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Post by vestanpance on Mar 24, 2009 11:41:22 GMT
It's the first rule of punditry...expect the teams that came up to go straight back down. I hope they stick to it.
If we beat Albion in a fortnight they are going to have to start changing their tune, they will have no option. It's up to our lads to prove him, and everybody else wrong.
As a bynote, on Match of the Day when Pulis said "everyone else is writing us off" and it cut back to the studio and Lineker said "no-one in here is" why didn't Lawrenson pipe up? He has us down for 13 points so far this season and has written us off completely more than once, yet now he's not prepared to put his head on the block.
The problem with pundits is that they lack the skills to command a proper role within the game, so they turn their hand to effectively saying nothing bad about the purported bigger teams, whilst heartily slagging off the smaller ones. I don't care, but i reckon they might have to get used to us for a bit, because i don't see us going anywhere this year.
And fair play by the way to Hansen. he doesn't bullshit or pretend we are better than we are, but he gets what we're about. He does his research. Perhaps others should do the same.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2009 12:09:10 GMT
I don't mind him tipping us to go down at all, it just gave me a nice excuse to launch into an anti-Motson tirade because the bloke is an embarrassment and has been winding me up for the last 15 years or so.
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Post by Davef on Mar 24, 2009 12:41:22 GMT
Question all you want, Motson has forgotten more about football than you'll ever know Motson could probably rattle off the names of every player who's appeared in a cup final, the referees, the times of the goals and what time the subs came on. Doesn't mean he understands the game any better than the rest of us. He's been asked a question and given a stock answer, regardless of the form or forthcoming games of any of the other teams near the bottom of the league. |
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Post by th05 on Mar 24, 2009 12:43:27 GMT
Motson is pretty clueless, the other week he claimed Robbie Keane was the best all round player in the Premiership.
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Post by Gods on Mar 24, 2009 13:04:27 GMT
He certainly sounds unpredictable sheikhmomo, goes ape-shit when his OBE appears in lower case but is apparently unmoved when Mr Sausage throws a meat pie at him!
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Post by lordb on Mar 24, 2009 13:18:19 GMT
Motson has been a really poor commentater on TV for years now.
however on Radio 5 he has been,imho,a revalation.
best commenator on there imho
Monday night show (& fridays nights he gets on too) he has shown,along with another much maligned pundit David Pleat,great insight & knowledge.
very very good pundit on the radio - imho.
I think it goes to show that TV is not the greatest medium for discussing football.
as for predicting Stoke to go down,well I dont agree with him but if we lose to WBA (you never know) we would be still down there in the mix.
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Post by pez75 on Mar 24, 2009 13:21:25 GMT
The bloke is a cock. Crap commentator - as people have said, great with stats, understands the game less than than my dead nan.
Met him at the Brit in the Waddo suite a couple of years ago. He was on his tour of the 92 league clubs - for a book or something - and that night he was a guest of SCFC. He enjoyed the hospitality, but was a miserable twat and avoided the hoi-polloi in the room at all costs.
As Momo has pointed out, don't be taken in by broadcaster's on-air personas. I also met Stuart Hall the other day at a function where I work, thought he would be interesting to talk to as he always seems a larger than life fun-loving character albeit stark-staring bonkers - oh dear, what a rude condescending arsehole. He was a twat to pretty much everyone who he deemed as unimportant. He looked like fucking Yoda, too - only older.
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Post by Dr Oetcake on Mar 24, 2009 13:30:13 GMT
Thats sad to hear Pez.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2009 14:46:09 GMT
Can only endorse this. He is a bit of a twat with a high opinion of himself.
I think that there is something insecure about commentators that makes them behave this way. They are employed to talk to us about people who are talented. They themselves are not talented in the same way. They cover up for it with arrogance.
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Post by grayscfc on Mar 24, 2009 15:13:28 GMT
motty`s a boring twat and generally rambles on while no fucker takes a blind bit of notice, i think he wanks off over his stats info sheet. i have`nt listened to him since sngland played france a few years back & we were 1-0 up with a few mins left & he started tempting fate with his compendium of shite expressions :-
"in years to come you`ll be able to say that you were there when we beat france 1-0"
"surely it`s all over now, england have it in the bag"
"there`s no way back for france"
.........and zidane scored twice in the last few mins. i think it was an importatant game too, anyone remember what stage of which competition?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2009 15:16:18 GMT
motty`s a boring twat and generally rambles on while no fucker takes a blind bit of notice, i think he wanks off over his stats info sheet. i have`nt listened to him since sngland played france a few years back & we were 1-0 up with a few mins left & he started tempting fate with his compendium of shite expressions :- "in years to come you`ll be able to say that you were there when we beat france 1-0" "surely it`s all over now, england have it in the bag" "there`s no way back for france" .........and zidane scored twice in the last few mins. i think it was an importatant game too, anyone remember what stage of which competition? It was our first group game of Euro 2004. |
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Post by grayscfc on Mar 24, 2009 15:18:23 GMT
motty`s a boring twat and generally rambles on while no fucker takes a blind bit of notice, i think he wanks off over his stats info sheet. i have`nt listened to him since sngland played france a few years back & we were 1-0 up with a few mins left & he started tempting fate with his compendium of shite expressions :- "in years to come you`ll be able to say that you were there when we beat france 1-0" "surely it`s all over now, england have it in the bag" "there`s no way back for france" .........and zidane scored twice in the last few mins. i think it was an importatant game too, anyone remember what stage of which competition? It was our first group game of Euro 2004. ;)thanks fella. |
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Post by grayscfc on Mar 24, 2009 15:21:53 GMT
It was our first group game of Euro 2004. ;)thanks fella. i know it wasn`t his fault we lost, i just wanted him to shut up, i`m the same at stoke games when people start saying where we are in the table 5 mins from the end.  |
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Post by headsgoup on Mar 24, 2009 18:58:12 GMT
I regard Stoke and it's supporters an extension of my family and friends. So if someone whoever they are comes along and takes a cheap jibe at us I take offence. It's his opinion alright but my opinion is that he's a cunt.
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