GAA Social Special- All-Ireland final preview
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It's the GA Social on BBC Sounds and, and, Oisín, just in case people are not listening to it on BBC Sounds or wherever they get their podcasts. Should be, though. Well, that's true. That's true. We're recording this on Thursday evening, looking ahead to the All-Ireland Football Final, but it's also going out on BBC Radio Ulster. Where it all started? Yes, because you're a big deal. See? People think you need to go mainstream now. Again.
Actually, we started off there. We used to do full Saturdays. Do we say this every time we do something on the radio?
Yeah, we need to change the script here. Think of something different. Tell you what, Philly wasn't there those days.
Well, the only thing I could think about is the pizzas. Yes, Adrian McLaughlin. Pizzas, arriving at half eleven in the morning. They used to have a game at, what, one?
We used to do the qualifiers on radio, Philly. I've got to get my hands here, by the way, because I'm conscious this is on radio and you can't actually see them, even though we're recording this in Dublin.
One, three, five, seven, all the games.
Do you remember the staggered games and the qualifiers on a Saturday or Sunday? This is the back door. When was that? What age are you now?
38.
You should remember this.
He was never in the back door of qualifiers.
Oh, it was once. It was once. Right, once.
Disgusting. It was about 20 years ago.
But the games were staggered and we would have been commentating on them on radio. So it was when Ossian was sort of first starting the punditry. He was kind of finishing off the football career. And I was sort of cutting my teeth in terms of presenting.
And we would have... Jeez, lads, yous are old.
We are old, aye, yeah, yeah.
The Ant & Dec is still going well though.
We should just mention we're here for the small reason of the All-Ireland Football Final this weekend. Mayo against Kerry. Where do we even start?
That's the thing, isn't it? It's been a crazy year of football. For me, brilliant year. Would you have picked these two? Maybe obviously Kerry, but even looking at the semi-finals, you wouldn't have picked maybe the three out of four getting there. So it's been an interesting year of football. But you have two teams that have culturally... different but but also high expectations in terms of fan bases and football heritage and stuff like that so and there's loads of kind of conversations branching off from each group as well Andy Moran being the new manager there getting the bounce being in Ireland his first year and this unbelievable forward line popping out in their year in the first year I know I don't know who's being there but Byrne and Macdonald being unbelievable as well so it's been an interesting year for me but also Kerry
You know, they've been, I wouldn't say at the levels actually that they can get to. The last two games in particular, maybe the opposition were a reason for that. But certainly they've been the team that most would have said they're going to get to the final. Which is probably the thing that doesn't make it as...
Surprising, but you're right about those.
What is the All-Ireland final preview and who’s on this BBC GAA Social panel?
But it has been a surprising championship, and so much stuff in it. My fear is that we don't get the final that the championship deserves.
Yeah, I think that is it, but it still wouldn't cloud my judgement of what's going on all year. There's just been too much good stuff. Do you know what? See when you're actually involved in it and you're managing it, obviously not in the All-Ireland Series, but if you're managing it in the county level, it does go very very quickly you know you are bouncing from one week to the next you don't really get a team to catch your breath you don't really get a massive amount of time to even look and go and assess how good our performance is you're just going listen we won we need to improve on x y and z and we bounce into another game into the next game but this year like
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:29
2
What is the All-Ireland final preview and who’s on this BBC GAA Social panel?
4:29–14:11
3
How has this year’s championship been surprising and which teams exceeded expectations?
14:11–24:21
4
How do Kerry and Mayo compare in form, forward lines and defensive strengths?
24:21–29:54
5
Why is Jason Foley praised as a key defender and can he nullify Kerry’s forwards?
29:54–38:59
6
How have rule changes and the shift to small-sided play affected kicking and forward movement?
38:59–58:11
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