Radio Leicester coverage

[Heskey2011]

14 hours ago, AmyLGK said:

I'm on the football forum next Monday... let's just hope we beat Everton... 😂

Ahh thats great!  Break a leg pal.

 

[Vlad the Fox]

13 hours ago, Freeman's Wharfer said:

He does this quite a lot in his interviews.

 

It very much feels like he’s figuring it out as he goes along when he has to interview. He’ll ask a lot of closed questions or “is the answer x or y” type of questions whereby he restricts the responses to his pre-determined answers or doesn’t really encourage his subject to open up.

 

But he probably is figuring it out as he goes along. He’s a young lad who’s been thrust into the main seat - and is taking it in his stride - but it doesn’t feel like he has someone more experienced mentoring him as he probably needs.

 

On the coverage overall, I’d say we’re very lucky to have the output that we do from BBC Radio Leicester. You only have to accidentally leave the radio on post-forum or turn it on too early when there’s a strange kick-off time to hear the standard of the other shows on there. It soon becomes apparent that the football coverage is the jewel in the crown.

You only have to listen to other local stations football coverage to realise how fortunate we are to have the sports programming that we do.

[STEVIE B]

5 hours ago, dynamark said:

I can understand dropping the phone in as some of the callers were appalling.

Remember David from Thurnby Ludge who always got on .

Ian its David Im just getting on the bus to Thirnby Lodge Ian I thought the lads did well Ian  (beaten 4 nil) blah blah Ian

.......wasn't there a fella called David from Coalville too ? Heard him on 606 also. Regular caller on both from recollection. 

Edited 2 November 2022 by STEVIE B

[kingkisnorbo]

4 minutes ago, STEVIE B said:

.......wasn't there a fella called David from Coalville too ? Heard him on 606 also. Regular caller on both from recollection. 

I can’t remember his name for the life of me but he was on every week without fail and he was so off the mark every time it was practically entertainment. He was surely on a wind up. It might have been that bloke from Thurnby Lodge mentioned above but Dave from Coalville rings a bell. 

[kingkisnorbo]

7 hours ago, Bert said:

The biggest problem is that the lad now fronting the coverage is trying too much to be like Stringer. I kind of get it as he was taken under Stringers wing…. But implement your own style. 

I stopped listening to any of it towards the end of Stringer. Something about him really started to irk me. I’m always put off by the pretty much everything pro-club party line they follow so when I heard Piper finally saying something out of the comfort zone it was refreshing. Dropped back in a bit now and you are right, he has a remarkable likeness to Stringer, whether that be intentional or not. I think he’s alright to be fair. Nice lad by all accounts too. 

[Ian Nacho]

At least we still can have David on 5 live talking to 'Wobbeh'

Edited 2 November 2022 by Ian Nacho

[evil jack]

3 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

At least we still can have David on 5 live talking to 'Wobbeh'

“At this moment in time…” 

I kind of like him tbh 

[AmyLGK]

23 hours ago, Heskey2011 said:

Ahh thats great!  Break a leg pal.

 

Cheers - I'm really nervous! What do I really know about football! I can talk science to the media - I know that - but what it comes to football, I just watch the games and moan a lot  

Edited 3 November 2022 by AmyLGK

[ozleicester]

45 minutes ago, AmyLGK said:

I just watch the games and moan a lot 

Careful, theyll offer you a pundits job

[Sly]

It’s simple, ask short open questions when interviewing and you will get answers. 
 

It should be less interviewer and more the interviewed speaking.

 

I haven’t listen for years. 

[messerschmitt]

The Newport game is now being shown on quite a few European channels.

[Corky]

On 02/11/2022 at 13:19, kingkisnorbo said:

I can’t remember his name for the life of me but he was on every week without fail and he was so off the mark every time it was practically entertainment. He was surely on a wind up. It might have been that bloke from Thurnby Lodge mentioned above but Dave from Coalville rings a bell. 

Definitely from Coalville. Christ he was negative.

[FOXSE]

On 03/11/2022 at 08:49, AmyLGK said:

Cheers - I'm really nervous! What do I really know about football! I can talk science to the media - I know that - but what it comes to football, I just watch the games and moan a lot  

Your nerves weren't justified.

[Mint_Fox]

On 03/11/2022 at 08:49, AmyLGK said:

Cheers - I'm really nervous! What do I really know about football! I can talk science to the media - I know that - but what it comes to football, I just watch the games and moan a lot  

So just like the rest of us, but with science  😁

[dynamark]

David from Thurnby lodge managed to get on 606 at the weekend 'hello robbie its david robbie etc etc ,  Hes got some front.

[fox in the sox]

After the Forest defeat you would expect an interesting show - but again it was just Piper repeating comments and one recorded message. Apparently the texts were all a bit samey !

[1884Man]

I agree without caller's on matchdays it's rubbish. They expect you to leave voice messages. At a guess it probably got too toxic, so they stopped taking calls.

 

Piper talking for a hour then broadcasting the same old Brendan excuses gets a bit much.

 

Get them to read this!

[ceebeefox]

I get that a phone in gets very samey and boring when things are going well or when we’re in mid table obscurity, however when things are bad like now we need that forum and it would be varied albeit heated at times. I’ve known radio Leicester to stay on air longer because of the volume of calls in the past.

Also I can’t abide the commentary reruns on the game we’ve just watched or listened to, absolute time wasting when fans could be talking. We know you’ve got the technology but can you handle an old fashioned phone in?

[Collymore]

The only time I ever listen to RL is about a 20 min window after the game once returned to the car. The presenter seems to like the sound of his own voice for my liking. You're right, there's a lack of insightful calls but in the past it was more comedy than insight from what I recall. 

 

I can't work out who listens to the show now with all games being televised. Even if we got relegated to League 2 there's still a stream every week.

[Oldblueyes]

What irks me is when they dig out our goal scoring commentarys from the past against the side we are about to play against, just before kick off. You just know that is going to put the Kibosh on it

[Evington Fosse Fox]

Rubbish coverage from BBC Leic, underpinned by poor pundits. Stringer had his faults but this new guy with a double barrel name is also piss poor. 

 

Did not really hear from Matty Piper before our success,  so he was quick to join the gravy train. His summaries are also full of holes as he also sits on the fence of the time. Waste is space and limited ,.a bit like his football career 

 

[FLAN]

I don’t agree Piper sits on the fence. I think he is careful with what he says but was very vocal about Rodgers at the start of the season and his constant moaning about transfers

Owynn had clearly picked up a style from IS but on the assumption he hasn’t trained as a journalist thats all he could do really. He’s tried to improve the content with analysis sections

id love to hear him probe deeper with Rodgers as he accepts every answer at face value (or answers it in his own questions) but he is likely wary of what happened when IS got boycotted Sonia being careful 

Got to be better than Neville foulger!

Edited 16 January 2023 by FLAN
About 15 typos!

[Blue-fox]

Piper was very much Rodgers out earlier in the season, then mysteriously was replaced by Nugent for a while. 
 

The club, from what I gather, weren’t too amused. 
 

 

[funkyrobot]

2 hours ago, Evington Fosse Fox said:

Rubbish coverage from BBC Leic, underpinned by poor pundits. Stringer had his faults but this new guy with a double barrel name is also piss poor. 

 

Did not really hear from Matty Piper before our success,  so he was quick to join the gravy train. His summaries are also full of holes as he also sits on the fence of the time. Waste is space and limited ,.a bit like his football career 

 

I think you are wrong about the two of them tbh. Matt Piper talks a great deal of sense. He’s very honest and calls out the manager, the players and questions the owner. Owynn has the challenging job of interviewing the manager after a defeat and as Strings discovered with Nige, this is never easy. Step too far and the manager will refuse to speak to them. They are both city fans and are pretty vocal on Twitter too.

[AjcW]

8 hours ago, Oldblueyes said:

What irks me is when they dig out our goal scoring commentarys from the past against the side we are about to play against, just before kick off. You just know that is going to put the Kibosh on it

You could say that about the pre match video at the KP to be honest.... feels like it's definitely time to retire that!