Episode 1 - Why 'Tipped Off The Bar'?

But I think another reason, besides the why of the name, why the need of a podcast from a fan, why do you think this podcast needs to exist?

One of the best things about the CPL is how, and for any new fans, the CPL is the Canadian Premier League.

One of the best things about the CPL is it is so accessible.

Like over the years, we were fans of another club in the city of Vancouver.

And for me coming from Scotland and having a history in soccer, football, whatever you want to call it, It just felt very unaccessible and quite corporate.

And then when we got involved in VFC and the Canadian Premier League, it is so accessible.

You can get to know the players, you can get to know the coaches, you can kind of get to know the staff and other fans and that kind of thing as well.

So the accessibility is amazing.

And this podcast is another opportunity to just pull the curtain back and expose what's really going on on the inside of a football club.

And for us as a relatively new football club, fourth season in, To see behind the scenes, this is an amazing opportunity for that.

Yeah.

And then I think from then a coaching staff point of view and someone inside of the club, I think what, why do this podcast? Cause it'll give a more educated narrative of what's actually going on within the club.

I think sometimes on the outside, you don't get the whole picture.

So now between the dynamic of you and I.

You have a fan supporter partner, and then someone who's in it between the two of us.

Hopefully we get a real authentic narrative and storyline of what going on in the club because sometimes it's not black and white.

Yeah.

And I'm not going to pretend to have the soccer knowledge of a professional coach or former professional goalkeeper.

And I think that works as well.

I'm quite happy being the ignorant idiot asking the questions.

But vice versa, I've actually never been a fan of a team before.

So I don't have that perspective of what it's like.

And sometimes even as a player, I'm sometimes a bit thrown off as to why are the fans so upset.

At a time in Australia where we lost a big game and I had some of the deados, old Macedonian men trying to spit on me.

I'm like, how can a person be so mad? So again, understanding a fan's perspective is also what I'm excited to learn more about.