Jump to content

VIDEO: Gary Neville's analysis of Southampton vs Chelsea


Saint-Armstrong
 Share

Recommended Posts

Excellent analysis. Not just because it's positive - Neville's insight and reading of proceedings is second to none. He's wasted on England, I'd rather see him coaching in club football.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yer really good pundit. Appreciates playing football and always gives credit where its due. Didn't play the easy card by just saying Chelsea rested players, he said there was still enough quality to win the game.

 

He can really see what we're trying to achieve and how good/calm our young players are.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Great watch, good to finally see a bit of his analysis (can't get it here in Sweden). So much better then the generalizations the MOTD pundits throw out there week after week.

 

Yes, Hansen and Shearer, while generous in their praise of Saints, lack the vocabulary to convey, or indeed the intelligence to make, the incision and analysis of Neville.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yes, Hansen and Shearer, while generous in their praise of Saints, lack the vocabulary to convey, or indeed the intelligence to make, the incision and analysis of Neville.

 

Not only that, they're comments are always directly related to the result and not the quality of play. If you win you're good, if you lose you're poor. This will be correct most of the time but not always.

 

Co Adriaanse (former Ajax, Porto, AZ & Twente manager) once had a falling out with a reporter because he criticized the performance when Adriaanse claimed it was only the result that was dissapointing. He then came up with a term that directly translated would be "result-journalism". This is what I like why I read comments from Neville, he analyzes the performance and not (only) the result.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yes, Hansen and Shearer, while generous in their praise of Saints, lack the vocabulary to convey, or indeed the intelligence to make, the incision and analysis of Neville.

 

or the time so they pick on the easy bits to analyse rather than the insightful.

 

Thanks to the OP, I don't have sky so would never see this.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I've been very impressed with Neville's analysis - he's completely fair (even when talking about Man U) and is able to put across a technical insight far in excess of that by Hansen and particularly Lawrenson. Match of the Day should be watching this and planning on upping their game considerably - they've been resting on their Lawro's for far too long. (Sorry - couldn't resist :blush:)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

One thing that I think helps Neville (though I agree he is excellent) is the screen thing he can control himself, he can move and stop the footage exactly where he wants to make his point. Match of the day all they get is a selection of clips which they have to talk over, I think Sky deserve some credit for the format of their punditry.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

One thing that I think helps Neville (though I agree he is excellent) is the screen thing he can control himself, he can move and stop the footage exactly where he wants to make his point. Match of the day all they get is a selection of clips which they have to talk over, I think Sky deserve some credit for the format of their punditry.
Sky's football coverage is pretty good full-stop. Everyone likes to moan about them, but what they produce is excellent.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

One thing that I think helps Neville (though I agree he is excellent) is the screen thing he can control himself, he can move and stop the footage exactly where he wants to make his point. Match of the day all they get is a selection of clips which they have to talk over, I think Sky deserve some credit for the format of their punditry.

 

Surely thats all part of us though. But the BBC should really have something very similar. Even if Neville was on MOTD, what he has to say would be much more interesting that those bellends Hansen and Lawro.

 

Everything about Sky coverage is better. If it was up to me all football should be on Sky, but then thats because we have it!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

MoTD (and indeed all BBC and ITV analysis) tends to consist of nothing more than drawing a halo around a player or counting the number of defenders in the frame. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 defenders there and no one has tackled him". Brilliant. Thanks Alan. Well worth a shedload of any licence fee payer's money.

 

It is a bit depressing sometimes.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Sky have a lot more time to fill / analyse dont forget. MoTD is a different format program trying to pack in all the games, post match interviews and analysis to keep a mixed-bag audience happy. I agree that Neville would be better on MoTD than Hansen and Shearer but even he would only get 60 or 90 seconds per match

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Sky have a lot more time to fill / analyse dont forget. MoTD is a different format program trying to pack in all the games, post match interviews and analysis to keep a mixed-bag audience happy. I agree that Neville would be better on MoTD than Hansen and Shearer but even he would only get 60 or 90 seconds per match

 

This. The main (not only) problem with MOTD is that it tries to spread itself too thinly. Is it a review of the days PL games, or an analysis programme? They should make it the former only, give each match longer without the "insight" between.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I wonder if losing Cork & Spider to injury etc would upset this great formation?

 

Losing either of them would make life difficult as I do not see Davis or JWP as naturally fitting into the 2 in the 4-2-3-1 formation as they are more suited to the 3. Cork has been the glue that has held everything together and is IMHO, despite the eye catching nature of some of Spider's performances, the more important to the team. My player of the season but not the type of player that wins such accolades.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Don't suppose anyone recorded tonight's analysis? I missed it and always keen to hear what Neville's had to say.

 

Didn't say too much about us tonight, just mentioned how well we were doing under Pochettino at the end.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Didn't say too much about us tonight, just mentioned how well we were doing under Pochettino at the end.

 

He said a bit more than that, most notably the fact that we would be looking down at the relegation zone/teams in the coming weeks wondering how on earth we were ever involved - or words to that effect :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

We need our own TV station, I would love to watch re-runs of classics to fill the time during interviews etc.

 

Was thinking about Saints independent media coverage the other day.

 

Right now, I think we have one podcast out there, which goes out every two weeks. It's a good enough pod, but don't think the chaps that run it have the bandwidth to go weekly. As someone who is in love with the sound of his own voice, I'd naturally love to have a pop.

 

Do you have to know anything about football on these football podcasts? :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

×
×
  • Create New...