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Post by thevoid on Nov 1, 2020 17:59:39 GMT
Angela does pretty good I think. Sandoz is the worst At the end of the day it's local radio, you're not to get an Ed Murrow or a Peter Jones. I think people just want something a bit more 'on trend' rather than a reenactment of Call My Bluff or Test Match Special. They'll be calling Nigel 'Jonners' next.
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Post by wembley4372 on Nov 1, 2020 18:08:00 GMT
What I want is match commentary on the Stoke game without any reference to goals going in elsewhere unless it is affecting stoke in some way. I would like to be able to watch the highlights programmes without knowing the scores.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Nov 1, 2020 18:16:20 GMT
What I want is match commentary on the Stoke game without any reference to goals going in elsewhere unless it is affecting stoke in some way. I would like to be able to watch the highlights programmes without knowing the scores. You remind me of my dad. Nearly 60 years ago he was forever telling me not to let him know any of the match scores until he saw the highlights. And that included the Stoke games which I went to. Win or lose, I was supposed to come home with a poker face and not mention the score until after the highlights had appeared on TV. It wound me up something awful - which was probably why he did it!
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Post by BristolMick on Nov 1, 2020 18:25:41 GMT
What I want is match commentary on the Stoke game without any reference to goals going in elsewhere unless it is affecting stoke in some way. I would like to be able to watch the highlights programmes without knowing the scores. This is a throw back to the days when local radio only covered one match and therefore felt they needed to inform the listeners about how the other two teams in the coverage area were going on. These days the only people listening to the Stoke commentary on Radio Stoke will be Stoke fans. Vale and Crewe games are covered on different frequencies and no Stoke fans will be listening to their games either. There is no need therefore for Nigel to be telling us that the Vale are winning at Southend or that he hopes Crewe can come away with a point from Ipswich where Mick Mills is covering the game. No one listening cares. It’s coverage from a different century. I get some people like that, maybe because they wish we were still in the last century but his audience these days is global and not just from within 15 miles of the studio, and his audience only care about the club he’s meant to be commentating on. BM
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Post by castleblack on Nov 1, 2020 18:28:43 GMT
bring back bill goodwin i say,,,or lonnie cook
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2020 18:38:55 GMT
bring back bill goodwin i say,,,or lonnie cook I'll bite.....who are they?
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Post by thevoid on Nov 1, 2020 18:50:39 GMT
What I want is match commentary on the Stoke game without any reference to goals going in elsewhere unless it is affecting stoke in some way. I would like to be able to watch the highlights programmes without knowing the scores. This is a throw back to the days when local radio only covered one match and therefore felt they needed to inform the listeners about how the other two teams in the coverage area were going on. These days the only people listening to the Stoke commentary on Radio Stoke will be Stoke fans. Vale and Crewe games are covered on different frequencies and no Stoke fans will be listening to their games either. There is no need therefore for Nigel to be telling us that the Vale are winning at Southend or that he hopes Crewe can come away with a point from Ipswich where Mick Mills is covering the game. No one listening cares. It’s coverage from a different century. I get some people like that, maybe because they wish we were still in the last century but his audience these days is global and not just from within 15 miles of the studio, and his audience only care about the club he’s meant to be commentating on. BM Especially in this day and age when most people are either watching Super Saturday, checking their phone or both. I know Fail have scored ten minutes before Radio Joke announce it.
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Post by fazza90 on Nov 1, 2020 18:56:51 GMT
I think the majority here take are taking it way too seriously - I love Nigel's commentary, it's a bit different but light hearted & enjoyable. I remember week before last when Powell was diving all over the place & Nige said something along the lines of it looked like Powell was on a worm hunt; creased me up! He does get peoples names wrong more often than he get's them right but unless you're just listening to commentary without seeing the game yourself I don't think that really makes any difference as you can see for yourself who's doing what. I also think Angela does a really good job.
If it bothers you that much set up an alternative commentary yourself rather than criticising them - from the amount of peoples views on here it looks like if you set up an alternative yourself it'd have a lot of listeners straight away so might be a good business idea over lockdown for you.
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Post by thevoid on Nov 1, 2020 19:06:18 GMT
I think the majority here take are taking it way too seriously - I love Nigel's commentary, it's a bit different but light hearted & enjoyable. I remember week before last when Powell was diving all over the place & Nige said something along the lines of it looked like Powell was on a worm hunt; creased me up! He does get peoples names wrong more often than he get's them right but unless you're just listening to commentary without seeing the game yourself I don't think that really makes any difference as you can see for yourself who's doing what. I also think Angela does a really good job. If it bothers you that much set up an alternative commentary yourself rather than criticising them - from the amount of peoples views on here it looks like if you set up an alternative yourself it'd have a lot of listeners straight away so might be a good business idea over lockdown for you. Using your logic we wouldn't have restaurant or movie critics....
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Post by J-Roar on Nov 1, 2020 19:54:23 GMT
Well he missed it, as almost did the ifollow coverage who were always showing replays at inappropriate times. Robin Gray did an excellent job on the mic when he commentated a few games ago. Brilliantly informed and always up with play, maybe he should be getting more air time now? BM Robin Gray was on Radio 4 this week. World at One is following Vale as an example of a smaller team struggling with limited income, as their owner always has plenty to say. TBF the coverage was pretty sympathetic to SoT, although Gray did a good job with some reasonable analysis and vox pops he still strikes me as a brown nosing YTS trainee. Christ. Anyone local does anything of note and there's always some sour get looking to put them down. I can guarantee there were people slagging off Arnold Bennett, Reginald Mitchell and Josiah Wedgwood back in the day.
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Post by dave1 on Nov 1, 2020 20:04:23 GMT
If thats your only reply then you're sadder than I thought.... Did you not reply to the thread, and said reply was third/forth in general?? You carry on your petty agenda whilst I watch some football You remind me of a politician, not answering the question!!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2020 1:15:37 GMT
He's fantastic. Old school. Entertaining. Pro-Stoke but respectful of the opponents and balanced as well. We're all maybe listening to his commentary much more frequently now we're not physically at the games, and for me he adds to the experience and the enjoyment.
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Post by franklin on Nov 2, 2020 2:17:30 GMT
I don't believe that Nigel ever played squash at any level - let alone being at one time one of the top professional players in the world. If I am wrong, I will, of course apologise. Thats not the point. Nobody does/can doubt what the lady in question has achieved. Very few achieve what she did in her field. The point is (or at least I thought it was) how qualified she is to be on radio stoke. Most of that was thread was pure jealousy.
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Post by cheekymatt71 on Nov 2, 2020 6:28:09 GMT
Nige is fine and a nostalgic link back to my early days of listening to Stoke on the radio.
He has is idiosyncracies and clearly makes a lot of mistakes with player names. For me it just adds to it.
Why does everyone need to moan and put every little detail under the microscope?
Will be a sad day when put away his microphone
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Post by lordb on Nov 2, 2020 8:23:28 GMT
Angela does pretty good I think. Sandoz is the worst At the end of the day it's local radio, you're not to get an Ed Murrow or a Peter Jones. Would be nice to have John Acres back though. He was very good Because of that he's now on 5live
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Post by lordb on Nov 2, 2020 8:25:26 GMT
I think the majority here take are taking it way too seriously - I love Nigel's commentary, it's a bit different but light hearted & enjoyable. I remember week before last when Powell was diving all over the place & Nige said something along the lines of it looked like Powell was on a worm hunt; creased me up! He does get peoples names wrong more often than he get's them right but unless you're just listening to commentary without seeing the game yourself I don't think that really makes any difference as you can see for yourself who's doing what. I also think Angela does a really good job. If it bothers you that much set up an alternative commentary yourself rather than criticising them - from the amount of peoples views on here it looks like if you set up an alternative yourself it'd have a lot of listeners straight away so might be a good business idea over lockdown for you. Using your logic we wouldn't have restaurant or movie critics.... In Stoke... don't think we do. It's local radio, it's not going to be a high standard.
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Post by nottsover60 on Nov 2, 2020 8:42:34 GMT
Simple question - if you don't like the commentary why not just turn off the sound? Quite often I do that so we can have something else on TV. That way if the match is boring you can watch two things at once.
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Post by RF10 on Nov 2, 2020 8:50:51 GMT
Nige is fine and a nostalgic link back to my early days of listening to Stoke on the radio. He has is idiosyncracies and clearly makes a lot of mistakes with player names. For me it just adds to it. Why does everyone need to moan and put every little detail under the microscope? Will be a sad day when put away his microphone What a fantastic word.
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Nov 2, 2020 8:54:14 GMT
I think the majority here take are taking it way too seriously - I love Nigel's commentary, it's a bit different but light hearted & enjoyable. I remember week before last when Powell was diving all over the place & Nige said something along the lines of it looked like Powell was on a worm hunt; creased me up! He does get peoples names wrong more often than he get's them right but unless you're just listening to commentary without seeing the game yourself I don't think that really makes any difference as you can see for yourself who's doing what. I also think Angela does a really good job. If it bothers you that much set up an alternative commentary yourself rather than criticising them - from the amount of peoples views on here it looks like if you set up an alternative yourself it'd have a lot of listeners straight away so might be a good business idea over lockdown for you. Using your logic we wouldn't have restaurant or movie critics.... And who outside Notting Hill would miss them if we didn’t?
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Post by scfc75 on Nov 2, 2020 9:18:56 GMT
Using your logic we wouldn't have restaurant or movie critics.... In Stoke... don't think we do. It's local radio, it's not going to be a high standard. We should expect some kind of standard though, shouldn’t we? I mean, it’s taxpayers money whether it’s local or national. I really struggle with Nige, whether he’s labouring over pronouncing somebodies name, getting our players mixed up or talking about the pepper he’s having in his soup, it’s pretty painful listening. I suppose it’s highlighted more now by the fact that you can see what he’s talking about, so can now pick up on every mistake, whereas before if he mixed a player up then you’d never know if you were only listening on the wireless.
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Post by thevoid on Nov 2, 2020 9:54:39 GMT
Using your logic we wouldn't have restaurant or movie critics.... In Stoke... don't think we do. It's local radio, it's not going to be a high standard. I'm not expecting high brow, just less 'Ron Manager'.
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Post by lordb on Nov 2, 2020 12:16:02 GMT
In Stoke... don't think we do. It's local radio, it's not going to be a high standard. I'm not expecting high brow, just less 'Ron Manager'. are other local radio stations better? ones I've heard pretty much the same, it does vary some better some worse e.g. we had the Welsh commentator calling TOB Campbell for half a game the other night anyone who has heard hospital radio football commentary (all volunteers of course) will realise local radio is actually not bad really I do have gripes with Radio Stoke's insistence on treating each club equally which is plainly wrong when 75% of the area supports Stoke
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Post by J-Roar on Nov 2, 2020 12:53:55 GMT
I'm not expecting high brow, just less 'Ron Manager'. are other local radio stations better? ones I've heard pretty much the same, it does vary some better some worse e.g. we had the Welsh commentator calling TOB Campbell for half a game the other night anyone who has heard hospital radio football commentary (all volunteers of course) will realise local radio is actually not bad really I do have gripes with Radio Stoke's insistence on treating each club equally which is plainly wrong when 75% of the area supports Stoke I have a problem with jobs for life in any walk of life. Just because someone has done a job forever doesn't mean they are above criticism or should hold back those below them in the pecking order. A let sleeping dogs lie culture stifles creativity and allows standards to drop. That said, it is only local radio and I should have better things to get in a flap about.
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Post by kustokie on Nov 2, 2020 13:04:53 GMT
Nige is a radio commentator not a TV commentator - the roles are completely different. The radio commentator has to tell the story blow by blow. We don’t need that if we watch the stream because we can it for ourselves. By overlaying Radio Stoke over the stream, his minor mistakes are there for all to see. So what. Unless they use a separate commentator for the video stream it is always going to be that way, so get used to it and leave the man alone. He’s been a loyal servant to Stoke who loves his team and the town like everyone else, doing the best he can. Same goes for Angela Smith. They have dedicated their lives to Stoke City FC, through thick and thin - mostly thin.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Nov 2, 2020 13:40:42 GMT
Nige is a radio commentator not a TV commentator - the roles are completely different. The radio commentator has to tell the story blow by blow. We don’t need that if we watch the stream because we can it for ourselves. By overlaying Radio Stoke over the stream, his minor mistakes are there for all to see. So what. Unless they use a separate commentator for the video stream it is always going to be that way, so get used to it and leave the man alone. He’s been a loyal servant to Stoke who loves his team and the town like everyone else, doing the best he can. Same goes for Angela Smith. They have dedicated their lives to Stoke City FC, through thick and thin - mostly thin. Well said!
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Post by stokienorthants on Nov 2, 2020 13:43:15 GMT
48. But he did hammer the disco biscuits in the 90s. Four years younger than the US president and eight younger than the next (touch wood). So what’s the problem? Trump at 74 is 16 years older than our Nige who is 12 years younger than Gary Lineker. I for one hope that he continues for many more years, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
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Post by Squeekster on Nov 2, 2020 13:55:11 GMT
I just want to know what the center cirtle is?
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Post by ab61 on Nov 2, 2020 13:56:02 GMT
Just out of interest what happened to the Angela Smith thread !
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Post by logdog on Nov 2, 2020 14:09:10 GMT
Would be nice to have John Acres back though. He was very good Because of that he's now on 5live You’re right Lordb, on reflection he was a cut above local radio station sport, but he was quite happy doing what he was doing, whilst fitting in 5Live games around Stoke matches. He was pushed, he didn’t jump.😃
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Post by lagwafis on Nov 2, 2020 14:35:06 GMT
Even in his twilight years Nigel still makes more sense than George Andrews ever did in the 90s
"Here comes Jinking Jimmy, jinking down the wing, except his name isn't Jimmy. It's Wayne" "Martin Foyle leaps like a salmon" "First-time header" "Ainsworth, hard and low, over the bar"
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