From the comments on here about Franks he seems to be like George Gavin became when he went from a decent commentator who backed the Villa to replacing Tony Butler and becoming a total parody because he just wanted to be over the top controversial.
Quote from: Damo70 on August 28, 2013, 11:08:28 AMFrom the comments on here about Franks he seems to be like George Gavin became when he went from a decent commentator who backed the Villa to replacing Tony Butler and becoming a total parody because he just wanted to be over the top controversial.Yes, I always thought that was a shame with Gavin. He had the basics of a decent sports broadcaster but fell into that trap of becoming a carefully sculpted wind up merchant.Now look at him. Spends transfer deadline standing outside Hull's training ground for SSN and the rest of the year doing god knows what.
I'd rather listen to the shipping forecast than WM. And I don't even own a boat.
I only really listen to the match commentaries of the odd away game on WM and have always found them ok. Not brilliant but by no means would I say the commentaries are full of digs at the villa.
Ed Doolan is a pensioners favourite. Some of them listen to him with religious reverence.
Quote from: silhillvilla on August 28, 2013, 12:35:43 PMI only really listen to the match commentaries of the odd away game on WM and have always found them ok. Not brilliant but by no means would I say the commentaries are full of digs at the villa. Are you sure it's WM you are listening to? Take last night for example,they didn't blame the Blues players once.If it was us they would of gone mental at our players and blamed Randy for it all.
WM generally has gone down the pan over the years. It's has lost it's local nature, but when they do try to be local they wheel out idiots like Roving Richie Anderson & Daz Hale.
Quote from: Grande Pablo on August 28, 2013, 12:34:04 PMWM generally has gone down the pan over the years. It's has lost it's local nature, but when they do try to be local they wheel out idiots like Roving Richie Anderson & Daz Hale. A couple of season's back when we played Fulham away first game of the season, Richie Anderson interviewed a few of us before we got on the coach and travelled down with us. He was asleep all the way there apparantley.