Anyone bother with Radio Pig Praise or Grumble?

[jezzablade]

I had to take my lad's mate home after he stayed over it was 30 mins there and back and in that time they the pig manager for what was an eternity (and then thanked him for his time as if we all wanted to hear him droning on) then Mick the pig for a good 6-7 mins some Barnsley bloke for ten seconds and then a special with the pig goalie Kirkland. Then I arrived back home. And they wonder why people complain of bias.

 

[boo radley]

Think they expected Kirkland to lie.

 

[SwissBlade]

Another radio sheffield is biased thread... Great!

So you listened for a period of time and they didn't interview Clough for the full period you listened. Shocking!

Personally I don't think they're biased, they possibly spend longer amounts of time on one or two clubs when positive or negative things happen - sacking of a manager, heavy defeat, big win, giant killing or other big talking points. And I suppose of more fans call in from a particular club then they put more of them on.

I very rarely listen to praise or grumble or footy heaven nowadays. It became an absolute joke several years ago, probably around the time of the Hume incident, but I don't think that was the reason. They just seem to like the controversy on Radio Sheffield. Instead of being a public service radio station paid for by licence fees, the sports part of the radio station is actually pretty good, but the interaction with supporters of local teams is a chance to allow idiots to talk nonsense. It's not intelligent debate, it's a crappy phone in.

I'd like football heaven to be reduced to a couple of days a week, but with local footballers and mangers discussing local teams and local sport. Not just from the professional teams, but from amateur sides and semi pro sides too.

Praise or grumble isn't necessarily biased. It's just shit

 

[blader]

Nail on the head Swiss. Was going to reply with something almost identical. I do still listen, but anytime there's a caller/manager from another club, I just stick a bit of Stone Roses on or summat, then go back. I like hearing Blades' views, for the same reason I am on a forum.

 

[shorehamview]

Other radio stations are available. Or should they not be to your taste then you could put one of your Celine Dion cds on, or perhaps one of your offspring enjoys those singing haircuts One Direction. If your car is a posh one there may be a button on the wireless that enables you to turn it off.

Hope this helps.

 

[Large Mendonca]

Agree with Swiss. Think they should keep it to Monday and Friday in the week - 5 days is too much. The debate from the presenters I think has improved a bit, but sadly not the standard of callers, who appear to me to be mainly pigs.

 

[SwissBlade]

Other radio stations are available. Or should they not be to your taste then you could put one of your Celine Dion cds on, or perhaps one of your offspring enjoys those singing haircuts One Direction. If your car is a posh one there may be a button on the wireless that enables you to turn it off.

Hope this helps.

Actually there are no other radio stations that discuss Sheffield United on the levels of radio sheffield

 

[Trigger Blade]

I don't think there's bias, but as has been pointed out, it isn't very good. They're entirely reliant on the quality of the caller.

Recently, I think it was Mark the Pitsmoor grunter, a bad advert for care in the community, who started his call with "do you know what I mean" before he'd even said anything, a new low, though he'd normally be close to double figures on a normal call and I've still no idea what he means.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

The BBC is a public funded body and it's probably the only reason you will get to hear local stuff by local people. If the BBC had to make money to survive there probably wouldn't by a P&G. Didn't Radio Hallam cover a lot of football in the past but the need to make a profit by that station meant that football coverage was killed off?
P&G has it's fair share of idiots, whether they are R&W wizards, pigs, Rovrum,Chezzer, dingles or Dronny - you have to take the rough with the smooth. There is always the off button.
UTB

 

[Kenilworth]

I find it easier to use Tunein Radio app on the iPhone so I can press pause - go for a shit or summat - and then use the forward button to skip the other shit bits I am not interested in, travel, Gray, Dickoff, Brian the fucking cabbage, etc.

It's quite easy if you harness the technology to your advantage

Mind you one Fowl yesterday mentioned the Boro goal that was - that wasn't - was a "what goes round comes round monment" cos they weren't given a goal against Charlton on Monday last - Fecking toolhead - Too blind and arrogant to notice that their so called goal vs Addicks never crossed the line - with denial like that it's no wonder they have to invent a parallel universe for themselves to be justified in their own minds

 

[Kenilworth]

I don't think there's bias, but as has been pointed out, it isn't very good. They're entirely reliant on the quality of the caller.

Recently, I think it was Mark the Pitsmoor grunter, a bad advert for care in the community, who started his call with "do you know what I mean" before he'd even said anything, a new low, though he'd normally be close to double figures on a normal call and I've still no idea what he means.

Wouldn't it be great if the presenters always finished off his calls with, "thanks Mark, not quite sure I get what you mean but thanks for calling into the programme."

 

[UnitedBlade]

Wouldn't it be great if the presenters always finished off his calls with, "thanks Mark, not quite sure I get what you mean but thanks for calling into the programme."

I'm all for civility but a simple "please don't call again" is sufficient.

 

[Linz]

It would help if the presenters were better.

Rob "I'm not a Wednesday fan although I play for Owlstalk FC" Staton and Paul "I used to be a Blade but now I take my young 'un to Hillsborough" Walker are never going to properly challenge callers and call them to account. It's turned into lowest common-denominator broadcasting stuck in the cycle of a lot of people with intelligent points have stopped listening because of all the morons, so people with intelligent points don't phone in and the vacuum has been filled with the same old idiots spouting off.

I think one of the issues is that the presenters won't have been there at every game. I listened to a BBC Reading (or whatever it is) call-in when coming back from a match there once. Obviously, they've got one club to cover and the presenter had been at the game and could really probe the responses given by the caller. He was also trying his best to remain objective.

Radio Sheffield is...

Presenter: Hello. What's your point?

Caller: Blah blah blah.

Presenter: Well I wasn't at that game. But I think you're wrong. Next caller.

It'd be like Foxy or I closing all threads down once we'd had our say. It becomes pointless.

I also don't think they get that many callers. They've resorted to reading our tweets out more than once before, so they obviously pour over Twitter to fill some time.

I turn it off when I get in the car. And I no longer pay my licence fee.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

BBC detector van to Linz and Foxy's house dispatched...............

 

[brownie4583]

Rotherham fan other week....."You're biased cos no Millers have been on"
Presenter,"Yes but none have phoned in yet,you're the 1st"
"Yeah but you're biased"
"None have phoned in" etc etc

 

[Pedro Verde]

Had a good interview with Clough after the game but the standard of callers is woeful

 

[boo radley]

We could always hijack it and all call in.
Linz the Leader to go first.

 

[Linz]

BBC detector van to Linz and Foxy's house dispatched...............

1) They don't exist.

2) If they did, they wouldn't find us watching live TV. So they're welcome to try. On-demand/catch-up TV only in this household.

 

[jezzablade]

Other radio stations are available. Or should they not be to your taste then you could put one of your Celine Dion cds on, or perhaps one of your offspring enjoys those singing haircuts One Direction. If your car is a posh one there may be a button on the wireless that enables you to turn it off.

Hope this helps.

No not really, neither does patronising answers to thread questions. Perhaps don't answer a thread if you don't like it and go to another thread. Hope this helps.

 

[SwissBlade]

1) They don't exist.

2) If they did, they wouldn't find us watching live TV. So they're welcome to try. On-demand/catch-up TV only in this household.

Don't you need a licence still?

 

[Linz]

Don't you need a licence still?

Nope.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/technology--devices-and-online-top8/

Exception: If you only watch catch-up services online, then you don’t need a licence. For example, you don’t need one to use BBC iPlayer, or ITV player, to catch up on programmes after they have been shown on TV.

 

[jezzablade]

It would help if the presenters were better.

Rob "I'm not a Wednesday fan although I play for Owlstalk FC" Staton and Paul "I used to be a Blade but now I take my young 'un to Hillsborough" Walker are never going to properly challenge callers and call them to account. It's turned into lowest common-denominator broadcasting stuck in the cycle of a lot of people with intelligent points have stopped listening because of all the morons, so people with intelligent points don't phone in and the vacuum has been filled with the same old idiots spouting off.

I think one of the issues is that the presenters won't have been there at every game. I listened to a BBC Reading (or whatever it is) call-in when coming back from a match there once. Obviously, they've got one club to cover and the presenter had been at the game and could really probe the responses given by the caller. He was also trying his best to remain objective.

Radio Sheffield is...

Presenter: Hello. What's your point?

Caller: Blah blah blah.

Presenter: Well I wasn't at that game. But I think you're wrong. Next caller.

It'd be like Foxy or I closing all threads down once we'd had our say. It becomes pointless.

I also don't think they get that many callers. They've resorted to reading our tweets out more than once before, so they obviously pour over Twitter to fill some time.

I turn it off when I get in the car. And I no longer pay my licence fee.

I never listen to Praise or Grumble normally and rarely to Football Heaven as I'm not usually driving at those times. However, on the occasions I have heard it, it is very much like you have said. I just got annoyed yesterday as a full half hour was devoted to one team over the rest of South Yorkshire. I won't listen again. I don't live in Sheff so have Radio Sheff on when I'm driving to keep in touch. Unfortunatley Radio 4 doesn't talk about Sheffield a great deal.

 

[Crouchy]

I've long been of the view that football phone-ins generally attract morons or weirdos (the types who can remember the date and score of every match, for instance )

Praise Or Grumble is usually excruciatingly bad. My favourite ever caller (perhaps 25 years ago) went like this:

Presenter: "Hi, you're through to Praise or Grumble. Which team did you go to see, and is it a praise or is it a grumble?"

Caller: "Grumble. United. Rubbish". *click*

 

[crucialkneeligaman]

This could be a criticism of United too, but what annoys me is like the last night match we played. Last part of programme taken up with discussing ice hockey, some bird from the teenage ice Olympics etc. Can't they find anybody from club to give any post match analysis before the 10 o'clock deadline ?.