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Motd
Topic Started: Jan 16 2010, 11:39 PM (786 Views)
anglo-welsh bluenose
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No talk about us at all!!!!! :silence:
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anglo-welsh bluenose
Jan 16 2010, 11:39 PM
No talk about us at all!!!!! :silence:

I know yeah... I missed us altogether, were we on last like usual? Typical 'blink and you'll miss it' moment :blink:
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I didnt see it, but perhaps we werent spoke about, or on because we didn't play?
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This shows how utterly useless MotD is now.

Lewis and the regular posters have been proved right.
It IS a conspiracy by the BBC to denigrate Blues.

Because we didn't play they have lept at the chance to show no footage from an old match, re-show an old interview with Bruce, have a few moments from rent-a-quote Gold in his FA blazer.
The BBC have just thrown away a golden opportunity to show archive stuff about blues....and why ?

Because they hate us and want to humiliate us. Long Live the alert and studious anti-MotD posters **thumbup
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:silence: We didn't have a game! Besides who wants to hear "They have a sold defence", "Cappelo surely has to be looking at Hart for England", "Johnson and Dann at the back have been fantastic", "Its amazing Carr was in retirement when Macleish persuaded to play" i could go on but we have all heard them by now :P Besides did you all miss Football Focus today? We had a montage on there inclusive of interviews a look at our history, interview with Kenny Burns and other footage. My boy said "why are they doing this dad?, Were never normal getting this kind of attention, What have done?" :blink: "This is the best its been son" i said.

I imagine every clubs supporters think they get no coverage on MOTD accept the top fours supporters and they think its reverse snobbery where the media ignore them!!!!

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Paul Armstrong | 16:35 UK time, Monday, 4 December 2006
The idea of this blog is that we explain ourselves to the licence-fee payer, and that the replies are one of the means by which you can give us feedback. As you'd expect, not all of it's positive, but it is taken on board.

So I thought it was worth responding to John Phelan's comment last week (#14) which claimed that Match of the Day says "how great the big four are" followed by "a quick whip round the rest". If that was ever true in previous incarnations of BBC or ITV Premiership highlights, I really don't accept it as a description of what we've done since August 2004. On regaining the rights, we introduced a full commentary and minimum five minutes' edit for every game. The intention was not to "whip round" any game ever again!

John also claimed that MOTD is a "load of rubbish" which, if true, is a sad indictment of what our team does for a living. Either way, it may be a "load of rubbish" but I don't agree that it's a big-four obsessed "load of rubbish"! Just ask the fans of Liverpool - presumably one of "the big four" - who've been complaining about our placing of their recent matches in the running order.

In the past, the usual gripe was (with some justification) that certain teams' games often ended up as 30 seconds in the round-up. Now it's that a given edit of several minutes was too late in the running order. However, there is a real issue behind all of this, one which I will now try to address.

When I headlined this piece "it's not just a two-horse race", I was not talking about the Premiership itself. This season at least, that is a two horse race. If anyone other than one of the current top two wins the league, then something extraordinary will have to have happened.

What I meant is that Match of the Day is not, and cannot, only be about the race for the title. We very much hope that stays alive all the way to next May. If it does, some programmes, such as the one last Saturday, will start with Chelsea, Manchester United or both. On a day when United went six points clear, and all the (good and bad) headlines the next day were about Cristiano Ronaldo every journalist - and most impartial viewers - would understand why we led with their game.

However, next in the running order, ahead of big wins for Liverpool and Arsenal, was a dramatic bottom three clash between Sheffield United and Charlton. The other week, on a day when Manchester United and Liverpool both won, the first three games on Match of the Day were Watford v Middlesbrough, Charlton v Manchester City and Newcastle v Sheffield United. The bottom three all won, so we started the programme with them. Similarly, Reading led the first MOTD of the season by coming back from two down to win their first ever Premiership game.

These decisions, like any we make, are debatable, and are therefore debated. They're certainly not designed to boost our audience figures (which are almost always higher when the UK's best-supported teams Manchester United and Liverpool feature) and, I hope, also rather explode the "big four" theory. Prior to Saturday, the second-best supported team in the country (Liverpool) had been involved in a number of indifferent low-scoring games, so have often been lower in the running order than we - or their fans - might have anticipated.

I would argue that this is meritocratic, and that, as a public service broadcaster, we should not automatically bow to what political theorists call the "tyranny of the majority". Just as the BBC as a whole tries to cater to minority groups and interests, so we owe it to Watford and Charlton fans to provide them with proper coverage and analysis of their teams, even though they're massively outnumbered by fans of the "big four". We're certainly not perfect, but if people don't think we've moved on in this respect post-2004, then frankly we've failed in what we set out to achieve.

And we won't only focus on the title and relegation picture. Yesterday's MOTD2, with Everton's win as the featured match, a film showing Portsmouth fans travelling to their game from Scotland and Linvoy Primus as our guest, concentrated on the amazingly tight race for the 3rd and 4th Champions' League spots. Again, we hope this stays alive for the rest of the season.

Further down the football pyramid, Sunday's live FA Cup tie saw Salisbury City heroically earn a place alongside the "big four" in the 3rd round draw. They deservedly held the best team from the league three rungs above them, and 2.7 million watched on BBC1. That's a great audience, if somewhat smaller than we'll get for the big boys in later rounds.

But that's not really the point. I'd like to think those who watched, enjoyed that programme for what it was, a classic illustration of Cup underdogs playing out of their skin. And if they thought it was a well-produced show which did the occasion justice, then so much the better. We certainly put as much thought and effort, and as many resources, into it as we will any live game in the New Year. Our team on site also thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and we hope that showed in the coverage.

Anyway, all replies welcome as usual. But please spare me the "big four" stuff. This week, at least!

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Why wood they talk about use when we did not even play?

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Jan 17 2010, 05:30 AM
Besides did you all miss Football Focus today? We had a montage on there inclusive of interviews a look at our history, interview with Kenny Burns and other footage. My boy said "why are they doing this dad?, Were never normal getting this kind of attention, What have done?" "This is the best its been son" i said.

I missed it, just had a look on the focus main page aswell to see if they had any clips and the only one is an interview with Shay Given!
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anglo-welsh bluenose
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it was a joke :banghead:
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Some people reeeeally didn't get this thread did they?
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Jan 17 2010, 01:07 PM
Some people reeeeally didn't get this thread did they?

;) I'm surprised - give or take 30 seconds, we got the same coverage we normally get. They're probably making sure they keep our "average minutes" down after last week :whistle:


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Jan 17 2010, 12:07 PM
Some people reeeeally didn't get this thread did they?

Looks that way. Although they did do a good job of saying "Portsmouths game was called off" and not saying who it was against I'd be surprised if people were actually offended.
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anglo-welsh bluenose
Jan 16 2010, 11:39 PM
No talk about us at all!!!!! :silence:

Well done anglo!

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I have to agree with one of the posters - we didn't even play - why would they mention us. This is a pretty pointless thread. There are some people who actually believe there is some sort of conspirancy at MOTD. I will guarantee if we ever become a top four side we will get plenty of coverage. Would you be moaning that they weren't giving enough time to Wigan, Fulham and Stoke then. Somehow I doubt it.
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Jan 17 2010, 03:04 PM
I have to agree with one of the posters - we didn't even play - why would they mention us. This is a pretty pointless thread. There are some people who actually believe there is some sort of conspirancy at MOTD. I will guarantee if we ever become a top four side we will get plenty of coverage. Would you be moaning that they weren't giving enough time to Wigan, Fulham and Stoke then. Somehow I doubt it.

It was a joke? Meant to be an ironic thread?
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Jan 17 2010, 03:36 PM
neiloi
Jan 17 2010, 03:04 PM
I have to agree with one of the posters - we didn't even play - why would they mention us. This is a pretty pointless thread. There are some people who actually believe there is some sort of conspirancy at MOTD. I will guarantee if we ever become a top four side we will get plenty of coverage. Would you be moaning that they weren't giving enough time to Wigan, Fulham and Stoke then. Somehow I doubt it.

It was a joke? Meant to be an ironic thread?

Some people seem to have taken the bait though and had another weekly whinge.
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Jan 17 2010, 04:38 PM
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Jan 17 2010, 03:36 PM
neiloi
Jan 17 2010, 03:04 PM
I have to agree with one of the posters - we didn't even play - why would they mention us. This is a pretty pointless thread. There are some people who actually believe there is some sort of conspirancy at MOTD. I will guarantee if we ever become a top four side we will get plenty of coverage. Would you be moaning that they weren't giving enough time to Wigan, Fulham and Stoke then. Somehow I doubt it.

It was a joke? Meant to be an ironic thread?

Some people seem to have taken the bait though and had another weekly whinge.

You're telling me! It seemed blindingly obvious, clearly not.
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Jan 17 2010, 01:51 AM
This shows how utterly useless MotD is now.

Lewis and the regular posters have been proved right.
It IS a conspiracy by the BBC to denigrate Blues.

Because we didn't play they have lept at the chance to show no footage from an old match, re-show an old interview with Bruce, have a few moments from rent-a-quote Gold in his FA blazer.
The BBC have just thrown away a golden opportunity to show archive stuff about blues....and why ?

Because they hate us and want to humiliate us. Long Live the alert and studious anti-MotD posters **thumbup

**thumbup

One bloke who got the joke I think.


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Because they hate us and want to humiliate us. Long Live the alert and studious anti-MotD posters


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What's going on with Chiles beard? he looks rough as anything.
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Jan 18 2010, 12:15 AM
What's going on with Chiles beard? he looks rough as anything.

:LOL:
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Jan 17 2010, 11:15 PM
What's going on with Chiles beard? he looks rough as anything.

He looks like an Ewok from Star Wars!

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Whats with the music in the background all the time now lol its sending me crazzyyy!
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Lamps has nicked his bird so he is going to the dogs. :ph43r: :D
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definitely calls for "that went over his/her head" smilie **thumbup
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anglo-welsh bluenose
Jan 16 2010, 11:39 PM
No talk about us at all!!!!! :silence:

another MOTD thread :wub:
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