dune Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Jimmy every single time, will never forget the commentary for the second leg of the play-offs, when Rasiak scored all you could hear was "Rasiiaaa-" and the Jimmy drowning out the commentator with "YES! GET IN THERE! GET. IN. THEEERE!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKimish Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 What?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKimish Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Wrong thread sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 What you don't want to do right now is to get into a battle of cliches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Merrington. I found Case to be too negative. And I prefer the whispered Geordie twang to the Scouse whine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon monkey Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Merrington for me. Case doesn't have the enthusiastic voice that Dave has. Merrington sounds like your favourite lovable grandad, Case sounds like the family outcast alcoholic grandad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZuess1979 the 2nd Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Close But that Bouy Merrington Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintds Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Anyone hear the 89 year chatting Dave up on Solent after the game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Well, Case couldn't pronounce Bialkowski, Saganowski or Vignal. I guess as long as we don't have any foreign larks in our team, we're better off with Jimmy. Sorry Bart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_jas Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Definitely Case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Le Taxi Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Merrington for me, just wish he talked that much sense when managing us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Merrington without a doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 27 November, 2010 Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Merrington for me, just wish he talked that much sense when managing us! A shame he was not given too much of a chance really before being ditched for the more 'marketable' - for takeover purposes - Souness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 27 November, 2010 Author Share Posted 27 November, 2010 Merrington for me, just wish he talked that much sense when managing us! "what we don't want to do is let a goal in". "At 1-0 down they're certainly not out of it". You have a point. He's a genious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amigo1 Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 jimmy, until he went off the rails, he should of used the drugs in moderation. that trip to brighton really messed his head up. i blame the face, jimmy looked up to him, but when jimmy found out the ace face was just a bell boy it tipped him over the edge. POOR JIMMY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian H. Cope Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 David Armstrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 Jimmy Case was truly appalling as a summariser. Bleating about the ref being against us during every single game. Merrington is not much better with his "now what we want to do now is score" and "now what we don't want now is to concede" sparkling insight. Surely there is an ex-Saint somewhere who is a bit more erudite than either of them, especially as Merrington is hardly some Saints legend. Yeah, Alan Shearer. Well done. Next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulwantsapint Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 but case played cm for liverpool not that he ever mentioned it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clifford Nelson Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 "what we don't want to do is let a goal in". "At 1-0 down they're certainly not out of it". You have a point. He's a genious. You forgot "We must send on another striker!" and "We have to play 4-4-2." - Seldom in the history of punditry has so little knowledge been given an airing so often to so many who thinks that he has got something useful to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 Neither are great really. I prefer Merrington but he's a bit full of cliches. Also you can tell Saints are playing well when he starts whispering. From what I've heard I've been impressed with Awford on the Pompey games, when I'm supporting whoever their playing obviously. he seems to genuinely have a far better grasp on what is actually going on down there behind the scenes and tends to tell it how it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 ]You forgot "We must send on another striker!" [/b]and "We have to play 4-4-2." - Seldom in the history of punditry has so little knowledge been given an airing so often to so many who thinks that he has got something useful to say. TBF 90% of those were done during the tenure of Poortvliet when we were 3-0 down with 15 minutes left, and Poortvliet would still stick with 1 striker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 Whoever it was who covered in one of our away matches earlier in the season was much better. Dunno who it was though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 TBF 90% of those were done during the tenure of Poortvliet when we were 3-0 down with 15 minutes left, and Poortvliet would still stick with 1 striker the 4-4-2 jibe was only a couple of weeks back, Carlisle game. Merrington gets up my nose, I'd rather have anyone else,even Audrey could probably do a better job in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 28 November, 2010 Share Posted 28 November, 2010 jimmy, until he went off the rails, he should of used the drugs in moderation. that trip to brighton really messed his head up. i blame the face, jimmy looked up to him, but when jimmy found out the ace face was just a bell boy it tipped him over the edge. POOR JIMMY Careful.You'll be banned if you upset the mods on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amigo1 Posted 29 November, 2010 Share Posted 29 November, 2010 Careful.You'll be banned if you upset the mods on here. see what youve done there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_Uwe Posted 29 November, 2010 Share Posted 29 November, 2010 I like Dave's enthusiasm, at least you can tell he cares about his football. Could do a bit better on foreign player pronunciation but so could 98% of the British population I'm sure... Generally speaking, there's never been a particularly great reception for him on this board - is it just purely down to people not liking what he says on the radio or is there another reason? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat from Poole Posted 29 November, 2010 Share Posted 29 November, 2010 Whoever it was who covered in one of our away matches earlier in the season was much better. Dunno who it was though. Rofe??? I remember the Carlisle away game last season, Merrington was unavailable, Solent got the Echo guy Adam Leitch in. I actually thought he was very good and insightful. Hadn't previously realised that he lived in Scotland, which seemed bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 29 November, 2010 Share Posted 29 November, 2010 Hmm, I love Jimmy Case and I love Dave Merrington, there's only one way to decide... FIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHHTTTTTT!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 29 November, 2010 Share Posted 29 November, 2010 TBF 90% of those were done during the tenure of Poortvliet when we were 3-0 down with 15 minutes left, and Poortvliet would still stick with 1 striker Joking right, Merrington bangs on about 4-4-2 EVERY week. If we're playing the system it's to big it up If we're not it's to say how good it is. If we played 4-3-2-1 and were 5-0 up he'd say that "If we'd played 4-4-2 we'd have scored 10 by now!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 29 November, 2010 Share Posted 29 November, 2010 I like Dave's enthusiasm, at least you can tell he cares about his football. Could do a bit better on foreign player pronunciation but so could 98% of the British population I'm sure... Generally speaking, there's never been a particularly great reception for him on this board - is it just purely down to people not liking what he says on the radio or is there another reason? The response to him is probably just that he raises his head above the parapet and is therefore an easy target.Personally,I like the bloke,good track record at Saints as youth team coach,pushed into the top job probably against his own better judgement and then discarded in a very shabby fashion.As you say,he enthuses about football. As for the pronunciations,it not just foreign names that some ex Saints have problems with.Remember Mick Channon and "the boy Line-acre". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St_Tel49 Posted 1 December, 2010 Share Posted 1 December, 2010 Radio is an unforgiving medium. The one thing that you cannot have is silence so, whoever is commentating, they have to keep talking. The inevitable consequence is a series of statements of the bleeding obvious. I like anyone who bleeds red and white so I like both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 1 December, 2010 Share Posted 1 December, 2010 The response to him is probably just that he raises his head above the parapet and is therefore an easy target. Not sure being a fully paid football summariser qualifies as "raising his head above the parapet". He's paid to do a job which requires engaging insightful comment and he's not particularly good at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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