Joe Molloy is joined by Michael McCarthy, Arthur O’Dea and Will O’Callaghan to react to the Masters, discuss the state of the GAA and respond to your emails.
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26 Comments
imagine thinking the sky masters coverage was good lol
One of the biggest things that journalists never talk about, understandably, is the payment of GAA team managers
Time to forget about McIlroy. Busted flush who let the fame and hype go to his head. Overtaken by better players
Gaelic football is just boring
Newstalk, and the rest of the Irish media had given him the green jacket before the start . He also missed the cut in the Players that nobody mentioned .That matchplay course was a Mickey Mouse course"
As an ardent Celtic fan of a certain vintage (I was 7 when we won the EC in ‘67😉), I was intrigued by the discussion. I get all the points made – e.g., I’m not sectarian but I still like no result more than us beating Rangers, and I know the football is not up to CL or even EPL standards – and of course Celtic is a huge fish stuck in a small pond. But the bit that interests me most about the discussion is the inference that anyone (incl todays youngsters) could only really be interested in a team that’s playing the best standard of football possible. Surely that’s a very shallow measure of a person’s sporting loves/persona? Wouldn’t that criterion rule out anyone from supporting a League of Ireland team? And it shouldn’t, of course! I support Celtic for family background reasons, the rich Celtic history reasons, a shared sporting love with my son (who’s otherwise Man U to my Leeds!!😳😖), Henrik Larson of course -and a myriad of other reasons that I cherish deeply. So I’d find it impossible to subscribe to a notion that something like supporting Celtic could be ‘irrelevant’ by dint of the football not being top drawer – it’d be a bit like someone only loving the son or daughter who earns the most money!
So, I’m staying in Paradise 😉🍀⚽️
Taking a Gamble as in seeing it first and making the run to collect any possible rebounds, even with low percentage efforts, hence the gamble
Really interesting observation on Rory playing more his own style at Augusta. Maybe he still needs to learn how to win there, for himself. Im sure he has gotten lots advice over the years and you wonder if thats what hes listening to when hes midswing. Its entirely possible that he can…and entirely possible that he cant. What about Shanes approach on Sunday on the 15th. Did that cost him a top 12 finish and automatic qualification to next year…or was that what he was trying to gain …or just the experience of going for it ?
This always confuses me about the Irish (my mother's family are Irish).
Celtic is a club founded by Irish Catholic Priests, in the East End of Glasgow, to feed the Irish. We fought a war for independence from the English, and yet you support their clubs. Delusional!
This conversation just shows that you lot are nothing more than glory hunters. I bet you would find Chelsea fans and Arsenal fans in Ireland now, further showing how little you actually know about the clubs you support.
My great grandfather and grandfather a like would be spinning in their graves at today's Irish supporting and promoting the English 🤦♂️
I wish Rory would shut the hell up in the lead up to the masters and just focus on his game. By talking his game up, he just dials up the pressure and expectations on himself. People forget his game has been poor overall the last few months apart from the WGC matchplay. One swallow does not make a spring. Maybe he should be honest and admit he has a problem with the Masters to lessen the pressure.
The expectations for Rory are ridiculous. He's literally the most successful player of his generation. Other top players have fewer majors and much fewer tour wins yet Rory gets bashed when he doesn't win the masters. His major performance has been dissapointing admittedly but it seems the bashing comes from people who don't understand the difficulty of golf and peaking at the right times. Rory was in poor form coming into this and only showed a glimmer of form in a matchplay tournament. Not enough to make anyone feel confident in his chances. I'd be confident he can contend at the pga or open this year if he is playing well. We take Rory for granted and especially his successes which people just write off as they are not majors. But still he has the best career of anyone of his age group and only Phil and Tiger have better from last 25 years. Think he deserves a lot more praise than we give him in this country
Can't stand Celtic and Scottish football in general. Rubbish standard and it's not about sport between Celtic and Rangers.
It's hard not to think that Rory's habit of playing safe at majors is directly related to his admiration and relationship with Tiger Woods. He looks up to Tiger so much, that he thinks Tiger's ruthlessly efficient way of winning golf tournaments is the "right" way and therefore attempts to emulate that style, when really he's more suited to playing golf in the way Phil Mickelson does.
One rule to fix Gaelic Football – Both teams must keep at least 5 players in either half of the field, the remaining 5 players are free to roam the whole pitch. You can track this with fairly crude GPS technology, the likes of which players already carry. If a player strays outside of their zone, it results in an automatic turnover for attacking teams, or a 20 meter free against you for defending teams.
Incredible shallowness shown by the people on this show re Celtic FC and football in general. Part of the reason why Celtics' support (visible) has reduced over the years is because of the likes of presenters like these fawning over the circus that is the English league. Football clubs aren't (weren't) about circus, celebrity, over paid and pampered footballers managers and agents with egos to match. It is about soul, community, history and ethos. Its obvious that the media in this country are more inclined to pay homage to the former as it suits their masters. The fact that they can point to a league that provides such riveting entertainment and spectactle such as Crystal Palace v Brighton goes to show you the level of laziness and irrelevance demonstrated by these people. With respect to one commentators reference to the relationship between Celtic and Rangers and his refusal to become interested in it he probably needs to understand football history and perhaps educate himself on football club rivalry throughout the global football world as opposed to his homogenised version.
Think James Mc Cleans treatment in football grounds throughout England. Try looking at
Corinthians Palmeiras
Boca River Plate
Galatasary Ferhnabace
Ajax Feyenoord
to name but a few and consider the relationship between the fans of these clubs and the ongoing relationship between them.
Finally consider treating football not as an exclusive English phenomena but as The world game, which it is.
I have a rule to fix that hand passing issue, basic. if you receive a hand pass you then can not give a hand pass. problem solved
every year i can not get over how its just accepted that all the golf is not allowed to be shown on tv in one of the bigeest tounrnaments in golf , crazy how its till accepted
The human brain is flawed and Rory McIIroy is a prime example of this.
Devastated to hear that free staters don't love Celtic
How very modern Irish. Don’t mention the dirty word ‘religion’ and Catholicism in particular. Maybe if there were a Muslim team the soy boys of OTB would be frothing all over them.
"Journalists" who won't report the news because the ordinary man isn't allowed to be informed. Amazing
Joe Molloy is now an expert on Golf
Joe Molloy should have no opinion on Celtic, he evidently hasn't a notion what he's talking about
The rules also don’t help. We should be introducing rules to encourage open play. Attacking mark is a dreadful rule. It forces teams to pack the defence. The game has been created now to just allow scoring uncontested so teams have to come up with defensive tactics. If rules allowed for more one on one engagements where backs can tackle properly in open play then management wouldn’t resort to just packed defences as the only tactic that can work
Not one knows the origin of the connection to celtic
Nice to hear Irish boys talking about Celtic 🍀 you are false, at least Hibernian and Celtic are Irish clubs doing not to bad, keep supporting your oppressor's in England up… even the fact the Jesuits be mentioned who gave us the made up famine… shocking so called journalism…yes the league is bad, but your team is your team, I feel for your wives if you have any…are they still in a decent league ☘️⚽🍀🇮🇪🏴