MOTD Coverage

[Bob'n'weave]

Hilarious. When we get round to winning one, wait for Lineker to focus on asking what went wrong for the other team to not beat us. Total bell-end.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Unless we want our players having their defensive mistakes pulled apart on national television we can thank our stars this one was overlooked and hope we get a better mention following our first win

That's what I think.
I don't want those ejits rubbing salt in after another tough day.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I thought it was quite funny that they did not mention Brighton even once! Not once.

What did you want Lineker and the two pundits to say? agree that Brighton were heading back to the Championship at the end of the season? because almost certainly that is what they would have said.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Unless we want our players having their defensive mistakes pulled apart on national television we can thank our stars this one was overlooked and hope we get a better mention following our first win

Watching the extended highlights on Sky, we did get the ball in the net - although it was clearly offside - and a fairly good shout for a penalty.

And it looked to me as if Duffy was being held down for the penalty..... but I may be wrong.

And nice to see vardy limping off. It was he who smashed Virgil van Dijk's foot , seemingly with a stamp, last season.

 

[sjamesb3466]

What did you want Lineker and the two pundits to say? agree that Brighton were heading back to the Championship at the end of the season? because almost certainly that is what they would have said.

Lineker gets paid millions of pounds of our money to analyse football games not w@nk over his own team. Quite frankly I expect them to analyse the game not just talk about Mahrez (who I thought was OK today but not outstanding).

 

[Stato]

The BBC pundits are lazy. They are amateur in comparison with the analysis offered by Sky. The reality is they know virtually nothing about the Albion right now and until we are involved in a game in which we actually create some chances and score a goal or two I doubt they'll go out of their way to find much out.

In fact, the level of analysis on MOTD is so basic I'm not convinced you even need to follow or know anything about football in order to hold your own on the sofa.

One thing that has become apparent since starting to watch Premier League programmes is that blanket coverage allows for very little depth and that most pundits are stealing a living. Apparently expert analysis consists of turning up, watching a game, or some highlights and reacting. It doesn't involve spending any of the week doing your own research or even discussing background with researchers. The Sky pundits that you say make BBC's look amateur were this afternoon questioning why Chris Hughton didn't pick Knockaert to start against City last week. None of them, not even Stelling, was aware of his injury in pre-season.

It's a quick lesson in ignore bad press and ignore good press. Their will be no depth and no consistency. We are now in the world of 606 calls where every team is either terrible or world beaters depending upon how the rub of the green may have gone that week. It's taken two weeks to get over the novelty of us being mentioned alongside the big names and to realise that the opinions being paid for are pretty much worthless.

 

[Weststander]

I thought it was quite funny that they did not mention Brighton even once! Not once.

Why waste their time on a team that were shut out?

As someone linked on another thread with the Guardian write up this evening, the Albion offered next to nothing.

NSC's sensitive souls would have hated the MOTD pundits for criticising out play or uninspiring signings, so best left unsaid.

 

[Weststander]

Palace got mentioned for all of 5 seconds. Maybe we'll have to stay in the Premier League for a few years before we earn that right.

Win games, score goals = something for them to get their teeth into.

 

[GT49er]

That Football League how was even worse - no mention of us at all, and not even the usual 13 seconds of highlights.........

 

[djentist]

Hence why fan channels/football reviewers on YouTube are becoming more of a thing, MOTD is utter dross

 

[saafend_seagull]

It's fair enough, if we showed any kind of attacking intent we would be mentioned. Currently we are happy to keep the goal difference down so until that changes it will be like this.

 

[kevo]

The only things they would have said would have been negative, and they'd have probably singled out Ryan for criticism. Apart from that, there really wasn't a lot for them to comment on.

 

[hopkins]

OK, so we were pretty poor today but the coverage on MOTD was shocking. Didn't show the disallowed goal and then the pundits just talked about Leicester for 4 minutes before moving on. Not even a word about any input from Brighton or what we need to do to improve/compete. I know Lineker is a Leicester fan but the bias in the coverage should not be allowed.

Disallowed goal ? He was so far offside even he didn't celebrate

 

[Lawro's Lip]

Relieved they did not mention us today. Hopefully they will have some positive comments after we get a point at Watford.

 

[nicko31]

Thanks BBC for not exposing our shortcomings and keeping us on the radar

 

[darkwolf666]

Don't remember them doing the same for plucky little Bournemouth.

That's cos they came up and scored goals and won a few games... Gave the pundits something to talk about!

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Gosh there are some needy snowflakes on this site now. Fancy getting excited because our name is mentioned on MOTD.

 

[warmleyseagull]

For the last few weeks we have been featured in press and on TV several times with the rags to riches story. Those things balance out; perhaps we shall be ripped apart in detail after losing to Watford and feel much better for getting analysts' coverage.

 

[jimhigham]

They're keeping their powder dry. If we have half a dozen games with little return then they'll have a piece on how we're just not up to snuff and heading for the drop.

 

[GoingUp]

There was a disallowed goal? it wasnt for this thread I wouldnt know there was one! Who 'scored' it? Did Knocky come on?