Everytime I hear that wally Mel Eves it makes me think he sounds like someone who probably has really bad breath. I know that sounds daft but that idea for some reason pops into my head.I don't remember any other teams having a special correspondent who is on almost every night either does anybody else?
Garry being helpful again."Aston Villa were nothing short of disgraceful," Thompson told BBC Radio WM. "Very, very abject performance. No desire about them."And the Tammy Abraham thing at the end [like he was saying goodbye to the fans], if you're him and you're looking at that side who have just folded again. Would you want to hang about here? You couldn't blame him if he had it off on his toes now."
I don't mind them criticising us when we're shite but I do object to the way they seem to revel in it and permanently search for the grey cloud in every silver lining.
Thompson and WM as whole aren't there to be helpful, their role is to report what they see, which, apart that tomfoolery at 5.30pm is generally what they do. The idea that, other than the official club outlets, the media are meant to be "cheerleaders" is wholly wrong and something everyone would baulk against were the club being run like Blackpool for instance.I agree that both WM and The Mail are overly critical about us at times, I've posted to that effect on here myself, they appear to go out of their way to be negative but conversely they have no obligation to be "helpful" or "support" us only to tilt their coverage in our favour because they are local outlets.
Quote from: Nev on January 14, 2019, 02:15:19 PMThompson and WM as whole aren't there to be helpful, their role is to report what they see, which, apart that tomfoolery at 5.30pm is generally what they do. The idea that, other than the official club outlets, the media are meant to be "cheerleaders" is wholly wrong and something everyone would baulk against were the club being run like Blackpool for instance.I agree that both WM and The Mail are overly critical about us at times, I've posted to that effect on here myself, they appear to go out of their way to be negative but conversely they have no obligation to be "helpful" or "support" us only to tilt their coverage in our favour because they are local outlets.Fair enough, but there is a clear difference in the coverage we get from those two outlets compared to the other teams in the area. For example, if one of those teams made the FA Cup final, do you honestly think the main story on the back page of the Birmingham Mail the day before the final would be about one of their best players possibly leaving the club in the summer (like they did about Benteke in 2015)?
The only story in this region is Aston Villa, good or bad. The rest are insignificant.