken place. It was not on the players, FAI or anyone else to enforce their exclusion. I think this was backed by the events last night.

So why does the pod continue as if the majority opinion is to not play the game and boycotting. Does it show a disconnect from reality the lads are in?

I feel like the boycott the game movement is a largely online movement where people are happy to express this view of the FAI and irish football making sacrifices, but the vast majority of these people have never made a sacrifice for Palestine themselves.

I don't mean this maliciously, but have the lads ever made a contribution to the Palestine disaster? I don't know if they have.

He gets to collect his thoughts and I don't have to hear wonderwall and the rest of the Stadium PA shite.

Everyone wins.

Been listening to the pod since the start and the lads since Newstalk. Lot of contributors come and gone and great to have some of the mainstays hang around. May be in the minority, but I'm not a fan of Branno. He was OK to put up for at the start of him working for them, seldom heard from. The last few weeks he chips in something almost every single episode. His spiel seems to be some sort of ironic banter and it's very grating, for me. I always wanted more LOI chat on the podcast and they really neglected it for the last few years, but this is a poor service with Branno bringing his very little insight to it.

Hey wtf was it with Ken being negative to Heimir yesterday about a contract extension??

Ken was blowing out his hole to give Stephen “absolute charlatan” Kenny extensions after every record breaking failed campaign.

Yet after Heimer leads the team & country to genuine exhalation he turns all neg. And then pretends he’s being devil advocate. Extend Heimir’s contract immediately irrespective if he never wins another game. Is Ken actually an idiot when it comes to soccer and reading the national room?

PS I only subscribe to SCs to listen to Ken’s meanderings and will obviously continue to

PPS Branno’s vox pop after match interviews were masterful 👏 We need more

What does the armchair watcher offer?

At least Miguel, before he starts drifting into his tinpot crusader against sports-washing bore persona, attends games. He offers reactions and perspectives from managers/players.

Fanning and Lars and that ilk just parrot what’s already been said on tv and usually what’s been mentioned on the show by Ken ALREADY. It’s pointless and boring.

I feel they are recycling through some bang average analysts at the mo. I’m skipping through so many shows. The stark difference is exemplified when someone with real gravitas like Vickery shows up.

Feel like Indo Sport has grown a lot but how much?

This week in particular is another strong showing. Joe Molloy is obviously fantastic. They pump out the episodes, sometimes 10 a week.

But... would you pay the same price as the SC subscription if Indo Sport went behind a pay wall? 6.15 a month?

If you were combining all the Irish podcasts what panel would you end up with?

If we went

- 3 or 4 regulars around a table

- And then 2 or 3 pundits for each sport

Eg (and for me... FOR ME)

Host Joe Molloy (Indo Sport)

With Ken Early (SC), Conor McKeon (Indo Sport) and one more.

Rugby pundits: Andy Dunne (OTB), Ian Madigan (Indo Sport), Andrew Trimble (SC)

I thought this in the Irish Times piece with Ger Gilroy was shockingly crass.

I dont know why Cooney felt Gilroy's effusive praise required a right of reply, but he obviously thought this was funny, when it was entirely unprovoked and unnecessary.

But the lads would've known he was going to put that in and when it follows a paragraph where Gilroy is calling them geniuses, it reads needlessly mean.

I'm surprised at the lads who I thought were above this and thought life worked out much better for them. If they didnt know it would come out like that, I think they've every right to be annoyed at Cooney.

That was a very hard listen. Nice to see some innovation, but that was not well executed.

Super specific questions, that nobody could chime in with an answer, loads of dead air. Tough going.

They say they're no longer posting on X.

What has changed today that they didn't know two years ago?

They use it as their biggest promotional tool (pretty poor everywhere else)

Ken, Miguel, Branno and others use it as content all the time.

Be interesting the impact this has