Second Captains

dulpit wrote: »

Anyone find that the editing was a bit off for the live shows? Probably much more entertaining in person than listening via podcast, they should have filmed it and issued the whole show as a video podcast maybe?

Yeah I thought it was a bit rushed

Listening to Dunphy's first pod

The full gamut of RTE lads

splendid101 wrote: »

Oh god. I think McDevitt is an absolutely great broadcaster, brilliant interviewer, but his voice trying to hype up a crowd is consistently cringey.

The way his shouts hang there and then trail off...ugh.

Similar to how kermit the frog used to introduce the muppet show.

Say Your Number wrote: »

I remember Ken sneering at Giles' assertion that their is no great tactic in the sky a few months ago, I'd love to hear the two of them discuss Ken's favourite player of all time, David Luiz, that would be worth paying for.

When I listen to Giles talk I find myself nodding in agreement most of the time, when Ken talks half the time I think 'that's an interesting theory but you're talking sh1te'

I'm not really sure how much Ken knows about actual football. I think he's great at covering the whole circus around football and all the characters in it though.

wnolan1992 wrote: »

There was a throwaway comment about "the future of the podcast" in one of the live pods....

Maybe I'm just so downtrodden by the consistent cancellation of every show I like, but combined with the lack of a sponsor atm, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a tad worried.

Yeah I think it was from US Murph - I got the impression too it wasn't just a throwaway comment and the future of the podcast might not be secure.

It does have a pretty loyal listenership I'd say - could probably charge something for it. I'd definitely sign up for Irish Times monthly subscription if you had to to download the show.

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

Yeah I think it was from US Murph - I got the impression too it wasn't just a throwaway comment and the future of the podcast might not be secure.

It does have a pretty loyal listenership I'd say - could probably charge something for it. I'd definitely sign up for Irish Times monthly subscription if you had to to download the show.

f**k off

I'd sign up to a subscription service for the lads alright but the Irish Times? Not a hope.

Is there any other pods that charge? I don't know of any. I don't think it would work.

I thought this years sports annual was better than last years.

Eoin is great but I'd like to invoice him for a new pair of ear drums after listening to the liveshow through headphones. Sweetmotherojebus there's no need to shout like that.

Tadgh Furlong was a great interviewee too.

Arghus wrote: »

So let me get this straight. You'd sign up to a subscription service if it was just the pod? But you wouldn't sign up if it was the pod, with an online newspaper subscription included too? Even if it was the same price? What?

Where did you get the same price notion from?

TheDoc wrote:

Is there any other pods that charge? I don't know of any. I don't think it would work.

I thought this years sports annual was better than last years.

I think it was tried in the early days of podcasting but wasn't really much of a success. Never Not Funny charged up until a couple of years ago.
Answer Me This and Dan Carlin produce for free, but charge for archived shows. SC pods are mostly about the sports stories of the week and therefore almost valueless a week after they're published.

The patreon model seems to be the popular way to fund a show these days. People donating per month/episode get exclusive content, add free feeds and or earlier releases.
I'd say that they have enough fans willing to throw them €5 a month to make that a success, but it might seem a bit grubby for the paper of record.

Trimm Trabb wrote:

Well the podcast is under the Irish Times banner -it's possible that they could include it behind the paywall (€12 per month) and you would have to pay to access all their content - you could choose to just listen to the lads of course.

*Nerd Alert* They also have a separate subscription of €35 a year for the crossword only. Something similar could be done for access to all their audio content. I doubt it would work though.

That sounds realistic or maybe even on the high side, but they probably get a nice top up this time of year from sales of the annual.

They do need an external sponsor badly though. I can't see how using the IT as sponsor can be a long term solution.

Given their unique overseas reach to Irish expats you would think there would be plenty of international companies that might benefit from the publicity, currency brokers, international bulk shipping companies, Irish bar chains, airlines etc.

I'm surprised Squarespace don't sponsor it. For a while I thought they sposored every podcast.

Cienciano wrote: »

Giles has said enough rubbish over the years to make me ignore him at this stage. Managers don't matter, tactics don't matter, Ronaldo banging in a goal a game at united is rubbish. He also said on Off The Ball on newstalk to ken and eoin that Rooney was the best midfielder player he's ever seen. He talks some shíte.

Himself and Dunphy talk awful rubbish....but Jesus they were box office entertainment in their day!

lawred2 wrote: »

show me a football pundit who doesn't

Point being you have the likes of Michael Owen and Alan Shearer who would bore you to death...and you have Dunphy and Giles who talk the same level of rubbish but are entertaining at the same time.