Meet The Benchwarmers
Matthew Haldane
I am an aspiring content creator and sports journalist. My ultimate dream is to become a social media manager at an F1 team so that I can travel the world whilst creating content that I love. My all-time favorite sport is F1 and my favorite team is Red Bull (which can be seen on my hat). I also follow Rugby, Football, NFL, and more as I love all sports! I created this podcast to share my passion for sports with other like-minded people who also follow multiple sports.
I am an aspiring sports journalist especially in football because I love watching mostly every game I can and playing the sport with my friends at least once a week. I’m a massive Aston Villa fan and I get so excited to watch their games over any other team in the world. I have also got into basketball over the past two years as well so I would be interested in covering something around the sport in the future if I received the opportunity.
Harrison Pearce
Our Latest Episodes On Spotify
We even featured on the BBC!
Our Favourite Episodes
So far on the Benchwarmers we have created over 20 episodes throughout 2 seasons. Every single video is our favorite and we treat them each like our own children but these two videos below are both of our favorites we have produced so far…
(Matt’s on the left, Harrison’s on the right)
Improving the social media pages with graphics
Recently, I've tried to get into graphic design as a way to improve the look of my podcast's social media page content, and so far, it's been a lot of fun!
Starting out, the idea of graphic design seemed daunting to me as Photoshop is something I'm still trying to get my head around (I can only remove backgrounds of photos at the moment ). However, discovering Canva has been such a major help for me starting. Down below are some posts that I have created for The Benchwarmers story posts using Canva…
Creating Video content for our channels
As a content creator, I am always aiming to improve our content so that we can gain the most exposure. With the content for The Benchwarmers, I aimed to create content showing the best bits of each episode; these can be really good analysis clips or funny moments. I found while doing this that often, the funny moments do well on TikTok the most, whereas the analysis does better on Instagram. It’s always a challenge trying to figure out which platforms work better for certain content, but creating these videos for our platforms is always fun. Below are a few that I created for our Instagram and TikTok pages…