This week we tried something different. An experiment. We played Devil's Advocate.

What if we gave two expert observers of the sports business industry a chance to opine on the sport of padel: both the participation piece and the professional piece?

Neither had much of a grounding in the sport apart from some context we provided and we asked them where they felt padel sat in relation to the rest of the industry and what they would do to help padel in its next global phase.

They were good sports. And raised some interesting concerns, theories and suggestions.

Thank you Eben Novy-Williams of leading US sports business platform Sportico and Roger Mitchell, Founder of Albachiara and author of highly acclaimed book on the changing circumstances around the sport industry "Sport's Perfect Storm".

Sometimes it is important to step out of your own ecosystem and hear what outsiders think. This is that epsiode.