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Keith Long seems impressed anyway, had Larry Murphy & Father Brendan Smyth in for training this week.

There's been a few dopey slots in each "season" of the show and that's one of the worst. When they're all knocked out of LMS they just go back and start again! What's the point??

Why have "Goal of the Month" if you're not gonna give either a viewer or the player in question some sort of prize/award. It wouldn't have to be fancy. Surely RTÉ could stretch to a prize worth €40 or €50 once a month??

And what happened Stuey's expensive looking "analysis" gizmo which they utilised for all of 90 seconds max each week but has since bitten the dust, gone the way of the E-Voting machines..

Pedro Collins isn't the worst of them out in the Montrose bubble. In fact he come's across as fairly inoffensive and a decent seeming type. But it annoys me the way he introduces a topic, says we're gonna have an examination of said topical issue and then two minutes later interrupt's a guest mid-speech (usually Alan Cawley) and says "Ok well that's all we have time for with that particular topic, but I'm sure it's an issue we'll come back to time and again on the programme......" 

Speaking of Bray, they`ve had some amount of talent pass through their books over the years. If only they`d an owner with deep pockets, they could keep their best players and would be top half of the league every season. Mc Guinness is excellent in nets and Peter Mc Glynn is a fairly dynamic player with good awareness, from what I`ve seen of him.