Pacific Quay Musings?

[Scott7 5,145]

Motherwell’s demotion must be retribution for dishing the Dons at the weekend.

[DMAA 3,603]

4 hours ago, 26th of foot said:

Sportsound on BBC  Radio Scotland is an Abertic Production.

 

Tonight, four Scottish clubs participate in the Europa Cup qualifiers. Sportsound is providing live commentary on ra Sellik game in Riga, and further live commentary on Aberdeen’s visit to Lisbon. Motherwell in Israel and Rangers visit to Holland are reduced to updates.

 

Aberdeen have played two Europa Cup games so far, at home to a Faroe Isles club, and away To Viking in Norway. Both games received live commentary. Ra Sellik have played two games also, a defeat of the Icelanders at home, and a humiliation at the hands of Ferencvaros in the CL qualifier at ra Stade de Gadd. Again, both games covered live by the Blarney Bhoys. By tonight all three games played by both Aberdeen and ra Sellik(six in total) all covered by live commentary.

 

Motherwell’ two games against Northern Ireland Opposition were covered live,I suspect their third game in Israel is too far, and the PQ Palestine Solidarity Action will have been pushing boycott? Rangers one match in Gibraltar amounted to Al Lamont watching Rangers TV and a two minute report. It will be the same this evening, unless Willem win.

 

BBC Scotland, run for Aberdeen and RaSellik supporters by Aberdeen and Sellik supporters.

It is shocking. Are they still pretending this is all legitimate retaliation for the removal of Chris McLaughlin’s press privileges? 

[26th of foot 5,829]

1 hour ago, DMAA said:

It is shocking. Are they still pretending this is all legitimate retaliation for the removal of Chris McLaughlin’s press privileges? 

Absolutely, it’s five years since McLaughlin’s ridiculous performance at the immediate end of Warburton’s first match, a Rangers 2-6 win at Easter Road.

 

Remember, Chris began his match report with, “four Rangers supporters have been arrested for alleged sectarian chanting”. He was engaged on social media a couple of hours later and claimed he had checked with the Match Commander, and claimed he always did so. Imagine our surprise when four weeks later, McLaughlin’s favourites were playing at Pittodrie and the usual IRA karaoke ensued. Again on social media, he made for sectarian chanting. Again, engaged on social media he claimed no arrests for sectarian chanting had occurred, and again referenced this with checking with the Match Commander. Truly, it was a shock to pick up the Aberdeen Press and Journal the next day, to find six of McLaughlin’s fellow Yahoos had been charged with sectarian chanting.

 

Elderly, infirm,and lonely Rangers supporters pay the penalty for McLaughlin’s vanity.

[DMAA 3,603]

“Celtic dominant team in Riga win” the headline on BBC Sport. 
 

If we toiled for 90 minutes and nicked a last minute winner against Latvian nobodies would the headline be a Steven Gerrard quote? 

[DMAA 3,603]

And on the live feed it read “Willem II 0-4 Aberdeen” there. With the childish people in PQ you just never know if that kind of thing is a mistake, it seems to happen so often. 

[RANGERRAB 3,254]

44 minutes ago, DMAA said:

And on the live feed it read “Willem II 0-4 Aberdeen” there. With the childish people in PQ you just never know if that kind of thing is a mistake, it seems to happen so often. 

Would take the ? years to score 4 goals in Europe away from home ?

[compo 6,122]

Dont let the BBC ruin a good night for bears 

[DMAA 3,603]

Last night Rangers participated in a match in the country currently placed 10th in the coefficient table, in an open game with 4 goals and countless chances and talking points.

 

Celtic took part in a match in the country currently placed 37th, in a drab game where they "toiled" and "struggled to create chances". 

 

You would think it was obvious which game deserved more attention.

 

The poorly named "Scottish Football Podcast" failed Rangers fans again by giving Billy Dodds 60 seconds out of a 18 minutes and 47 seconds podcast to summarise the Rangers game (about 5% of the podcast). This was, of course, squeezed in in the last minute just in case people forgot we were playing.

 

The word count check brought up the same results too. Despite, again, Rangers have an exciting game with loads to talk about in the Netherlands and Celtic having a boring game against nobodies, the Celtic match report has about 570 words and the Rangers report has about 470.

 

I won't be checking again, but I did last season so I thought I would see if things were getting any better but, alas, no.

 

 

[26th of foot 5,829]

1 hour ago, DMAA said:

Last night Rangers participated in a match in the country currently placed 10th in the coefficient table, in an open game with 4 goals and countless chances and talking points.

 

Celtic took part in a match in the country currently placed 37th, in a drab game where they "toiled" and "struggled to create chances". 

 

You would think it was obvious which game deserved more attention.

 

The poorly named "Scottish Football Podcast" failed Rangers fans again by giving Billy Dodds 60 seconds out of a 18 minutes and 47 seconds podcast to summarise the Rangers game (about 5% of the podcast). This was, of course, squeezed in in the last minute just in case people forgot we were playing.

 

The word count check brought up the same results too. Despite, again, Rangers have an exciting game with loads to talk about in the Netherlands and Celtic having a boring game against nobodies, the Celtic match report has about 570 words and the Rangers report has about 470.

 

I won't be checking again, but I did last season so I thought I would see if things were getting any better but, alas, no.

 

 

Just to round off PQ’s lamentable performance from last evening, and to reinforce DMAA’s observation.

 

Towards the end of the show, Big Dick engaged Billy Dodds(designated to sit on the naughty step and watch Rangers TV) to discuss the evening’s results. Billy, who no longer considers himself to be a Rangers supporter began, “Rangers cruised eventually, Willem had their chances, like Aberdeen”. Then, he goes on for  a minute about instances that occurred during the Sporting - Aberdeen match. Obviously, despite being tasked to watch and report on the Gers game for the elderly, the infirm, those in remote areas, .......... those paying their license fee; clearly he preferred to watch the Dandies.

 

There will be no coverage next Thursday against Galatasaray either, the game’s at Ibrox. Seriously, why can’t they dedicate someone willing to do the a Rangers beat and let them provide the SERVICE. In five years PQ have put several freelancers on that particular step, beginning with Craig Paterson, Richard Wilson, Chick Young, Derek Ferguson, ...... etc. They have either left the BBC or worked their way out of the particular job. Obviously, it’s considered a job with no future?
 

We have talked of precedents within the BBC, they sent other reporters to Old Trafford to deal with Sir Awex’s several year silence, they sent other reporters to Dens when Jum Spence was banned(not withdrawal of press privilege) twice, they have ....... etc. They are deliberately discriminating against a section of their fully paid-up audience, and they revel in it. Truly, a Gang Hut culture.

 

 

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2 hours ago, 26th of foot said:

 and they revel in it. Truly, a Gang Hut culture.

 

 

Indeed they do revel in it, and it's precisely that arrogance and misplaced self righteousness that will inevitably be their downfall.

The bbc as a whole has a culture of infallibility and PQ operates under the same mandate,  their world is compartmentalised,  good and bad, left and right, black and white privileged. 

We tick all the wrong boxes so will ever be justifiably pariahible to them.

Calls for them to change group think are futile.

They are irreparably damaged, and like everything else BER, best course of action is to eliminate wasted expenditure. 

Defund the BBC.