Newstalk: Off The Ball

Ladies Gaelic Football is either the top or second top in terms of female participation in sport in Ireland - where OTB broadcast from.

When the LGFA introduced their policy earlier in the year which effectively meant that somebody who was once a 17 year old boy/man could now play football under the LGFA umbrella I looked out with interest for discussion on the topic. I have a child who plays adult gaelic football under said association's rules. It was a story with huge consequences.

Colm Parkinson in his excellent podcast had 3 current footballers and members of the GPA on the show where they all spoke out against the policy. The presenter and participants were putting their heads above the parapet, saying what most think and not worrying about the twitter pile on from a minority who would have labelled them as some sort of phobe for their views.

Now as my googling skills are sh1te I may have missed OTB having a similar discussion at the time as I looked through the feed on the app. I hope it was just my lack of googling skills and that such a topic was discussed openly and without fear of being cancelled or saying something outside of the group think that is all too apparent in that organisation.

Again I may be wrong and there was an open, frank exchange in this story. It's a bigger story than that about some clown of a man kissing a woman after she won a big game. I wonder did the LGFA policy change get as much air time as that story has gotten this week?

Out of curiosity, does Parkinson cover ladies football on the regular? Or only when trans issues arise and he can be "worried" about it?

Nice deflection

Jesus mick mccarthy is hard work.

So, do they podcast every bit of the radio show or can I listen back to some bits?

They mentioned yesterday they were gonna do a bit about the game in the Aviva today but I missed it and want a listen.

Of course I could just try to find out for myself.

If you were a member you could see how many subscribers they had on the patreon website. They don't publish this information anymore though.

Last time I checked (just after the last lockdown) they had just over 13,000.

65,000 per month despite being largely ignored!

It's still published on the Patron site. 13,685 currently. They taking in almost 70k a month before costs obviously. A very good setup for 6 or 7 hours of content per week, obviously a few people to split it between and plenty prep time but it's definitely a better lifestyle with the ability for plenty other gigs than they would have had on OTB. Sometimes taking a risk works out, sometimes it doesn't. In their case it did. I don't think OTB have the capacity to charge what they are charging and survive.

I've not been a full time subscriber of SC but always listen to the free pods and depending on a few things I dip in and out of being a subscriber. Since OTB made their announcement I've stopped subscribing to anything they have and have zero interest in paying to listen to the content. I assume a standpoint shared with the vast majority on here.

For those that used to like the Paper Review i see RTE are now doing a Sunday Supplement segment (it's on now) hosted by Marie Crowe today. I think Vincent Hogan was on it last week. Kieran Cunningham is on this week with some other man i've not heard of.

21:25 in https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-sport/programmes/2023/0827/1401954-sunday-sport-sunday-27-august-2023/

Matthew Macklin used to a regular too - back in the day. Whatever happened to him? 😉

I've asked loads of people and yet to hear 1 subscriber.

On the Go Loud app, the 3 free podcasts is in total, rather than per week. I thought somebody said it was per week? And even worse, if you pause a show, come back to it later in the day that counts as 2 listens.

The problem OTB have now is even if they drop the price those who subscribed initially will be feeling pretty hard done by. So they are stuck with this until next year.

But anyway, I have moved on. Maybe it was a bit too handy for me anyway, I was listening to nothing but sporting podcasts and now I'm listening about science, history, some current affairs and a bit of sport.

Ger Gilroy suggesting on OTB AM this morning that the Australian open doesn't really count as a major.

How pathetic is he, purely saying this in order to try and discredit Djokovic (although he just discredits himself).

I subbed but only because the first month is free and I'm travelling this week. I've already cancelled for next month so i won't be charged.

I'm travelling at the end of October. I'll either pay for it or sign up with another card for a free trial.

Awful tripe - over to radio 1