Media Thread 2017/18

[kaz7]

They want to get pep banned for the derby and they will try with the players on sunday,we need to play a perfect game and give them nothing to play on a loop

 

[Aytoun]

Lazy ludicrous ladyman exposes himself fully as a rag with the rubbish article on Pep today. Primary school, fake journo.

Redmond confirms Pep was merely praising him. Fake journo compares it to HT player putting both hands on Leroys face & getting red card. Pathetic.

Ban this prat from MCFC.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Why do they need local advertising if the readership is global ? Demise locally maybe but a much bigger pool of advertisers to go after if the audience changes

Because the MEN can't compete globally for advertising with much bigger players. Advertisers require a response for their adverts and the MEN audience is mostly a tiny group of elderly local readers for their printed products and lots of overseas fanboys online. These people are of little interest to advertisers.|Like all media brands the MEN also faces an increasing threat from giants like Google and Facebook. Their only chance of survival is to provide strong unique content. The last thing they should be doing is allowing fools like Sam Luckhurst to get involved in childish Twitter spats. Their content is just the same guff you can get elsewhere. How many exclusives do they get about City and United?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Lazy ludicrous ladyman exposes himself fully as a rag with the rubbish article on Pep today. Primary school, fake journo.

Redmond confirms Pep was merely praising him. Fake journo compares it to HT player putting both hands on Leroys face & getting red card. Pathetic.

Ban this prat from MCFC.

Why we do not do this with these kind of poisonous articles and pathetic journos I do not know. If they are concerned that being on the outside these second and third rate hacks are going to turn the screw we just continue the ban. To offer room and hospitality to these turds after an article aimed at delivering a ban seems not to be the way to go.

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

Headline is "Nathan Redmond denies Pep Guardiola called him a w****r, despite expert lipreader’s claims".

But, but...Nathan Redmond is a winger. Not sure why it's been treated as if it's a rude word though.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Just this " thrust an arm around Redmond’s neck and then jabbed him in the chest" makes it sound like he was assaulting him, which couldn't be further from the truth. I suggest Ducker has never played sport in his life given his interpretation of the exchange between Pep and Redmond.

But he did thrust an arm around his neck and jab him in the chest. If mourinho had done exactly the same thing and said exactly the same thing to an opposition player then I don't suppose we'd have an issue with that description. I understand how excited and emotional he was and I understand the desire to defend Pep because he is our manager and we love his enthusiasm but I thought it was a pretty poor thing for him to do tbh and if a manager came on the pitch and told one of our players how he should have played in that manner I would think he was a bit of a prick who should be managing his own players and not be interfering with ours.

 

[Rolee]

But he did thrust an arm around his neck and jab him in the chest. If mourinho had done exactly the same thing and said exactly the same thing to an opposition player then I don't suppose we'd have an issue with that description. I understand how excited and emotional he was and I understand the desire to defend Pep because he is our manager and we love his enthusiasm but I thought it was a pretty poor thing for him to do tbh and if a manager came on the pitch and told one of our players how he should have played in that manner I would think he was a bit of a prick who should be managing his own players and not be interfering with ours.

Sorry mate I don't agree, put his arm around his shoulders in a friendly way, he didn't jab him either.

Have you ever had a manager that was tactile? That would shove you to gee you up? I've come across plenty of them across sports I played growing up and they were invariably good coaches.

He was airing his frustration to Redmond because he doesn't like to see talent shackled, I think that's fair enough.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Sorry mate I don't agree, put his arm around his shoulders in a friendly way, he didn't jab him either.

Have you ever had a manager that was tactile? That would shove you to gee you up? I've come across plenty of them across sports I played growing up and they were invariably good coaches.

He was airing his frustration to Redmond because he doesn't like to see talent shackled, I think that's fair enough.

I know what he was doing and why he was doing it but I don't agree that it was fair enough at all. It doesn't really matter whether I have had a manager who is tactile because the point is that he isn't Redmond's manager. If I'd seen him being like that with Raheem, fine, he's managing his own player in a way that he thinks is going to work but he has no business managing a Southampton player and if he's going to make the point that he wanted to Redmond then he needed to do it in a much more subtle way. I actually think Pep has got away with this relatively well in the media tbh because I just don't think you can shout in an opposition player's face in front of the cameras like that and expect anything other than a huge amount of grief. And I don't think it looked a particularly friendly arm round the shoulder either. The whole thing did look aggressive. Now he was clearly saying reasonable stuff and was doing it in that way because of the adrenalin rush of the late goal but in the cold light of day I just don't think it was particularly good behaviour and if I'd seen mourinho do it to an opposition player or if I saw another manager do it to Raheem, I'd not be thinking it was all fine, I'd think it was not right. It doesn't make me think any less of Pep, we all make mistakes but I'm not having it that that is an acceptable way to be with an opposition player.

 

[Tom_mcfc]

Sorry mate I don't agree, put his arm around his shoulders in a friendly way, he didn't jab him either.

Have you ever had a manager that was tactile? That would shove you to gee you up? I've come across plenty of them across sports I played growing up and they were invariably good coaches.

He was airing his frustration to Redmond because he doesn't like to see talent shackled, I think that's fair enough.

Yes, to his own players though. He isn't Redmonds manager and for me shouldn't have behaved like he did. As others have said if Jose done that to a city player after scoring a winner in the last minute you will all be frothing from the mouth. Daft thing to do, happened in the heat of the moment and now all cleared up. Move on.

 

[SiMCFC]

Lol, even our own fans saying he was wrong, give your heads a wobble for fuck sake, he likes Redmond very much, we wanted to sign him in summer.

He was showing passion, not passion in a slating refs or Southampton for time wasting, passion for a player he respects, Redmond looked so worried about his aggressive behaviour didn't he?

 

[Rolee]

If Mourinho did it to one of ours I would wonder wtf is going on but if the explanation was as innocent as this was then I wouldn't bat an eyelid. I certainly wouldn't be calling for a ban.

 

[moomba]

What rule is he supposed to have broken?

If Jose did it I would think he was a bit of a cock. And that would be the end of it.

What next, a ban for aggressive walking?

 

[Lancet Fluke]

If Mourinho did it to one of ours I would wonder wtf is going on but if the explanation was as innocent as this was then I wouldn't bat an eyelid. I certainly wouldn't be calling for a ban.

That's fair enough, at least you're consistent. But let's be honest, there would be a huge amount of blues going absolutely apeshit if that did happen. I look forward to mourinho shouting "you're a brilliant player, I want to see you hoofing it up the pitch more..." in Silva's face a week on Sunday.

 

[Thekinkygoat]

If Mourinho did it to one of ours I would wonder wtf is going on but if the explanation was as innocent as this was then I wouldn't bat an eyelid. I certainly wouldn't be calling for a ban.

It's funny, they tell us anyone can do Guardiola's job with the money he's spent and the squad he has, but at the same time they are desperate to get him banned. Why? Surely his assistant can do his job for a few games if they are correct?

Saying the above, I don't give a fuck if Klopp or Mourinho get banned or not, I never see them change a game. Mourinho's assistant can tell them to hit long balls on 70 minutes to Fellaini and Klopp's assistant can shout and get spittle on the 4th official.

 

[Rolee]

That's fair enough, at least you're consistent. But let's be honest, there would be a huge amount of blues going absolutely apeshit if that did happen. I look forward to mourinho shouting "you're a brilliant player, I want to see you hoofing it up the pitch more..." in Silva's face a week on Sunday.

lol

 

[Mid Wales blue]

What rule is he supposed to have broken?

If Jose did it I would think he was a bit of a cock. And that would be the end of it.

What next, a ban for aggressive walking?

It wouldn’t be the first time!

 

[waspish]

Taking my blue tinted glasses of Pep shouldn’t of done what he did we know he is animated person even though he apparently saying positive things to Redmond he shouldn’t of done it just because we know how the media would behave.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Taking my blue tinted glasses of Pep shouldn’t of done what he did we know he is animated person even though he apparently saying positive things to Redmond he shouldn’t of done it just because we know how the media would behave.

erm...no. Pep can do and say as he pleases and the media can f off.

 

[che_don_john]

I feel a bit sorry for Redmond. It put him in an awkward position; in rightfully telling truth about what Pep said to him he is then faced with a dilemma - say that he didn't agree with him (which would be lying) or admit that he was flattered and perhaps agreed with him (which would make things awkward with his manager, and might make him seem a little a bit of a prima donna to Southampton fans).

So with that in mind I think it was wrong for Pep to do that. I believe he had the best intentions and that his mannerisms were simply just him being pumped up (understandably so), but it kind of undermined Pellegrino and certainly put Redmond in a tricky situation. As others have already said, if an opposition manager did the same thing to one of our own players there'd be a lot of angry blues.

But I do agree that the media scrutiny has been ridiculous (though not surprising), and what The Sun did was typically abhorrent. Redmond said he's fine with it so that's it. We should be talking about what a great goal it was and what way to win a game.

 

[Thekinkygoat]

erm...no. Pep can do and say as he pleases and the media can f off.

This, fuck the media, they're fucking idiots.