I think Evans is on Dan’s podcasts so much because Dan really likes having him on and gets a self perceived (and possible real) profile raise through associating with him, a ‘real’ journalist. Gregg probably did a fair bit to help raise Dan’s profile and get him more work in the media. Which is great for him and I can understand him being thankful of that. However, I still don’t want to listen to Gregg and think he should be ditched now that the podcast isn’t run through the Athletic and also given Gregg was ‘promoted’ to cover Liverpool.
Yeah he’s got history with Villa but he couldn’t even be bothered to prepare his stories from being Villa reporter, in the segment Dan tried to introduce.