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The Buildup, in association with Ladbrokes is our weekly podcast where we mark your card for the sporting action of the week ahead in the company of Ladbrokes ambassadors Kevin Doyle, Stephen Ferris and Jason Quigley.

It's the busiest weekend of sporting action we can remember and we're looking ahead to as much of it as we can in a packed show.

Stephen Ferris joins us to discuss Ireland's suddenly massive night in Paris on Saturday where there's a Six Nations title on the line in Andy Farrell's first season.

Mark and Mick also discuss an absolutely huge weekend of Gaelic football and hurling. All four provincial semi-finals will be decided in hurling, with Limerick and Tipperary headlining four mouth watering ties. And in football, it's straight knockout for the first time since 2000. We look ahead to a massive weekend in all four provinces.

Mark is also going mainly GAA for his Big Shout this week. If you've a Big Shout of 25/1 or over, send us an email at [email protected] and you could win the coveted grand prize of two cakes and a sports biography.

There's also a big weekend of Premier League ahead and the lads play Ladbrokes 1-2-Free where you can win €100 cash for correctly predicting the scores in three of this weekend's games.

And finally, we get Mick's NFL picks ahead of the Week 7 of the season. His good run of form came crashing down in Week 6 - can he get the mojo back?

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This is 15 for 50: The Hurling Edition.

We tasked three of the greatest minds in hurling - Anthony Daly, Anthony Nash and Liam Sheedy - to come up with a XV of the greatest hurlers the game has seen from the past 50 years to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the All-Stars!

Who will get into a stacked full forward line? Who misses out by the skin of their teeth? How many lads will be moved out of position to facilitate another?

It is a fascinating listen and, yes, the lads do come to an agreement in the end!

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Mick and Maurice bring you this week's GAA Embedded. The lads discuss the jots of following the club season from afar in 2021, some outstanding performances of the club weekend, including a 39 year old JJ Delaney!

For the main part of the show, Maurice talks to Cahair O'Kane of the Irish News with the two differing on the rights and wrongs of "Proposal B," the championship restructure backed by the GPA but, it appears, doomed to failure.

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Continuing on the coaching theme, this week Maurice chatted to Martin Bennett, sprint coach to the stars of the GAA.

Over the course of the podcast, Martin delved into his role with the Waterford hurlers, how to get the most of an athletes performance and how impressive Tyrone's Conor Meyler truly is.

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GAA Embdeded is our new weekly GAA show on Balls.ie. Every Monday for the Championship summer, Tipperary's Shane McGrath and Kerry's Darran O'Sullivan will be our guides through the hurling and football championships. We'll also have special guests, tactical breakdowns, and much, much more.

This week, Shane (0.58) looks back on an enthralling Munster Hurling Final, with Limerick securing three in a row thanks a second half blitz the likes of which we've rarely seen. Can anybody get in their way at that form?

Maybe Kilkenny? Given the horrendous personnel issues in the Dublin camp, it's hard to know much about where The Cats are right now. Or maybe a challenger will emerge from the qualifiers. Shane is very impressed with Clare after their big win in the stifling heat of Thurles on Saturday afternoon.

Maurice Brosnan then brings us Inside The Game (40.06) with reaction to Dublin footballers' looking vulnerable against Meath, and a stunning weekend of Ulster football. Hee also takes us through his Embedded article from last week Tyrone's more positive approach paying dividends.

We also look at the greatest GAA moustaches of all time (1.12.55) and PJ and Gary battle it out to guess the handicaps (1.14.52) for next weekend's games.

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