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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This is an Irish independent podcast. Welcome, everyone. Bits and Bobs. It's a pre-canned edition, I'm afraid. We are recording on a Thursday. Published Friday morning, but happy to be here nonetheless. William Slattery is here. Hello, Will. Hello, Joe. One of the key reasons, of course, we are recording on a Thursday is that Will and friends want to go to the summer party, the Media Huis.
Irish independent, Sunday independent, crime world, Sunday world, etc. You want to go and party with your friends. They don't just have a Christmas party here. They have a summer party. And so you don't think you'll be in a fit state to work on Friday. I wouldn't say one of the reasons. I'd say the sole reason. There's no other reason other than that. I think it's very important to be like...
camaraderie and for team building purposes to attend you don't as the aloof star that you are you've actually recused yourself and I won't be in attendance so I don't think you've attended a single social gathering in the 18 months you've worked here you feel like you're too big for that incorrect was at both Christmas parties thank you very much Colin hello and you have two young children as well you don't remember me at the Christmas parties I wasn't there oh my god hello good to be here do as I do
The reason I won't be unfortunately able to attend the summer party is that tonight, Thursday night, I will of course be re-sitting my NCT. Thursday night. Listen, you get the slot, you get the slot. That's what I asked. Where was I the first one? There was something very dramatic happened the first time. Oh, Bayern, was it Bayern Munich Madrid? Yes. Or Bayern PSG? One of them.
Because I remember I was like putting to the chat, we have been like this game and you were like, you just put a 12 out of a failed NCT shirt. I was like, this is the opposite of what I'm experiencing right now. I think it was Bayern Real Madrid, yeah. It's always something. They always get something. Yeah, so look, what can I say?
If the thread depth on my tires tonight isn't good enough, then I'm going to be fairly annoyed. Another reason, of course, is I've just got a lot to do. I'm going to sort out some visas for my entry to New York City last week of the World Cup. Listen, just saying. Are you looking forward to opening up your social media and your world? Absolutely.
crossed my mind actually I'll have to have a little scan on my social media but more to the point Ciara McGeehan is coming into studio on Tuesday she is releasing her autobiography obviously has a lot going on in her life at the moment so really looking forward to talking to her so I want to read that book and we'll do a bit of that tomorrow so that's why we're here on a Thursday but listen we're labouring the point you're listening when you're listening
Emails in to Indosportpodcast at independent.ie. David Clark has emailed in several times. He may not be the only one. He wants to know where the Rocky Movie Club podcast has disappeared to on Spotify. It's a scandalous but slightly boring story. We were struck out by copyright because we played the trailer, which has the music, and Spotify seemed to say no. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the GAA TV schedule changes?
I hosted the Leinster Awards on Tuesday. And obviously they get various players up on stage who are leaving. Jeez, he struck me as very sad. Really? Yeah. Yeah, really sad about the whole thing. So it's not like he's strong-arming them, not getting what he wants, I'm out of here. No, no. Jeez. No.
I got the impression, like, the World Cup next year, watching that, you know, won't be pleasant, so... But with the question you raised, though, about should he suck it up and sign for a World Cup, like... You know, if it was an Irish player, you know, someone who was... He'll have that thrown at him. You know, if it was someone who... Yeah, yeah. Like, he came over here to play rugby.
He was paid to play for Ireland. Well, John Sullivan is reporting, for instance, he reckons, like, the offer on the table is 200 grand, which is still, like, not nothing. Obviously, it feels like a kick in the teeth when you've been on maybe close to double that, but it's still 200 grand. So, yeah, I think he will have that thrown at him. Like, you know, your purport to love Ireland...
Here's 200 grand. We're not asking you to kind of limit your earnings for the next five years. It's just for the next one year. Play the World Cup, then go off and beef up your retirement in Tokyo. I think he will have that put to him. Like, come on. That's a big drop. No, it is. In percentage terms, it is. It is. And I can see why he was like, as Will said, disappointed.
you're treating me like this? Do you value me or not? And even, would it be, is it a good way to make a player feel good going into a World Cup year? Like, just from a performance point of view, even if, like, they said, oh, look, he'll break, he'll sign this, he'll stay. Do you really want a player who's signed a deal and feels like crap? You know, God, I've been screwed over here by this union.
Hard to go out and play your best stuff the next week. But, yeah, I think that'll be, you know, that'll be said, yeah. It might not be, though. By some, by some. No, but it's a point where
mentioning but it's not actually what I think necessarily I'm just throwing it in as another strand to it because it's fascinating it really is we're so unused to actual Irish proper marquee players walking away from the national team that like whenever it does happen you're like Jesus it is like a shock to the system
yeah as an aside by the way the it's mad maybe because they're relaxed maybe because there's no like cameras there the atmosphere was very kind of happy this isn't a behind closed door event I'm not breaking any confidence the players up on stage you know like jeez they're so full of personality in a way that we do not see that's so annoying like full of it which players in particular take your pick like any of them so like
And Will Connors is on stage with James Lowe and Ciarán Frawley. And, you know, James is, he's in a tougher spot, you know, and the two boys are going to Connacht, obviously. And like, so a row breaks kind of a, you know, a row over like who decided to go to Connacht first and who's following who, like who can't quit the other kind of thing. And they're very funny in that.
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