[Football] BBC Chairman says show fewer highlights on MOTD

[nickbrighton]

Do we want more or less rubbish talked by pundits?

Match of the Day: BBC chairman says show should include fewer highlights

Match of the Day should show fewer Premier League highlights and more analysis, says BBC chairman Samir Shah.

www.bbc.co.uk

The chairman not DG-apologies, can a Mod change the title, and replace Om with On?

 

[Titanic]

 

[BBassic]

Do you want to drive your audience off to YouTube to watch the extended highlights posted by the individual clubs? Because this is how you drive your audience off to YouTube to watch the extended highlights posted by the individual clubs.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Which is exactly what i do.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The trick is to watch MOTD on catchup and fast forward through the pundit bolleaux

 

[JBizzle]

Do you want to drive your audience off to YouTube to watch the extended highlights posted by the individual clubs? Because this is how you drive your audience off to YouTube to watch the extended highlights posted by the individual clubs.

In all honesty, who waits for MotD anymore to see the highlights? Most of them are on YouTube by the time I get home form the game anyway. I watch the extended highlights irrespective of whether I watched MotD, but I do watch to see what they have to say about us.

Personally, I'd like more analysis but I also want better pundits to conduct said analysis, not just some ex-pros bantering each other.

Unless we've lost, in which case I don't watch or listen to anything, except maybe Albion Unlimited

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I think there is a case for a more detailed tactical analysis. Something where knowledgeable people add something that we can't already see. Most of the time, the analysis just consists of them talking through the goals.

I think they should make much more use of non ex pro's, usually journalists, who seem to understand the game much more than the ex pro's

 

[Monkey Man]

I find most of the analysis, such as it is, sends me into a kind of stupor anyway. Too many arbitrary grey boxes being drawn on the playing field, too many futile discussions about "should the keeper/full back have done better?", too many ex-pros expressing bewilderment that a game of football has occurred in which goals have happened because some players were briefly outwitted by opposing ones.

Plus, there is absolutely no way that the pundits have watched anything other than a tiny snapshot of the games they're talking about. They'll be relying on notes and suggestions from people within the production team who did, and in most cases drawing conclusions that are pretty anodyne.

 

[GloryDays]

Perhaps if they had something a bit more compelling than Key Stage 3 analysis he might be on to something. Joe Hart is dreadful - literally just talking through the clip we are watching, and no one else has any hot takes in particular.

They should limit the analysis if the current roster stays the same. Enhance the panel and they might be on to something but ateotd we want to watch football highlights. Sounds to me like this fucker just wants to save a few quid.

 

[lawros left foot]

The way to get me to watch MOTD on a regular basis is stop Palace winning.

I refuse to watch any game that lot up the road win.

 

[GloryDays]

I think there is a case for a more detailed tactical analysis. Something where knowledgeable people add something that we can't already see. Most of the time, the analysis just consists of them talking through the goals.

I think they should make much more use of non ex pro's, usually journalists, who seem to understand the game much more than the ex pro's

Absolutely. I actually can't be arsed to watch Gary and Micah and the rest of their little gang just have bantaaa. I'd rather hear a guest by invitation talk through their interpretation of a game / goal / moment. There are so many talented and opinionated (and qualified) voices in football which I would hope aren't too alienating for the regular viewer.

 

[brighton_tom]

The trick is to watch MOTD on catchup and fast forward through the pundit bolleaux

Correct.

 

[brighton_tom]

What he probably means is less highlights of non top 6 teams, to accommodate more highlights and waffle relating to top 6 sides.

 

[GT49er]

Unlike, I suspect, many on here I do like to listen to the pundits debating and analysing the games - just showing the highlights without the comments would make the show much less appealing to me. I don't agree with the DG though - I think the balance is just right at the moment. "If it ain't broke, don't mend it" clearly applies.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I think there is a case for a more detailed tactical analysis. Something where knowledgeable people add something that we can't already see. Most of the time, the analysis just consists of them talking through the goals.

I think they should make much more use of non ex pro's, usually journalists, who seem to understand the game much more than the ex pro's

For the Albion, all one needs to do is to come on here, after the game, and read the balanced comments of the knowledgeable people on the Match Day thread.

 

[Javeaseagull]

It is pretty much the last show of the day and there is no reason why it could not be extended to include more analysis from “experts” it is only delaying some film or other. No need to cut the match day footage unless it’s cheaper.

 

[Jack Straw]

The trick is to watch MOTD on catchup and fast forward through the pundit bolleaux

That's exactly what I do, as I do with the EFL and Champions League highlight programmes.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

What about this. A different analyst for each game.

It's realistically impossible for even the sharpest of minds, let alone Danny Murphy to get an understanding of the patterns of play in 6ish games. They don't have enough time to watch them all, so how can they really pass comment, let alone analyse.

What if the format was .... each game has a commentator and an analyst. The analyst watches the game live, then has the chance to watch it again, pick out the bits which the fan can't really notice in real time and presents something actually informative. As MOTD show the game, the previous analyst leaves the studio and the new one comes and sits in.

Taking it even further, they host and analyst may also be accompanied by a key player from the game or a manager, assuming the player isn't already pissed by 10.30pm. The interviews are generally a waste of time, but being sat in the studio having their actions analysed could be fun

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

For the Albion, all one needs to do is to come on here, after the game, and read the balanced comments of the knowledgeable people on the Match Day thread.

Excellent idea. What better exemplar of sober, rational and dispassionate objectivity could there be?

 

[Pavilionaire]

I think MOTD is missing a trick.

I think there is a gap in the market for a top quality terrestrial analysis show.

I would keep MOTD as it is but then immediately follow it with a separate show - 'MOTD In-Depth' with top journalists, ex-pros - to give the best analysis, like a cross between Neville and Carragher with Sunday Supplement. No studio audience bollocks.