Same here. humberside ifollow coverage used to include build up, phone in, half time results service etc instead of Fletch forgetting to turn the mic on til 10 mins in whilst mincing his phrases, dead air at half time and no after match discussion etc. Much better product when Humberside did the club stream even despite Swanny banging the same old drum for 30 years.
Well, I for one am delighted, alas too late for my beloved Mum, who had no technology/internet, but her guilty pleasure was company with Burnsy/Swanny, Sat afternoon by her radio, listening to City coverage. She’d then ring me Sat eve to compare her listening experience of the game to that of ours at the match........until that was cruelly taken away from her. So, great news, not so much for me, who’ll be at the games, but for those in similar circumstances, the elderly, people unable to attend through illness etc., a great local service connecting people in the community with Hull City. Can’t deny though, I will enjoy Burnsy/Swanny and their pronunciation of players names, good luck with that one! I guess, maybe go back to talking about numbers on shirts. RIP Mum. Still struggling to move on.
Bless you and your Mum. I lost my Mum in 2014. It does take time and patience. It gets a bit easier through the passage of time. Then you’ll reflect on the great times you both had together.
I've admitted on here before that I was a late starter to actively supporting City in terms of going to games, partly because there was no family history of interest in footie at all, so no indoctrination into the black and amber from birth or 'owt like that. To the point where when I first started going my dad took the piss out of me a bit, but over the few seasons between then and the dementia taking most of what was left of him away from us he went from listening to the odd game if there was nothing on the telly, to eventually listening every Saturday from his armchair and discussing it with me in some depth when I made my routine trip to deliver their grocery shopping on a Sunday morning. He hadn't been the most sympathetic of characters when I was younger so it was an unexpected treat so late in his life to be able to discuss something and share a common interest without any judgement of each other, just of who was playing well, what it was like at the game etc. Humberside losing the contract came after his dementia decline started, and he's gone now anyway, but I know how I would have felt if our new found common interest had been taken away from us before that. I'm really sorry you and your mum didn't get to share yours as long. Take care
Very sorry to here about that . Though obvs some don't like Burnsy but he is a great advocate of the local area and Hull City .
Really sorry to hear about your mum HT, we lost MIL in 2013, she was a zillion times more of a mum to me than my biological one. I still miss her and FIL who passed six months, almost to the day, of MIL’s passing, I still reckon of a broken heart. It’s got easier with the passing of time but I still miss and think of them every day. I just feel blessed that they more or less took over my parenting from me being aged 17, otherwise I really don’t know where I’d be now. RIP your lovely mum
I think that all BBC employees should have to re-apply for their job-as I had to a few years ago. That would sort out the Burns from the Linekers. Burnsy is a good example and I could listen to him commenting on City next season.
Sport is burnsys side gig these days. Went from sports editor (which is apparently protected) to Mr Daytime as his main (which isn't). It'll probably be Mike White interviewing Rosie, but Burnsy would get more out of him and probably more rapport also. If you like that style. Some don't. And I'm old enough to have listened to some **** city commentators over the years. Burnsy is about the best though I would like to see him mix it up a bit rather than Swanny all the time.
Aaaah, I'm not a gambler really at all (too many other vices, and kids) but I really have no problem feeling the pain of those Greaves bets, and McShane, going way back. Anyone on a drought. And the sheer joy when those bets come off. That's just good commentary and a real feel for what works to get what's happening on the pitch or over a season or over an individual players career, or express a narrative that impacts in a specific moment, and most people can understand it. Whether they have a betting account or not. It's actually good radio if you dig down. When's the last time you 'watched' a game without your eyes? Fletch does his best, but his commentary relies on a visual reference. Burns is very good indeed at radio.
Meyler was on Sportstalk last night, enjoyed listening to him. Would be good if RH occasionally got him as co-commentator.
The problem with Facebook and Twitter, it gives idiots a platform to inflict their views on us. Before these platforms they had to keep their views in there own circles
Just watched and listened to Liam's hour on RH, as always clear and concise answers, looks as if this new coach/analyst is going to be announced today.
