Rob Staton

[Shawy24]

I like Rob,good commentator and presenter,had a mare with the Wednesday saga tho

Disagree. Average commentator. WNowt special. Presenter? FFS. Are you serious? Even before “Wednesday saga” as you put it, it was his view or cut off. That kid’s a sad act with a hat covering his bald bit.

 

[Hanauer]

And they wonder why hardly anyone phones or listens in any more and it's always the same comatose bunch. That's why they have the boring, mundane repartee needing two substandard presenters to fill in the time. FFS Elvis, Rotherham Mick, Brain Dead Mick, Michael the Blade who never gets anything right need telling to keep off. My favourite though is the Irish Owl who always talks sense and does have something interesting to say.

 

[Russ]

Ive not listened to it in over 10 years but what about the other South Yorkshire clubs. It wouldnt work

Enjoy!

 

[PaulPeschBlade]

And they wonder why hardly anyone phones or listens in any more and it's always the same comatose bunch. That's why they have the boring, mundane repartee needing two substandard presenters to fill in the time. FFS Elvis, Rotherham Mick, Brain Dead Mick, Michael the Blade who never gets anything right need telling to keep off. My favourite though is the Irish Owl who always talks sense and does have something interesting to say.

Ring up then you sausage

 

[nopigfansintown]

He's supposed to be unbiased and play Devil's advocate with any assumption. If the Wednesday manager says the team is too young and it's unfair to play this really young team, it's his job to hold that assumption up to scrutiny. He won't because it evaporates.

Surely there is a point where you can’t just give Wednesday and their manager a free pass and dismiss it as “he’s doing as well as he can in the circumstances”.

Surely occasionally they could say “the circumstances are what they are. Now, are Wednesday doing what they can?”

Given the constant narrative coming out of Hillsborough on player welfare concerns, why not raise this?:

Out of 95 possibly sub opportunities, 5 per game, Chris Wilder has used subs 94 times.

Out of 125 possible sub opportunities, Henrick Pedersen has used subs 86 times.

Why, when player welfare is being sighted as the major issue, are they not using the in game opportunities to manage minutes like across the city?

99% vs 69%.

Why when sighting reliance on young kids are they not even in the top 6 for average age of the XI?

How come when you list out the appearances for Wednesday, there are 16 players with more minutes than the first Wednesday teenager if they are “ruining young players”?

It’s a false narrative and even if you buy into it, they are doing nowhere near enough to keep their players fresh.

There's a whole host of factual information (including that which you've provided) that contradicts the woe is Wednesday narrative on this matter.

Staton tweeted somebody saying (I'm paraphrasing)"I know my job better than you thanks". Clearly this isn't the case. He's chairing the show and is in the role of mediator NOT arbitrator. He is also subject to the BBC impartiality charter. As the host he should take the narrative(s) promulgated by the Wednesday hierarchy (and some fans) and allow them to be scrutinised. To analyse them giving equal voice to all sides of the debate before, finally, reaching any conclusion. There are ample facts and figures here so guesswork and emotion isn't required in the analysis. We all have our natural biases and prejudices, that's understandable, but we are all also capable of taking a viewpoint diametrically opposed to those inclinations and giving it due consideration. It's actually a good debating skill to take the opposite point of view and to argue in favour of it in order to test the strength of your own argument. If we can't do that due to strength of feeling we can always recuse ourselves from a debate or hosting/mediating one. FH Team should've made this happen on this subject long ago as Staton keeps crossing the line on the matter. Does FH not have an editor saying "what are the actual stats on this Rob?" If they do they're actually hanging Staton out to dry not interceding.

Staton has never done any of the above. His abject failure when it comes to mentioning any of the factual data on this matter is simply astounding. It's 2026 and we all have access to this data... being gaslit won't fly. His patronising tone, condescension and arrogance when challenged by those who are clearly more studious on the matter doesn't serve him anywhere but in his own head. We have the data....

 

[Hanauer]

Ring up then you sausage

Been banned.

 

[hodgy747]

There's a whole host of factual information (including that which you've provided) that contradicts the woe is Wednesday narrative on this matter.

Staton tweeted somebody saying (I'm paraphrasing)"I know my job better than you thanks". Clearly this isn't the case. He's chairing the show and is in the role of mediator NOT arbitrator. He is also subject to the BBC impartiality charter. As the host he should take the narrative(s) promulgated by the Wednesday hierarchy (and some fans) and allow them to be scrutinised. To analyse them giving equal voice to all sides of the debate before, finally, reaching any conclusion. There are ample facts and figures here so guesswork and emotion isn't required in the analysis. We all have our natural biases and prejudices, that's understandable, but we are all also capable of taking a viewpoint diametrically opposed to those inclinations and giving it due consideration. It's actually a good debating skill to take the opposite point of view and to argue in favour of it in order to test the strength of your own argument. If we can't do that due to strength of feeling we can always recuse ourselves from a debate or hosting/mediating one. FH Team should've made this happen on this subject long ago as Staton keeps crossing the line on the matter. Does FH not have an editor saying "what are the actual stats on this Rob?" If they do they're actually hanging Staton out to dry not interceding.

Staton has never done any of the above. His abject failure when it comes to mentioning any of the factual data on this matter is simply astounding. It's 2026 and we all have access to this data... being gaslit won't fly. His patronising tone, condescension and arrogance when challenged by those who are clearly more studious on the matter doesn't serve him anywhere but in his own head. We have the data....

Think you need to explain the big words for some on here.

 

[sheepbridge]

Football Heaven last night was excellent, well the first 20 minutes anyway, I gave up when Elvis came on, probably to be followed by Mick and Ken no doubt.

The presenters, Adam and Rob told us:
"
Tanganga and Bindon would have been 4th choice defenders last year. Not as good as the players who played last season.

Tom Cannon has performed reasonably well

Wilder is best manager for the job, get to summer and start again (strangely they were saying get to January earlier in the year)
Fits our club like a glove, greatest SUFC manager ever

The Sheffield United forum, sometimes I go in there, it is like going in Bizzarro World
"

At least the forums allow for different views. The FH Team are just clones of each other and agree with everything each of them says, and don't you dare disagree with them.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Football Heaven last night was excellent, well the first 20 minutes anyway, I gave up when Elvis came on, probably to be followed by Mick and Ken no doubt.

The presenters, Adam and Rob told us:
"
Tanganga and Bindon would have been 4th choice defenders last year. Not as good as the players who played last season.

Tom Cannon has performed reasonably well

Wilder is best manager for the job, get to summer and start again (strangely they were saying get to January earlier in the year)
Fits our club like a glove, greatest SUFC manager ever

The Sheffield United forum, sometimes I go in there, it is like going in Bizzarro World
"

At least the forums allow for different views. The FH Team are just clones of each other and agree with everything each of them says, and don't you dare disagree with them.

Bizarro World

Is that a scary place where his giant ego shrivels and dies when he can’t cut people off and hasn’t the knowledge or brains to debate the administration comments on here?

His two lickspittles should be ashamed of themselves for slavishly following his lead.

 

[s20Blade]

If you convice yourself that Wednesday is the biggest club in the world everything else that has a valid point would certainly seem like bizzaro world.

 

[Trigger Blade]

Football Heaven last night was excellent, well the first 20 minutes anyway, I gave up when Elvis came on, probably to be followed by Mick and Ken no doubt.

The presenters, Adam and Rob told us:
"
Tanganga and Bindon would have been 4th choice defenders last year. Not as good as the players who played last season.

Tom Cannon has performed reasonably well

Wilder is best manager for the job, get to summer and start again (strangely they were saying get to January earlier in the year)
Fits our club like a glove, greatest SUFC manager ever

The Sheffield United forum, sometimes I go in there, it is like going in Bizzarro World
"

At least the forums allow for different views. The FH Team are just clones of each other and agree with everything each of them says, and don't you dare disagree with them.

I listened to that and felt that they were trying really hard not to talk about W*dnesday, whilst not having anything very insightful to say about United as it isn’t their bailiwick, although it really should be.

 

[I should coco]

If you convice yourself that Wednesday is the biggest club in the world everything else that has a valid point would certainly seem like bizzaro world.

It's not just here.

Mars United, Jupiter City and Pluto Hotspurs, are gagging for them to get back into the Solar System Premiership.
Litterally gagging!

 

[Sean Thornton]

“Some times l go in there”

Someone checks in most days. Gave it a miss Friday. Gidds and the other one probably busy doing Ralph’s ironing and cleaning his car.

 

[The Crab]

It's not just here.

Mars United, Jupiter City and Pluto Hotspurs, are gagging for them to get back into the Solar System Premiership.
Litterally gagging!

Mark can go back to his own planet and get outsmarted by the single cell amoebas…

 

[Hanauer]

Football Heaven last night was excellent, well the first 20 minutes anyway, I gave up when Elvis came on, probably to be followed by Mick and Ken no doubt.

The presenters, Adam and Rob told us:
"
Tanganga and Bindon would have been 4th choice defenders last year. Not as good as the players who played last season.

Tom Cannon has performed reasonably well

Wilder is best manager for the job, get to summer and start again (strangely they were saying get to January earlier in the year)
Fits our club like a glove, greatest SUFC manager ever

The Sheffield United forum, sometimes I go in there, it is like going in Bizzarro World
"

At least the forums allow for different views. The FH Team are just clones of each other and agree with everything each of them says, and don't you dare disagree with them.

Piggy Heaven is a poor version of what it was years ago with third rate presenters, Staton especially. The two you mentionned, Elvis who just sounds like some creepy old dodderer and Mogadon" no other club has fans like ours" Mick. This guy said he was disappointed only 19000 were at the Pigs last home game. He would have been more disappointed if he found out there were less than 14000 in the ground and that they haven't touched 20000 since they last played us and that includes away fans. The interview with Storch was vomit inducing. The man obviously had a written answer page probably written by the Great Deluded himself, Joe Crapp with everything the pigs wanted to hear, very similar to when their previous owner took over.

 

[Bladesman]

Football Heaven last night was excellent, well the first 20 minutes anyway, I gave up when Elvis came on, probably to be followed by Mick and Ken no doubt.

The presenters, Adam and Rob told us:
"
Tanganga and Bindon would have been 4th choice defenders last year. Not as good as the players who played last season.

Tom Cannon has performed reasonably well

Wilder is best manager for the job, get to summer and start again (strangely they were saying get to January earlier in the year)
Fits our club like a glove, greatest SUFC manager ever

The Sheffield United forum, sometimes I go in there, it is like going in Bizzarro World
"

At least the forums allow for different views. The FH Team are just clones of each other and agree with everything each of them says, and don't you dare disagree with them.

Bizzaro world, where local journalists get criticised for not actually doing their job properly.