The 'back to Burgess bit' was me Castro. Whilst I am a fan of football I also follow rugby union, and I felt quite cheesed off about the smug nonsense he was spouting, and very disappointed that Burgess had quit. Though he's right about the vast majority of serious RU journos and I read them all. Unfortunately, as usual he was doing a radio version of them, and trying out his clumsy clunky 'click bait' wireless act.
Onto my point, actually a croaky voiced Brucie and Phil Brown were also on tonight and whilst I was waiting to speak I asked if anyone had called up to discuss city and the game... evidently not. Whilst I completely agree with you about him banging on about RL (though editorially speaking over the week it actually balances out), the point is, if fans rang in with a point about city they would get on. If they, or you asked about getting certain guests in from the world of football, they would be onto it. You can't blame them totally for this. I know Pete Smurthwaite well and he chairs a football club and supports Hull FC etc etc, he has no bias either way. He can talk turkey on football or rugby all night.
I remember working on programmes like this years ago and it's hard to get folks to call in - unless something controversial takes place - and then to be avoid putting the idiots through (there is no signal delay on Humberside, as there is with TalkSport. If I was Humberside, I would take the programme off and wait and see how long people moaned that they don't cover sport. I'll tell you this, knowing the state of play with the BBC at the minute, once it has gone it won't ever come back. When I lived in Lincoln, there was NO sports programme at all on an evening. When I covered shifts as a freelance at BBC Lincolnshire, I suggested doing what Humberside did and I was told '... yup...tried it...but there's not enough passion or range of popular sports in Lincolnshire to sustain it'. Yet Lincolnshire is a predominantly and fiercely football county. Look, I am wittering on now and actually not disagreeing with you, but here's an idea: why doesn't someone from this forum put themselves up to go on there for a fans debate/discussion? You for instance?? A sort of things we think type of idea. Hogarth would certainly be up for that.
