Dullard Punditry

[Harry 209]

Something at kick off he said as well along the lines of "Liverpool are EVERYONES game now" what the *%£#@  are you talking about you mad bastard?

Then something like "if you enjoy watching race leaders, then this is the place to be!!!" Oh sod off.

[healthyaddiction]

13 minutes ago, Elric said:

Had to turn the stream off at "So slick! It's not the training ground you know!"

 

Just fucking die, man

Which he said after a goal that involved a poor joelinton pass that was intercepted followed by a blocked cross that luckily bounced back to TAA. It was the opposite of a slick move.

[bobbydazzla]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Clive Tyldesley is an utter bellend, can’t stand that cunts voice 

 

Only surprise last night was that he was wanking himself daft over Liverpool when they’re the arch enemies of his beloved Man Utd 

 

Hearing 90 seconds of his drivel was enough to make me want to take a sledgehammer to my own lugs 

 

[Geordie_once_removed]

On 19/09/2024 at 22:05, ryanegg said:

How has nobody mentioned Michael "exciting" Owen?

He was doing the half time analysis for the match coverage I watched yesterday. So biased and clueless. He felt the first half was even.

 

Pat Nevin, who I normally like, clearly hadn't done his research before the game and put our dodgy form down to tiredness and injuries. He obviously just rolled out a line from last year.

[midds]

Amazon is, as far as I know, the only platform you can mute the commentary and just listen to the noise of the crowd, it's amazing. No idea why any of you are putting up with this shit from the fucking cretins, you have the option, please use it gentlemen 

[bobbydazzla]

Soon as I realised it was that cunt Tyldesley the commentary got fired into the sun 

 

Apparently when pupils study the Punditry & Commentary BTEC to get their microphone licence, the first module in the first term is called “How to be a Cunt”

 

[54]

55 minutes ago, midds said:

Amazon is, as far as I know, the only platform you can mute the commentary and just listen to the noise of the crowd, it's amazing. No idea why any of you are putting up with this shit from the fucking cretins, you have the option, please use it gentlemen 

In fairness, commentary aside, Amazon shits on anything from Sky and TNT when it comes to production.

[SiLvOR]

Genuinely couldn't believe how bad that was last night. We're used to commentators (apart from McCoist) being biased against us, but that was utterly ridiculous.

[pubteam]

2 minutes ago, SiLvOR said:

Genuinely couldn't believe how bad that was last night. We're used to commentators (apart from McCoist) being biased against us, but that was utterly ridiculous.

It's was all Liverpool playing badly, absolutely no credit given to Newcastle, then they almost creamed their pants in the second half when Liverpool strung a coyple of chances together.

[midds]

40 minutes ago, 54 said:

In fairness, commentary aside, Amazon shits on anything from Sky and TNT when it comes to production.

The coverage does seem better I must admit, I just don't want to hear a single word the commentators have to say, the sound of the crowd is a much better way of enjoying the game. It's far more authentic and their feedback (moans, cheers and groans) are a much better background than any of those clowns trying to tell me what's happening, I can figure it out, cheers lads

[9133818919]

The worst thing about football commentary these days is that there’s never any silence. They’re always looking for the next soundbite or quotable saying, always looking to fill any gaps with anything and everything. 

[Choppy Chop Chop]

15 hours ago, midds said:

The coverage does seem better I must admit, I just don't want to hear a single word the commentators have to say, the sound of the crowd is a much better way of enjoying the game. It's far more authentic and their feedback (moans, cheers and groans) are a much better background than any of those clowns trying to tell me what's happening, I can figure it out, cheers lads

Watching prime on my fire stick the picture quality was impressive, just on a ordinary LG television  

[Pilko]

McCoist just shows that energy, enthusiasm and positivity in your work can elevate it even if the content isn't anything special.

 

See also: Wayne Mardle on the darts. The M.Smith/MVG "best leg ever" and Jose De Souza's 3 double tops are some of the best bits of commentary in recent times and it's just pure excitement, passion, joy and none of it scripted like that tit Drury on the football.

 

They'll have their critics but give me someone like McCoist or Mardle any day ahead of an attention seeker like Drury or half the dreary, whinging know-nowt summarisers they get on these days.

 

[Lenny]

2 hours ago, 9133818919 said:

The worst thing about football commentary these days is that there’s never any silence. They’re always looking for the next soundbite or quotable saying, always looking to fill any gaps with anything and everything. 

That said, there definitely seems to be more interest in, in wrestling terms, getting themselves over, with soundbites rather than calling what's actually happening on the pitch.

 

It's quite excruciating for the most part.

 

Can't remember their name, but the most traditional/bearable I can think of is the guy that always sounds slightly bunged up

[DahnSahf]

Simon Thomas in his introduction to GSS today.

"There's definitely a big team feel about the current top four."

Of course it's only the 'big teams' that matter. Cunt.

[Dancing Brave]

Troy Deeney..

 

"Alexander Isak (Newcastle): The best striker in the Premier League at this moment in time. Yes I've said it and yes I stand by it. He's the complete striker. Unreal. Every time I watch him I keep thinking, how haven't Arsenal signed him?" 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c0kv7k38ky5o

[Mike]

55 minutes ago, Dancing Brave said:

Troy Deeney..

 

"Alexander Isak (Newcastle): The best striker in the Premier League at this moment in time. Yes I've said it and yes I stand by it. He's the complete striker. Unreal. Every time I watch him I keep thinking, how haven't Arsenal signed him?" 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c0kv7k38ky5o

 

The comments, man.

[Kaizero]

Had a bit of a rant-off with Mike in the Other Games Today thread on Saturday, then I saw this thread now and thought it would fit this one better  So, yeah... here the most pundit-related posts of that rant-off: 

  

On 14/12/2024 at 22:44, Kaizero said:

When we qualified for the CL there were no headlines, no shocked pundits anywhere. 

 

Our current shit season is making headlines outside the UK and have pundits discussing if the owners are right sticking by Howe when Man Utd sacked their manager for performing at the same level we were.

 

My post was aimed at why the UK isn't doing what pundits outside the UK is doing, ending with me concluding that the only explanation had to be that Howe's English - and UK pundits never attack their own, so we're just not being brought up because of the fact that if we got brought up, they'd have to criticize Howe.

  

On 14/12/2024 at 22:46, Mike said:

You've got good pundits if they're asking that. Was this Norway? US and UK are doing a weird pundit share scheme and all I know about now is Arne Slot.

 

On 14/12/2024 at 23:19, Kaizero said:

In general I tend to feel that our pundits are shit, but I know they're probably some of the better ones in the world  It shouldn't be that way, though, which is why I'm fairly reluctant to heap praise upon our pundits. Very, very few of our pundits are ex-players or have personal experience playing in the PL for instance. If networks bring in an "expert", it'll 9 out of 10 times be either an active manager/coach or a retired one. Whenever someone like John Arne Riise has been a guest "expert", the other pundits just spend all the time on air pointing out the lack of logical reasoning in Riise's commentary, and then having to explain why Riise is wrong about whatever he said.

 

Some of our best pundits are women, with Renate Blindheim being one of the best pundits in the country this season. She was the first woman in Norway to be appointed Manager of a professional men's team (at 26, she was also the youngest person regardless of gender). The appointment made headlines for weeks and had people talking about how an all male football team would react to having a manager that "shouldn't be allowed" to enter the locker room. It became perceived as a PR stunt by the general public as no matter how she performed, the team she'd taken over had already been predicted to get relegated by a landslide regardless of whether or not their manager had a testicles or not. 

 

She then proceeded to start her time there with seven straight league wins and almost getting the, on paper, worst team in the top three divisions promoted  Needless to say, that woman fucking knows her football.

 

Bit of a side-tangent I went off on there, but the tl;dr of it all is that I think the biggest issues when it comes to shit pundits in both the UK and the US stems from continually turning ex-players into pundits, when ex-players for some reason has a bit of a tendency to actually not know anything at all about football