Opinions, innit? I thought it was a decent effort at taking on a criticism. It stated that given the huge number of Anfield Index shows there are now, from across the globe, all with a different pitch, featuring high standard contributors (Marco Lopez, Dan Kennet, Dan Rhodes etc.), the idea of an enforced/enforceable agenda seems unlikely. It also recognised that much of the criticism it gets is conflated with issues people have with one contributor. I found all of that reasonably convincing. Funny you didn't get any of that...
There doesn't have to be forced opinions or an enforced party line. The impression I get from the AI is that there isn't an agenda, but more like a serious case of group think going on. I've heard the head man gags reference Simon brundish whilst he is discussing Moreno for instance, because he knows that Simon can't bear any criticism of Moreno, even though Simon wasn't on that particular pod.
As another example, Daniel sturridge walks on water on AI. For the record he walks on water with me too but he can be criticized like anyone els but you won't hear that on AI, not by one single contributer. The fact that there are so many pods and people involved in AI you would expect more diverse opinion but it isn't there. More examples of group think on AI? James Milner isn't at all well liked by practically all of AI, Lovren is almost universally disliked on AI and not given the credit that his recent improvement deserves. Now I'm not soled that Lovren can be door enough long term for Liverpool but he is immeasurably better than he was but you wouldn't think that from listening to AI.
The problem with AI for me is its all to self congratulatory, backslappy fake formality. The amount of time you hear I agree whole heartedly with the other contributer or absolutely spot on there from such and such is ridiculous. You almost never hear those phrase on Taw. Some of the pods are just downright cringe inducing with the amount of back slapping going on. The forced laughing at each other's jokes, the faux forced politeness and kinda group mentality when they are all having in on a player they dislike is embarrassing. One pod there recently I think was an American one though it could have been Canadian or Mexican was such an extreme example of this that I was actually embarrassed for them that this conversation was actually happening live so that other people could hear it.
I turned it of and havnt listened to AI since.