5waller5 Posted 13 August 2015 Posted 13 August 2015 Radio Leicester have people by the balls, you can't listen any other way. Listening figures I'm sure will stay steady no matter who commentates. If people don't like the service he provides then they are well within their rights to tell Radio Leicester that. He and Radio Leicester should take it as constructive critisism and try to improve their service.... as it is I don't think they take anything on board. They may listen but certainly don't seem to act, if they did people wouldn't STILL be bringing up the same critisisms that they were three years ago. In fact it only seems to have got worse. I'm not sure that's all Stringers fault, I've said before I wouldn't be surprised if his approach is actively encouraged (Jason Bourne seemed to start following his lead over the last year or so with regards shit stirring). We live in an era where visits to websites, clicks, texts, calls are what matter. Controversy, sound bites, red top style headlines, which is the route they have taken are all standard click bate... there is a reason the daily mail website is one of the most visited papers in the word (20 million more hits than the New York times in Jan 2014!!!!). We now see the same approach from the mercury as real reporting goes out the window in favour of amassing as much website traffic as they can. It's a sad indictment of the times we live in I'm afraid. For once, Babylon, I couldn't agree more!!!
Bettsj2 Posted 13 August 2015 Posted 13 August 2015 If you show Radio Leicester a petition with 30,000 names on it from City fans saying they dont like the way Stringer does his job, he'd probably go. The problem is, it's a 50/50 split whether people like him or not which it would be with any other person doing the job. These polls of a couple of hundred people mean nothing.
bluesbrothers Posted 13 August 2015 Posted 13 August 2015 Spot on Babylon. You're not wrong about the Mercury either - the amount of clickbait they churn out is embarrasing these days - combined with their advert-ridden website, it's a sure-fire money maker for them though, and therein lies the problem. Radio Leicester have a monopoly, and that's what makes the behaviour of Stringer and increasingly Bourne worse: it's one thing to tell people to tune out, but when they're A: paying a license fee which maintains their local station and B: unable to get live sports updates from anywhere else without paying more for the (also shite) FoxesPlayer, they have every right to demand that the service improves if they don't like it. The vast majority of those complaining about coverage see Stringer as the problem, and so the BBC should remedy that unless they can prove definitively that the majority of listeners actually like his coverage.They never will, of course, thanks to a mixture of institutional siege mentality and a self-righteous placing of themselves on an undeserved moral pedestal as a public organisation. They think they're untouchable, and worryingly, they're right to an extent. That isn't unique to Radio Leicester, it's a cancer that's eaten away at the BBC as a whole for decades.
davieG Posted 13 August 2015 Posted 13 August 2015 Radio Leicester have people by the balls, you can't listen any other way. Listening figures I'm sure will stay steady no matter who commentates. If people don't like the service he provides then they are well within their rights to tell Radio Leicester that. He and Radio Leicester should take it as constructive critisism and try to improve their service.... as it is I don't think they take anything on board. They may listen but certainly don't seem to act, if they did people wouldn't STILL be bringing up the same critisisms that they were three years ago. In fact it only seems to have got worse. I'm not sure that's all Stringers fault, I've said before I wouldn't be surprised if his approach is actively encouraged (Jason Bourne seemed to start following his lead over the last year or so with regards shit stirring). We live in an era where visits to websites, clicks, texts, calls are what matter. Controversy, sound bites, red top style headlines, which is the route they have taken are all standard click bate... there is a reason the daily mail website is one of the most visited papers in the word (20 million more hits than the New York times in Jan 2014!!!!). We now see the same approach from the mercury as real reporting goes out the window in favour of amassing as much website traffic as they can. It's a sad indictment of the times we live in I'm afraid. RL existence depends on it. Where as their funding used to be based on them providing a community service it's now all about numbers of listeners so who can blame them. To some extent it's down to public complaining about the licence fee. So they've had the same issues for the daytime phone in programmes where listeners were encouraged to ring in about any issues that bothered them this obviously didn't create enough traffic so they changed it and the station now decides what subjects will be discussed and they obviously pick the most controversial. If there's nothing too controversial they're not averse to creating some.
Crazy Kop Corner Posted 13 August 2015 Posted 13 August 2015 The bloke went on 'The Apprentice' which is all you need to know to understand his mentality. His santimonous tone on Monday nights phone in was as ridiculous as it was unbelievable. Some people will find him entertaining where others will understandably think he is an utter tool.
Rich Fox Posted 13 August 2015 Posted 13 August 2015 Keep texting lets get this arse licking spineless self obsessed arsehole out of a job. He is up there with Dennis Wise as the most hated man in Leicester, get rid while we have the chance. And the BBC are a corrupt organisation who support paedophiles
FLINTHAMFC Posted 13 August 2015 Posted 13 August 2015 Do people still listen to the phone in and the games. Stopped ages ago. The good thing about the BBC is we are not forced to listen to it. The bad thing is we are forced to pay for it. It is like a religion it has twisted and confused views. If you swear on the radio they pull you up like a shot......unless you are rich and famous. They bleat on about FIFA being corrupt. Then take money off poor people, buy the rights to Wimbledon and then give out expensive free tickets to rich and famous people. When Oldham were going to employ Ched Evans one broadcaster spoke to a sponsor of Oldham and said if Evans was signed and the company didn't remove the sponsorship they were endorsing the rape of women. However the same logic is not applied to convicted drink driver Graeme Swann and convicted speedster Robbie Savage who are directly employed by the BBC. Do the BBC endorse drink driving and speeding? They never stop barracking companies for putting prices up because it affects the poor but are still more than happy to rape the best part of £150 a year from the very hands of those poor people. If they don't pay they take them to court and put them in jail. I could go on all day.
mozartfox Posted 17 August 2015 Posted 17 August 2015 Skinner now trying to invite offers for Riyad. WTF
Webbo Posted 17 August 2015 Posted 17 August 2015 Skinner now trying to invite offers for Riyad. WTF Yes that's exactly what he was doing and I'm sure that it wouldn't have occurred to any other club until he said it.
Jimmy Posted 17 August 2015 Posted 17 August 2015 Skinner now trying to invite offers for Riyad. WTF Please stop slandering my families name by linking it to that ****
Tuna Posted 17 August 2015 Posted 17 August 2015 Shit stirring again Ian Stringer @StringerSport Great to see Max Gradel playing in The Premier League. So so talented at #LCFC & sold too soon, & cheaply in my view. Good luck to him
The Horse's Mouth Posted 17 August 2015 Posted 17 August 2015 I don't think that's shit stirring really, just an idiotic opinion.
Jimmy Posted 17 August 2015 Posted 17 August 2015 I agree re Gradel he left on the cheap as he fell Foul of Pearson because he wanted to play like Knockaert and Mahrez were allowed to, in his first spell Pearson was defensive with dour football at times
CORNFOX68 Posted 17 August 2015 Posted 17 August 2015 Put aside the pearson and any other fallouts stringer has had basically he,s got to be the worst commentator ever when alan young was his co commentator he would talk about what sandwich had alan young got, the journey to the game, how often did he shout out its a penalty and an offside would be given he never gets it right, in the end i would change to the opposing teams commentator and get a proper commentator telling you what is actually going on on the pitch, he just seems to like winding people up
Larry_LCFC Posted 17 August 2015 Posted 17 August 2015 Stringer can't do or say anything without getting accused How is that shit stirring? Grow up
Tielemans63 Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 If you don't like his commentary just mute your radio.....
Collymore Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 Shit stirring again Ian Stringer @StringerSport Great to see Max Gradel playing in The Premier League. So so talented at #LCFC & sold too soon, & cheaply in my view. Good luck to him He's 100% right on this one.
kingcarr21 Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 Shit stirring again Ian Stringer @StringerSport Great to see Max Gradel playing in The Premier League. So so talented at #LCFC & sold too soon, & cheaply in my view. Good luck to him Fair assessment imo. How exactly is that shit stirring?
Ashley Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 Gradel had a bad attitude and was hanging around with the wrong people hence why he was sold. Pearson didn't want players like that. You can have all the skill in the world but if your attitude is wrong then you are useless.
dayday Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 Gradel had a bad attitude and was hanging around with the wrong people hence why he was sold. Pearson didn't want players like that. You can have all the skill in the world but if your attitude is wrong then you are useless. I thought it was personal problems?
Tielemans63 Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 Never understood the Gradel love. He looked decent for us and has gone on to have a decent career. But it's not like we've missed him or struggled without him. Good luck to him at Bournemouth but I honest don't think he'd have been close to being in the first team these past three seasons and would likely have been sold anyway.
Steven Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 Gradel was absolute muck last night Quite. Bang average. He would not get in our current squad.
Collymore Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 Quite. Bang average. He would not get in our current squad. He looked very disciplined and i thought his defensive play was solid. He needs to fall out with a teammate before we see the best of him.
Thracian Posted 18 August 2015 Posted 18 August 2015 Gradel had a bad attitude and was hanging around with the wrong people hence why he was sold. Pearson didn't want players like that. You can have all the skill in the world but if your attitude is wrong then you are useless. I never noticed Gradel having a bad attitude. Many's the time he had "no idea" why he'd been left out of a team or squad. Part of the reason Pearson's no longer manager here is that he couldn't seem to cope with the requirements of being a Premiership manager...either its broader responsibilities and, perhaps too, with people who saw things differently to the way he did. Stringer's an example and perhaps our Director of Football, Jon Rudkin too. Yes, Stringer's both an irritant sometimes, and an ambitious young journalist determined to to get himself noticed most of the time. But there's nothing unusual in that. Premiership managers meet lots of such people and have to smile and cope with them. Media relations are part of the job but, for all that he was told by many people on many occasions that he needed to handle things better, he clearly didn't listen or change and I can only imagine him being the same with others he didn't naturally get along with. I don't pretend to know how he got on with Gradel but he was never the best at bringing young players through - and that includes his own son given the way his career at Leicester came to an end through stupidity and irresponsibity. But I do believe Gradel was one of the best talents to emerge from our Academy and given the success of his time under Rudkin's charge - much of which I watched in person - I saw no signs of a bad attitude or of a kid not being able to get on with his coaches or team-mates. Quite the contrary, I saw a real unit among the under 18s at that time and a team that won for fun. The only "attitude" Gradel needed to change was his ability to defend. He did show a willingness in the end but his efforts did make his team-mates wince at times although he's improved considerably since. The impression I got was that Pearson couldn't wait and didn't effectively oversee the transition of Gradel from Academy product to fully-fledged senior, although Gradel's family loss and inevitably changed circumstances clearly played a part. What we lost was the most exciting goalscoring winger we've had at the club in modern times. He was the classic uncut diamond just waiting for the right craftsman to bring out all his facets. But Pearson wasn't that craftsman and I'm not at all sure he got the best out of Knockaert either or even Mahrez given the latter's mesmerising form so far this season.
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