Topic: MoTD thread

[thaddeus]

They should just make it a full highlight show with no analysis it's not the 80s or 90s anymore the analysis on this show is shit.

The best bit about the analysis is that they show noteworthy clips that they ditched from the main highlights section!  They should just show those clips in the main section instead of trying to cherry pick moments to suit whatever half-baked insight they're trying to push.

I'm wary of falling into the Tory trap of knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing, however it the Beeb are cutting costs in their news section then I'd rather they started by sacrificing the £millions they spend on MotD pundits.

[Black Bull Nova]

They just need decent pundits, whoever is picking the likes of Shearer, Richards, Murphy, Jenas etc is destroying them


There are decent pundits out there.


Other broadcasters fall at the same step though, let's be honest, Carragher, Neville, Owen etc


At least Souness, Keane etc are entertaining and controversial (whether you agree with them or not), the BBC pundits are tired, lazy and boring.

[sinnermichael]

They just need decent pundits, whoever is picking the likes of Shearer, Richards, Murphy, Jenas etc is destroying them


There are decent pundits out there.


Other broadcasters fall at the same step though, let's be honest, Carragher, Neville, Owen etc


At least Souness, Keane etc are entertaining and controversial (whether you agree with them or not), the BBC pundits are tired, lazy and boring.

All the best pundits aren't ex players. They had Julien Laurens on the Euros draw the other day (as he actually knows football exists outside the PL), and yet they still removed him for a bit to shoehorn Shearer in to say precisely nothing.

[slaphead]

Such a boring show now Match of the Day. For about the millionth time last night it was a case of "you'd never had hit it like that Jermaine" then a load of fake laughing. Cliche after cliche

[smicer07]

Surprised this is still on, given that you can see the goals on YouTube about ten minutes after the final whistle. The so called pundits provide nothing, they didn't even replay our goals yesterday, just banged on about how great the Fulham left back was (even though they conceded 4)

[Black Bull Nova]

The trouble is, for many, it's all they have. If you cannot afford to stump up £50 a month for SKY (or whatever alternatives there are) and you are not a dedicated streamer, it's hard to watch football. I am OK but I am sure, for many, it is all they have. They deserve better.

[JRed]

When it’s the Jenas and Osman double act, you know you have to hit fast forward button.

[PaulF]

The trouble is, for many, it's all they have. If you cannot afford to stump up £50 a month for SKY (or whatever alternatives there are) and you are not a dedicated streamer, it's hard to watch football. I am OK but I am sure, for many, it is all they have. They deserve better.

Smicer said it though. For us who won't pay sky silly money so we can watch West Ham vs Bournmouth on a Monday night, youtube (And oojason, actually more oojaso) show us what we want to see.
Analysis, I can get from here.

[Statto Red]

Here's a classic episode of MOTD from 1983[what MOTD should be], featured matches are Arsenal vs Liverpool & Wolves vs Birmingham, just had Jimmy Hill presenting & no pundits talking shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmoXiJEBJU

[TheMissionary]

They should just make it a full highlight show with no analysis it's not the 80s or 90s anymore the analysis on this show is shit.

Mine's already like that - it needs Record and Fast Forward interventions though.  Funnily it seems to go faster when Jenas is spied in one of the seats.

[lfc_col]

The pundits used to be ok they are way over used now its not needed

[Black Bull Nova]

Smicer said it though. For us who won't pay sky silly money so we can watch West Ham vs Bournmouth on a Monday night, youtube (And oojason, actually more oojaso) show us what we want to see.
Analysis, I can get from here.

Maybe, I am adept at finding what I want, trouble is there are a load of older people out there that rely on this sort of stuff because they are of that generation. That said, ITV league highlights have less pundit, more action.

[Skeeve]

The trouble is, for many, it's all they have. If you cannot afford to stump up £50 a month for SKY (or whatever alternatives there are) and you are not a dedicated streamer, it's hard to watch football. I am OK but I am sure, for many, it is all they have. They deserve better.

You can get motd length highlights on youtube just after the match has finished these days, both from sky sports and lfc themselves, although the latter may have a longer delay to them.

[Ghost Town]

You can get motd length highlights on youtube just after the match has finished these days, both from sky sports and lfc themselves, although the latter may have a longer delay to them.

Can you? I've seen 2 or 3 mins highlights from Sky on Youtube but not MotD length ones

[Skeeve]

Can you? I've seen 2 or 3 mins highlights from Sky on Youtube but not MotD length ones

I was just counting the main footage not the additional bits where the pundits try to show how clever they are, that tends to be under 5 mins doesn't it?

[Ghost Town]

I was just counting the main footage not the additional bits where the pundits try to show how clever they are, that tends to be under 5 mins doesn't it?

Nope, MotD highlights, these days, tend to be 10 mins. In the past the first couple of games would be even longer: 15 or more mins, with the other games getting shorter coverage

[FiSh77]

Here's a classic episode of MOTD from 1983[what MOTD should be], featured matches are Arsenal vs Liverpool & Wolves vs Birmingham, just had Jimmy Hill presenting & no pundits talking shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmoXiJEBJU

Always loved that goal Kenny scored, great to see it again

[Dougle]

Here's a classic episode of MOTD from 1983[what MOTD should be], featured matches are Arsenal vs Liverpool & Wolves vs Birmingham, just had Jimmy Hill presenting & no pundits talking shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmoXiJEBJU

That was a cracker. I remember Pat Jennings when he played for Spurs had some great games against us. Didn't he save 2 pens in one game at Anfield ? A 1-1 draw I think.

[Scottymuser]

Surprised this is still on, given that you can see the goals on YouTube about ten minutes after the final whistle. The so called pundits provide nothing, they didn't even replay our goals yesterday, just banged on about how great the Fulham left back was (even though they conceded 4)

To be fair, whats a left back going to do abour a brilliantly hit free kick (that he didnt conceded IIRC), a 35 yard screamer from the other sife of the pitch, or 2 20 yarders from the centre of the pitch.  And he was directly involved in 2 of their goals

[mikey_LFC]

Surprised this is still on, given that you can see the goals on YouTube about ten minutes after the final whistle. The so called pundits provide nothing, they didn't even replay our goals yesterday, just banged on about how great the Fulham left back was (even though they conceded 4)

He was excellent to be fair. Great front foot defending throughout the game that forced us to change our game plan.

[thaddeus]

He was excellent to be fair. Great front foot defending throughout the game that forced us to change our game plan.

He's always done well against us and against Mo.  I'm not sure what he's like the rest of the time but presumably he's not bad.  Another strange one from Southgate in that he'd rather bemoan injuries to Shaw and Chilwell and then play Trippier at left back than give someone like Robinson a call-up, even in a dead rubber set of fixtures.

[Crosby Nick]

He's always done well against us and against Mo.  I'm not sure what he's like the rest of the time but presumably he's not bad.  Another strange one from Southgate in that he'd rather bemoan injuries to Shaw and Chilwell and then play Trippier at left back than give someone like Robinson a call-up, even in a dead rubber set of fixtures.

In fairness to Southgate, Robinson is American.

[Ghost Town]

In fairness to Southgate, Robinson is American.

In fairness to thadddeus Robinson was born in Milton Keynes (raised in Liverpool) and could have chosen England, but elected to go with the US team in 2018. Probably ran scared seeing the waistcoat botherer in charge

[thaddeus]

In fairness to thadddeus Robinson was born in Milton Keynes (raised in Liverpool) and could have chosen England, but elected to go with the US team in 2018. Probably ran scared seeing the waistcoat botherer in charge

I knew all of that, of course 

Southgate was England manager in 2016 so had two years to call up Robinson.  No foresight, the gormless wonder!

[Crosby Nick]

I knew all of that, of course 

Southgate was England manager in 2016 so had two years to call up Robinson.  No foresight, the gormless wonder!

Good knowledge Ghost Town. I didn’t know that either.

[Lynx the saucy mynx]

Surprised this is still on, given that you can see the goals on YouTube about ten minutes after the final whistle. The so called pundits provide nothing, they didn't even replay our goals yesterday, just banged on about how great the Fulham left back was (even though they conceded 4)

Funny you say that, as it got renewed until 2029 yesterday.

[afc tukrish]

In fairness to thadddeus Robinson was born in Milton Keynes (raised in Liverpool) and could have chosen England, but elected to go with the US team in 2018. Probably ran scared seeing the waistcoat botherer in charge

A choice between Berhalter and Southgate, sort of the inverse Sophie's choice, that one...

[oojason]

Here's a classic episode of MOTD from 1983[what MOTD should be], featured matches are Arsenal vs Liverpool & Wolves vs Birmingham, just had Jimmy Hill presenting & no pundits talking shit.


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/HKmoXiJEBJU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/HKmoXiJEBJU</a>

Beautifully done, that. A few seconds for a brief intro, followed by 23 minutes of actual match highlights, and then just 50 seconds of 'post-match analysis' - which also included an actually funny story re Skippy

[Nobby Reserve]

Here's a classic episode of MOTD from 1983[what MOTD should be], featured matches are Arsenal vs Liverpool & Wolves vs Birmingham, just had Jimmy Hill presenting & no pundits talking shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmoXiJEBJU

I had that yellow away top!!


There was a time when the pundits offered expert and impartial analysis. I think the MOTD golden era was with Des Lynham as host and the pick of Hansen, Lawrenson, Lineker, Hill as the main pundits. Even when Lineker took over presenting, it remained good. Pundits like Lee Dixon, Keown & Ian Wright were all decent. Shearer in his early days was fine, too.

The difference between then a nd now was a lack of agenda. Jenas is a fucking gobshite who has a bubbling hate of Liverpool, whilst Murphy isn't much better (smacks of resenting us for showing him the door). Then there's the Abu Dhabi PR department.

Pundits used to work hard not to show favouritism or disliked teams but that's out the window these days.

[Dr. Beaker]

Beautifully done, that. A few seconds for a brief intro, followed by 23 minutes of actual match highlights, and then just 50 seconds of 'post-match analysis' - which also included an actually funny story re Skippy

Probably my favourite Kenny goal ever (go to 19.20) - things he could do with his wrong foot.

[Pistolero]

Speaking of which, what happened to the favourite/least favourite pundit threads?...

[Terry de Niro]

Speaking of which, what happened to the favourite/least favourite pundit threads?...

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=340523.msg16126186#msg16126186
https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=131538.msg2073084#msg2073084

[Pistolero]

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=340523.msg16126186#msg16126186
https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=131538.msg2073084#msg2073084

 

[Bread]

Big fan of Martin Keown hyping up Sheffield United as being a threat, as we see a montage of them fucking up every single counter attack they had.

[iamnant]

Big fan of Salford-based BBC Sport reverting the running order to importance all of a sudden to have both Manc clubs first last night, whilst hiding our draw at the Emptihad deep in the order.

And as usual, they made our match look closer than it was and magnified the refereeing decisions that went "against" Sheffield but didn't talk much about their player butchering Macca's leg! Classic.

[Buck Pete]

Speaking of which, what happened to the favourite/least favourite pundit threads?...

Jermaine Jenas took out an injunction on RAWK and it had to be deleted.

[spen71]

Can’t remember the last time I watched match of the day.    Would cost me a fortune in new TVs,  would be putting my foot through it everytime Jenas opened his gob

[Andy82lfc]

Yeah absolutely no balance last night, was all how SU were trying so hard to defend etc. Don't mind that but next nothing on us at all.

[rushyman]

Can't be doing with this shite anymore

Keown calling Nunez ball win for 2nd goal a foul is a total farce

Thick c*nt

[mainone]

showed konate push said penalty, didnt mention a blatant push in manure game.