Has someone said earlier they bounce off each other, there serious at times but light hearted at others, i like them
I like Burnsie, I can't stand Swanny. I don't think Deano would be much of an improvement either btw.
I don't mind Burnsy, I've met him, he's a real nice bloke and i even bought him a beer one night in Zest. However, at times, when him and Swan are rambling on about pies, fish and chips, betting and being on the piss it makes the commentary almost unlistenable. He needs to remember that, with no other local radio coverage and 5Live only there very very occasionally, then he has a captive audience. So, if Mike White, Matt Dean or Burnsy are reading (we know you do) then can you take this into consideration please. I left Gollom out because after listening to the sports bulletins yesterday, I'm not sure he can read! You're there to commentate and tell us what's happening on the pitch. Beryl and Betty are on after the football and we have the opportunity to turn off if we wish. Thanks in advance.
No. They do my head in. Would be better to have a Beryl, Betty and Gollom show. Would then really enjoy using the off button.
The adverts were a little frustrating, but I loved the people they got on there. I really liked Alex Burgess's commentary, he was usually backed up by Garreth Roberts, wasn't he? I remember Linton Brown being a laugh too. If I remember right, they completed the season they had paid for following the takeover by Lincs FM, but never bid to renew it, because that group of stations don't do sport. KCFM is crap now compared to when it launched. It used to be really varied, now it's just a duplicate of LincsFM, which is a bit pointless considering, most people in the KCFM area can still pick up Lincs.
I was recently out with a bloke who was involved in the KCFM commentaries(he's now at WHCR), I couldn't believe how expensive it was for them to cover individual matches. The BBC had a collective discounted deal covering all games, but to buy the rights to broadcast individual games was a bloody fortune, it really is a monopoly.
(out with the soapbox).........and to make matters worse, it's an arrogant monopoly, if there is such a thing. It's about time that the BBC started to represent the local licence fee payers wishes. Just like the NHS and other public monopolies, in strategic marketing terms, if they were in the same world as the rest of us, their customers would have walked ages ago leaving them bust! eg, my 'local' BBC tele station is now reporting a big story in Spalding. Anyone even know where Spalding is, let alone ever travelled there
Burnsey and Swanny infuriate me, the Match commentary's are ****e. If it was possib Bring Back KC FM and Alex Burgess and Linton Brown, they was second to none.
On Saturday - they were doing their usual "bouncing" off each other - calling each other fat, talking about the "current" Mrs Burns etc. At one point Burnsey asked Swanny what he thought of Proschwitz - all Swanny would say is "You asked me that", before carrying on with his off-topic ****e. Any professional, even if he didn't want to answer that question, would have taken that as a cue to return to the topic. I was also really p****d off with their attitude on the match as I was walking to it. The sun was shining, a new season was dawning. And they were both miserable as sin and predicting a Rotherham win. Don't get me wrong, I don't want them to only blow smoke up City's arse, but as the main broadcasters for City in the area, a little positivity wouldn't go a miss. You can predict a hard game without making it seem like there's no point in being there.
They was talking about what they had planned after the match i mean who gives a pluck, we put the radio on to listen to the commentary not your life story
That sums it up - their attitude is that people tune in to listen to them commenting on City, not that people tune it to listen to City being commentated on my them - subtle difference maybe, but still there.
The worse part of saturdays commentary was when Burns started going on about somebody falling off his chair for about five minutes instead of talking about the match
It can't have helped that the BBC did everything they could to scupper KCFM too. City get equal billing with Scunny now, and did before KCFM launched in 2007, but as long as KCFM was broadcasting on FM every Saturday, Humberside devoted the FM frequency to City. It was clearly designed to stop people using them. Must have been a hard-sell for a new radio station to get advertisers to part with money, when there is a non-advertising side offering the same thing. It is better to not have to listen to adverts, but its annoying that the moment KCFM's commentary goes belly up, we end up going straight back on AM twice a month.
Burnsy and Swanny are like marmite. As Burnsy said on saturday its only pre-season. We shall be better next week. Alex Burgess was also good but has given up now on KCFM. As for talksport.........OFF button please.
But it wasn't pre-season - they can keep their negativity up if they want, and it may have been like pre-season, but it was a cup tie - they won't be better next week, they will be the same, every week, they go on about each others' weight and the "current" Mrs Burns - this was no different to any other coverage last week. As for them being like Marmite - I'm not sure I can agree with that - I'm sure some people will tell me I'm wrong, but my problem with them is not a love/hate thing. I don't think they do their job. I don't hate them. As has been said - from 6pm we have Beryl and Betty for geriatric banter. Between 1.30 and 6, it's supposed to be professional sports coverage. I can't believe Swanny is still in a job when there are the likes of Whittle, Ashbee, Roberts, Windass all out there with time on their hands. KCFM had the coverage right - Garreth Roberts could be relied on most weeks, but there were regular guest experts such as Whittle and Linton Brown. I seem to remember them once getting Deano, because he'd picked up an injury, so wouldn't be playing - it was towards the end of the promotion season.
I agree with Bernstein, they don't do their job properly. No matter how bad some of the national commentators are they are streets ahead of our coverage. You wouldn't hear Guy Mowbray or whoever giggling about one of the other guys falling off their chair for five minutes in the middle of the match or start talking about what bets they have on. I think the commentary would be vastly improved if they got rid of Swan and got somebody else in too.
