Podcasts

Everything will be fine.

Yeah, we're too good to go down.

The Garibaldi Podcast has gone. It was markedly worse after Forest Focus took the "talent", but the choice of regular guests really was rubbish in comparison. Made us sound like young bucks.

Looking on youtube, they seem to struggle to get over a thousand, with 2k being outliers. Forest Focus's floor is generally around 2k pushing over 10k for their most popular, somewhere in the middle of that for most of the time (under 1k for anything to do with the women).

Girdles regularly demonstrating the tactical nous that explains why he isn't in an elite management team grates almost as much as Fletch Monologuing over everyone else on the pod.

Interestingly on the Wolves preview, while talking about giving money to charity, Steve and Pete offer to donate their appearance money from December to charity. They could have been sarcastic i.e. it's £0, but I don't think they were.

Noted that Gary Birtles isn't on it as much the last few weeks also. Which I like. They've had Franz Carr on a bit who is much better.

Franz is really good. Good insights and a pleasant voice, as well as the nostalgia.

I thought they were being sarcastic because they didn't get a fee

Vintage Birtles moment in the most recent FF. Asked his many goals he thinks Jesus will get, goes off on a disconnected ramble about Robertson, O'Neill, Anderson (Viv) and Bowyer and then starts talking about how the long ball is coming back.

He was on a bad one this episode.

He was. Almost impossible to host a podcast with a guest who struggles to stay on-topic and is continuing defaulting to 'Yes, but Cloughie used to say..."

He also has a massive blind spot where he thinks he can compare football in his day with the modern version, i.e criticising coaches for rotating the squad, etc.