Still not worthy of a thread

[Froggy]

14 hours ago, 54 said:

It'll rightfully go to Mark Chapman, who is a very solid understudy and great on 5live (Along with Steve Crossman fwiw), but I'd love it to go to Colin Murray, he's another great presenter. 

 

I also think I speak for everyone when I say, thank fuck its not going to be Jenas. 

 

Colin Murray? Surely not.

[Checko]

What about Le Tissier? Would be nice to have someone talking facts on the show finally.

[Tiresias]

10 hours ago, Yorkie said:

You do wonder what the fuck all of the broadcasters are thinking at times. MOTD2 the other night was Troy Deeney and Theo Walcott. The former doesn't deserve to be anywhere near a position like that and the latter is so mild-mannered and uninteresting, you wonder what the point is. There are definitely plenty of decent pundits out there (even if you don't agree with them), but there's some proper bilge. Incredible how Murphy has had that amazing gig for so long.

 

I also dislike the trend of broadcasters appearing on multiple channels now, rather being a BBC guy, or whatever. Matterface is doing TNT this season, for eg.

 

Good that motd2 lineup was dreadful, stayed up to watch following our win and just ended up annoyed

[Yorkie]

1 minute ago, Tiresias said:

 

Good that motd2 lineup was dreadful, stayed up to watch following our win and just ended up annoyed

 

I got sucked into Deliverance on BBC2 and there was honestly more charisma there. 

[Choppy Chop Chop]

20 minutes ago, Checko said:

What about Le Tissier? Would be nice to have someone talking facts on the show finally.

hahahahahahahahahahaha that cheered me up 

[joeyt]

Only one man for the job

 

 

 

[Big River]

just seen Pardew has ruled himself out of taking over MOTD

[Choppy Chop Chop]

3 minutes ago, Big River said:

just seen Pardew has ruled himself out of taking over MOTD

That leaves an opportunity for Steve Bruce

[Lush Vlad]

11 hours ago, toon25 said:

The quality of punditry is so fucking bad these days too that it's just not worth listening to anyway. Give me someone who's been there, done it, and won more than a 'club bants merchant' award and maybe I'd change my mind. But the likes of Richards, Jenas, Murphy and Merson? Not watching.

Yes and no. I don’t think ex-players that were world class and/or won it all necessarily make good pundits. I think Keane is terrible for example and is just there to play a character, it seems. Grumpy Old Man Souness is the same. 
 

Take someone like Nedum Onuoha. He is a brilliant pundit IMO and should get more of a look in. He wasn’t really in that top level, elite bracket.  
 

I think a lot of the time. Ex-pros don’t make particularly good pundits, full stop. They never speak particularly well or offer anything insightful. 
 

You listen to some of the journos 5 Live get on, on something like Monday Night Club or Euro Leagues. The analysis and level of knowledge is night and day. Plus they’re usually much better orators, too. 
 

Never going to happen. As they need to keep jobs for the boys and it won’t be allowed due to ‘how many pro games have you played?!’ crowd. But analysis might be worth watching and listening to if they went for some more analytic, journo types. 
 

 

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by Lush Vlad

[GeordieDazzler]

Give it to Richard Keys 

[Django]

No love for James Richardson? I think his MOTD ship has sailed if he ever had one.

[toon25]

12 hours ago, Yorkie said:

You do wonder what the fuck all of the broadcasters are thinking at times. MOTD2 the other night was Troy Deeney and Theo Walcott. The former doesn't deserve to be anywhere near a position like that and the latter is so mild-mannered and uninteresting, you wonder what the point is. There are definitely plenty of decent pundits out there (even if you don't agree with them), but there's some proper bilge. Incredible how Murphy has had that amazing gig for so long.

 

I also dislike the trend of broadcasters appearing on multiple channels now, rather being a BBC guy, or whatever. Matterface is doing TNT this season, for eg.

 

This. All of this.

[Dr.Spaceman]

52 minutes ago, Django said:

No love for James Richardson? I think his MOTD ship has sailed if he ever had one.

 

Aye but it would have to be presented from a trendy cafe in Deptford as if we're interrupting his morning reading the newspaper over an overpriced long black.

 

I would love to see him on there with Horncastle and Duncan Alexander, if not just to wind up the gammons some more with there fancy words and knowledge of football outside of old blighty.

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Dr.Spaceman

[Hanshithispantz]

13 hours ago, Yorkie said:

You do wonder what the fuck all of the broadcasters are thinking at times. MOTD2 the other night was Troy Deeney and Theo Walcott. The former doesn't deserve to be anywhere near a position like that and the latter is so mild-mannered and uninteresting, you wonder what the point is. There are definitely plenty of decent pundits out there (even if you don't agree with them), but there's some proper bilge. Incredible how Murphy has had that amazing gig for so long.

 

I also dislike the trend of broadcasters appearing on multiple channels now, rather being a BBC guy, or whatever. Matterface is doing TNT this season, for eg.

I actually think Walcott is decent, he's very well spoken but doesn't seem to just waffle on for no reason. Granted I've only seen hin a few times like.

[Pilko]

Surely they've got to take the Lineker cash and throw it at Stelling to keep it alive. Nowt against Logan or Chappers etc but I think they need to go box office.

[Lazarus]

Kelly Cates

[Mikky]

5 minutes ago, Pilko said:

Surely they've got to take the Lineker cash and throw it at Stelling to keep it alive. Nowt against Logan or Chappers etc but I think they need to go box office.

Peter Drury please (for the laughs)

[El Prontonise]

I think one of the reasons they've got rid of lineker is to reduce costs.  £700m black hole.

[wormy]

21 minutes ago, Hanshithispantz said:

I actually think Walcott is decent, he's very well spoken but doesn't seem to just waffle on for no reason. Granted I've only seen hin a few times like.

 

I think it's just standard that most new pundits feel like a breath of fresh air. I recall people finding Neville a revelation when he arrived. Other than being a weird hockler Carragher seemed to be well thought of too.

 

I think once you give any pundit such regular air time they're always going to show themselves up sooner or later just by virtue of needing to spout an opinion on everything. Some are obviously worse than others but every pundit gets their hate club and I'm sure Walcott will go the same way if he becomes a mainstay. 

[Mikky]

58 minutes ago, Hanshithispantz said:

I actually think Walcott is decent, he's very well spoken but doesn't seem to just waffle on for no reason. Granted I've only seen hin a few times like.

Pretty much my take on Theo aswell - very well spoken I fhought

[Pilko]

Seen Manish Bhasin is 12/1. Really hope when he goes to the interview he rolls out some of his Football League Show clips with Steve Claridge fuck me that was a depressing point in our history having to stay up to watch that absolute shit heap.

[Ben]

1 hour ago, Lazarus said:

Kelly Cates

 

Seconded 

[mouldy_uk]

Don’t watch MOTD, but do they need a permanent single presenter? Could they not go the HIGNFY route and rotate? 

[Django]

Des Lynam's still alive.

[Chapo]

1 hour ago, Django said:

Des Lynam's still alive.

Had to google that. Holy fuck, you're right!