Hard Truth Podcast

It's a brilliant podcast with great insight into Darragh's recruitment system and lots of other tips of the trade.

He operates 'Money Ball' + intelligent football scouting.

He's mad on data, analysis and then he has two scouts on his payroll. Once they watch twice, Barry Fry watches and then Darragh. £60M in player sales during his time.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hard-truth-inside-football-industry-darragh-macanthony/id1503576021

 

Apart from his tendency to get in twitter spats, you have to hand it to DM on the way he operates and consistently finds talent/ is prepared to take a risk on semi proven players like Toney. He makes no bones about the fact that he buys to sell and it certainly works in keeping a small club like Peterborough near the top of League One.

 

We were a sleeping giant 50 years ago, positively comatose now.......

 

No idea why some tag us a sleeping giant. What is the criteria?. We have spent most of our existence in the lower 2 divisions of the football league and have nearly always been skint.

 

Clear as day, perfect marks.

 

We are a sleeping giant.

Imo... our fans base says we are. And in the Championship we could easily 30k through the door. If the stadium allowed.
But alas happyclappers wont hear of it. You lot dont give a toss.

This club has been badly run for decades and continues to be badly ran.

You wont be happy until this club is in non league.

 

Barnsley have the original 'Mr Money-ball' Billy Beane, who the film was based on, on their board. the use of stats isn't copyrighted by Brentford - plenty of clubs use the system to find and analyse players that they are targeting. Money-ball is a concept not a computer programme.

 

I'm not sure we could find 30k on a regular basis. The population of Bradford includes most of the Dales towns. Within the city boundaries there's a big asian and east european population who probably won't be tempted to come. Financially I don't think there's enough disposable income in our neck of the woods to generate crowds like that. We struggled to fill the ground in the prem with a lower capacity than now and on the back of a positive spell of 5-6 years and a real feel-good factor. If anything we've got a shrinking fan base these days, not just because we're shite but the City is going down the pan and there are stronger local football attractions these days

 

Or buying Bruenker, Sattlemaier et al based on “knowing football”

 

Imagine having someone with his confidence, vision and determination in charge.

What a nice change that would make.

 

good listen that, thanks for sharing

 

Listen to the latest episode from 50 minutes

 

Would love someone like him in charge . Ideas, knowledge and forward planning .

 

Not sure where he gets the 15-17k when midtable in the league from, but apart from that you can't argue with anything he says.

You'd like to think there is someone out there who could come into City with a vision and a strategy, like Peterborough have with him. Until then the best it seems we can hope for is that we can go on the odd cup run, or sell a player/benefit from a sell-on clause, just to stay afloat - and unless we can find the right manager to work in those conditions (a la Parkinson 2011-16) there's lots of mediocrity ahead.

 

Compared to Peterborough we are a sleeping giant. If Posh introduced £150 season tickets they’d probably sell about 7/8000. He will look at the attendance against Chesterfield in 2016 of over 20,000 for what was a meaningless game as we had already qualified for the play offs. Someone like him could really get this club going, but unfortunately people like him are few and far between. Lawn and Rhodes as a team took five years of football similar to today before we got going and then it was down to amazing cup runs rather than their entrepreneurial skills.