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Offline Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #15 on: October 03, 2010, 11:43:40 AM »
We played well and passed the ball around, but you very rarely see highlights of a team passing it round when they don't end up with a chance at the end of it.

Spurs passed it round well, but you only saw their moves when they created a good chance.

I thought they spoke about Villa well after the game and pointed out why we looked good.

It's hard to fit in everything in a short space of time.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2010, 11:53:19 AM »
Just posted this in the Poat Match thread    may be more appropriate here
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The most annoying thing for me was Gabby Logan  on  red button Final score saying ,when we were leading coming up to half time, "Have Villa shown how to play the big Teams?"
I am fuming ..I used to like her but now she can  go  and %$##@##$%$%^
« Last Edit: October 03, 2010, 12:49:35 PM by Legion »

Offline TimTheVillain

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #17 on: October 03, 2010, 12:13:44 PM »
We are a bit paranoid us Villains !

MOTD could do with a bit of a shake up, but Spurs won, we lost - they always show more of the winning team.

If we'd won, they'd have shown more of us, not least because there would have been more to show I should think.

Re. sussing out how to play the big teams, relax, unfortunatly Spurs are seen as a bigger club than Villa and at the moment, you can see why.


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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #18 on: October 03, 2010, 12:20:07 PM »
The sports round up on the BBC News channel featured our game. They showed the Spurs goals, but not ours.

Draw your own conclusions.

My conclusion is that Spurs are a top four Champions League side and Villa aren't, what are yours?

They maybe, but why didn't they show the goals for and against?

Spurs are the new Newcastle


Because Spurs are a top four Champions League side! And they have signed a cracker in van der Vaart. Yes it's biased, but it's biased towards the top four Champions League side with the superb new signing.
To put it bluntly, your average punter doesn't give a shit about Aston Villa, we were only briefly interesting for a few days when MON resigned and Hotlips took over, now we are being ignored as the average, might scrape a UEFA place if we're lucky, team that the rest of the football world sees us as.

We will only know if Villa will get the same treatment  as Spuds if we become a top four Champions League side capable of attracting the likes of van der Vaart, until then we'll have to grit our teeth and accept we've been (hopefully temporarily) overtaken by this bunch of bastards.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #19 on: October 03, 2010, 06:45:11 PM »
We are a bit paranoid us Villains !

MOTD could do with a bit of a shake up, but Spurs won, we lost - they always show more of the winning team.


From the current issue of Private Eye, Why do Villa fans worry so about how the lame presenters of MOTD portray us?

The state of Match of the Day. The 46-year-old football highlights show is experiencing a sudden midlife crisis after a rush of attacks from media sporting figures. While the main people throwing the mud arc hardly impartial observers ¬Stan Collymore was sacked from the BBC for unusual uses of a car park and now works for rivals Talk Sport. while Brian Barwick is a former head of BBC Sport (and a former editor of MOTD) - the sticky stuff has stuck to an extent that should worry whoever replaces Jay Hunt as controller of BBC I.
The basic problem is that, while one reliable weekly piece of wisdom from the pundits is the virtue of squad rotation. this technique is never applied on the MOTD sofa, where the BBC gaffers select a rigid I + 2 formation. with Garv Lineker a fixture (except for half-terms off in Marbella) and two from the three of Alan Hansen. Alan Shearer and Mark Lawrenson.
These guys don't come cheap - the fees paid to Lineker, Shearer and Hansen make Chris Moyles look economical - but have fallen years ago into fixed routines. Lineker does laboured puns and Hansen glum horror at the quality of the defending. A sign of how tired these lines are becoming is that it's a good decade since both started being paid to send up these personas by advertisers, yet. incredibly. here thev still are trying to do it straight."    
Lawrenson. who seems once to have been told by a mate in the pub that he's a bit of a wag, franticallv scans team-sheets looking for players who have the same name as a figure in another field, So. regardless of how he plays. a defender called Wisdom is inevitably going to hear it said that he was "more like Norman Wisdom on that occasion. Garv", which Gary will ignore, being distracted by wondering whether the midfielder Felia can humorously be described as "a bit of an abject Felia today".
Shearer at least doesn't try for jokes but. unfortunately. he doesn't really try for anything, relying on monotone recitation of hoary sporting litotes ("not the tallest". "not the quickest". "not the easiest") and bleedingly obvious psychology ("He'll think he should have scored").
These limited shticks are made worse by the fact that they take place in such total isolation. This is the only panel show on TV in which the contributors never disagree with each other. partly because the show is structured as a series 0f monologues -- Hansen on the defending in the Spurs game. then Lawro on the Wolves set¬pieces  and partly because they are all smug chums who play golf together when off-air,
Add to this the presence of so many no-go areas left over from their playing days - Shearer can't be rude about Michael Owen. Hansen and Lawrenson can only critique Liverpool from the perspective of the club's greatness when they played for it - and it's rather as if Question Time were to feature four colleagues every week from the same party who were all at Oxford together.
As the lads like to say: the manager needs to get some new talent in fast.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2010, 08:04:36 PM »
It's something I've noticed about MOTD, they always seem to leave chances out and then just put them ion the analysis.

Surely the Carew chance he skied and then the break he fcuked up should've been in the main highlights?!

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #21 on: October 03, 2010, 08:31:19 PM »
Whilst I thought the comments after the game were fair and agree with Dave that Spurs have moved up a gear probably for the first time since the Chas n Dave era, I still think the commentator sounded like some kid off fanzone. The mug comment about Richard Dunne was a bit much, just applaud the skill.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #22 on: October 03, 2010, 08:53:58 PM »
We are a bit paranoid us Villains !

MOTD could do with a bit of a shake up, but Spurs won, we lost - they always show more of the winning team.


From the current issue of Private Eye, Why do Villa fans worry so about how the lame presenters of MOTD portray us?

The state of Match of the Day. The 46-year-old football highlights show is experiencing a sudden midlife crisis after a rush of attacks from media sporting figures. While the main people throwing the mud arc hardly impartial observers ¬Stan Collymore was sacked from the BBC for unusual uses of a car park and now works for rivals Talk Sport. while Brian Barwick is a former head of BBC Sport (and a former editor of MOTD) - the sticky stuff has stuck to an extent that should worry whoever replaces Jay Hunt as controller of BBC I.
The basic problem is that, while one reliable weekly piece of wisdom from the pundits is the virtue of squad rotation. this technique is never applied on the MOTD sofa, where the BBC gaffers select a rigid I + 2 formation. with Garv Lineker a fixture (except for half-terms off in Marbella) and two from the three of Alan Hansen. Alan Shearer and Mark Lawrenson.
These guys don't come cheap - the fees paid to Lineker, Shearer and Hansen make Chris Moyles look economical - but have fallen years ago into fixed routines. Lineker does laboured puns and Hansen glum horror at the quality of the defending. A sign of how tired these lines are becoming is that it's a good decade since both started being paid to send up these personas by advertisers, yet. incredibly. here thev still are trying to do it straight."    
Lawrenson. who seems once to have been told by a mate in the pub that he's a bit of a wag, franticallv scans team-sheets looking for players who have the same name as a figure in another field, So. regardless of how he plays. a defender called Wisdom is inevitably going to hear it said that he was "more like Norman Wisdom on that occasion. Garv", which Gary will ignore, being distracted by wondering whether the midfielder Felia can humorously be described as "a bit of an abject Felia today".
Shearer at least doesn't try for jokes but. unfortunately. he doesn't really try for anything, relying on monotone recitation of hoary sporting litotes ("not the tallest". "not the quickest". "not the easiest") and bleedingly obvious psychology ("He'll think he should have scored").
These limited shticks are made worse by the fact that they take place in such total isolation. This is the only panel show on TV in which the contributors never disagree with each other. partly because the show is structured as a series 0f monologues -- Hansen on the defending in the Spurs game. then Lawro on the Wolves set¬pieces  and partly because they are all smug chums who play golf together when off-air,
Add to this the presence of so many no-go areas left over from their playing days - Shearer can't be rude about Michael Owen. Hansen and Lawrenson can only critique Liverpool from the perspective of the club's greatness when they played for it - and it's rather as if Question Time were to feature four colleagues every week from the same party who were all at Oxford together.
As the lads like to say: the manager needs to get some new talent in fast.

Great post, what a start to your H&V career. Who needs VDV?

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #23 on: October 03, 2010, 10:27:32 PM »
Bring back Hugh Johns (I know he was Star Soccer, but you know what I mean), who never in a million years would have come out with shite like this.

Once again Chelsea unleash the Drog on Arsenal

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #24 on: October 03, 2010, 11:07:26 PM »
Oh dear, wanker alert on MOTD2 right now.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #25 on: October 03, 2010, 11:08:36 PM »
It's a visit to David Gold's house.

He's shown us his FA Cup, the presenter has pointed out our name on it.

He's wearing a diamante DG badge on his lapel.

He's mentioned his helicopter.

It's been on less than 60 seconds.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #26 on: October 03, 2010, 11:13:27 PM »
It's a visit to David Gold's house.

He's shown us his FA Cup, the presenter has pointed out our name on it.

He's wearing a diamante DG badge on his lapel.

He's mentioned his helicopter.

It's been on less than 60 seconds.

He's a class act and in no way courts publicity for himself.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #27 on: October 03, 2010, 11:14:11 PM »
It's a visit to David Gold's house.

He's shown us his FA Cup, the presenter has pointed out our name on it.

He's wearing a diamante DG badge on his lapel.

He's mentioned his helicopter.

It's been on less than 60 seconds.


He's also just mentioned the poverty stricken kid done good.......again.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #28 on: October 03, 2010, 11:19:02 PM »
It's a visit to David Gold's house.

He's shown us his FA Cup, the presenter has pointed out our name on it.

He's wearing a diamante DG badge on his lapel.

He's mentioned his helicopter.

It's been on less than 60 seconds.

That twat Murray asked what made a good chairman, and the responses were something along the lines of one that doesn't give interviews or sign autographs. After last week's wine tasting, and tonight's Gold contribution, MOTD2 is rapidly turning into the so bad it's good category.

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Re: MOTD - Yet more absolute bollocks
« Reply #29 on: October 03, 2010, 11:22:24 PM »
It's a visit to David Gold's house.

He's shown us his FA Cup, the presenter has pointed out our name on it.

He's wearing a diamante DG badge on his lapel.

He's mentioned his helicopter.

It's been on less than 60 seconds.

That twat Murray asked what made a good chairman, and the responses were something along the lines of one that doesn't give interviews or sign autographs. After last week's wine tasting, and tonight's Gold contribution, MOTD2 is rapidly turning into the so bad it's good category.

He also used the term "Mighty Liverpool", a Liverpool that's so mighty they are currently in the bottom 3 and haven't won the league for 2 decades.

And just think, we pay this pricks wages.

 


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