Media Discussion - 2023/24

[Big Pussy Bonpensiero]

I think one thing we have to consider is that after 16 years of this ownership group there's a generation of fans who have no conscious memory of us being anything other than a title contender.

I've been to enough Prem games in the Pep era where the atmosphere is very much just waiting for us to go 3-0 up, followed by a chorus of "you've seen the champions, now fuck off home".

It runs a little deeper than people might want to admit and some of our fans who didn't see the days where Gerard Wiekens was a big signing are a little spoiled in comparison.

Not to mention with the fan/media reaction to the FFP stuff, some fans have probably become a little vitriolic towards all other English clubs because of the shit we have to listen to.

We get treated like the evil empire, it gets to a point where some will just kind of just take that moniker and wear it.

I can’t be having any Wiekens slander.

 

[Matt Diablo]

I can’t be having any Wiekens slander.

He was one of our better players!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I can’t be having any Wiekens slander.

Good club servant.

 

[blueju]

Some dullfuckery from Liew in the Guardian for those who like to get annoyed about that sort of thing

Is he the right sort of shape to be a true Gimp?

 

[Tracking back]

Well

This fella is seriously hurting, imagine being in a job where, just a few years ago unbiased assessment of the football on offer was the prime objective. Now, these kind of “hacks” are just on line prostitutes who will sell their sole to the highest amount of click bait punters.

That is the sentence of the month.

It sums up the media in this country perfectly.

I would also hazard a guess that is also one of reasons they've become so bitter. Not just because MCFC are front and centre in the premier league but because they know they've let themselves down professionally.

The real problem for the majority of these hacks is coming around the track. At some point (heaven forbid) MCFC will framed by the prevailing media in the same sycophantic way the rags and Liverpool have been over the years.

That will leave at least six (off the top of my head) of them looking elsewhere for gainful employment.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Didn't she just - fumbled around "issues that have still to be settled" or along those lines, it was a really painful watch!

Football Focus has been a painful watch since Bob Wilson left

 

[peter.evans]

Football Focus has been a painful watch since Bob Wilson left

Bring back Sam Leach !

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I think one thing we have to consider is that after 16 years of this ownership group there's a generation of fans who have no conscious memory of us being anything other than a title contender.

I've been to enough Prem games in the Pep era where the atmosphere is very much just waiting for us to go 3-0 up, followed by a chorus of "you've seen the champions, now fuck off home".

It runs a little deeper than people might want to admit and some of our fans who didn't see the days where Gerard Wiekens was a big signing are a little spoiled in comparison.

Not to mention with the fan/media reaction to the FFP stuff, some fans have probably become a little vitriolic towards all other English clubs because of the shit we have to listen to.

We get treated like the evil empire, it gets to a point where some will just kind of just take that moniker and wear it.

You could also argue that we have not been truly shit for a very long time, more than 20 years. We had excellent football under Keegan, Royle, and Sven. Just one poor season with Pearce and that was a mid table PL year.

 

[Tracking back]

I think one thing we have to consider is that after 16 years of this ownership group there's a generation of fans who have no conscious memory of us being anything other than a title contender.

I've been to enough Prem games in the Pep era where the atmosphere is very much just waiting for us to go 3-0 up, followed by a chorus of "you've seen the champions, now fuck off home".

It runs a little deeper than people might want to admit and some of our fans who didn't see the days where Gerard Wiekens was a big signing are a little spoiled in comparison.

Not to mention with the fan/media reaction to the FFP stuff, some fans have probably become a little vitriolic towards all other English clubs because of the shit we have to listen to.

We get treated like the evil empire, it gets to a point where some will just kind of just take that moniker and wear it.

Spot on J.

That is such an accurate assessment of where we are right now.

It's strange in a way because despite our continued success I feel sorry for said generation because they'll probably never know what it's like to have gallows humour.

Which was a badge I was happy to wear.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

I can’t be having any Wiekens slander.

Wieks was a lovely player - bit like Horlick, if they weren't continuously towing a piano on their backs and had half a yard would have been playing at a far higher level than we were at the time they joined..........