I T V are a disgrace!!!!!!!!

[daveyboy40]

hey guys this is my first post so be gentle!!!!i went to the game yesterday and had a great day out but got back home ready to watch the highlights,WHAT A JOKE THAT WAS!!!!!p.s very impressed with calderon considering it was only his 2nd game for the club

 

[sir albion]

Yeah the coverage was dire and soccer saturday was dire coverage aswel.No big deal we get used to shite coverage

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

i agree - i waited until 12.35am only to see about 30 seconds of footage. Ok that's better than nowt , but still....

 

[Tuks]

it was a joke very game should of had at least 4 mins of coverage

it was stupid considering the amount of coverage the opening teams got

 

[matthew]

urghh so annoying! 3-2 as well a really good game

 

[Basil Fawlty]

The highlights were shocking, and not even mentioning Fozzie 50th goal for the club after the highlights ended. Not even a mention from Steve Coppell about it, shocking stuff.

 

[grummitts gloves]

Hopefully BBC's new coverage on a Monday night will offer better and won't spend half an hour creaming themselves over the Hampshire inbreds tie in the next round

 

[Skaville]

The trouble is that next year ITV will have the Premiership coverage too. They are f***ing SHITE.

 

[hitony]

ITV coverage of live Football is a total disgrace, let alone the highlights!!, just nothing is right about the whole thing, the commentry is a joke and the interviews with players /managers are just about non existant, and I thought Sky were bad at cramming in adverts....but ITV really do take the micky !!

In one of todays live games, after about 8 minutes + of adverts, the broadcast started, the presenter said a couple of things as an introduction (about a minutes worth) and it went back to MORE adverts !!! (and Yes i am aware thats how they get paid for it) but in moderation....PLEASE !!!

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

the bollocks is that the matches shown in detail were already shown live that day so the majority of viewers would have already seen chelsea and spurs matches in their entirety

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

We seem to be getting lots of press coverage with Poyets appointment- who really seems to be putting himself out there, but the regular footie shows including local news such as South Today etc. continues to be dire. I'm looking forward to the point where we're a league above Pompy and the local news has to give us more coverage then a 5 second slot on Monday afternoon. Pricks.

Saying that two televised games this season!

 

[throbinson]

To me TV have runied the F.A cup, whats happened to the dream of the cup for the lower league teams from the 3rd round onwards its allways big prem teams on the tv. Yesterday ITV should have shown Accrington Stanley the tV money would keep the club going this season

 

[trueblue]

The trouble is that next year ITV will have the Premiership coverage too. They are f***ing SHITE.

Errrm. No they won't.

 

[Wozza]

In fairness, ITV picked their live games well this weekend.

 

[Bluejuice]

What's all this about ITV getting Premiership games next season?

As far as I'm aware the live rights will still be with Sky and ESPN and the BBC's highlights deal hasn't yet run out so it'll be business as usual with Match of the Day on a Saturday night and MOTD2 on Sundays.

ITV shouldn't be allowed near football, so shoddy a job do they make of it

 

[Simster]

As the song goes, "ITV are f***ing shit". I wasn't bothered by Albion's lack of coverage. We'd have got a lot more if we'd not lost, that's what happens in these situations. It's everything else they do which is rubbish. Their sets look two bob, their guests are barely house-hold names, and their post match analysis is a jumbled mess. Basically, ITV are indeed f***ing shit. Personally, I'd like to see more of this fine chant at ITV televised games. Maybe they'll get the message and not bother bidding next time.

 

[Rookie]

The trouble is that next year ITV will have the Premiership coverage too. They are f***ing SHITE.

you sure about that?

 

[Badger]

I totally agree, I was really annoyed when they gave the Spurs match extra long highlights right at the start, a game which I had seen about 4 hours earlier, followed by a load of stupidly long ad breaks.

On the other hand I did watch the FA Cup preview show on ITV4 on Saturday morning, they actually devoted quite a lot of time to the Albion. I thought they might carry that forward into the highlights show but obviously we're not important enough to get a mention on ITV1.

 

[Tooting Gull]

ITV just seem to always have pundits who can't provide insight beyond what you could hear down the pub. If you're an ex-player, let's hear it from the players' perspective, or stuff they have heard from their mates in the coaching staff of the teams they're watching. Not just 'he'll be disappointed with that', or 'that won't be an easy game'. It's banal bollocks. Not that Shearer is much better on the Beeb.

Also it's a shame to see that Ned Boulting or whatever his name is as the presenter, he's a very good reporter and has done some excellent football TV features but looked a fish out of water on Saturday night hosting the thing.

 

[Arthur]

Just watched the highlights of the Spuds Dirty Leeds game and they don't show either of the incidents leading up to the penalties.

How crap is that!