Random football thoughts thread.

[Andrewlang]

Only seen it once in about 15 years and that was only because we were on.

I recognise the names but don't really know who any of the people being mentioned are so...give to any of them 🤷🏻‍♂️

Andrew

[cuoutside]

Nov 13, 2024 12:38:44 GMT danielcufc said:

How many people watch MOTD still out of interest? The Goals from the PL are available on apps after the game. Can't say i've watched it in ages personally. I watch the EFL highlights to see our coverage again and whats happening in the division. I appreciate some people can't afford the Sky highlights and maybe older people aren't as tech savvy or have a smartphone. This may end up being a watershed moment for it. Get the wrong presesnters and it will go the way of football focus.

Haven't watched MOTD for a long time, but I'll record the EFL highlights and watch those on a Sunday morning. I don't know about everyone else but I don't watch that much live premier league these days either, I've got quite bored of it, but I did watch the Chelsea Arsenal game last week at the pub and towards the end of the first half I turned to a mate and said 'the majority of these player are such an unlikable bunch of c**ts'.  The amount of play acting, diving, cheating, moaning just seemed off the scale to what we see on a Saturday. Horrible.

[malotru]

I last deliberately watched MOTD on the season opener after Leicester won the league purely to see if Lineker would present the whole show in his pants like he promised. Turned off after 5 mins as he only did the intro in pants and it reverted to the usual.
8 years or so ago.

MOTD is a show designed for the masses and has to pack just the basics into a 90 min show with not as much analysis or discussion as what Sky do on MNF and pre and post match on Sundays.
A version of the One Show for football. Which is what Alex Scott is good at.

Plus there’s so many games on Sundays now they sometimes get only 5 games to cover.

[cambsno]

Nov 13, 2024 12:17:23 GMT danboyb said:

Alex Scott appears to be the front runner. I’m not a fan, she grates on me and comes across false. Fine (ish) as a pundit but not the anchor role. Chapman is the overwhelming choice for me.

She is absolutely rubbish

[cambsno]

Nov 13, 2024 12:38:44 GMT danielcufc said:

How many people watch MOTD still out of interest? The Goals from the PL are available on apps after the game. Can't say i've watched it in ages personally. I watch the EFL highlights to see our coverage again and whats happening in the division. I appreciate some people can't afford the Sky highlights and maybe older people aren't as tech savvy or have a smartphone. This may end up being a watershed moment for it. Get the wrong presesnters and it will go the way of football focus.

Have Sky but am never a fan of watching extended highlights or reruns of games. Watch MoTD pretty ,much every week (normally record and watch Sun/Mon) with my son.

[danboyb]

Back in the day, MOTD and Football Focus/Grandstand were must see TV. Both theme tunes still remain favourites of mine even now. Things ain’t what they used to be and not all for the better.

I’m an occasional watcher of it. A lot depends if I’ve had the time or inclination to catch up on the goals earlier on. Must admit, if Alex Scott takes over then I’ll probably stop watching altogether.

[Tom Shaw's Fist of Rage]

It gets approximately 2 million views which given the timeslot is very good.

[foolhandy]

I usually watch on iPlayer on a Sunday morning, if at all.

[cufctheparrot]

Nov 13, 2024 12:38:44 GMT danielcufc said:

How many people watch MOTD still out of interest? The Goals from the PL are available on apps after the game. Can't say i've watched it in ages personally. I watch the EFL highlights to see our coverage again and whats happening in the division. I appreciate some people can't afford the Sky highlights and maybe older people aren't as tech savvy or have a smartphone. This may end up being a watershed moment for it. Get the wrong presesnters and it will go the way of football focus.

Im a regular watcher of MOTD whenerever Cambridge get to the 3rd round, or beyond, other than that I dont go and watch it but may watch on a Sunday morning infrequently if i am not doing anything else.

The main reasons for not watching, some of which are to to do with Gary Lineker.

- The content isnt exactly relevant to my interests, Premier League football. Its Cambridge and International football only for me.
- The format is a bit dull, not helped by having the same presenter for 25 years! even if other co-presenters do change
- Lineker is a bit outspoken on political views when to me he should just be concentrating on football maters
- £1.35m to host a TV programme on football! Ridiculous for a stealth tax organisation to be paying that much to a presenter regardless of it being sport, documentary, news, anything. Not bothered if its ITV paying that, its not my money. But I'm not sure I understand what he even does for that money, hes not going through highlights himself and selection clips so he can only be commenting on the most significant aspects in a match.

The last time I watched was when there was no presenters just highlights to see what it was like. After all Ive been watching football for long enough to have a feel for formations, players positions, wether someone should or should not have a goal given or ruled out, or be sent off, without having to have people no mater how knowledgable telling me what I can see with my own eyes.

As for the future I would like to see Mark Chapmen being the main host, supported more frequently by the entertaining Micah Richards and Fara Williams. Alternativly, I would be pleased to see Gabby Logan get to host.

Just keep Gary Neville and to a lesser extent Jamie Carragher and also alex Scott away from the show as far as I'm concerned. Also, he may be one of our own and a great person, but dont let Dion anywhere near commenting or hosting! (Sorry)

[Bendigeidfran]

Slight (complete) diversion from the MOTD chat, but I've just had a look at the club vacancies. Considering the importance of some of the roles, such as the first team performance analyst, the level of qualifications and experience required, factoring in the hours, and likely having to live in or quite close to one of the most expensive cities in the UK, the wages are piss poor. They're pretty much living wage, which I'd imagine it limits the quality of person we could attract quite a bit.

[Andrewlang]

So long as Linekar isn't airing his political views on MoTD itself I don't really mind him being out spoken...but then I generally like what he has to say politically so I'm probably biased in a way I wouldn't be if it was with a right leaning presenter.

If he's getting paid 1.35m then yeah, that's too much.

The format is probably outdated now, the punditry that probably felt fresh and interesting when Jimmy Hill and Trevor Brooking did it is now struggling to say anything relevent when everyone has already had their fill online.

Linekar leaving presents a 'be careful what you mess with' situation for me, though. What else do you do with a football highlights show? I reckon they break it if they mess with it.

Andrew

[danielcufc]

Nov 13, 2024 18:42:51 GMT Bendigeidfran said:

Slight (complete) diversion from the MOTD chat, but I've just had a look at the club vacancies. Considering the importance of some of the roles, such as the first team performance analyst, the level of qualifications and experience required, factoring in the hours, and likely having to live in or quite close to one of the most expensive cities in the UK, the wages are piss poor. They're pretty much living wage, which I'd imagine it limits the quality of person we could attract quite a bit.

It also contributes as to why people leave the roles and therefore create the vacancies.

[Brophypants]

Nov 13, 2024 12:38:44 GMT danielcufc said:

How many people watch MOTD still out of interest? The Goals from the PL are available on apps after the game. Can't say i've watched it in ages personally. I watch the EFL highlights to see our coverage again and whats happening in the division. I appreciate some people can't afford the Sky highlights and maybe older people aren't as tech savvy or have a smartphone. This may end up being a watershed moment for it. Get the wrong presesnters and it will go the way of football focus.

I watched it pretty regularly for years just as a general fan of football.

But the offering has gotten worse and over the last five years or so it's gone from "I'll only miss it if I have to" to "I'll watch a couple a season and I'll probably end them early."

Football for me is best when it's telling stories. The story of Man City and one other running away with it is boring. There are only so many years you can laugh at a big club spending hatfuls and struggling to make the also-rans. 2.5 relegation spots decided by October? Yawn.

It wouldn't be so bad, but often the in-game highlights are so similar too, and you can drop off watching West Ham Vs Southampton and wake up to Burnley Vs Brentford and be none the wiser. The punditry formula is so ingrained you know everything they're going to say before they get back to the studio. Do they even bring interesting guests on any more? I feel like it's all the same bods or variations on a theme with "insight" completely divorced from the pundits who are largely interchangeable.

[imp566]

Nov 13, 2024 18:56:11 GMT danielcufc said:

Nov 13, 2024 18:42:51 GMT Bendigeidfran said:

Slight (complete) diversion from the MOTD chat, but I've just had a look at the club vacancies. Considering the importance of some of the roles, such as the first team performance analyst, the level of qualifications and experience required, factoring in the hours, and likely having to live in or quite close to one of the most expensive cities in the UK, the wages are piss poor. They're pretty much living wage, which I'd imagine it limits the quality of person we could attract quite a bit.

It also contributes as to why people leave the roles and therefore create the vacancies.

I'm amazed that we aren't offering a competitive wage. Unless we are and we are assuming the candidates live close enough to Cambridge not to have to re-locate to this (expensive) area.

There's a saying out there which suggests you get what you pay for!

[danboyb]

New video doing the rounds which appears to show Coote snorting a white powder whist at the Euros this summer. Probably best he just comes clean at this stage rather than have videos posted every other day.