Thedelldays Posted 2 October, 2011 Share Posted 2 October, 2011 anyone else think they have gone right down hill...? gary neville is hideous and ray wilkins must have cock-in-hand whilst talking about chelsea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithd Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 Was thinking that very thing yesterday whilst watching those two games thinking I really should be out in the garden. Neville is a monotone dull boring weasel faced man, Wilkins is far better than Nev and pretty good as a sidekick commentator but should be banned co-commentating on Chelsea games. Not going to say bring back Gray, but do something please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambosa75 Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 Was thinking that very thing yesterday whilst watching those two games thinking I really should be out in the garden. Neville is a monotone dull boring weasel faced man, Wilkins is far better than Nev and pretty good as a sidekick commentator but should be banned co-commentating on Chelsea games. Not going to say bring back Gray, but do something please! Fill Merse with a few g's of charlie and let him loose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valesaint Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 Gary Neville's voice is really getting me down. Wilkins is not much better, neither is Alan Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 3 October, 2011 Share Posted 3 October, 2011 anyone else think they have gone right down hill...? gary neville is hideous and ray wilkins must have cock-in-hand whilst talking about chelsea Thought it would be up Wilko's ar$e - the way they screwed him over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintwarwick Posted 4 October, 2011 Share Posted 4 October, 2011 Was thinking that very thing yesterday whilst watching those two games thinking I really should be out in the garden. Neville is a monotone dull boring weasel faced man, Wilkins is far better than Nev and pretty good as a sidekick commentator but should be banned co-commentating on Chelsea games. Not going to say bring back Gray, but do something please! I say bring back Andy Gray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 5 October, 2011 Share Posted 5 October, 2011 Neville's very good as a studio pundit on the Monday night games, but as a co-commentator he's not great. Wilkins is awful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 5 October, 2011 Share Posted 5 October, 2011 I think Neville is good at the studio side of it as well. I don't know why Sky still use Wilkins after that Real madrid / Spurs match last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Soze Posted 5 October, 2011 Share Posted 5 October, 2011 Dean Windass on Soccer Saturday is a complete joke, he is so illiterate he struggles to string a sentence together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamsaint Posted 5 October, 2011 Share Posted 5 October, 2011 I watch most TV football now with the sound off, and some music playing. Once you get used to it, its a much better experience. you get to enjoy sport and music at the same time, which is good. and you don't have to listen to commentator psycho babble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaMarlin Posted 5 October, 2011 Share Posted 5 October, 2011 All this shows the perils of using ex-players instead of proper journalists. Sure, ex-players can offer an insight into the game, although the old pals network ensures they never really condemn somebody or ask the tough questions. But even if they do offer an insight, not many are able to get it across in anything resembling English. Most sports channels are guilty of falling into the trap of using ex-players. Result? An unhappy audience (ie, people on here) who are rightly unhappy about the standards. Write to them, threatening to terminate your subscription unless they start using proper journalists who can tell the tale properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 5 October, 2011 Share Posted 5 October, 2011 Write to them, threatening to terminate your subscription unless they start using proper journalists who can tell the tale properly. But then we run the risk of having the likes of Brian Woolnough as a prime-time regular. That, frankly, is an even more horrifying prospect. Also, let's not forget that a lot of national newspaper journalists have as many conflicted interests as the ex-pro pundits, desperate to appease players and managers for that lucrative ghost-writing contract, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rut Posted 6 October, 2011 Share Posted 6 October, 2011 I can handle pretty much anyone on the commentary nowadays apart from: Comm: Peter Drury Co-comm: David Pleat Especially Drury. The most annoying, patronising idiot every to be let loose on a microphone in the history on football. Pleat never shuts the F* up. The only time I like him as co-comm is if it's Drury as main. It's totally un-listenable but at least it's less Drury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 6 October, 2011 Share Posted 6 October, 2011 Pleat's really good in the papers, mainly as you don't have to hear his voice and mispronunciations, his tactical knowledge is spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint.tom.clancy Posted 6 October, 2011 Share Posted 6 October, 2011 Must admit I was gutted to hear Neville was the replacement... Got to say i've come round a bit though, he does talk a lot of sense IMO. Still cant stand the manchester accent, or Alan smith's accent for that matter. Ray Wilkins is just a c*ck. Not saying I like Andy Gray but he's the pick of a bad bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chorlton Posted 7 October, 2011 Share Posted 7 October, 2011 I think Red Nev is great on Sky, though think he is better in the studio than the commentary box. Would certainly rather listen to him than someone like Garry Birtles or Mark Lawrenson, neither of whom actually seem to enjoy football that much. I wonder if the excellent Terry Gibson will be 'promoted' from Sky's La Liga coverage to the Premier League (though I doubt it, and I think he is better off on La Liga anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Shearer Posted 10 October, 2011 Share Posted 10 October, 2011 Olivia Godfery - oh my days. A new reason to watch sky sports news in the mornings! Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 10 October, 2011 Share Posted 10 October, 2011 I hate all tatters, they say the most obvious things and really wind me up. I prefer radio tatters on 5 Live while watching the TV even though these is a few secons difference so you know when a goal is coming!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 14 October, 2011 Share Posted 14 October, 2011 "tatters"? If you really can't be bothered to utter all four syllables, then it should be "tators", right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 15 October, 2011 Share Posted 15 October, 2011 Pleat's really good in the papers, mainly as you don't have to hear his voice and mispronunciations, his tactical knowledge is spot on. LOL it was only a couple of years ago I heard him referring to the Russian team as the Soviet Union As for Sky Sports I hear Merson's been involved in a car crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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