Episode 1305: Rice, Real, Rangers
It may not be international week but Irish players are nevertheless making some headlines. Matt Doherty has lost 2.5kg. And there is some bad news about a high-level meeting at St George’s Park.
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Steven Gerrard has warned his Rangers players that if they don’t play better he will get better players. Is the warning credible and is this the way to motivate a squad on Rangers’ level?
Sid Lowe joins us to talk about the appointment of Santiago Solari – a sometime colleague of his – to the interim position at Real Madrid, and tries to diagnose where the European champions have been going wrong this season.
I have found a group in pain, says Real Madrid interim coach Santiago Solari https://t.co/nnn2pBSNPm
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Paul Rouse’s brilliant new book “The Hurlers” tells the tale of the 1st ever All-Ireland hurling c’ship -he’s in studio talking to us about GAA’s birth, why it succeeded, and that cranky old bastard Michael Cusack (that’s Cusack in the picture, not Paul) https://t.co/AyKNeFyaKs pic.twitter.com/RBgVhl8Qrr
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We ask Conor Murray about his neck injury, watching Munster as a fan, and if he realised the world was quite so gossipy….
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We discuss why Kaepernick’s struggle and sacrifice is so different to that of Smith and Carlos, and the pathos in “fighting to recapture territory that we thought was won a long time ago.”
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