Just read his article ,if you can call it that on his opinion of how teams performed this season ,he totally contradicted himself by saying he expected Saints to be relegated then said Adkins sacking was totally unnecessary ,so according to him Adkins and team were not up to premiereship standard but we should not have got rid of him ? How he makes money in the media is beyond me , maybe it's because he talks such a load of bollocks and gets a reaction that that's what the media like ,
Well, pre-season, he obviously expected Saints to go down. By January, we were steering clear of relegation, and we and Nigel were starting to prove ourselves. Can't see the contradiction there.
No link to the article? How are we meant to decide whether or not we agree with you? Assuming you mean Robbie Savage, he talks rubbish sometimes but no more than other pundits. To be honest he talks more sense than most of them as well.
I like Robbie Savage, because he is less boring than a few pundits, but most of this is grossly under-researched, uninformed, opinionated twaddle. The rest can be gleaned from watching a few MOTDs and looking at the tables at key points in the season. Actually, don't bother looking at the tables at key points, just look at the final positions. Here's the link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/robbie-savages-end-season-report-1906984
I was having a hard time with the censorship of the commonly acceptable word "knob" in the title of this thread. For some unknown reason I keep reading it as "koob". I propose a new insult. As in: Hey, Mark Lawrenson is such a koob! or Sir, your behaviour is very koobish.
Ok, yeah it's not the best, but expecting great insight from such a short article is asking for a lot.
I know it was meant to be light, but a little editing and research wouldn't have hurt. BTW, Pimping Ken, I like the idea of koob.
I'ma start using it every day. These two koobs delivering water to my house right now will be the start.
Going to need to define exactly what koob means, or it will die a death. I'll help spread it around, and we'll see where it gets. I used to do word experiments of this nature back in the late 70s-80s with a mate of mine, who had the same curiosity. Introducing new words or pronunciations for existing words into the social landscape. Got a few successes too. The obvious biggest was the enhanced pronunciation of the word, excellent. Nobody used it the way we started to and we used it for everything favourable, and almost exactly the same way it was pronounced in the film, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. But we'd started it all off nearly 10 years earlier.
Just remembered another game we'd sometimes play. We'd hold coherent conversations in song lyrics. Friends would look at us slightly baffled and another would inform them that we'd started talking in song lines. I think we must have appeared slightly unhinged to onlookers, but our brains got a good workout. One-upmanship points were gained when a player could change to another song's lyrics without obviously appearing to, and keeping to the subject. Usually, the game was played when bladdered in a pub. Sorry for wandering off-topic. Back to Savage.
Indeed, I'm of the same opinion. He's better in front of the camera or microphone though. The little trio of Him, Crooks and Keown on Final Score last week was great fun.
His appeal is that he is good at starting arguments on 606 which is entertaining (though occasionally awkward). I do sometimes think his opinions just go with the flow, what everyone else is thinking is also his opinion generally. Personally I still prefer Claridge, despite his pompey links, he has a nice guy aura about him and he knows his lower league footie, plus he isn't afraid to have his own opinion. In defense of Robbie though, he was the only pundit to single out Villa as a relegation candidate and he came very close to being right, if Lambert didn't turn into super manager at the end of the season (and Benteke didn't turn into super striker) then they certainly would have gone down instead of Wigan.
Not sure about that. Could be coincidence, but every time I've heard him on 606, he's been talking ****e and often taking a pasting as Tom said. I find him particularly grating, not quite sure why.
Quite like Savage too - I remember once when he first started on the BBC with Lineker and he was being asked by Lineker whn showwing footage of this striker ghosting through a defence to score and Savage commented "someone in the defence should have taken him out and taken a booking for the team" - Lineker replied "you cannot says things like that" (looking embaressed) and Robbie shrugged "why not - its what I would have done". Lineker looked lost for words! You may not like the sentiment but I loved the honesty of the comment and, listening to him on the radio commentaries - again I think he comes over very well.
I agree.Have you seen him interviewed on 5 minutes with on the BBC? totally honest, some may not like what he said,but he was hiding nothing .
One of the best radio programmes in "606" but I think it seems to go through peaks and troughs depending on who has presented it. Initially Danny Baker was a bit annoying but I think it started to become compelling when David Mellor started to present it-I was surprised how good he was and came up with some good debates. It was most fun when Richard Littlejohn chaired it. Despite these characters, I feel it has become more variable as the programme has split between Saturdays and Sundays. The reason for this , in my opinion, is Robbie Savage. I think he courts controversy and is sometimes hostile towards callers. After about 30 minutes, I get really annoyed with him whereas when the likes of Jason Roberts have been on, I feel he has a lot of good things to say and is thought-provoking. I wish he would be on my often. I also think that Steve Claridge is very good. I am also a bit disappointed that Alan Green is no longer going to chair the show next season as I find him very assured and professional and a presenter who genuinely engages with his callers. For me, Alan Green is the best presenter this programme has had and whilst he can sometimes be a bit opinionated too, I would have to say that he talks a lot of sense. In contrast, Savage is just a loud mouth and not in the same league I'm afraid.
After a certain age, all men and women look better with shorter hair. Sadly, a few men (usually aged popstars and footballers) do not realise this. Grey mullets are not attractive unless they are fish.
