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[Thenorthernlight]

Kenny MacIntyre is clearly a rabid h*n b@stard & makes Sportsound completely unlistenable.

The difference in his demeanour & tone between The Rangers losing & winning is almost tangible over the radio 

Hate his presenting. He’s making it like Radio Clyde, which is radio for the hard of thinking. 

[CoF]

9 minutes ago, Billy_Gunn said:

Leanne Crichton Is the only respectable pundit on there and she’s only been a regular for 5 mins. Less said about Wullie Miller the better.

Leanne “£500k will help the rest keep up with Rangers and Celtic” Crichton. 
 

 

[Crawford Bridge]

Shut the f**k up McInnes.

What a boring, moaning c**t he is.

[DoingThe42]

Had Sportsound on on the way to Alloa today. Before we got out the car they had only talked about Rangers v Aberdeen.

Got in the car after the Clyde game, already on a massive downer.

At 5.38 they had only stopped talking about Rangers v Aberdeen (and Aberdeen wouldn't have had a look in had they been playing anyone else) to talk about Tony Watt and VAR for about two minutes.

Let's leave aside the fact that you wouldn't get more Rangers coverage on a dedicated Rangers platform and consider the following.

In the Championship there was a 4-4 draw, Partick Thistle got absolutely scudded (11 goals conceded in three games) in a result that means there are seven viable promotion candidates, and Ayr came through with a great win to stay top. Lee Bullen was squeezed in to a quick interview at about five to six before being rushed off so they could get Jim Goodwin on. This apart, the Championship was basically ignored. A casual listener would have no idea what's going on in a mad league.

In League One, Clyde, who have just gardening-leaved their manager, lost their tenth game in a row, to a last-minute goal, and bottom of the league Peterhead took a point off promotion-chasing Edinburgh to move within a point of Clyde. None of this mentioned, none of the scores given context.

In League Two Dumbarton got their first win in ages to stay joint top, and Albion Rovers (again) blew a game they could have won to stay in relegation bother late on. None of this mentioned, none of the scores given context. Just ignored.

Sportsound completely sells Scottish football short. There's loads going on in the top four leagues. They're all interesting in their own way this season. Lots of tight promotion battles, nicely bubbling play-off battles, and relegation battles. Sportsound doesn't tell anyone about it.

Between two and three there should be a dedicated five-minute slot to update listeners on the state of play in League One and League Two, if nothing else to contextualise what's happening during Open All Mics.

But, no. They just talk about the fucking Old Firm. Get it to absolute f**k. We're being shafted here, and there isn't really an alternative.

[Gianfranco]

Sportsound is beyond disappointing. Old Firm pish.

[DA Baracus]

BBC are selling the game short. We need to write to our clubs to demand of them to demand better from the BBC, or else put the radio rights out to tender.

[kingjoey]

3 hours ago, Autistisches Nilpferd said:

Kenny Macintyre is one of the worst appointments in the history of broadcasting. Richard Gordon was never perfect but he was in a different league.  

 

In what way was/is Richard Gordon not perfect?

2 hours ago, Thenorthernlight said:

Hate his presenting. He’s making it like Radio Clyde, which is radio for the hard of thinking. 

You say that, but the replacement for Richard Gordon was and is working for Radio Clyde six days a week in Gordon Duncan. 

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

In what way was/is Richard Gordon not perfect?

You say that, but the replacement for Richard Gordon was and is working for Radio Clyde six days a week in Gordon Duncan. 

I mean a silly thing to say. No one is perfect. I remember him a few times reading out scores going to an interview and then not reading out the scores afterwards etc. Don't get me wrong Richard Gordon was fantastic. We were lucky to have him

[Monkey Tennis]

9 hours ago, Crawford Bridge said:

Eye bricks.

Seriously, what's that about?

Does anyone in the universe, other than the worst broadcaster in the universe, pronounce 'Ibrox'  in that way?  If so, I've not heard them.

Edited October 30, 2022 by Monkey Tennis

[Thenorthernlight]

32 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

In what way was/is Richard Gordon not perfect?

You say that, but the replacement for Richard Gordon was and is working for Radio Clyde six days a week in Gordon Duncan. 

One thing for certain is that it shouldn’t be that rabid h*n b@stard MacIntyre. 
 

[DA Baracus]

A shite as Macintyre is (and if he reads this I hope he knows his piece of shit club died and that we all hope his new piece of shit club will die ASAP), he won't be in charge of the editorial decisions, including the one for this season to increase the coverage/discussion of Sevco and Celtic. He was just promoted to the Saturday role because he fit the editorial choice.

Edited October 29, 2022 by DA Baracus

[parsforlife]

5 hours ago, Autistisches Nilpferd said:

Leanne Crichton holds that show together by her finger tips. The only one who knows the rules and isn't a shouty mess.. 

There’s times you can just about here her sigh, take a deep breath before correcting one of the old school on their mad rants.

’I don’t know what’s going here,  absolute mental decision from the referee, how he can punish the player here is incredible…’

’erm, have you just watched what I have? The referee has just applied what’s been the rule which has consistently been applied in the same way for about 15 years’

’oh well if that’s the rule then fair enough but I didn’t know that and I don’t think anyone else did.

*shakes head*(ok, but that is the rule and it’s common knowledge)

[codfish]

Only had a chance to listen to 10 minutes of Open All Mics today (just before half time), and did enjoy the chat about Lewis Ferguson. Would’ve been lovely if they’d maybe saved it for a time when there wasn’t actual matches being played though.

Feels like clueless pundits, hosted by a clueless host, directed by a clueless producer.

[Billy_Gunn]

7 hours ago, CoF said:

Leanne “£500k will help the rest keep up with Rangers and Celtic” Crichton. 
 

 

Aye, well. You’ve done me there.

She’s still good though. Can we agree she’s on strike 1?

[DoingThe42]

9 hours ago, codfish said:

Only had a chance to listen to 10 minutes of Open All Mics today (just before half time), and did enjoy the chat about Lewis Ferguson. Would’ve been lovely if they’d maybe saved it for a time when there wasn’t actual matches being played though.

Feels like clueless pundits, hosted by a clueless host, directed by a clueless producer.

This annoys me too.

Constantly discussing other things during OAM just reduces the time they spend actually covering or contextualising the games.

I was listening to Sportsound while watching the Montrose - Falkirk game a couple of weeks back, and they carried on their interminable Scottish teams in Europe moaning and VAR debate during OAM. So, instead of being fast with lower league scores, and putting them into context, 'that's a goal for _____ that moves them into the play-off places in League One as it stands' etc, they just waffle on about the same thing they talk about for the rest of the show and give out the lower league scores as a meaningless list every half hour or so.

There's absolutely no mention or hint to the uninitiated as to what the big games are.

Would it be beyond the BBC's capabilities to have a League One/Two game of the day with a reporter at it whose job is to summarise what's going on in those two leagues? For example, would it not have been decent yesterday to have a Clyde club rep, podcaster, or fans' group rep on to discuss the fact that they've gardening leaved their manager and have lost ten games running, as well as not having a stadium and being back at Hamilton after 28 years and having just postponed their scheduled supporters' meeting? Is this not a story for the show where 'Scottish football lives'?

There's nothing wrong with Sportsound doing a section on Lewis Ferguson, but why talk about him while actual games are on?

After five o'clock yesterday they had a pretty lengthy chat about Rangers' tactical shape. Why? It's matchday, talk about the matches, get round the other grounds, get proper reports in, put the scores in context.

I fucking hate it.

Edited October 30, 2022 by DoingThe42

[Death in Vegas]

“Have any of the pundits ever turned down a chance of a move abroad”

“Oh wait there’s been an incident at ibrix”

They then on to discuss in depth with Rory Loy about the rangers game despite the full match being available to listen to. Then at half time spend the majority at the rangers game mental. I would be willing to bet there was hardly any Rangers or Aberdeen fans listening to open all mics when the full game is available on radio.

[raith_94]

Leave Dundee 1.50, park near Starks Park 2.40 - 40 minutes of Rangers. Back in car 4.55. Park in Dundee 5.40. One whistle stop tour of the day's scores and some VAR mewling from Lee Johnson aside, all Rangers.

 

Began to think Sportsound must be on another frequency. 8 pundits (identical) views on one game? Sakala was unplayable was he?, Goodwin got his team wrong did he? Forensic analysis of how GvB answers (inane) questions? f**k yeah. And you're talking about all of this again on Sportscene later aye? Superb lads. 

Give it Crichton till Christmas. 

[Gianfranco]

Kenny Crawford almost sounded apologetic interrupting the pish chat to tell us about Ayr’s second goal yesterday.

[CoF]

9 hours ago, Billy_Gunn said:

Aye, well. You’ve done me there.

She’s still good though. Can we agree she’s on strike 1?

Hmmm. That whole chat was like when a decent family member told me they think Donald Trump is “misrepresented”. Only this time, it’s the entire family. I’ll never trust their opinions again. 

 

[shuggz]

Nowadays,if I'm in ,I watch Jeff on Sky...at least you get the goals from every game.

Edited October 30, 2022 by shuggz
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