But 4 goals, they say that it goes on goals and how important the game is, so us being a top ten club, Hull battling relegation and the goals should see us not last I think, still this is the BBC
Match of the Day - April 4th 1.Arsenal v Liverpool, 2.West Brom v QPR, 3.Chelsea v Stoke, 4.Leicester v West Ham, 5.Man Utd v Aston Villa, 6.Swansea v Hull, 7.Everton v Southampton. So Leicester v West Ham is more attractive.......
Yes it does imo as I have stated above, as motd is shown worldwide on the BBC , being last on means that we are being disadvantaged as a lot will switch off before the end as they get the fill of Man Utd et al who are always at the start. That being so then how can we spread the word of the smaller teams that are always there. Plus it's a bug bear of mine
Why? Plenty of more important things to get your knickers in a twist over. It's no big deal really is it? Who gives a flying **** if some Malaysians in Kuala Lumpur have switched off? Foreign audiences are all glory hunters anyway with a few exceptions. Those who are interested in the whole of the Prem will make the effort to watch, whereas those who are plastic won't. Plenty of ways to record MOTD - I often watch it on Sunday morning from my Sky Box (other good methods are available too, folks). We get enough exposure by actually being in this League and we play the big boys twice each anyway. I do think the media are anti-Swans at times and I agree that it is mildly irritating (I wouldn't put it higher than that) to see us down the list but that allows us to get on with things quietly without fuss and I'm OK with that. To be fair most pundits are very praiseworthy of us when we've deserved it.
Nothing in my life to get my knickers in the twist with, so this bug bear is mine. Foreign audiences are really important for our club how else do you expect us to grow as a club? You are not going to get someone say from Newcastle supporting our club unless they have some connection, those plastic fans from abroad maybe will get their plastic out if they know we exist.
We grow as a Club by improving and winning things because that's how you get a following. Not many footie fans worldwide wouldn't know we exist. No offence but I don't understand why you think this is an issue. It's a mild irritation. Ffs if we're in this League in 2016-17 we'll be getting a share of £5.1Bn. I wouldn't worry about some plastics in Asia, mate. You're entitled to have a bugbear over it but I don't get it. Sorry.
Each to their own, we won't grow as a club in this country beyond our catchment area, very few support us in the UK in comparison to other clubs. Our growth area is outside this country, why do you think the u19s are in South Africa right now? The BBC pisses me off not just because of the motd thing, but they have just closed a bbc studio in swansea at the same time investing £100m in cardiff, they think that there is nothing more in Wales than there. Of course the BBC in cardiff are run by cardiff fans and they have nothing to say about our club, so they mostly try and brush things under the carpet, the satisfaction I get out of this is that it irritates them more than mine.
You'll never change it Jager, but what I focus on in the bigger picture, which is the Premier League revenue stream which we are now tapped into, we came up at the right time and are now riding the crest of a wave, which is getting bigger every year, and I'm sure our Board and Huw will develop our club so that we will remain gate crashers at the top table, we have grown very well and will continue to grow as the revenue streams increase, and hopefully the club will start to look at other commercial streams to enhance our growth, you cannot keep a good man down, and we are that good man......
Foreign money is very important, it shouldn't be dismissed so easily because they may be termed as "plastics". No matter how much cash comes from the Premier League itself, a business model built on an income stream of just TV money is dangerous. Swansea must build a strong commercial business and that is not going to happen without these "plastics", that is fact and that is what the biggest clubs realise hence the numerous tours to the USA and Asia. They don't go there for the nice weather. MOTD is an elitist tabloid television these days, they are very heavily skewed towards six club and have little interest in trying to promote the other fourteen. The BBC is supposedly impartial but we all know that is not true on so many different topics, and football just so happens to be one such topic where it's bias shows through.
I agree that ALL tv channels are big club-centric. Even Southampton haven't had the coverage they deserve this season. You can only change that by winning things regularly and improving season on season. If you're an entertaining team and are successful you'll get more coverage eventually, but it's unlikely to ever be at the level of the Man Us and Chelseas of this world. Don't forget we are involved in 12 games per season against the top 6 that are well covered worldwide. I understand the frustration but the fact remains the big clubs have the most followers worldwide and tv is bound to pander to that. It's not the job of tv companies to 'promote' clubs is it? They play to their audience, and face facts - we're a small fish in a big pond.
Football coverage, MOTD, TV, media follows the money, it has always been this way. Due to this MOTD and press coverage is dominated by the news and exploits of the richest clubs who in the UK are the prem leagues 'eternal' top 4: Chelsea, The Manchesters and Arsenal; with added unnecessary, bloated, coverage of Liverpool wherever they fall in the league. All other clubs, including us, are story fillers as far as the media is concerned. I doubt it would make a spec of difference to us if it was otherwise. I'm pretty sure investors don't rely on MOTD as an advisory to invest, they have to look in the small ads of the evening post for that.
