Ian Stringer

[Hammo]

Some of the character assassination on here is outrageous.

 

I rarely listen to RL - normally only in the car on the way home from a game - but I’ve always found his unbridled passion for the club mirrors my own and some of his goal commentaries and interviews are spot on.

[ozleicester]

3 hours ago, The_77 said:

I’m waiting for a thread about Foxes Player being down on Saturday!

Im sure i got three years of "Player" for one payment... it went down so often they just kept extending the credits.

How much the world has changed since those days.... I was struggling...really struggling to even listen to a game, now i can watch a preseason game in high def.

Stringer seems to have come a long way since those days.

[Unabomber]

Remember when Pearson came back for his second stint as manager and in his press conference just stared at Stringer and said “Hello Ian” in a menacing voice. Doesn’t sound funny when written down but was a good moment. 

[Wymsey]

24 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Remember when Pearson came back for his second stint as manager and in his press conference just stared at Stringer and said “Hello Ian” in a menacing voice. Doesn’t sound funny when written down but was a good moment. 

It's well-documented that they didn't get on, very different personalities.

Am sure @UpTheLeagueFox knows about their working relationship at the time..

Edited 11 August 2021 by Wymsey

[ftfagos]

Must admit I’ve never listened to the bloke but if someone could tell me if he’s better or worse than Nicky Campbell then I’ll know how much to detest him.

[Carl the Llama]

Always found him a bit cringe and then there was that whole neck gesture affair with Pearson which was just horrible behaviour.  If he's a decent guy irl then fair play to him but I'll still do anything I can to avoid being stuck having to listen to his commentary on a matchday.

[Corky]

47 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Remember when Pearson came back for his second stint as manager and in his press conference just stared at Stringer and said “Hello Ian” in a menacing voice. Doesn’t sound funny when written down but was a good moment. 

 

Pretty much from that start. No menace or stare, just a "I'm back, get used to it Strings" smile.

[SemperEadem]

3 hours ago, evil jack said:

I was going to say this but you beat me to it.

The 'phone in' format on a local level is just dreadful (606 is bad enough, and the less said about Talk Sport the better).

 

Blew my mind when I moved to Sheffield that they have the equivalent on the Monday night forum every single night on Radio Sheffield. I get that there are two clubs plus your Rotherhams etc but wow every night was a lot.

Edited 11 August 2021 by SemperEadem

[Carl the Llama]

2 minutes ago, Corky said:

 

Pretty much from that start. No menace or stare, just a "I'm back, get used to it Strings" smile.

Listening to him say all that with the knowledge of what's happened since... shut up you're the one crying

[Unabomber]

10 minutes ago, Corky said:

 

Pretty much from that start. No menace or stare, just a "I'm back, get used to it Strings" smile.

I like to think of it as a menacing smile 

[Dan]

Strikes me as the type who'd go out in the third week on the Apprentice

[Bert]

1 hour ago, AKCJ said:

Nobody is denying the fact that 99% of listeners only know who he is because of his voice on the radio, either.

 

 

I get that also. But if no-one knew who he was and you somehow just befriended him and got chatting you’d walk away thinking, ah he was sound. 
 

I’ve met a lot of people from here - who beforehand, just from reading their posts that I’ve thought “what a twat” but actually got to meet them and talk personally and perceptions change. 
 

 

[NewEnglandFox]

It's always popular to hate the local commentator. I listen to him Mondays, Thursdays, and after games and am sure tons more of his detractors do than would admit.

 

That being said, why he is still trying to do the champions league gag? And Oweynn spent a bit too much time for my liking trying to throw the ref under the bus for Fofana's leg break. Sure a more competent ref might have been able to reel in the game from getting out of hand but it was preseason and we've seen some of the better refs in this country blatantly fail to protect the players before. For example a certain Spurs-Chelsea match finished 2-2 with 22 men on the pitch.

 

But we all know radio lives and dies on call ins. Don't take the bait.

Edited 11 August 2021 by NewEnglandFox

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

Blue my mind when I moved to Sheffield that they have the equivalent on the Monday night forum every single night on Radio Sheffield. I get that there are two clubs plus yours Rotherhams etc but wow every night was a lot.

Same in Birmingham, although tbf 80% of midweeks at least one of the teams is on (like even Walsall in the Paint Pot) 

[Raj]

1 hour ago, Bert said:

I get that also. But if no-one knew who he was and you somehow just befriended him and got chatting you’d walk away thinking, ah he was sound. 
 

I’ve met a lot of people from here - who beforehand, just from reading their posts that I’ve thought “what a twat” but actually got to meet them and talk personally and perceptions change. 
 

 

Cheers @Bert

 

Love you xx

[Raj]

I met him after the Premier league victory night AND the Vichai disaster and on both times he was very accommodating, down to earth and just a standard decent bloke.

Didnt really come across as an arsehole who would go on the apprentice!

[Jimmy]

people used to say the same about Jason Bourne as they do about Owynn, he seems to have a decent rep at TalkSport now though

[Angus Scott]

Slightly off topic but I switched on Radio Leicester earlier to catch the 5pm news (wouldn't contemplate listening to anything else on there, it's truly awful). Anyway the newsreader, who regularly is RL man, says "here is the news for East Midlands" & spent more time talking about events in Nottingham than Leicester & the sports news only featured news about Forest. 

 

He then handed back to the presenter called Jack (again truly awful), who I know has been on RL. He proceeds to say that his show is covering all the East Midlands & that within the next 1/2 hour would be previewing Forest's home game tonight & speaking to their fans about attending a game again.

 

With all the cutbacks the BBC are making it makes me wonder if RL will have to cover all the East Midlands teams (similar to East Midlands Today). This would obviously be most unsatisfactory.

[sacreblueits442]

27 minutes ago, Raj said:

I met him after the Premier league victory night AND the Vichai disaster and on both times he was very accommodating, down to earth and just a standard decent bloke.

Didnt really come across as an arsehole who would go on the apprentice!

 ...just out of interest, how is it you were in the vicinity on both occasions !!!

[sacreblueits442]

23 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

people used to say the same about Jason Bourne as they do about Owynn, he seems to have a decent rep at TalkSport now though

... Bourne was the front runner for Owen, very much an extension of Stringer!!!

  Glad he does not carry the burden of Stringers wing man any longer.

[Parafox]

5 pages of replies in 6 hours about a nondescript commentator. Must be some kind of record.

The in-jokes with "Pipes" are excruciating as a form of banter. He undoubtedly is passionate about our team, so is @fuchsntf but I wouldn't have him commentating. (No offence). 

If R5 are commentating I'd rather listen to them than Stringer, despite the interruptions to briefly go live to another match where there's been a goal.

Piper is a good analyser of happenings on the pitch and is probably more knowledgeable about non-LCFC player than Stringer.

Also IS didn't do so well on The Apprentice a few years ago. Although, to be fair, that's nothing to do with him as a commentator but he still comes across as non-descript IMO

 

https://youtu.be/FgnvA0vZu6s

 

 

[The_77]

Looks like Vestegaard is a done deal. Close thread. 

[South Shire Fox]

3 hours ago, Unabomber said:

Remember when Pearson came back for his second stint as manager and in his press conference just stared at Stringer and said “Hello Ian” in a menacing voice. Doesn’t sound funny when written down but was a good moment. 

I always remember Stringer interviewing Pearson after a pre season game and Pearson telling another journo trying to butt in ‘wait your ****ing turn’ loud and clear on Radio Leicester 😂

[MarriedaLeicesterGirl]

22 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

people used to say the same about Jason Bourne as they do about Owynn, he seems to have a decent rep at TalkSport now though

It's all about the market size. Leicester is just a smaller market than a lot of UK cities, and Radio Leicester is certainly below the national channels. If you are of a certain age, you work in Leicester to move up and out. Bourne was here for a great sports story, which he used to pad his CV, build contacts, etc. But Leicester is the market where you really learn the trade, and then move on (unless you are older and no longer ambitious or you have a local niche). Leicester could be winning the treble every year, but it wouldn't change the market size problem for local broadcasters.

 

Jason Bourne, and Owynn for that matter, should suck a bit at the job when they are at RL -- it's still that phase in their career. Stringer's career has stalled, and either he is trying to be a "personality" in an effort to get his move, or he has just found his level, and we are stuck with him for the next 30 years.

 

(And I say this without any bile: I worked in radio broadcasting for 15 years, doing English language news in a foreign market. Let's just say that was my level and I didn't seek to go into broadcasting when I moved to the UK because I just wasn't good enough.)

[Livid]

He seems a decent bloke but his persona and commentary style on RL is a bit of a rollercoaster for me.  
 

There’s some points where I think he’s fantastic, usually when he’s focusing on the actual football,  and there are other times where I feel like turning off.  
 

I know he’s a Leicester boy but I just wish he would tone it down a little, other stations have commentators who are fans and aren’t quite so exuberant. 
 

Nothing against Matt or Owen but it’s almost like he needs an impartial straight man by his side.