BBC podcast on last season

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Azza said:
So clubs are having multi £m Netflix documentaries made about them and we go for a podcast.
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Yeah, this is very true. We used to pride ourselves on being the club that pushed the envelope with football, going beyond the status quo of this is it, don't think outside the box. Yet we resort to a medium that we could have used when Dixie was playing for us. It's another one of those signs where Kenwright has proven to be the mastermind of our downfall where he didn't put us ahead of the curve, use our American fanbase while Howard and Donovan were here etc.

That said it probably wasn't the time to have a TV show at that point.
 
If anything this podcast has probably whet’s the appetite for a TV version. Certainly doesn’t have to have be instead of.
It’s a very good, well produced, balanced and insightful documentary.
The fact the old board wouldn’t be interviewed for it speaks volumes to me and possibly part of the reason a TV company wouldn’t have been interested before.
 
I've enjoyed it myself however PTSD of last season is triggered! I liked to hear some of the things that we don't know how big of a blue Ian Woan is and how excited he was to get the call from Dyche that 'it's on' and that he felt the pride that his Dad would've had having been a blue himself. Dyche comes across as this confident person but I think he is actually quite nervous about his position.
 
Just listening to the interview with Dyche in episode 9.

I realise that I’ve heard this guy talk loads, but everything he says goes in one ear and out the other. I know he’s spoken for ages, but I couldn’t tell you anything meaningful about what he’s said.

I think it’s down to the hurried way he talks and the fact that he gives massively long, meandering answers scattered with platitudinous phrases.

It’s like being in a boring business presentation with a guy with an insane voice.

Does anyone else find this? If it’s just me, then fair enough. But my impression is of someone who can talk but not really communicate - and that’s not great for a manager of any kind.
 
The podcast has been excellent. Listening to people like Seamus makes you how much he cares. I thought Kevin T has spoken well and again gives you a sense that there is a plan. It makes it all the more galling how poorly the club communicate and the lies told by the board in that mad January. It’s clear there are still a lot of good people at the club and it gives me hope for the future. It’s amazing what a bit of communication does- if only they would realise this.
 
allen said:
Just listening to the interview with Dyche in episode 9.

I realise that I’ve heard this guy talk loads, but everything he says goes in one ear and out the other. I know he’s spoken for ages, but I couldn’t tell you anything meaningful about what he’s said.

I think it’s down to the hurried way he talks and the fact that he gives massively long, meandering answers scattered with platitudinous phrases.

It’s like being in a boring business presentation with a guy with an insane voice.

Does anyone else find this? If it’s just me, then fair enough. But my impression is of someone who can talk but not really communicate - and that’s not great for a manager of any kind.
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Totally agree with this. It's interesting to contrast the Dyche interviews with Coleman or Thelwell's.

Seamus Coleman and Kevin Thelwell would listen to the questions and just answer in a conversational manner, with plenty of humility and self-deprecation. Their main goal in the interview is to give honest answers.

Sean Dyche is a very good manager but his interviews are performative. You can tell his main goal in every sit down interview is to impress the person he is speaking to. I think THAT is where the constant David Brent reminders come in, as well as putting 'what I call...' before many of his jargony phrases.

As for Colin Chong. Let's just say he is a business man and not a communicator!!
 
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Totally agree with this. It's interesting to contrast the Dyche interviews with Coleman or Thelwell's.

Seamus Coleman and Kevin Thelwell would listen to the questions and just answer in a conversational manner, with plenty of humility and self-deprecation. Their main goal in the interview is to give honest answers.

Sean Dyche is a very good manager but his interviews are performative. You can tell his main goal in every sit down interview is to impress the person he is speaking to. I think THAT is where the constant David Brent reminders come in, as well as putting 'what I call...' before many of his jargony phrases.

As for Colin Chong. Let's just say he is a business man and not a communicator!!
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Pleased it’s not just me.

Yes, he feels the need to verbally dominate whatever space he’s in. Not a fan of that in a person.

Felt for Tom Davies when Dyche started ripping him about his clothes and saying he doesn’t need fashion advice, like Dyche is the king of style. Leave the lad be, insane clothes or not.
 
Something about Dyche's Room at FF and his apartment came across as kind of eerie to me. It also reminded me that Bielsa was a longer-term choice and/or refused short-term KPIs in favour of working on the youth which is slightly longer (we'd be having youngin' in every position almost now). And now we have our Short-term coach, making us a team that's thoroughly average and constantly harps on about being a long-term project. What came across clearly in that podcast as well is that there seems to be very little of this long-term project going on, and if we are in free fall, then there is no one arresting our momentum. Why did we do any of this?
 
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