Carthy wasn’t bad. Multiples superior to Canning
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Carthy wasn’t great but he was a million times better than Canning, who is done. He’s gone so bad in recent years.
I do think McConville is decent as a co-commentator.
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Carty wasnt bad?? Wasn’t the worst??! He was absolutely fucking atrocious. He made ger canning look like Barry Davies
Brolly made an total show of himself on an interview with ger gilroy this week. Contradicted himself a rake of times as per usual. His earnest solution to the problems in the gaa was to condense the season to 4 mths by dispensing with the county system and dividing the country into 32 equal population units. This wasn’t questioned at all by gilroy. And some people take both of these charlatans seriously.
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A great idea. Give players back to the clubs. Disempower the inter county game and managers.
What’s your solution mate? Just so we can compare
They should be in institutions
He must have been watching The Hunger Games
District 1 versus District 3 All Ireland semi final
Ffs Aristotle they are both appalling .
They’d better not put us in with Charleville.
If anyone needs to get the chop from RTE Radio Sport, it’s John Mullane. Impossible to listen to him
Getting rid of the county system as we know it entirely is easily the stupidest solution I’ve heard to the whole thing. The fact he was allowed just carry on as if it might be a runner was even worse.
He’s 100pc right on condensing the season. 4 or 5 mths would be about right.
One of the problems with giving greater primacy to the club game is that it’s much easier to transfer club than county. If the club game was the top level there’d be loads of fellas jumping ship from junior and intermediate clubs
I enjoyed this little segment from today’s around the grounds update.
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That was a phenomenal Canice-style interview with Richie Power Senior and Junior. Littered with I supposes and ah shure look its and boring yet charming anecdotes the whole way. I loved Des’s reference to kids now playing computer games a lot, and Richie Junior agreeing. And Richie Senior’s anecdote about Pat Delaney, God rest him, approaching him coming off the pitch after a championship defeat to tell him he was wanted for training for the Kilkenny seniors the following day. The sort of wholesome winter Sunday Sport fare I was raised on, the sort of fare that reassures you everything will always stay the same, forever. I could nearly smell the roast potatoes off it.
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It was unrale from the two Richie’s. The highlight for me was the strong south KK accent and Richie Snr talking about the kids hittin d’ball up again d’wall, and being nemt centre forward again Kerry in d’league as KK were in the doldrums below in 1B at the time.
Spent about 4 hours in the car this afternoon and caught most of it.
Its so bad its good. Des is some guffawing donkey. He can’t even phone it in any more. The amount of times he changed his question halfway through it was infuriating.
John Mullane back on the airwaves is good for the soul also. He made a drab affair in Walsh park tolerable. Marie Crowe is a steady pair of hands on the show also.
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Hes some ape the way he talks over everyone else. He wedged in his Ian Rush story in the Bellingham piece and snorted like a pig for 5 minutes after it with what I can only assume was laughter?
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Yeah, he has an annoying thing of inserting his own anecdotes to discussions that are irrelevant and he is the only one laughing.
Marty had a nice opinion on the state of football. Obviously quite irate after last night.
He sounded like an uncle of mine I spoke to during the week who reckoned the Tipperary Junior B hurling final was going to be better than the Senior final last Sunday.
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It was the little touches that made it.
I loved how Richie Senior made reference to Kilkenny having great respect for Offaly hurling, and Wexford, that there was never more than a point or two between any of them, and then remembering Laois, and saying that Laois were a very good team too, name checking John Taylor, and the Cuddys, and the Bohans, and mentioning how much respect he had for good hurlers in every county, and how it’s so much harder now for hurlers in those counties, and how he’s worried for hurling in those counties.
I loved how Richie Junior found “Zero Five” a very bitter pill to swallow, because they lost the under-21 that year and lost the senior. It showed that Kilkenny people know the pain of defeat as much as anybody.
I loved how Richie Junior recounted how he loved Mayo football and how he’d go to a lot of their matches in Croke Park on his own.
I loved how Richie Junior recounted how he was training on his own with Mikey Comerford in the winter of 2013/14 and was doing fitness tests in the car park of Hotel Kilkenny. Mikey is the Kilkenny S&C man now
I loved how Richie Senior said Tipp and Kilkenny took hurling to a new place, and referenced the great matches they played against each other - “All-Ireland semi-finals, and a couple of finals”.
I loved how Richie Junior told of his meeting with Oisín McConville. Oisin said he’d come down to Kilkenny but the two Richies said “we’ll come up to you” and they met in the Carrickdale Hotel.
I loved how Richie Senior told of the hilarious way Eddie Brennan came to be picked for the Kilkenny under-21s in 1999, which Richie Senior was managing them. A fella told him about this genius forward playing for Graigue-Ballycallan, so Richie Senior went down and watched him, and thought to himself, “this fella is brilliant”, and “we’ll have to have another look at him”. Eddie played the next game for the under-21s but then got injured.
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Without you naming him, I’ve a fair idea which uncle it is 
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