CarryOnVilla

4 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

I tend to agree, but the argument against is basically: pundits have different purposes depending on the venue. The purpose of a halftime analyst between the ad breaks is to be a famous face smoothly giving a quick summary so that they can quickly move on to selling you beer and takeaway pizza. People who go into detail are literally bad for this role. The purpose of a MOTD analyst is likewise to be a famous face condensing one main talking point from a match into digestible analysis, so that a] people get the main idea of what happened, and b] people can talk about the game at work on Monday and say something that sounds sensible. The purpose of a journalist on a podcast or long-form radio like 'Premier League Sundays' is to go into detail and really drill down. For that, people need to be knowledgeable and able to talk in depth. 

It's difficult to get both on to the same type of show, because Jonathan Wilson is going to struggle to condense his comments into a charismatic twenty-second soundbite and Steven Gerrard is going to struggle to give interesting analysis for an hour. 

Ahh good point. Maybe I just want something more interesting from our standard pundit, than a scripted soundbite that all the other pundits say 

25 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

 

thats shit, the yellow busy stuff does nothing while they've kept the terrible shoulder line 

That texture pattern looks like a medley of Manure’s Devil trident 

It does look like Chelsea have found their mojo… could be back in the mix for top 4 next season. 

What would be a sad sight. I was hoping the whole Boley thing would implode and sink the club 

25 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

i have just seen Grealish's new project.

In the new Helmans Mayonnaise advert.

The new face of Helmans Mayonnaise.

 

seriously.

wtf.

 

 

 

 

 

Helmans Mayonnaise?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

seriously?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for real?

He does give off the vibe that he’s one of them people who has mayo with everything…

salad,  mayo

mayo, chips

curry,  mayo

cheese cake, mayo

Just now, S-Platt said:

Loftus Cheek?

3 minutes ago, Indigo said:

Moretto is pretty reliable. 

 

5 minutes ago, Czarnikjak said:

Because half of the clubs are nowhere near the £105m limit, so why would they go out of their way to help the other half that is nearing breaking the rules?

They may not wanna vote for it, for that reason.. yet, might be a good indicator to know how many clubs are wanting more headroom 

1 minute ago, villa89 said:

They go for "names". In reality Jonathan Wilson, James Horncastle, Rafa honegstien, Julien Lauren's are some of the best analysts around. 

Exactly, but why not have both… ex pros to have the emotional aspects and the (carismatic) journos giving the analysis 

It doesn’t help when we have Burnley’s kit, Burnley has West Ham’s kit, and West Ham has our kit this season 

16 minutes ago, Czarnikjak said:

 

I certainly cannot see other 13 teams voting for it to help us out though, so we will be selling for profit.

I can see they will to help them selves out tho. 
 

what club doesn’t want a little more headroom in spending?

Why is it only former players and managers that are employed as pundits?

why not journalists that actually do their research and know what they’re talking about?!?

As some ex footballers bring some character and inner perspective of being a player or manger, but they often have a pamflet worth of knowledge about clubs their not a specialist in. And often just regurgitate the same talking points as the last pundit. 

it’s just rare that I feel more knowledgeable about football/tatics/another club/players  after hearing a pundit talk. I often get that stuff from journalists or podcasters. But they’re rarely employed as pundits 

a bit of both would be ideal on a match programming 

22 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

Apparently an article in the Times today - I don't have an account - claiming that we're pushing for a £30m increase to the PSR allowance for next season, according to Stefan Borson:

I've seen quite a lot of takes on here suggesting we aren't at much risk from PSR, but I think people should be asking themselves why we would be pushing this if we weren't. Don't think it's implausible we get a points deduction next season. 

Yeah, this looks suss that we are the ones bringing it up 

10 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

It could be simply that is exhausted

 

Tbf, I believe he’s our most played outfield player. Him, Watkins or Mcginn

6 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

In fairness, from my own conversations with Spurs fans, he's really underperforming with the best squad in world football.

Best squad in the world? Even that would crack a laugh on Richarlisons face  

Quick glance at their forum. Short to say, Big Ange and Ange ball isn’t popular over there anymore 

I’m not sure Doug has realised dating Alisha, that he’s really a Boubs man. 

Boubs makes Doug a world beater 

no Boubs and Doug plays like ass 

Keeping things on topic!

spurs lost!!! We could have this wrapped up by the weekends end. With an added cherry on top of bloose being relegated 

mate

Just now, rjw63 said:

We are like the England cricket team 

Yet not one line of Coke 

Why this? Why do we do these utter collapses 

Suck on diabys nuts VAR ref

Suck on ollie’s nipples VAR clearings in the woods 

What’s their line up? 
 

just so I can pretend I know the players and pontificate in a snobby way on their choices 

Just now, BOF said:

Very young bench.

Class of 24

1 minute ago, Brumstopdogs said:

 

Owww a zani on the bench!

also, resting pau, daring 

still looks a fair lineup tho