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Not as upset as I am whenever I have to listen to the crap he spouts. Having said that, he was never as bad as ITV's other stalwart commentator, Peter Dreary.
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Clive Tyldesley Upset on 09:32 - Jul 15 with 1199 views
BBC 5 Live seems to have gone the full hilarious matey banter route, it makes Talksport sound like a 1920s Pathe real. You can tell the older commentators hate Chris Sutton's "jokes". I fcking hate it.
Flicking from Test Match Special to the football commentary last week was like having your IQ reduced 70 points.
What was wrong with their old style coverage exactly?
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Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:15 - Jul 15 with 1121 views
Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:10 - Jul 15 by Clive_Anderson
BBC 5 Live seems to have gone the full hilarious matey banter route, it makes Talksport sound like a 1920s Pathe real. You can tell the older commentators hate Chris Sutton's "jokes". I fcking hate it.
Flicking from Test Match Special to the football commentary last week was like having your IQ reduced 70 points.
What was wrong with their old style coverage exactly?
Yeh they've deliberately tried to skew younger with things like The Squad. Lot of established names like Lysaght, Ingham and others have been shuffled off to the side. I used to listen all the time and now find vast swathes of its schedule just utterly unlistenable, and I'm not exactly old at 35. Apart from Kermode on a Friday I never have it on any more.
Sutton and Savage are an immediate off button for a start.
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Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:24 - Jul 15 with 1098 views
Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:15 - Jul 15 by Northernr
Yeh they've deliberately tried to skew younger with things like The Squad. Lot of established names like Lysaght, Ingham and others have been shuffled off to the side. I used to listen all the time and now find vast swathes of its schedule just utterly unlistenable, and I'm not exactly old at 35. Apart from Kermode on a Friday I never have it on any more.
Sutton and Savage are an immediate off button for a start.
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Simon Mayo is ok if he's still on there too, but otherwise yeah what the fck are they playing at? It's a sports channel, so supposed to be for everyone, not aimed at only one demographic. And I'm not convinced young people appreciate the unfunny bantz anyway.
I'd forgotten about Savage because as you say the radio goes off immediately you hear his voice. It's like they are playing the test card sound...simply time to stop listening.
Sutton might be ok if they told him to stop with the crappy banter, but I suspect they are egging him on to be as much of a twt as possible.
I just checked and Mayo left in 2009 ha ha.
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Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:26 - Jul 15 with 1095 views
Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:24 - Jul 15 by Clive_Anderson
Simon Mayo is ok if he's still on there too, but otherwise yeah what the fck are they playing at? It's a sports channel, so supposed to be for everyone, not aimed at only one demographic. And I'm not convinced young people appreciate the unfunny bantz anyway.
I'd forgotten about Savage because as you say the radio goes off immediately you hear his voice. It's like they are playing the test card sound...simply time to stop listening.
Sutton might be ok if they told him to stop with the crappy banter, but I suspect they are egging him on to be as much of a twt as possible.
I just checked and Mayo left in 2009 ha ha.
Mayo still does the films on Friday with kermode, which like I say is now the only thing I listen to on there. Even they can be a bit cliquey and in-jokes at times now but still brilliant overall.
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Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:34 - Jul 15 with 1082 views
Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:26 - Jul 15 by Northernr
Mayo still does the films on Friday with kermode, which like I say is now the only thing I listen to on there. Even they can be a bit cliquey and in-jokes at times now but still brilliant overall.
Well it's not difficult is it? Get some people who are intelligent, know their subject and have interesting things to say.
Instead they decide to employ Robbie Savage.
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Clive Tyldesley Upset on 12:43 - Jul 15 with 1038 views
Clive Tyldesley Upset on 11:15 - Jul 15 by Northernr
Yeh they've deliberately tried to skew younger with things like The Squad. Lot of established names like Lysaght, Ingham and others have been shuffled off to the side. I used to listen all the time and now find vast swathes of its schedule just utterly unlistenable, and I'm not exactly old at 35. Apart from Kermode on a Friday I never have it on any more.
Sutton and Savage are an immediate off button for a start.
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Same. 5Live used to get about 90% of my radio listening in an average week, it now gets about 10%. Completely dumbed down, clickbait equivalent of radio. In fact it's easy to understand the #defundthebbc movement that appears to be gathering pace - it's just banal fodder to suit their own agenda now. Doesn't even pretend otherwise.
Just get rid of all the commentators and the so called analysts and just have the game with the crowd noise - the vast majority of fans will be able to tell if the game is any good or not
Agree. Watching or listening to football was ok back in the day until someone thought it was a good idea to throw in a co-commentator and add self congratulatory, opinionated analysists. I blame that bloke with the big chin and silly little beard, what's his name...Jimmy Hill. He started the rot.
There aint half been some clever bastards.
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Clive Tyldesley Upset on 13:54 - Jul 17 with 728 views
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