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Alan Whittle said:
Remember the good old days when the current lot were seen as a welcome upgrade on Mullery, McClintock, Best, Marsh etc?
I don’t often see it but when I do the current lot are like a comfy old pair of slippers and even the hideously contrived “bantz” is easier on the ear than the faux serious BBC final score. They have been looking a bit jaded recently and all things must pass. Just as an aside, wherever I do watch it, the best at a game reporter / summariser by miles is Michelle Owen, always upbeat and word perfect. It is also noticeable that Jeff doesn’t try any clumsy bantz with her (as he does with a few of the others). I think she would be good in the studio.
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Don't watch it on a regular basis but it certainly needs a shake up, I noticed Merson didn't rate a mention on the exit list, if he were pushed out of the door that would be catastrophic mentally for him.
 
Alan Whittle said:
Remember the good old days when the current lot were seen as a welcome upgrade on Mullery, McClintock, Best, Marsh etc?
I don’t often see it but when I do the current lot are like a comfy old pair of slippers and even the hideously contrived “bantz” is easier on the ear than the faux serious BBC final score. They have been looking a bit jaded recently and all things must pass. Just as an aside, wherever I do watch it, the best at a game reporter / summariser by miles is Michelle Owen, always upbeat and word perfect. It is also noticeable that Jeff doesn’t try any clumsy bantz with her (as he does with a few of the others). I think she would be good in the studio.
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Full disclosure here should be, I don't like either Phil Thompson or increasingly Charlie Nicholas (never seems to have a good word to say about Everton) so I can't say I'm opposed to the decision. However what I would say about that group, was they had a very natural chemstry between them. I never felt it was that forced. I watched some of the BT equivalent and it just felt really forced to me, liuke they were trying to emulate the stupidity of soccer saturday, whereas the buffoonery of soccer saturday seemed quite authentic. Thats not a dig at BT either, there are things they do that are better than Sky as well.

I suspect Sky have felt that they needed to get some fresher blood into the studio. You do always feel the msot interesting pundits are the ones who've just retired, so I suspect they've looked at them and their ages, and when they finished playing football and probably concluded they've lost touch a little. I would imagine they are on a fair whack and want to go in a different direction.

I like Sue Smith when I've seen her, albeit I am slightly biased that she's an Evertonian. I'm not sure about Clinton Morrisson, but they may feel he reaches a new audience (younger, more urban, more ethnically diverse) and TV people are always lookign to expand their horizons rather than just pandering to what they've got. It's a bit of a risk, but maybe they felt the time was right to take it?

As a slight aside, they did something similar with cricket, and there's been some discussion on it, moving on Gower, Botham to a degree David Lloyd and brought in Rainford Brent, Rob Key, Ian Ward etc and I've been very impressed with the coverage and analysis. Particularly with Rob Key, who I have to say I wasn't expecting to like, but he's been a really good find for them.

Companies regularly like to freshen things up. They've had a good run. I can't understand the disappointment, but some of the more extreme conclusions I find a bit odd.
 
Alan Whittle said:
Remember the good old days when the current lot were seen as a welcome upgrade on Mullery, McClintock, Best, Marsh etc?
I don’t often see it but when I do the current lot are like a comfy old pair of slippers and even the hideously contrived “bantz” is easier on the ear than the faux serious BBC final score. They have been looking a bit jaded recently and all things must pass. Just as an aside, wherever I do watch it, the best at a game reporter / summariser by miles is Michelle Owen, always upbeat and word perfect. It is also noticeable that Jeff doesn’t try any clumsy bantz with her (as he does with a few of the others). I think she would be good in the studio.
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She wouldn’t do it, I don’t think.

she’s based in the West Country isn’t she? Has a young family too.

You always see her at Bristol City, Cardiff, Swansea etc, I do agree she’s very good though.

Oh BBC and some smog Sky are ridiculous. The fella who hosts final score is great, but if there’s ever been a token black card it’s Garth Crooks.

People lament Lawro, and rightly so, but it’s telling that he’s not the worth pundit, when Crooks is around. Hasn’t got a bloody clue that fella.

Dublin, he’s great. Use him more.
 
Prevenger17 said:
I think Alex Scott is fairly useless tbh. Haven't seen her in a good while so maybe she has come on since then, but I remember the main pundit would offer a question in the form of the answer she was going to give, so it was basically two pundits saying the exact same thing to fill up time:

Pundit: "So Alex, do you think Gylfi Sigurddson should contribute more elsewhere on the field? Could he track back more and help out his defence instead of relying on the occasional goal from outside the box?"
Alex: "Yeah, I think Gylfi Sigurddson should contribute more elsewhere on the field. In my opinion, he could track back more and help out his defence instead of relying on the occasional goal from outside the box"


I'm sure there are loads of good female pundits out there, but Alex Scott isn't one of them. This isn't a gender-based appraisal, the vast majority of Sky's pundits are crap
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She hasn’t changed, in fact, she’s got worse. You can tell she’s getting her knowledge from someone else's social media as she’s telling you things you just don’t want to know. She’ll come out with nonsense such as the XG ratio like the low block system etc that you’ve just seen some other phoney bore put out on Twitter.

She’s awful and her agents certainly earning his coin by taking advantage of the current climate to get her face on everything.

However, I do think Eniola Aluko she comes across as genuinely knowing her stuff.

The rest of them are garbage and the men aren’t much better.
 
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Aluko can be swerved though after her comments suggesting people who were getting furloughed were just scrounging whilst “good” and “honest” people were paying for it.

Yer, Yer... I’m a key worker, and you’re a footballer. Why the hell are you complaining? It’s a swerve from me.
 
barneygumble said:
Aluko can be swerved though after her comments suggesting people who were getting furloughed were just scrounging whilst “good” and “honest” people were paying for it.

Yer, Yer... I’m a key worker, and you’re a footballer. Why the hell are you complaining? It’s a swerve from me.
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I just dont think shes good at all myself, looking into space when Jeff and co asking her about the game shes watching when on soccer sat the few times, could not give a proper answer a few times to questions and so on, and then all that what you say and she wouldnt back down at 1st till the backlash
 
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