General Wolves News

[Deutsch Wolf]

I think radio commentary is really variable, and that’s only within 5 Live as it’s all I listen to. Conor McNamara is good, and I quite like John Murray too. There is lots of rubbish though. So many commentators seem to forget they are there to do just that and instead take the opportunity to give us 100 minutes of their own thoughts, or permanently reframe the context, rather than tell us what is happening.

Often you only notice how little description of the game takes place if you’re really invested in it. It can amount to about 5 or 6 times within 45 minutes. You wonder if the producers ever ask them to listen back to their work and say ‘imagine you want to know what is happening but can’t see the pitch. Have you done a good job’? The ratio of football coverage to ability to cover it seems out of line, but it can’t be that hard a job FFS.

Dear old Graham Taylor was absolutely superb on the radio. Such a nice man and conveyed it all brilliantly.

 

[ROVERT47]

Well you said never...

Radio commentary is a relic, I'm surprised it's still limping on. If it's that or nothing then I choose nothing.

Got me, should have been don’t.

 

[jlo]

Games on TV where you can either swap the commentary for ground noise OR radio commentary actually works better than usual TV punditry. At least with radio comms they are trying to describe the game.

 

[big mean bunny]

Personally I love 5live Radio commentary, loads better than any of the commentators on TV I feel.

Listening to that on a Saturday and playing champ man or something similar is my preference over soccer Saturday now Jeff has gone.

 

[sycophantia]

I usually have 5live on if I'm working in the garage or doing chores, don't mind it.

 

[leedswolf]

I usually have 5live on if I'm working in the garage or doing chores, don't mind it.

5Live is the default on the car radio.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Alan Green was bloody awful. Peter Jones was utterly magnificent on the radio though.

 

[sycophantia]

Alan Green hasn't been on in eons surely?

 

[leedswolf]

Alan Green hasn't been on in eons surely?

His contract ended at conclusion of 2019/20 season.

 

[Alan]

He spelled his name the same as mine, so I had to take him out. Highlander rules.