Lucky Toma said:
FBloke –
Here’s what I wrote on an X-Factor forum a couple of weeks back.
‘The phone has barely stopped ringing this evening following the latest elimination.
Rest assured X-fans there are plenty more contentious decisions and controversy ahead.
And the individuals who are responsible for them are aware that such decisions will cause upset and disharmony amongst some viewers.
With the increasing competition provided by Strictly there is a tipping point on the horizon. Acts are reportedly very nervous about this and have been told to ‘up their game’ by key figures within ITV.
I am unfortunately not at liberty to reveal who these key figures may be.
Wagner is currently providing headlines and for that reason alone he will be safe for the time being. But is this the direction this year’s X-Factor wants to ultimately take?
Lets just say there are reservations high up that he may not be suitable ‘winning’ material and they would ideally prefer a more ‘mainstream’ act to triumph.
Be sure of one thing, there are further exits to follow – on an almost weekly basis – and some of them will be very surprising’
See FBloke, its easy mate to wrap something up in apparently significant and explicating prose without actually saying anything of note whatsoever beyond stating the bleeding obvious!
(And just for the record, I have never once seen an episode of The X-Factor and certainly have never been within a million cyber-miles of a fans forum connected to such a shit brain-numbing show)
Its not like that though is it.
If you were told, by way of example, that there are at least 20 people going to be fired and that one of them was a senior person for whom many held strong feelings and that some of the playing staff with long associations were to be put in theor place how would you post it?
Would you list everyone if you knew?
And if you were not privy to all the detail would you ignore what you were told and not post anything?
You see it becomes increasingly difficult to say anything too specific as we are talking about real people you know. Its complex and oftentimes second or even third hand info.
I make judgement calls all the time about NOT posting stuff, but when there is strong evidence from more than one source of things happening I like to get it out there.
Then when I get told something very specific and feel I can nail my colours to the mast I do.
That happened when I heard that all negotiations with Mourinho had been called off and the club had decided to stick with Roberto.
The date was significant as I was loathed to post it at the time, it was 1st April - a lot of other things had to be played out before people saw him move to RM but I can guarantee nobody thought to say, wow fbloke was right in the end wasn't he - no doubt putting the simple statements and the post I made on the issue down to a lucky guess.
Similar stance with the whispers I heard about Strachan at Boro, which I posted ahead of most of not all the press etc.
So being in the habit of posting info is a thankless task and I certainly dont do it for the attention as I can get that by mentioning the name of Jason Manford.
There are lots of rumours and snippets of info flying around at the minute that will no doubt play out in time and some of it will just so happen to match the overall stuff I have posted previously.
Im just a good guesser you see ;-)
And on the manager we have I have had 2 types of PM on that for the past 3 months.
Some talka bout him not lasting the season, which I dont agree with as it happens.
And some make Mancini almost bulletproof for at least 2 years which I do agree with.
