I do know a lot of people have a go at swanny but i do have to admit he does know what he is talking about, Respect for the man.
I strangely agree with you, on both Swanny and honest opinions. I think the local media gets a raw deal on here.
He also talks a lot of bollocks. Everything that happens suddenly becomes something he has already predicted. He'll talk about, for example, McLean being a poor finisher and then when McLean scores he'll say "Yeah like I say, he was always going to score from there, like I say, he's a great finisher, like I say."
On the way back from Barnsley, had BLunderside on and the caller that rang in and said Swanny was talking rubbish needs to get a check! Swanny has played the game and should know what he is on about. If you dont like what swanny says dont read it in the Fail or turn off when he is on BLunderside, simples!!!!!
I think it's unfair to call David Burns BA (Hons) an idiot. He obviously isnt as he has got himself on the BBC gravy train. However, having worked and known many many journos over the years, I feel he is just another over-paid BBC local journalist who got lucky in the employment stakes and now seems to believe his own manufactured publicity. He could be putting together hatches, matches and scratches columns on a crap local daily, writing about dustbin services, chatting up old ladies to fill-out mid-morning air-time at a local radio station, or creating ad. features for local plumbers. To be fair to him they are all trained the same way and he seems ordinary by comparison. The difference is in communication skills, and those that can, dont work for local amatuers. That is why the likes of Damian Johnson and George Riley have more National briefs. I think that Peter Swan's presence serves its purpose to set aside an informed, opinionated, and sometimes antagonising view of affairs to try to boost listener figures. The Hull Daily Mail would appear to use Peter Swan's name for the same purpose. In that respect, it works, although with no realistic option for City fans unless they attend matches. If, for instance, a station like WHCR could significantly improve the Professionalism of its output and obtain rights to broadcast, then Auntie may be forced to do summat exceptional. That would cost alot of money for limited return (eg KCFM) so like it or lump it, i think we are stuck with it!
Dont mind Swanny or Burnsy come to that. I recon its human nature to ocassionaly get up ones own arse if things are going well for ones self.
I think Swanny's improved over the past year or so, though I'd still prefer it if Burnsy stopped asking him about pies and what bets he's placed. And I'd prefer it if no-one asked Gwilym Lloyd anything at all, how that talentless twat ever got on air is completely beyond me.
"......And I'd prefer it if no-one asked Gwilym Lloyd anything at all, how that talentless twat ever got on air is completely beyond me...." Price and availability perhaps. Oh and this is the BBC by the way so even though he has been rumbled for what he is, they cant get rid anyway!
I don't get why Burnsy gets any criticism. He seems the ideal man for the job he does to me. He's convinced himself, as a Glaswegian, to support all 3 local sides which must have originally been a bit weird for him but you get the impression now that he is a genuine City fan, unlike the HDF and others. Swanny also seems to have this City bias which is to his credit since he's a dirty Leeds boy. However, Burnsy's opinions make much more sense than Swanny's a lot of the time, and he admits when he calls something wrong unlike Swanny who just claims he'd already predicted it.
CORRECT. Also, unlike many fans on message boards and media people He has played the game when it was a mans game. Swanny was good both at the back and up front. He knows his stuff so his opinions are valued and welcome. His comments on the Brady penalty were also spot on. Brady cheated.
NP says the complete opposite so either he is a liar or Swanny saw it wrong from his position. I still haven't seen it again either way but from NP's reaction I bet it wasn't as clear cut as people are saying. Swanny says in his book that he wasn't ever interested in playing at a high level, winning trophies or whatever. He was just in football for money, and to make as much of it as possible. He admits that himself, not sure that's quite in tune with the "He was there when it was a man's game" image people have of him.
I said it at the time and nothing has changed my mind. What NP is saying is his opinion but i also guess that he is backing up Brady publically at least. Good management. But it was never ever a penalty.
I have to admit that before anything happened I thought Brady wanted to win a penalty rather than get past the defender. I'd still like to see it again though.
you shall. all in good time. wtach look north tonight for instance. guess it will be on that programme.
