Transfer Rumours Summer '22 Transfer Thread

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GLP said:
I’ve met Burnsy previously quite a few years ago. Genuinely a nice bloke and I don’t mind his commentary at all. He’s better than most the local radio commentators other fans have to suffer. Whoever did the commentary, someone would have something to complain about, no doubt. There’s more to life.
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I’ve been on his breakfast show a few times and it’s difficult to get a word in lol he loved a cpl of my poems so I’ll always be grateful for that….
 
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SydneyTiger14 said:
If Baz isn't doing anything in order to stay on the club's good side he's not a very good journo. May as well get a job at the club as a PR officer.
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What?

That's how every local journo in the country operates. They're all briefed by the clubs and some things they get asked to not report on immediately.
 
Shark Sports said:
What?

That's how every local journo in the country operates. They're all briefed by the clubs and some things they get asked to not report on immediately.
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Not quite what my post said was it? Of course journos get briefed by clubs, I'm aware of how journalism works. My point is that if he's not going to criticise the club in the future for fear of losing his inside word from the club then he's not a very good journalist. We'll see if and when that time comes.

As others have said, it's just funny that he's supposedly getting the inside word on all these transfers and then not even getting to report them as an exclusive. Seems a rather redundant position to be in. Even the Forest CB is just him literally saying "As per this Turkish journo who broke the story".
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
Not quite what my post said was it? Of course journos get briefed by clubs, I'm aware of how journalism works. My point is that if he's not going to criticise the club in the future for fear of losing his inside word from the club then he's not a very good journalist. We'll see if and when that time comes.

As others have said, it's just funny that he's supposedly getting the inside word on all these transfers and then not even getting to report them as an exclusive. Seems a rather redundant position to be in. Even the Forest CB is just him literally saying "As per this Turkish journo who broke the story".
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But all local papers are in the same boat. They aren't usually particularly critical either, especially not of the ownership of the club. Thinking back to when Phil Bucks left for The Athletic and then a piece came out completely slaughtering Ehab. He'd never of been allowed to write that for the HDM but the info he had would have been from his time there. It's just a balance.

It's a difficult job, but Baz is the bridge between the fans and the club. It doesn't really matter if he gets the transfer scoops, I can't remember the last time the HDM actually named a player we were actively trying to sign out of the blue. It's usually broken elsewhere first.

We've seen over the previous years that the players and management didn't want to talk to Burnsy, so they didn't. And obviously there was a long HDM ban too. It's all well and good complaining that he's not a good journalist because he can't be critical but if by being overly critical he loses access, then all it does is make his job harder.

If you want to go and write really critical pieces then you'll have to go and work for a national paper, they can get away with it as they don't need the regular access the local media does. Since coming in Baz has done a really good job too and he's not had it particularly easy at the start either
 
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Shark Sports said:
But all local papers are in the same boat. They aren't usually particularly critical either, especially not of the ownership of the club. Thinking back to when Phil Bucks left for The Athletic and then a piece came out completely slaughtering Ehab. He'd never of been allowed to write that for the HDM but the info he had would have been from his time there. It's just a balance.

It's a difficult job, but Baz is the bridge between the fans and the club. It doesn't really matter if he gets the transfer scoops, I can't remember the last time the HDM actually named a player we were actively trying to sign out of the blue. It's usually broken elsewhere first.

We've seen over the previous years that the players and management didn't want to talk to Burnsy, so they didn't. And obviously there was a long HDM ban too. It's all well and good complaining that he's not a good journalist because he can't be critical but if by being overly critical he loses access, then all it does is make his job harder.

If you want to go and write really critical pieces then you'll have to go and work for a national paper, they can get away with it as they don't need the regular access the local media does. Since coming in Baz has done a really good job too and he's not had it particularly easy at the start either
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It was a simple observation that he seems to have an ear close to Acun and is getting a lot of information - even though some of it is then portrayed inaccurately (such as Tufan's fee being 4m when it was a fee potentially rising to 4m) and whether he will be critical of anything from the club (which, yes, Birmingham was at times). You're getting rather defensive of Baz.

The entire notion that journos shouldn't be critical for fear of a banning order is a terrible state of affairs and goes against the entire concept.
 
Shark Sports said:
But all local papers are in the same boat. They aren't usually particularly critical either, especially not of the ownership of the club. Thinking back to when Phil Bucks left for The Athletic and then a piece came out completely slaughtering Ehab. He'd never of been allowed to write that for the HDM but the info he had would have been from his time there. It's just a balance.

It's a difficult job, but Baz is the bridge between the fans and the club. It doesn't really matter if he gets the transfer scoops, I can't remember the last time the HDM actually named a player we were actively trying to sign out of the blue. It's usually broken elsewhere first.

We've seen over the previous years that the players and management didn't want to talk to Burnsy, so they didn't. And obviously there was a long HDM ban too. It's all well and good complaining that he's not a good journalist because he can't be critical but if by being overly critical he loses access, then all it does is make his job harder.

If you want to go and write really critical pieces then you'll have to go and work for a national paper, they can get away with it as they don't need the regular access the local media does. Since coming in Baz has done a really good job too and he's not had it particularly easy at the start either
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Phil was very critical of the Allams in the HDM, that’s why they got banned from the stadium.
 
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GLP said:
..... He’s better than most the local radio commentators other fans have to suffer.
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Agree...I recall Vikings attempts. Geez, they should have employed me, that's how bad they were. I'm sure they used a kid as commentator who had never seen a game of football in his life. It was cringe worthy bad. At least Burnsey knows the names of the players and what to say.
 
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