Along with The Hound, we met his new leader, Brother Ray, a character weve known for a while would be loosely based on the book character Septon Meribald.
Ian McShane did sort-of give that speech, disagreeing with Sandor Clegane about the state of men and what makes them broken.
Prior to the episode airing, we knew Ian McShane would be playing the Meribald stand-in, a character known simply as Brother Ray on the series.
If anyone were capable of pulling off a speech like that, it would have been Ian McShane.