Episode 3184: Ireland Ship Four, The GAA Goalie Debate, McGuinness Flaps His Wings, The Stanley Matthews Final
Carla Ward’s time with Ireland started with an uninspiring slog of a win over Turkey last Friday, the bad taste of which was supposed to be washed out last night in Slovenia; instead Ireland shipped four goals in a humiliating defeat.
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Is the Irish WNT stuck in a rut or are there enough reasons to be cheerful that this group will spend summer 2017 on the beaches of Rio? We’re leaving nothing to chance in our quest for answers with The 42’s Gavin Cooney, Flo Loyd Hughes of the Counter Pressed Podcast, and Chloe Mustaki, who was on the provisional squad for this international window.
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You don’t have to be crazy to be a GAA goalie, but it helps, as does not letting in farcical goals. We debate the role of the modern GAA keeper, “the rules”, possession coming too easy too often, if Niall Morgan is making a mockery of out-field players, and whether the skill of shot-stopping should be protected at all costs.
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Plus there’s the “Stanley Matthews Final”, Jim McGuinness Flaps His Wings, and the Tony O’Donoghue bellwether.
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