Newstalk: Off The Ball

Coleman on a massive high this morning initially due to the drop off in corporate tax receipts. He has loads of contributors like IFAC etc on to join in the chorus but you can hear the disappointment in his voice when they don't agree that it's not all doim and gloom. They all seem glass half full and that's not suiting his narrative at all. He was 10 feet high at 7 o'clock.

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Nope. Disagree. Driving ranges and most courses full of people just like you and me. Ordinary folk. I should know I've been doing it for 45 years.

Big wigs in companies playing golf. So what.

The same was said when the Second captains team left and Ger came back to OTB, and again when he started OTB AM. It's a bad move, it won't work, he shouldn't be in that position, etc etc. But both initiatives ultimately were successful.

Not saying that this will turn in to a success, but he has been the chief navigator of OTB pretty much since its inception and I don't think it makes sense to ignore that.

I wonder though if they are being pushed in a particular direction from higher up. The pushing of the Go Loud app a couple of years was something that never struck me as being something the presenters were overly keen on. Not saying that was definitely the case, or is the same here, just I had those thoughts at the time.

Entertainment. The show is popular, has been for a long time, whoever thought of pushing this is banking on that popularity being something that people would pay for.

It does put the complaining about the TV license that a lot of people spend their time doing into perspective though. If OTB is worth 10/month to people, hard to argue with 13.33/month per household for what's available there.