MOTD

[Risso]

Just listened to the Totally Football Show and they got it spot on, all about the aggression of the press. That is absolutely what has been missing when we’ve had our underwhelming displays this season.

Yep, I said a week or 2 back the thing with this team right now is that when we're 100% we can can beat anyone but if we go into a game at 90% nothing quite works and I don't think it's just down to the team we put out.

I think if it was a collective 90% we'd be OK, but in the games where we've been poor, we've had the likes of Kamara at about 50% I reckon, and even Ollie and SJM at 75%. We just can't afford key individuals to be having a 'mare.

[Dave]

We just can't afford key individuals to be having a 'mare.

That's also true to some extent for everyone else in the league apart from arguably Man City, no?

And give Rodri and Haaland an off-day and even they're pretty fallible too.

[Brend'Watkins]

Far too much credence is give to the importance of MOTD and the running order of games. It’s just not that relevant anymore. Any fan of a team or football in general can watch any game in full while it’s happening if they really want to rendering the programme’s value irrelevant. We all want to be seen as one of the top dogs in the media. That will only happen with MOTD and the press once we have a sustained period of success.

Of course, the anomaly in all this is Tottenham.

[paul_e]

We just can't afford key individuals to be having a 'mare.

That's also true to some extent for everyone else in the league apart from arguably Man City, no?

And give Rodri and Haaland an off-day and even they're pretty fallible too.

Saturday showed clear as day how important Rodri is to them, I think he's the key player in their squad now, the alternatives to him are miles off his standard, I think it's nearly as big a gap in quality as us going from Emi to Olsen.

[LeeB]

Yeah, Rodri is stupidly good, he's flawless

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't much care regarding the general coverage, it's just the Spurs stuff I find amusing.

Spurs, a club who have only won the title twice, and the last time was closer to the reign of Queen Victoria than to today.

The general media love around them is laughable, were they not in London, they wouldn't get half of it.

Arsenal fans are a strange mix of hideous Tarquins and YouTube cringe-merchants, but at least they can point to a mountain of silverware to back it up a bit.

[chrisw1]

They consider Spurs to be more interesting than us. I assume that's backed by data/viewing figures. And that Liverpool result got loads of coverage, and we got loads of 'credit'. I don't know what people constantly in the hunt for us to be given 'credit' are hoping to feel when we're given 'credit', but whatever it is, it won't make them happy.

Agree.  The truth is our game was so one-sided it actually became less interesting to the neutral.  The Wolves result was a huge upset so that was always going to be high up the order.  And Spurs v Liverpool is always going to be shown ahead of Villa v Brighton because of the wider interest worldwide, not just in the London media.  The extra controversy makes it even more so.

[Somniloquism]

Last Sunday there was five matches on Sunday, (admittedly not Manure or Citeh playing). They decided the 8-0 match which had only been shown live a few hours earlier needed top billing. So the arguments for matches being one sided or being live on TV not being first match shown doesn't wash as if they want to show it first, they will.

[paul_e]

Yeah, Rodri is stupidly good, he's flawless

The guy is a complete arse but also probably the best DM of all time.

[Risso]

Yeah, Rodri is stupidly good, he's flawless

The guy is a complete arse but also probably the best DM of all time.

Better than Gavin McCann?! David O'Leary was righ.....

[Dave]

Last Sunday there was five matches on Sunday, (admittedly not Manure or Citeh playing). They decided the 8-0 match which had only been shown live a few hours earlier needed top billing. So the arguments for matches being one sided or being live on TV not being first match shown doesn't wash as if they want to show it first, they will.

Obviously. There's no rules about what they can and can't show in what order. In Saturday's case, they decided that there were two stories more interesting than us tonking Brighton. Which is fair enough.

They decided that us tonking Brighton was a more interesting story than five others. Which is also fair enough.

[Monty]

I think Man City losing and a Spurs-Liverpool game with a totally mad refereeing ballsup are legitimate main-eventers. We were considered more important than Man Utd. That's fine with me.

[paul_e]

I think Man City losing and a Spurs-Liverpool game with a totally mad refereeing ballsup are legitimate main-eventers. We were considered more important than Man Utd. That's fine with me.

Saturday actually saw both Manchester and both Liverpool clubs lose. I reckon that can't have happened often and I'm surprised there wasn't a bit more made of it.

[kippaxvilla2]

Although they did seem to show an inordinate amount of the manure game.  Which was largely turgid.

[Brend'Watkins]

I think Man City losing and a Spurs-Liverpool game with a totally mad refereeing ballsup are legitimate main-eventers. We were considered more important than Man Utd. That's fine with me.

Saturday actually saw both Manchester and both Liverpool clubs lose. I reckon that can't have happened often and I'm surprised there wasn't a bit more made of it.

File under empty seats (Ma Lord)at the Tory Conference yesterday, zero coverage of the Rejoin march last week etc etc.