theboyangel Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Last of MoTD… if the result were reversed I imagine it would’ve featured higher up the pecking order. Granted, it was never going to usurp the Mancheater City/Arsenal games but last on with minimal coverage time is shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted April 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 2, 2023 28 minutes ago, theboyangel said: Last of MoTD… if the result were reversed I imagine it would’ve featured higher up the pecking order. Granted, it was never going to usurp the Mancheater City/Arsenal games but last on with minimal coverage time is shit. I think it was a mid table game with not much at stake for the neutral so I can understand that. Now things are tight for euro places and relegation it might change. Every game as implications it will change. Keep winning and it will be the fairytale story nobody can ignore. At the moment we are stealth like 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 "The Gallowgate growls it's joy!"- Peter Drury Why is he like this? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted April 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 2, 2023 Which comment from today's game is more irritating? Is it A: 'Where there's a Willock there's a way!' or is it B: 'They should call him Sean LUNGstaff because he works so hard!' 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 2, 2023 B. Definitely B. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 3 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Which comment from today's game is more irritating? Is it A: 'Where there's a Willock there's a way!' or is it B: 'They should call him Sean LUNGstaff because he works so hard!' Are these Druryisms as well? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, maqroll said: Are these Druryisms as well? EDIT: No, Martin Tyler (I now realise upon checking) Edited April 2, 2023 by HanoiVillan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 2 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Yep It really makes my head implode how people worship the guy. He is a huge distraction. Give me Jim Proudfoot. Calls the game with a bit of panache but doesn't make a show of it. And for all of Drury's verbosity, he often can't articulate key passages of play at all! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 10 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: EDIT: No, Martin Tyler (I now realise upon checking) Even his "And it's LIIIVE" at the start sounded like late career Alan Partridge. I missed the Lungstaff line, but "Where there's a Willock" made my entire anus implode 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 I respect Martin Tyler and learned a lot about English football from him back in the 90s. But sadly he's slipped these days and can be kind of corny. I still like him though, he's a gentleman. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 4 hours ago, maqroll said: It really makes my head implode how people worship the guy. He is a huge distraction. Give me Jim Proudfoot. Calls the game with a bit of panache but doesn't make a show of it. And for all of Drury's verbosity, he often can't articulate key passages of play at all! The thing is he gets noticed now, he was a solid commentator for years but never getting past Tyldsley on ITV for the big games so probably felt he might as well go OTT all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 8 hours ago, maqroll said: I respect Martin Tyler and learned a lot about English football from him back in the 90s. But sadly he's slipped these days and can be kind of corny. I still like him though, he's a gentleman. To be fair, I don't know much about him, and his actual commentary on what was happening on the pitch was fine. He just needs somebody armed with a cattle prod to sit next to him and 'remind' him that puns are the lowest form of wit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 You have to laugh. All of a sudden they show the bottom 12, something must have changed 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted April 3, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 3, 2023 5 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: He just needs somebody armed with a cattle prod to sit next to him and 'remind' him that puns are the lowest form of wit. Well, it couldn't possibly be sarcasm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Currently talking Villa on Radio5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Ha, I like Chris Sutton as a pundit but he just said he "feels sorry for Gerrard"!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted April 3, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 3, 2023 10 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Ha, I like Chris Sutton as a pundit but he just said he "feels sorry for Gerrard"!!! Ha yeah I tuned after seeing your post but just in time to hear the start of Sutton’s musings. That was the first thing he said “I feel sorry for Steven Gerrard”. Or at least within the first two sentences. Mark Chapman to his credit immediately asking “Why?”. For those who didn’t catch it, Sutton basically said some nice things about Emery and some of the Villa players. One of the other pundits then pointed out that Sutton hadn’t answered why he feels sorry for Gerrard. Essentially it’s because it’s a shame when someone loses their job. There was a lot of “Well Emery suits Villa more than Arsenal because the spotlight isn’t on him as much. The pressure is not as great.” There is an element of that in terms of the national media, but a bit more discussion about how Arsenal were in disarray at the time of Emery’s appointment, the first year was not too shabby and taking into account how underperforming Villa were under Gerrard, just needed a bit more of that. But they’re taking note. Personally don’t mind staying under the radar as long as possible as the analysis when things are going well isn’t particularly rewarding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Talksport today, caller "maybe you should talk more how good the Villa were, instead of talking about how bad Chelsea were. Laura Woods "ofcourse we are going to talk Villa and how good Emery is doing". 5 seconds later, "anyway now Potter has gone, who's coming in next at Chelsea, blah, blah blah". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rds1983 Posted April 4, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted April 4, 2023 9 hours ago, foreveryoung said: Talksport today, caller "maybe you should talk more how good the Villa were, instead of talking about how bad Chelsea were. Laura Woods "ofcourse we are going to talk Villa and how good Emery is doing". 5 seconds later, "anyway now Potter has gone, who's coming in next at Chelsea, blah, blah blah". Don't get why anyone still listens to Talksport. All they do is spout drivel and hope it annoys people so that they call in. That caller gave them exactly what they wanted. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 19 hours ago, duke313 said: You have to laugh. All of a sudden they show the bottom 12, something must have changed Isn't that just highlighting the relegation battle? The graphic even says "the bottom 9". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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