Goal of the Season?

[Micky]

I quite like his commentary. I like the fact he is a fan and is probably going through the same type of emotions as me. Yes, he and Mr Young occasionally wander off topic and do not paint the whole picture but he has a commentary style and I expect it is not going to change a great deal. I think he is a million miles better than Jason Bourne.

 

[Matt_B]

I quite like his commentary. I like the fact he is a fan and is probably going through the same type of emotions as me. Yes, he and Mr Young occasionally wander off topic and do not paint the whole picture but he has a commentary style and I expect it is not going to change a great deal. I think he is a million miles better than Jason Bourne.

I wonder what 4-4-2's opinion on that is?

 

[homer]

He might be a bell end, but he's our bell end

He's not my bell end

That belongs to alex

 

[Blue Maniac]

I quite like his commentary. I like the fact he is a fan and is probably going through the same type of emotions as me. Yes, he and Mr Young occasionally wander off topic and do not paint the whole picture but he has a commentary style and I expect it is not going to change a great deal. I think he is a million miles better than Jason Bourne.

There are three ways anyone could be inferior to Stringer as a BBC football commentator:

1. By ignoring the game entirely.
2. By speaking Chinese.
3. By being dead.

JB does none of these, so I'm going to just assume he's better.

 

[Lako42]

Wood against Watford away for me, ****ing hilarious.

 

[LCFC'sGodWears9]

If you ask me (which you didn't) he couldn't be worse at this. I tried listening to the Burnley game and didn't have a ****ing Scooby what was happening on the pitch because Stringer kept going on about the surrounding landscape and assisting Alan Young in making broad, valueless generalisations that could be said of any football match (things as worthless as "you've got to get the ball into the opposition's box" or "defenders need to make tackles" or "the aim of football is to score more goals than the opposing team by kicking a ball between one of two sets of posts at either end of the pitch").

When he actually talks about the game and doesn't wander off topic as you quite rightly say, I believe you have a good idea of where the ball is on the pitch. Maybe it's because, as someone else has said, he is a fan and he displays the kind of passion I would expect from myself as a commentator (of which I am not) which is why I find his commentary exciting.

 

[M17TT C]

+1 for Stringer.

I probs listen to more than I watch and he is by far the best we have had in recent years.

You can hear the excitement in his tone and for me, he does a good job of making you feel like you are at the game which is exactly what is wanted.

Also think the phrase, bearing quarter final fruit is brilliant, Partridge-like commentary available to us week in, week out. Back of the net!

 

[Micky]

There are three ways anyone could be inferior to Stringer as a BBC football commentator:

1. By ignoring the game entirely.
2. By speaking Chinese.
3. By being dead.

JB does none of these, so I'm going to just assume he's better.

I suppose it is just about preferences. I suspect there would be a good number of fans that enjoy his commentary and on the other hand, a fair few who dislike his style. Similar perhaps to 5 live's Alan Green, whom I really enjoy listening to but again I have heard a fair few criticise him.

 

[Lako42]

His commentary is Ok, his interviewing style and constant sensationalist approach is ****ing embarrassing.

 

[Macky]

I think he is a million miles better than Jason Bourne.

There are three ways anyone could be inferior to Stringer as a BBC football commentator:

1. By ignoring the game entirely.
2. By speaking Chinese.
3. By being dead.

JB does none of these, so I'm going to just assume he's better.

Personally, I think Jason is a lot better, a helluva lot better. I think that's because I'm hoping for the commentary to describe what is actually occurring on the pitch though. Overexcited, Partridgesque, nonsensical rambling isn't really what I'm looking for.

*edit* I will concede that Stringy is an improvement over John Baabaa though

 

[M17TT C]

I'm still not sure if Vardy has put us one up against Israel though.

 

[Macky]

I'm still not sure if Vardy has put us one up against Israel though.

He did yeah, it was a beauty of a goal as well, but Israel refused to recognise it and threatened to carpet bomb Leicestershire back to the Stone Age if the FA even dared to suggest that the goal should stand.
Our Nige tried to raise it with FIFA, but the US vetoed everything, despite every right-minded human being with an ounce of morality on the planet agreeing that it was a great goal.

 

[Matt_B]

He did yeah, it was a beauty of a goal as well, but Israel refused to recognise it and threatened to carpet bomb Leicestershire back to the Stone Age if the FA even dared to suggest that the goal should stand.
Our Nige tried to raise it with FIFA, but the US vetoed everything, despite every right-minded human being with an ounce of morality on the planet agreeing that it was a great goal.

I feel like there's a point being make in there, somewhere.

 

[Blue Maniac]

He did yeah, it was a beauty of a goal as well, but Israel refused to recognise it and threatened to carpet bomb Leicestershire back to the Stone Age if the FA even dared to suggest that the goal should stand.
Our Nige tried to raise it with FIFA, but the US vetoed everything, despite every right-minded human being with an ounce of morality on the planet agreeing that it was a great goal.

:icon_lol: Marvellous.

 

[Jenks]

How opinions differ. Bar the 'quarter final fruit' comment, which I agree is utterly ridiculous, I love his commentary for the goals. You know roughly where the ball is on the pitch and you could picture the goals if you just had the sound of his commentary and that is IMO what a commentator should do.

The first two (Knocky and Kingy) deserve all the shouting and going bananas that Stringer blurts out as both are stunners.

Absolutely this. We'll said GWn9

 

[Jenks]

+1 for Stringer.

I probs listen to more than I watch and he is by far the best we have had in recent years.

You can hear the excitement in his tone and for me, he does a good job of making you feel like you are at the game which is exactly what is wanted.

Also think the phrase, bearing quarter final fruit is brilliant, Partridge-like commentary available to us week in, week out. Back of the net!

And this.