We are in trouble. We can discuss how we get out of it, but for now...here we are.
9 May 2023
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Everything will be fine.
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Yeah, we're too good to go down.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Franz is really good. Good insights and a pleasant voice, as well as the nostalgia.
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I thought they were being sarcastic because they didn't get a fee
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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.
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He was on a bad one this episode.
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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.
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Think there’s a few on here who listen to The Infinite Monkey Cage? Appears Robin Ince has resigned because the bbc say his views (left wing but hardly extreme) expressed outside the show aren’t compatible with working for them.
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So his monkey cage was finite after all.
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Birtles, as expected, goes full-bore for the players on Forest Focus. Ignores the reports that Marinakis asked them for their opinion - they didn't go to him independently. He's very concerned about "the players" getting O'Neill and Dyche sacked (literally only one player remaining from O'Neill's time) but not, apparently, anyone else. Can't think why.
He also apparently never complained. Conveniently forgetting that he asked Clough for an extended break after the summer of 1980 and, when it was rejected, asked for a transfer and fucked off to ManU.
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If I was manager the players would definitely want me sacked. And not just because I'd be crap.
Managers will have a certain style, and when they leave there's almost always stories about how they were terrible (and to a degree I'd be more worried if there weren't) and how the new one is so much better. Rinse and repeat.
If I'm a football manager, sometimes I'm going to tell you as a player things that you don't want to hear, and sometimes I'm going to make you do things that you don't want to do. If I wasn't there would be literally no point to me, as you'd have everything covered. The big danger is that once the tail find out that they can wag the dog. They will.
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Girdles also said that the players never get any of the stick, and uh, no Barry. You're not right there. Or anywhere else on this one.
