Second Captains Part II

That was hilarious.

As a Liverpool fan I'm well aware that Liverpool and utd are the story. Nobody cares about man city, even in their 100 point season praise was given and focus moved on.

If you're going to have a podcast that requires an opinion on football 3 times a week you're going to have to lean heavily on Liverpool and utd.

thenightman wrote: »

Another poxy mini football show. Why don't they do a proper show as was always the way and release a 15 min brief/taster of it for non subscribers? what they're at currently is the worst of both worlds. Friday & Saturday matches seem an age ago by the time Tuesday afternoon rolls around.

Ara but what really changes. The matches themselves are somewhat irrlevant. Doesn't really matter if its a Tuesday or a Friday the previous weekends matches are talked about.
A bit of a groundhog day really - just hoping for a bit of angle or comedy/craic around the discussion.

thenightman wrote: »

Another poxy mini football show. Why don't they do a proper show as was always the way and release a 15 min brief/taster of it for non subscribers? what they're at currently is the worst of both worlds. Friday & Saturday matches seem an age ago by the time Tuesday afternoon rolls around.

the football is utter shoite at the minute anyway

it's so dull I'd understand if they stopped covering the premier league entirely this season

thenightman wrote: »

Another poxy mini football show. Why don't they do a proper show as was always the way and release a 15 min brief/taster of it for non subscribers? what they're at currently is the worst of both worlds. Friday & Saturday matches seem an age ago by the time Tuesday afternoon rolls around.

Not much of substance happened over the weekend football wise anyway so I'm grand with it. I mean the highlight was a fairly irrelevant north London derby.

In fact the rest of the Premier League season looks fairly predictable. The only thing up for grabs might be who goes down between Fulham and Newcastle.

At least they'll be Champions League to keep it interesting.

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Not much of substance happened over the weekend football wise anyway so I'm grand with it. I mean the highlight was a fairly irrelevant north London derby.

In fact the rest of the Premier League season looks fairly predictable. The only thing up for grabs might be who goes down between Fulham and Newcastle.

At least they'll be Champions League to keep it interesting.

Not the point and I don't subscribe to your mindset that the league isn't interesting at the moment so give them a free pass, it's their job to make it interesting. Football show on a Monday was a staple and this change is pissing on long term subscribers in hope of drumming up new ones, which is extremely unlikely given the current saturation of Pods on the go.

thenightman wrote: »

Not the point and I don't subscribe to your mindset that the league isn't interesting at the moment so give them a free pass, it's their job to make it interesting. Football show on a Monday was a staple and this change is pissing on long term subscribers in hope of drumming up new ones, which is extremely unlikely given the current saturation of Pods on the go.

Don't you think they perhaps just thought the rugby was the bigger show from the weekend, so put out a pod on that instead? Rather than as a ploy to squeeze out more subscribers or piss on long-term supporters.

I doubt there will be too many non-subscribers scrambling to pay up to hear thoughts on Lamela's rabona. It's not like they've kept anything explosive back a day.

elefant wrote: »

Don't you think they perhaps just thought the rugby was the bigger show from the weekend, so put out a pod on that instead? Rather than as a ploy to squeeze out more subscribers or piss on long-term supporters.

I doubt there will be too many non-subscribers scrambling to pay up to hear thoughts on Lamela's rabona. It's not like they've kept anything explosive back a day.

By Tuesday it’s too late to cover the weekends action. They wouldn’t have tried this new model when they were starting out. Covering the weekend football properly is essential. They can do a full rugby and football podcast on a Monday, adding an extra 30 minutes to their micro Monday podcast isn’t a big ask.

I love second captains and have been a patreon since the start but i do think its ok to criticise an aspect of their model. I agree with some posters above - i don't like the football being put back a day as a marketing objective. The world moves fast and i think football should be discussed on the monday. I know they are a business and that's why they are testing this new delivery method but i don't particularly like it.

Let's be honest i think the vast majority listen to second captains for the football and i don't blame them for trying this but why not just put the whole thing behind the patreon paywall and give the freebies the little mini pod on a monday with snippets of a longer pod?

dr.kenneth noisewater wrote: »

I'd say normal service will resume once the 6 nations is over lads

Was coming here to post exactly this. I don’t like rugby myself but it is the 6 nations, can totally understand their move. Relax, lads.

Cienciano wrote: »

Listening to GFW and the lads seem to be sick of football. The premier league fixtures are dragged out over friday, saturday, sunday and monday and so many games are just too boring. I don't watch many full games these days, but there's games on so often that having football show on a particular day probably doesn't seem like a priority. How often has a premier league game been on midweek that you didn't even know about untill a phone alert beeped or a mated send a message about fantasy football? All too often for me.

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-882537408/spm-221-how-much-football-is-too-much-football

This is a really good episode on what you're talking about. Rory Smith is great.

humberklog wrote: »

Podcasting tomorrow, Paddy's Day.


Do those lads ever take a day off...

They never go home those boys.

Or in this case, they stay at home all the time.

Ah they've surely recorded it today already for release tomorrow, seems they've done that for most Fridays as well recently

Published and all now, so I suspect (:eek:) that they recorded yesterday. Shock/horror.