Quote from: paul_e on September 04, 2024, 12:08:12 PMQuote from: SaddVillan on September 04, 2024, 12:01:49 PMThe London/NW centric journos seem to me to be very lazy and rarely give any coverage to clubs outside the Greedy6.Fundamentally I agree with what SE said about catering to demand rather than any conspiracy but I think the first part of this can't be understated. Birmingham in general is massively under-represented in media and a large part of it is simply that the bases for our media are mostly in London and Manchester so they report stuff that they can do without much travelling which fuels the problem and we end up being the wasteland that exists between them.We need to win something to move the dial, and then win something else. Most pundits think we will be sliding back down from whence we came at the moment.
Quote from: SaddVillan on September 04, 2024, 12:01:49 PMThe London/NW centric journos seem to me to be very lazy and rarely give any coverage to clubs outside the Greedy6.Fundamentally I agree with what SE said about catering to demand rather than any conspiracy but I think the first part of this can't be understated. Birmingham in general is massively under-represented in media and a large part of it is simply that the bases for our media are mostly in London and Manchester so they report stuff that they can do without much travelling which fuels the problem and we end up being the wasteland that exists between them.
The London/NW centric journos seem to me to be very lazy and rarely give any coverage to clubs outside the Greedy6.
I’ve mentioned her before but Lucy Ward is basically what a pundit should be. Her breadth of knowledge, and the detail she has alongside it is incredible. She seems to be able to talk about most top flight clubs (and probably Championship) in depth, and she also brings interesting insight.
There is no amount of coverage that will ever be enough for some people. There's loads of Villa media out there, I consume a lot of it myself (you can watch or listen to a new Villa podcast every day if you want to). But people then want the general media to notice us and then get upset when generalist commentators don't know as much about Villa as we do. It's insane. What do these people want to hear Gary Neville say? That we're the best club in the universe? He can't, because we're not. That Unai Emery has done a brilliant job? Well, he does say that. How do they expect that they'll feel when someone gives us 'credit'? Whatever it is, they'll never get it because they're mental when it comes to our media coverage.
Can we not find one man as good as her?
The narrative will always be the same on national media. Take last night on TS. The 7 o’clock show presented by a Newton Heath fan had the following topics for discussion.1. What do manure have to do to become great again? And what is wrong?2. Can Liverpool win the league? 3. Something about something else. Oh yes an MMA with something called Dubois.There was zero mention of anything else.
Amazon are showing Champions league matches this season.They have selected first 5 gameweeks and opted not once for Villa. They will show the games of Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City but ignoring our first 5 matches.
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