Episode 3144: Brave New Golf, Not Tonight Junior, Coach Coleman, Rugby Re-Education, GAA Power Dispute
This week we saw the future of golf, and its name… is the TGL. Gavin Cooney joins us in studio to talk about the new tech-infused golf league, set up by Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, which made its debut on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, live on prime-time ESPN. Is it the wave of the future? Or is it unbearably cringe? And can it be both?
LET’S GO GOLFING ??
DJ Khaled is in the house to talk about his passion for golf and how impressed he is by @TGL. pic.twitter.com/fvE2VQHDpT
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) January 8, 2025
We discuss Everton’s decision to consciously uncouple from Sean Dyche, hours before they played a FA Cup third-round match against Peterborough, a game that produced further fireworks when Fergie Jnr decided not to make a little bit of history.
Leighton Baines and Seamus Coleman ? @LivEchoEFC pic.twitter.com/NLWXQNTF2B
— Tony Scott (@Tony_Scott11) January 9, 2025
We also discuss Naas GAA club’s decision not to go ahead with the appointment of Rory Gallagher as a member of their senior football team’s coaching ticket. And there’s even time for us to talk about Mack Hansen’s 3-game ban for conduct unbecoming a professional rugby player before Francis Murphy launches a verbal broadside of her own against Eoin McDevitt.
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8. The General and the Agent – @BBCSounds only, where we return to the solicitors office with the other journalist in the room.@Younghorgan @CiaranCass @bbc5live pic.twitter.com/4L8D7lfuXY
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