The ScoutCast – Episode 153 – March

Walcott 😆

Cheers for this. The bookies have been pretty impressive this season on some under the radar options. I am starting Theo, one last dance.

4 more than me

Do you know what any of your players look like?

Blimey...I thought I struggled. I feel your pain.

Interesting survey this.

How many live matches per week do you get to watch?

I probably see more than 40 games live a season, i enjoy football.

sometimes it's all I do in my weekend, I actually feel bad when I miss games due to life

I manage about 30 minutes of live football per weekend and one Sunday morning motd in two, not too shabby.

I watch four matches per GW! I am a grad student though and my girlfriend enjoys watching football with me.

I tend to just watch the live games on a Sunday, can't remember last time I watched match of the day.

Wow i'm shocked. Thought most of you guys watched allmost every game. Is there no room for football when you've got kids? What else do you do at weekends? I watch 2-3 games every weekend and I've got 3 kids and a wife. Should i be worried? she do complain sometimes :/ tells her it normal tho

Every PL game on TV, every weekend. Most Champions League games, all English cups games which are on TV, and sometimes Spanish, Italian and Serbian league 🙂 Even Russian

I watch a ton of live footy but it's part of my job fortunately so cheating a bit. Nothing like a busy 3 o'clock Saturday though watching all the Prem games 🙂

Pretty much every live PL game. My missus is a musician, so works weekends a fair bit. No kids, though 🙂

I'm a family man - 2 kids aged 6 (boy) and 1.5 (girl) - and nearly always find time or make time for a live game on Sunday. We're more likely to be out as a family on Saturday.

It really surprises me some of the responses to this Hot Topic. My other half is a Liverpool fan so maybe that makes a difference, and my lad is getting into football now loving the likes of Ronaldo and Messi.

I don't think I could play FPL based purely on the Opta stats. I have to get a feel for form and whether a result is deserved or not.

I try to watch at least 4 a week 😆

If I'm home then three games on Saturday and one or two on Sunday, plus the interesting midweek games. As I often go out on Sat evenings and miss the late game I like to turn my phone off to avoid seeing the result and download and watch the game later on when I'm home, so that's not live but pretty close.

No kids, as you might have guessed by now 🙂

I don't have Sky so only MOTD and the cup games, which means a disproportionate amount of Spurs and Everton this year. I'd been wondering how much of a disadvantage lack of live football is, but Dufflinks comments on the Scoutcast give me hope

Cool question. Probably see 3 live games a week on average (never miss a Spurs game though). Sometimes its one, sometimes its 6.

4-6 games a week

Probably no more than 1. Rarely watch motd either.

Lately have only had time to watch MotD because of my double shifts and off days on Sunday.
Generally try to at least watch whoevers in the top 5 though and if i can spare an extra match, I'll watch a game with someone I want to transfer in, so I'll likely try to squeeze in the Palace and Swansea games to get a feel of how Siggy and Fruitpuncheon are doing.

I am in Australia, so at this time of year I really only watch evening games live as they're at breakfast time for me. Once daylight savings changes over, I watch the 12:45 kick offs, as they're at 9:45pm here. I have three kids under 6 years of age, so most of my watching is the hour-long highlights packages for each round. I spend some time looking over the stats in the members area, as I find this is a good way of picking up some of the info I miss by not watching full games.

I usually work on Goals On Sunday so that's the extant of my analysis! 😉

This is really interesting, I usually watch 3 games saturday, 1 or 2 sunday, every CL game, most main cup games. First season playing FPL but get the sense that I can't see the forrest for all the trees sometimes.

2 or 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday, usually all PL games as well as Champions League footy, especially now that it's in the knockouts.

I work and I live with my girlfriend but she knows weekend is football time for me and she usually has university work to do so there's no real conflict.

I tend to watch almost every one of the 380 EPL games.

Have a 7 month newborn.
Like GreenWM said, all those hours trying to help him go to sleep have been spent watching recorded football.

UCL games and 2 or 3 Portuguese League games.

I have a 5 year old girl who gets cross with me for supporting Everton because they are rubbish. I've asked if we can give her back but social services say it's not allowed.

I record games but often get bored and fall asleep a lot.

Great question - Been wondering this myself. Also a new father and manage about a match a weekend. Watched A LOT more last year and definitely feel that the more you can watch, the less likely you are to fall into those 'looked good on MOTD' type traps, and avoid a few bandwagons. Also those stat tricksters like Coutinho last year, who look fantastic on paper but in reality don't look like they're going to score in a month of Super Sundays (see what I did there).

I read an interview with the winner of a couple of seasons ago who discussed the importance of both stats and watching (full) games, and I strongly agree. Unless you can watch every game like that fella above!

It's tough in Australia due to the timing, but I get up each weekend to watch newcastle play, regardless of the time (usually 2 am). If there's a good early game on (or I have a fantasy interest), I'll watch the early game prior to that as well (11:45 pm) and if there's a good game afterwards I'll watch that too (4:30 am).

It's a tiring life, made worse when newcastle get thrashed, but i wouldn't have it any other way 😛

I see 2-4 epl games per week depending on the quality of the matches. And 2-3 more of serie a and la liga also depending on the matches. So 4 games on average for me.

Last PL game that I watched was last season's Chelsea vs Man City, 2-1. I watch every goals of PL on youtube, nothing else 😛
I do try to watch all international games(especially World cup and Brazil games) though...

Have a shared season ticket at Reading so probably about 15 matches there.
Then I travel up to Everton about three times a season
and try to watch them away three times
then probably a few random games dotted about

25ish for me I think

In last month I have been away every weekend with work so have struggled to watch lives games.

But I am back to normal now so will watch about 1-2 games every gameweek.

Went through a phase at Uni where I would watch around 4/5 games every weekend with a multiscreen

This is a good hot topic, was thinking about this myself after Simons interview.

I can go weeks without catching a match but will always try and watch United games when they're on. I'll tend to prioritise watching the big games too.

My missus is pretty good about it if I tell her there's a game I want to watch. The kid just has to deal with it 🙂

As a married man with an impending daughter at the end of June, I guess things will change when she arrives. But for now, I catch a game or three each weekend. During the week, the games come on at 10pm here GMT+2 during UK winter... so it is a bit late.

I love football and will watch as much as I can, but also know that priorities always come before a game. I make sure to get all the chores done so the afternoon games on the weekend become an option. It is really all about compromise, getting the most important things done so your family and home are not neglected. And there is also a chance that your kids can enjoy a game as they get a bit older... sweet deal!

I think it's a blessing in disguise from an FPL perspective, but I watch very few live games (normally the Manchester derbies and maybe less than 5 more) and watch highlights when I can.

I say it's a blessing in disguise because I'm not spending time trying to figure out who is looking dangerous and might be the next surprise source of points and instead just look at who is on form.

It seems to be working well as I'm pushing for my first top 1k finish. I used to watch a lot more football and maybe overcomplicated my team selection with more punts.

Barely any in person. I watch more or less everything on Sky and BT and when I'm free on Saturday will stream every game side by side. I'll watch Champions League and the big european fixtures too. No family (obviously!).

now I live in america I see more games than I did back home, since they show every game here. Usually 3 or 4 on at time in the bar so see all the goals

I must be the "oldest" 26 year old in the country, because I don't have Sky, don't watch games live online but I watch MOTD and, now this is the big one I listen to games on the radio.... Who does that anymore unless they're in the car?