What are you going to write about this week? We'd assembled in the pub for a quick - ahem -after programme meeting. Damien Richardson was an absentee as he's about to become a granddad for the second time and he needed to be available for ferrying to hospital duty if it was time to go.
But Tony McDonnell, Sean Connor and the rest of the production team met up, and a lot of the talk was about who might be going where during the transfer window.
News came through to us that George O'Callaghan could be on his way out of Turner's Cross, and maybe that would allow Joe Gamble remain. Would Faz be going to Drogheda, or might there be a last minute move to an English club.
Is Connor Sammon on his way back to Dublin from Derry, and if so, to where? Those and many other possible moves were discussed. Of course, by the time you read this, some of those questions might be answered.
It's a strange time for clubs because the question of whether to reinvest in more players for another push towards the title, Europe, or avoiding relegation must be on the agenda of pretty much every board of all Premier Division clubs, and yet the reality is, that there can only be one winner, a couple of European places, and still three teams will go down at the other end.
For those that miss out on the fruits at the top, and for those that end up going down, the extra money spent will have been a waste, and as the old Simply Red song from the recessionary 80s goes, 'Money's too tight to mention'.
Now that we have our Noughties recession, it'll be interesting to see what impact that has on the league here.
Despite money being tight, Sean Connor still manages to arrive with a more garish shirt every time he appears on the show. His dodgy threads were only matched this week by our director, Kevin's, equally dodgy stripy shirt. At least you the viewer didn't have to put up with having to see Kevin's awful shirt.
I thought these stripy numbers were strictly reserved for The Sunday Game crew, but sadly they're creeping into the MNS wardrobe now too. Bring back Roddy's Beach Boys flowery shirt any day.
Having got up at 6am to present the Tubridy Radio Show, on RTÉ Radio 1, I was feeling a bit tired by the time we got around to 8pm, and kick-off time for MNS.
It makes for a curious day, when you're interviewing someone about their child's serious skin disorder, then the prospect of gay marriage in Ireland, and then having to talk about Mark Quigley and Dave Mooney's exploits in the eircom League.
If variety is the spice of life, mine is spicier than most at the moment.
Our editor Steve, the Brummie, was very impressed with Tony O'Donoghue's report on the Irish women's football team's European Championship qualifier against Sweden in Bray. The report was great, unfortunately the result wasn't.
A 5-0 beating against what is one of the best women's teams in the world is not the sort of result that Noel King and his coaching team would have been looking for, and some of the goals conceded fell very much into the soft variety, but I'd recommend going along the next time the women's team play.
I was at their game at home to Italy, another very good side, and the Irish were very unlucky to go down 2-1. Like their eircom League counterparts, the more people that get out to support the women's team, the better the atmosphere, and the better chance they'll have of achieving good results.
Now that Euro 2008 is over, and what a competition it turned out to be, hopefully the focus will return to the domestic league (realistically, until the Premier League kicks off in England).
Remember we've a big number of live matches to come on RTÉ Television in the latter part of the season, both League and Cup. I can't wait to get back out and around the country.
Finally, St Pat's defender John Frost was caught out by Jacqui Hurley this week in 60. When asked which living person does he most despise, Frosty answered Hitler. Now either he knows something we don't, or he misheard the question. Either way, Tony McDonnell wasn't going to let him away with it, and we gave Mr Frost a good slagging after the commercial break.
Some of the football purists still find the 60 segment not to their liking, but I can assure you from the response we get by e-mail, it's a part of the programme that always manages to prick the interest of even those with just a passing interest in the game.
Incidentally, if you want to suggest some questions for 60, fire them in to us to mns@rte.ie. All suggestions gratefully received, and some questions will surely be used.
If you're watching the programme online from somewhere foreign, we'd love you to drop us a line to let us know where you are, and maybe we'll have a competition for our online viewers who are abroad.
I'll check with the production team what we might do, or alternatively you could suggest a possible competition for those in far away fields.
We'll be doing the draw for the next round of the FAI Ford Cup on next week's show, and we'll also have the Goal of the Month competition for June, which should be interesting.
So join us at 8pm next Monday, or anytime if you're watching online.
