What a shame that this mildly diverting podcast has chosen to sell out. Last week, a little ding, ding, dong tone at the start was, we were told, the difference that we'd notice now they'd been 'hired' to answer to the US megacorp that believes it can shuck some cash out of innocents by hawking The Pathletic. The 2020 equivalent of Sky buying the Rivals message board network and installing a coterie of unctuous quick-to-enrage board admins all convinced they were going to get rich quick on the corporate coattails, before going on to a career that can only be judged by how the Rivals network dominates world sport today. It's sad to hear from the rookery end plugging bloody betting and (bizarrely) some company who seemed to want to send me some shirts on approval or something. Sellout comemierdas. Sold your souls to the devil I say. Why don't you go all the way and get your kid to read out the betting odds on the next one? In between all the nonsense fluff you have to come up with now in order to fill the regulation minutes in between (un-warned about) in yer face adverts. Hope that doesn't get tiresome twice a week for ever in order to meet the corporate contracted requirements. Hope it doesn't start wearing you down and becoming a chore. Hope you don't look back longingly at the days when it was a bit of fun with mates and out of love of being a horny hornet. But as Bill Hicks so memorably pointed out, once you start unzipping the scaly pecker.....
Are you shocked? Any of these things that claim it's for 'the love of the game' is utter piffle. Doesn't matter if it's Arsenal Fan TV or FTRE. All about the money, honey.
They’ve done it for 10 years now, so I don’t think you claim it was only about money. You don’t do something for that long without financial benefit if that’s all it’s for. And now there’s a 30 second advert at the start, that you can easily skip over, then the content is the same as it’s always been. Apart from that now there’s a Thursday preview podcast as well. There’s enough happening on the pitch to complain about don’t make up excuses to get annoyed about things happening off it.
I tried listening to it when I first started listening to podcasts and found it a bit pompous. Haven't tried it since.
I don’t listen to anyone talk on watford as it’s a complete waste of time. Especially as my opinion on watford is only the right one, why would I listen to anyone who is wrong. Off to start my own podcast now.
Wait til we lose the BBC and we have to listen to Fox /Sky/ ITV etc broadcasts with every sound bite sponsored by a gambling/fast food behemoth and half hour programmes with 10 minutes of adverts. Then you’ll complain.
Listening to some obese men taking about football? No thanks. Its bad enough reading their words on here.
A mate of mine does a football podcast every week with some of the coaches from his son's team. He keeps telling us to listen, but I have no desire whatsoever listen to some random blokes talk about football, who probably know even less than me about the game. How do I break it to him?
Tell him you can barely put up with him for 5 mins face to face so you're hardly likey to go and listen to him voluntarilly.
So I got it a bit wrong. It's my mate and some of the dads from his son's team. As I understand it, he's the only coach. I suspect that makes his podcast an even little bit more unattractive.
To be fair it's just a couple of watford fans having a few beers and saying whatever comes into their head, like a lot of football fans. I find their analysis of games quite interesting but they dont seem to know that much about football in general. Last season one of them described Del Boy as 'world class' LOL But good on them for taking the time to do the podcast.
I used to watch that Facebook/Instagram Taylor Made Army stream on Thursday and Sunday nights but gave up on it a few months ago. Not sure if it coincided with Watford's poor form or I just got a bit bored of it.
I had the misfortune of listening to Adam Leventhal’s QSF interview for the podcast. Complete and utter **** from start to finish. Minimal content of the interview, just AL waffling on about The Athetic sounding like Gill the desperate salesman from the Simpsons. I’ve listened to quite a few FTRE pods and generally enjoyed them, sadly, letting Leventhal get his greedy mitts on it will undoubtedly kill it.
I got halfway through him telling us what questiona he thought he was going to ask QSF, then figured he wasnt going to publish anything meaty from the interview and it would be "subscribe to the athletic for the rest of the interview" was I right?
The most intrusive adverts are those shytey ones our club has decided we need to have at half time. I can understand why certain sites may need a bit of revenue from ads you can ignore, but we pay a hefty fee to see already overpaid footballers ‘organised’ by overpaid coaches. Blaring out ads at us is taking the piss.
The advertising helps pay for the overpaid footballers and coaches, of course. Given the cost of footballers' salaries, it's clear ticket prices are massively subsidised by TV revenues, sponsorship and advertising. At £30 a seat, the club can generate what? £600,000 per match? That doesn't come anywhere close to covering even the wage bill of the starting eleven given there is an average of 1.5 home matches per month throughout the year. So our eyeballs and ears pay the rest one way or the other.
Sure and there is lots of it, all over the ground and player kit. But it shouldn’t affect the experience negatively and these do.
Presumably we all just need to gamble more and more until eventually all the ok online bookmakers hit their revenue targets and stop advertising. It's our fault really.
