The Naitch Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 4 minutes ago, Savage Henry said: Andros Townsend is excelllent. I don’t know why I’m surprised by that but I am. Significant upgrade on the last A. Townsend that ITV employed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Mark Pougatch was clearly fuming at having a Croatian scarf put on him during his intro. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crabbit Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 The male version of Karen Carney has arrived at ITV pundit panel…. Gary Neville 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chripper Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 (edited) 2 hours ago, Pilgrim Ranger said: Hate to break it to you but most English people aren't really thinking about Scotland. We get that you're obsessed with hating us but the feeling isn't mutual Like 100% of English politicians are obsessed with keeping Scotland in the Union. Yet, apparently, England are subsidising Scotland. Apparently. Obsessed and scared of going it alone without your golden goose. As for "hating". Flip the script: Imagine every time you turned on the tv you heard a Scotland voice, you had to watch English shows and English commercials, etc. Imaging during England's matched 10% of the build up is about the England's upcoming match and 90% is about Scotland's upcoming match. 15 minutes into the coverage last night it went to England's camp. I immediately switched off till kick off. Imagine your media, print, radio and television has a Unionist slant to it. Want to talk about the £2trillion from the North Sea? I think if the shoe was on the other foot you'd get it. Edited June 15 by SlayerX 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Kite Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 I find the constant England focus very annoying. We are watching a tournament with Europe's top players and I want to know about the upcoming game about to start. I kind of understand the choice of pundits because they were respected players down here. I know McCoist is not to everyone's taste, but he at least sounds like he is enjoying himself and knows he has a great job. It's nice to hear someone like Seb Hutchinson who is trying to commentate and not crack bad gags. It would be nice to hear a Scottish voice on telly comms. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ro Sham Bo Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 I enjoyed Hutchison correcting Dixon in the Spain v Croatia match. Dixon "he was literally standing on the linesman's toes" Hutchison "I don't think he was literally standing on his toes, Lee" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksburnDandy Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 BBC going down the tedious England route too. Dreadful stuff. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 1 minute ago, BucksburnDandy said: BBC going down the tedious England route too. Dreadful stuff. Surprising to hear Southgate call the Euros a Mickey Mouse cup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 Just now, BucksburnDandy said: BBC going down the tedious England route too. Dreadful stuff. Was just about to say the same thing. Every day on each channel we'll be getting a 10 minute report from the camp, sit down interviews with Southgate, previews into their next game and post-mortems of the previous match. Scotland will get a 5 minute segment of highlights and analysis the day after on whatever channel our game wasn't shown on, and that'll be that. The bare minimum possible. Our participation in this tournament is about as relevant to these frauds as Albania's or Georgia's is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ro Sham Bo Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 After last night I will be quite happy if they don't mention Scotland at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonam Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 10 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said: Was just about to say the same thing. Every day on each channel we'll be getting a 10 minute report from the camp, sit down interviews with Southgate, previews into their next game and post-mortems of the previous match. Scotland will get a 5 minute segment of highlights and analysis the day after on whatever channel our game wasn't shown on, and that'll be that. The bare minimum possible. Our participation in this tournament is about as relevant to these frauds as Albania's or Georgia's is. Even Wales seem to get more coverage, wonder why.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 The German commentary is like Countryfile, useless for having on in the background to warn you to look at the telly if something's building up and you're reading a book or something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 The two England games on the BBC have an hour of build-up. Scotland v Switzerland on Wednesday has half an hour. But there’s no pro-England bias. Nope. None. Nada. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 34 minutes ago, The Master said: The two England games on the BBC have an hour of build-up. Scotland v Switzerland on Wednesday has half an hour. But there’s no pro-England bias. Nope. None. Nada. Limiting pre-match build-up to half an hour after the Germany game is a pro-Scottish move IMO. I don't see the issue with coverage of actual games: it's the completely irrelevant shoehorning of coverage from 'the camp' or 'Gareth' (see above) in the rest of the tournament that rips my knitting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 17 hours ago, The Master said: The two England games on the BBC have an hour of build-up. Scotland v Switzerland on Wednesday has half an hour. But there’s no pro-England bias. Nope. None. Nada. Playing devil’s advocate here but if BBC didn’t have the 5pm game that day then I’d like to think they’d have given Scotland vs Switzerland the full hour’s build up… …over to a preview of England’s next group game before showing the Scotland match. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Wales reached the semi finals of euro 2016 and they still managed to get in their England chat at half time when they’d been knocked out like a week before. They’re absolutely shameless about it and it’s pathetic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigInLondon Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Could they not just have a separate 10 minute ‘update from the England camp’ slot before or after the games that don’t involve them? Keep it out of the actual match coverage and it’s probably better for iPlayer/ITVX. Ideally they’d have the same for us but that’s probably too much to ask! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2426255 Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 Disappointed the BBC don't have the birds eye tactics camera this year. That was great during Euro 2020. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 17 hours ago, virginton said: I don't see the issue with coverage of actual games: it's the completely irrelevant shoehorning of coverage from 'the camp' or 'Gareth' (see above) in the rest of the tournament that rips my knitting. Yeah this. They're in the tournament. They're entitled to focus on the team and big up the games. I can even cope with the pre and post match camp reports etc. Filling part of half time in another game going on about England o, even worse, the damned commentary during the game, is an absolute nonsense though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted June 16 Share Posted June 16 1 hour ago, Skyline Drifter said: Yeah this. They're in the tournament. They're entitled to focus on the team and big up the games. I can even cope with the pre and post match camp reports etc. Filling part of half time in another game going on about England o, even worse, the damned commentary during the game, is an absolute nonsense though. On the other hand, let's not change a losing formula which has worked since 1966 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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