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One of my favourite ongoing things about The Dub is the real needle Purkiss has in his voice whenever Damian Batt works his way into the conversation.

He’s very erudite, interesting and his slightly more impartial viewpoint is quite important to The Dub’s formatting. But he is a salty, quite petulant character sometimes. He was the same when he played.
 
Christ, one of the first episodes of ‘The Dub’ I’ve listened to. Is Purkiss and Elek arguing all that happens?
 
McXal said:
One of my favourite ongoing things about The Dub is the real needle Purkiss has in his voice whenever Damian Batt works his way into the conversation.

He’s very erudite, interesting and his slightly more impartial viewpoint is quite important to The Dub’s formatting. But he is a salty, quite petulant character sometimes. He was the same when he played.
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He did have a fair point this week. George E tweeted that they really did get on 🙂- often our lot complain about the shape changing when subs come on just because they have a beef with the players themselves imo.
 
I really like Ben Purkiss and think he does provide a good independent voice on the POD, however this episode I did not understand the basis of his point and just seemed to be making a point for the sake of it and defending something to defend it.
 
Fanatica said:
Christ, one of the first episodes of ‘The Dub’ I’ve listened to. Is Purkiss and Elek arguing all that happens?
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No, stick with it. It’s superb. You get some real insight. Even if this wasn’t great episode you still get some brilliant detail (like Rowett ridiculously wanting to loan out Mills).
 
I’m going to respectfully suggest George Elek probably doesn’t consider it his best work either! Given that podcasting and punditry forms the basis of his entire professional life.

Personally I thought it was comical. Probably could’ve been curtailed earlier. But their bickering, ex-pro vs statto nerd, fr-enemy dynamic always entertains me. I bet George walked away liking Damian Batt a whole lot more than Purkiss for the 30 minutes after they finished recording though! 🤣
 
DanC said:
Listen to two blokes who actually get on well here, and enjoy a tight edit, occasional insights, nostalgic archive, better stats, and a silly game named after a player who you've probably never heard of.





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Genuinely went to hunt down footage of that Oxford/Chelsea 4-4 game as soon as I’d finished this episode! I really enjoy those dives into random older fixtures!
 
Kamal said:
It was an awful episode today. Borderlined on being unlistenable. In fact, it was. I completely zoned out during their "debate" and before you know it the episode was over.
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I’m a regular listener to the Dub and usually enjoy the Ben/George ‘quibbling’, but this was a poorly edited episode, not for the first time it felt like the producer/s rushed to put it out, it really shouldn’t have made the airways in the edit it did.

I guess a dud dub is allowed every once in a while.
 
McXal said:
I’m going to respectfully suggest George Elek probably doesn’t consider it his best work either! Given that podcasting and punditry forms the basis of his entire professional life.

Personally I thought it was comical. Probably could’ve been curtailed earlier. But their bickering, ex-pro vs statto nerd, fr-enemy dynamic always entertains me. I bet George walked away liking Damian Batt a whole lot more than Purkiss for the 30 minutes after they finished recording though! 🤣
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Ben was trying to put his point across that Bloomfield made those subs to shore up the defence and eliminate a possibility of conceded a goal like we did against Stoke and at home to Norwich where we were pushed up too high and got done by pace.

Blackburn were always going to throw everything at us in the last 10 minutes and apart from Cumming dropping the ball (a foul would have been given 8 times out of 10) causing a pin ball in our penalty area we looked comfortable to see out the game.

Not sure why George didn't accept the different point of view and kept causing the bickering to continue.
 
I appreciate The Dub, it’s usually very high quality. However, given they cancelled the previous episode out of respect due to recent events and opened this one in a reflective, somber tone ~ to then descend into a prolonged tit for tat between two of the hosts over basically nothing felt pretty off. Not the biggest deal in the world but given the circumstances perhaps re-recording the episode would have been the best option.
 
I know I’m not George Elek’s biggest fan but I read this thread before listening to the podcast and I can’t believe Ben Purkiss is getting the majority of the criticism for that exchange… it’s very clearly started by George, who immediately gets annoyed at any kind of pushback against what he’s saying, and then he’s the one who throws his toys out of the pram with saying oh there’s no point in doing the podcast then etc!
 
Is anyone REALLY criticising Purkiss? I’ve poked a bit of fun at him, but largely due to his general demeanour and tone (which, as I also said, I feel is quite important to the format of the pod in a wider sense). Clearly their having a prolonged squabble about essentially very little sparked a bit of conversation here and meant it wasn’t their strongest episode. But when you’re churning out a pod a week (sometimes more) they can’t all be winners!

I genuinely find his dynamic with George Elek one of the most fun things about The Dub.

(Not as fun as how grumpy he gets when Damian Batt or Chris Wilder being successful comes up though 🤣)
 
McXal said:
Is anyone REALLY criticising Purkiss? I’ve poked a bit of fun at him, but largely due to his general demeanour and tone (which, as I also said, I feel is quite important to the format of the pod in a wider sense). Clearly their having a prolonged squabble about essentially very little sparked a bit of conversation here and meant it wasn’t their strongest episode. But when you’re churning out a pod a week (sometimes more) they can’t all be winners!

I genuinely find his dynamic with George Elek one of the most fun things about The Dub.

(Not as fun as how grumpy he gets when Damian Batt or Chris Wilder being successful comes up though 🤣)
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Tend to agree.
Bit surprised that it has blown up so much. Normally a very good pod in my view.
 
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