Havnar Bóltfelag vs Motherwell (30/7) Discussion

[SteelmaninOZ]

The gaffer said 

 

[Yabba's Turd]

JT getting the last half hour then?

[weeyin]

15 minutes ago, Yabba's Turd said:

JT getting the last half hour then?

Or it was next level misdirection from Alfred.

[texanwellfan]

First time I’ve listened to him talk to the press. Obviously speaks for himself And his thoughts but very much in the same mold as JBA. So I think MFC has done a great job and that we have the “same but different” and look to be serious about sticking to our new footballing philosophy. 

[star sail]

Went on the BBC Sport website to get a match preview for tomorrow's European game to be welcomed with the headline news that Lawrence Shankland is to be the new Rangers Captain!!!!

Who needs football matches when you have this kind of breaking news gold dust coming out of Ibrox.

 

[Kmcalpin]

Maybe its time we stopped visiting the BBC website?

[Stuwell2]

2 hours ago, texanwellfan said:

First time I’ve listened to him talk to the press. Obviously speaks for himself And his thoughts but very much in the same mold as JBA. So I think MFC has done a great job and that we have the “same but different” and look to be serious about sticking to our new footballing philosophy. 

He definitely comes across well in these interviews, talks sense and is well grounded.
I’m impressed and have had a couple of guys at work who support other teams also say they are impressed by him, one even says he could be better than JBA if he puts into practice what he says in the interviews and that he thinks the players listening to him will take a lot of confidence that losing JBA won’t disrupt the team. Hopefully he’s right. 

[SteelmaninOZ]

 

[Mad Dog]

16 hours ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

think our team is significantly stronger with just Longelo and Maswanhise back.

Did we get Just back on loan?

[grizzlyg]

6 minutes ago, Mad Dog said:

Did we get Just back on loan?

Who 'Said' that ? 🤣🤣

[mcguru]

11 hours ago, star sail said:

Went on the BBC Sport website to get a match preview for tomorrow's European game to be welcomed with the headline news that Lawrence Shankland is to be the new Rangers Captain!!!!

Who needs football matches when you have this kind of breaking news gold dust coming out of Ibrox.

 

STV "Sport" last night went with Hearts were sh1te last night, Hibs might be sh1te the morra and some player getting photos of himself trying to put an armband on.

[Kmcalpin]

STV is a total joke as well. However, its slightly more acceptable, as its privately owned, than the BBC which is a publicly owned organisation but doesn't act like it. Scottish sports coverage is poor but we all know why. 

[MJC]

3 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:

STV is a total joke as well. However, its slightly more acceptable, as its privately owned, than the BBC which is a publicly owned organisation but doesn't act like it. Scottish sports coverage is poor but we all know why. 

The coverage of football in this country is a disgrace all round but yes, the BBC is by far the worst of the lot. STV aren’t much better but they at least pretend to be interested in clubs outwith the Old Firm, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd.

[numpty]

12 hours ago, star sail said:

Went on the BBC Sport website to get a match preview for tomorrow's European game to be welcomed with the headline news that Lawrence Shankland is to be the new Rangers Captain!!!!

Who needs football matches when you have this kind of breaking news gold dust coming out of Ibrox.

Fwiw, if you use the BBC Sport app instead, you can pick which teams and sports you’re interested in, and it generally does just show you stories about those on its home page with much less OF pish.

[Kmcalpin]

53 minutes ago, MJC said:

The coverage of football in this country is a disgrace all round but yes, the BBC is by far the worst of the lot. STV aren’t much better but they at least pretend to be interested in clubs outwith the Old Firm, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd.

The BBC is a publicly funded body, which has a duty to be impartial but of course it panders to the God of viewing figures and we all know what that means. STV is privately owned and is therefore held to less rigorous standards. Its primary responsibility is to its shareholders and therefore turn in a profit.    

[Ya Bezzer!]

1 hour ago, MJC said:

The coverage of football in this country is a disgrace all round but yes, the BBC is by far the worst of the lot. STV aren’t much better but they at least pretend to be interested in clubs outwith the Old Firm, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd.

There are two articles and a podcast concerning Motherwell on the first two rows of the BBC Scottish Football web page.

BBC radio live broadcasts just about every match day involving a Scottish club, league, cup or Europe. It also puts out daily podcasts and broadcasts a TV highlights show for every set of league fixtures and is set to broadcast live all Scotland matches on TV.  They also live broadcast plenty of lower league matches.

Scottish football has lots of problems but media coverage isn't one of them.  Scottish Premiership clubs get vastly more coverage than similar sized clubs in the English lower leagues.

It's fashionable to knock the BBC but if it didn't exist we'd be in a much worse situation.  You'd be lucky if you even got a highlights package on terrestrial TV as its doubtful anyone else would pay for the rights.  

 

[ropy]

9 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

There are two articles and a podcast concerning Motherwell on the first two rows of the BBC Scottish Football web page.

BBC radio live broadcasts just about every match day involving a Scottish club, league, cup or Europe. It also puts out daily podcasts and broadcasts a TV highlights show for every set of league fixtures and is set to broadcast live all Scotland matches on TV.  They also live broadcast plenty of lower league matches.

Scottish football has lots of problems but media coverage isn't one of them.  Scottish Premiership clubs get vastly more coverage than similar sized clubs in the English lower leagues.

It's fashionable to knock the BBC but if it didn't exist we'd be in a much worse situation.  You'd be lucky if you even got a highlights package on terrestrial TV as its doubtful anyone else would pay for the rights.  

 

The BBC sports news also covered the ‘barbed wire’ chat on Tuesday night so they are not ignoring us.

[weeyin]

The BBC has it faults, but it's hamstrung by lack of funding.

The live Championship games and Alba coverage are certainly fall into its public service remit.

The website can be a bit hit or miss, but again much of that is down to funding with too few people being asked to do too much.

I wouldn't be averse to a refresh of some of the pundits, and any service can be improved. I'd hate to lose it though, and be dependent on commercial channels. That would be wall to wall Old Firm.

[star sail]

22 minutes ago, Ya Bezzer! said:

There are two articles and a podcast concerning Motherwell on the first two rows of the BBC Scottish Football web page.

 

Had a look just now and that is not what I see. Admittedly the podcast concerning Motherwell and Hibs progressing is there on the second row but the top article regards how many points are needed to win the league and is Celtic, Rangers, Hearts centred.

The main sports page has Commonwealth games news (as it should) and then is dominated but OF stories.

The gossip page comes next which every day is almost exclusively Rangers and Celtic content. It contains the Shankland bombshell again. The magnitude of that hit me just as hard second time to be fair. 

The next story is the full blown Shankland exclusive. After that a Celtic story. The article on the Motherwell game is 7 or 8 down and takes a bit of finding. Remember this is on the day the game is being played.

Admittedly this is better than nothing but look over days and the sports pages are 80%-90% Old Firm centred. Most of the them are non stories.

The Motherwell game is a real story. A game being played today with a Scottish teams best chance of progressing in Europe at this stage. It should be headline news. 

If we are happy with what we get, great but factually speaking there is not an even spread of non OF stories on the BBC.

[mfc]

This website is meant to be showing the game for £4,has anybody used it before and is it legit? 

https://onefootball.com/en/match/2691857

[Ya Bezzer!]

10 minutes ago, star sail said:

Had a look just now and that is not what I see. Admittedly the podcast concerning Motherwell and Hibs progressing is there on the second row but the top article regards how many points are needed to win the league and is Celtic, Rangers, Hearts centred.

The main sports page has Commonwealth games news (as it should) and then is dominated but OF stories.

The gossip page comes next which every day is almost exclusively Rangers and Celtic content. It contains the Shankland bombshell again. The magnitude of that hit me just as hard second time to be fair. 

The next story is the full blown Shankland exclusive. After that a Celtic story. The article on the Motherwell game is 7 or 8 down and takes a bit of finding. Remember this is on the day the game is being played.

Admittedly this is better than nothing but look over days and the sports pages are 80%-90% Old Firm centred. Most of the them are non stories.

The Motherwell game is a real story. A game being played today with a Scottish teams best chance of progressing in Europe at this stage. It should be headline news. 

If we are happy with what we get, great but factually speaking there is not an even spread of non OF stories on the BBC.

It's almost as if they actually update the page multiple times a day and that algorithms will determine what you see.....

[Ya Bezzer!]

Every HB European home result in the 21st Century

• 24.07.25  Brondby (D)  1-1
• 01.08.24  Hajduk Split (D)  0-0
• 13.07.23  Derry City (D)  0-0
• 07.07.22  Newtown (W)  1-0
• 12.08.21  M. Haifa  (W)  1-0
• 22.07.21  Buducnost (W)  4-0
• 22.06.21  Inter Escaldes (L)  0-1
• 23.07.19  Linfield (D)  2-2 
• 16.07.19  HJK  (D)  2-2
• 07.07.16  Levadia (L)  0-2
• 09.07.15  Riteriai (L)  1-4
• 22.07.14  Partizan (L)  1-3
• 08.07.14  Lincoln (W)  5-2
• 11.07.13  Vestmannaeyjar (L)  0-1
• 19.07.11  Malmo FF (D)  1-1
• 20.07.10  Salzburg  (W) 1-0
• 23.07.09  Omonia (L) 1-4
• 25.07.07  Hafnarfjordur (D)  0-0
• 15.07.05  FBK Kaunas (L) 2-4
• 21.07.04  WIT Georgia (W)  3-0
• 16.07.03  FBK Kaunas (L)  0-1
• 09.08.01  Grazer AK (D)  2-2

P22 - W 6 - D 8 - L 8

Record is decent and has improved in recent times.  It must be said though that some of their most impressive results, for instance beating RB Salzburg, came after away pumpings and it's unclear how motivated the away side was or if they played second string sides.

[Spiderpig]

Is the game on any TV tonight, if so has anyone got a decent stream they can reccomend?

[weeyin]

14 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:

Is the game on any TV tonight, if so has anyone got a decent stream they can reccomend?

Premier Sports are covering it.

[Mccus28]

£17.99 for Premier Sports is a rip off but ive just purchased it 😂