In defence of Vic

[axs]

vic should let one of us fuckers co commetate, that would shut us up.

Stop flirting and just ask you media whore.

[chalkies_shorts]

vic should let one of us fuckers co commetate, that would shut us up.

TownEnd Tourettes On Tour.

[Mexicano Rojo]

vic : that was a poor tackle by amankwaah what did you think mex

mex : dont know why the cunt bothered to turn up fucking waste of spunk vic


classic radio in the making.

[pauld]

This thread should be preserved by dictionary makers everywhere and referred to under their entries explaining the phrase "storm in a teacup"

[BANGKOK RED]

I'd just like Vic and whoever to do there fucking job and actually commentate on the football. Surely that's not too big an ask now is it.

If there is not an improvement for the next match, then I am seriously considering just not bothering. The D&R match *cough* 'commentary' was fucking appalling.

[tans]

It would be alright if world fucking worked too..

[Ardiles]

I have no idea who Vic is, but wish him/her all the best.

[Peter Venkman]

For some of us we cannot get to many games due to distance and financial constraints, not all of us have well paying jobs that can finance our travels with the Town.....despite the fact that we all would love to.

Vic Morgan, seems like a nice bloke but his commentary is constantly appalling, no idea if we have the ball or them, if we are shooting or them, sometimes even if we have scored or them...until 30 seconds after the goal has gone in, as Vic does get over exctited by goals for and against us.

It was stated that in the original post...

Firstly, the ISDN link failed as the coms went to air...this was nobody's fault.

If the link went down then someone was at fault somewhere....no not Vic but someone was at fault.

This has happened so many times, 6 times already this season, we have missed 3 kick offs because links were not turned on at the right time (yes its on STFC World but the problem is with the BBC end...not the World end because I have emailed them and asked them this and was told it was a BBC error) we have missed the last 5 minutes....and a goal against Hudderfield, we have missed a goal against Plymouth when the link "went down" and now on Saturday the link "went down" and we missed another goal.

This is nothing new and here is a little selection of how frustrating the Vic commentary can be at times......

Absolutely spot on Batch, Vic is a very very poor commentator I am afraid to say who doesnt put over what is happening on the pitch and sometimes makes us think that we have scored a goal when in fact we havent, which is infuriating when listening to the radio.

Come to think of it, it's difficult to form any kind of opinion when he is commentating. It's difficult to know what is going on at times.

e.g........."It's with McGovern, McGovern's ball to Ferry doesn't find it's target and it's cut out. Ferry brings it forward now"  WTF!!

Hey you leave Vic alone

On an aside....Juddie can you please get Vic to stop his getting too excited before a goal, thanks...love TheTownend forum. x

I have to agree with the comments about the commentators, Vic Morgan is an idiot, getting us excited for no reason, calm the fuck down Vic...get excited AFTER the goal not when we shoot.

WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW ANY OTHER CUNTING SCORES VIC...COMMENTATE ON THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is fucking annoying Vic gets so excited over nothing.

Welcome to the world of the estranged support Leef, we put up with this poor quality nearly every week. But, to be fair, the commentary is miles better than it ever was on Brunel.

The poor standard is appalling from such a professional outfit as the BBC, over excited commentators (sorry Vic but you are) and getting names wrong constantly like calling Dossevi - Dovessi (Phil King I am looking at you here) the way they inanely chat about the colour of players boots and shit.

And to add to it......we have missed 3 kick offs on STFC World due to things not being sorted at thier end and yesterday to add insult to injury it totally failed with 80 mins on the clock so we had no commentary whatsoever for the goal.

This is an utterly appalling service which we pay money for.

Yours faithfully, a disgruntled and estranged fan in Somerset.

I know I could not do better but Vic IS employed by the BBC as a commentator and as such should really learn to commentate on the game, yes hes a Town fan, maybe he shouldnt be and an unbiased commentator may be preferable? who know.

But in all honesty Vic can and hopefully will do better, just stop commentating on the shit that no one gives a shit about.....colour of players boots, haircuts etc etc and just commentate on the game, give us an idea of who has the ball, who is attacking, defending, the occassional mention of the score, who scored it, and dont make us think that we have scored when in actual fact it is the opposition, but from your cries of joy (yes there are cries of joy from Vic for every goal...whether for us or against us) we cannot ever tell if its us or them scoring.

As for your commentary on Saturday it was not the worst I have heard but not the best, just another game that we had little idea of how we were playing or whatever.

[BANGKOK RED]

I listened to the entire match, and I still don't know how we lined up exactly.

[Bogus Dave]

My problem with vic isn't his 'subject matter' when speaking. lets be honest, the games are usually very dull and he does his best to liven it up with little titbits which I agree with. My problem is that he's not a good describer of play (in my opinion) and has a very annoying "excited voice" which you can't really do much about.

He's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't think he's as bad as others are making out. Certainly better than any of the dross put out by brunel. I also think people are underestimating how difficult a job it actually is to talk non-stop for 90 minutes, or at least to do so well

[Batch]

If the link went down then someone was at fault somewhere....no not Vic but someone was at fault.

I've seen the state of the ISDN terminals at the county ground. It's amazing anything works. Can't beleive D&R would be any better.

Its actually fairly amazing ISDN is still used de-facto for commentary links anyway!

Even more amusing was watching Ed Hadwin try and remote desktop in over ISDN to get to the text message program. 64K, for remote desktop. One hopes they have broadband one way or another these days, though it seems to be donr from the studio now anyway.

[BANGKOK RED]

Whilst Vic's over enthusiasm can be annoying, it is not my main complaint.

My main complaint is that much of the time I just don't know what is happening. Formation, who has the ball, where they are on the field, how the opposition are shaping up, where players are off the ball etc.

It is usually possible to get a good mental image of the game from match commentary but when Vic is commentating it just isn't possible. Matches kick off at 9 PM for me, during the D&R match it occurred to me that listening is absolutely pointless and that I'm wasting valuable drinking with friends time. If Vic doesn't get it together soon, then I'll be better off down the pub.

[Power to people]

I can't commentate on the D&R commentary as I was at the game but going on previous commentary's it does get frustrating when a goal goes in and you don't have a clue either which team scored or which player scored, or that the ball was even in play I think Vic would be better as a co commentator, it is a shame that Shaun Hodgett's does not do many commentary's these days but I understand he is quite high up in BBC RS so can understand, but for me the BBC have not adequetly replaced Ed, I beleive that Vic works for BBC Devon but as he is a stfc fan does the commentary for that reason as works for the bbc.

[leefer]

Fact is nice a person i might be if i didn't do my job properly i would be replaced.
Nice person Vic may be but his commentary is crap.

[Benzel]

What, no more belittling comments, NiL?