Pacific Quay Musings?

[buster. 5,185]

 Their programme is scheduled to go on to 6pm (UKtime) today, which would give them the time for a word with Paul Heckingbottom, if they wanted and the manager was willing.

 

Sportsound FM goes until 1700

MW takes over from 1700 to 1800

 

O'Heck provided PQ with a controversial soundbite about the officials last week, so either way (Hibs win or defeat), I'm sure they'll try.

 

[ian1964 10,721]

5 minutes ago, buster. said:

 Their programme is scheduled to go on to 6pm (UKtime) today, which would give them the time for a word with Paul Heckingbottom, if they wanted and the manager was willing.

 

Sportsound FM goes until 1700

MW takes over from 1700 to 1800

 

O'Heck provided PQ with a controversial soundbite about the officials last week, so either way (Hibs win or defeat), I'm sure they'll try.

 

It will be a telephone interview

[buster. 5,185]

18 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

It will be a telephone interview

That we already know.

It's a matter of will PQ give O'Heck a call or not.

[Walterbear 557]

On 03/05/2019 at 11:40, stewarty said:

I tried to watch the first episode but I largely found it dull and I had severe lack of interest in a lot of the discussion.  I think this reflects my attitude towards Scottish football in general, lamentably.   But then, when I think back, I havent watched a full 90 minutes of any match except ours for several years now.  

With you on that one. It’s utter dross. Content is pysh and whole set up lacks authenticity. The audience they are trying to appeal to won’t watch that. They will be on their computers. You would have to be virtually brain dead to tune into twice. 

[buster. 5,185]

For the record, the Sunday Sportsound podcast didn't even mention that Rangers were playing Hibs, never mind providing the score, report, etc.

Editorial cut and run before FT ? 

First time I can remember that happening.

 

They did manage to talk about the race for 3rd place between Aberdeen and Kilmarnock for a while without mentioning that the previous race for 2nd place had been won by Rangers by a double digit point count (currently 14 points). 

 

Monday Sportsound prediction

- Very brief mention of Rangers 5 wins IAR / convincing second place

- Much more time spent on the McGregor red card / continuing discipline issues / unconvincing last half hour

- Will start the 'Will Morelos get a red card on Sunday' feature

- Above won't last long as the programme will mostly be about Celtic 

 

[pete 2,499]

1 hour ago, buster. said:

For the record, the Sunday Sportsound podcast didn't even mention that Rangers were playing Hibs, never mind providing the score, report, etc.

Editorial cut and run before FT ? 

First time I can remember that happening.

 

They did manage to talk about the race for 3rd place between Aberdeen and Kilmarnock for a while without mentioning that the previous race for 2nd place had been won by Rangers by a double digit point count (currently 14 points). 

 

Monday Sportsound prediction

- Very brief mention of Rangers 5 wins IAR / convincing second place

- Much more time spent on the McGregor red card / continuing discipline issues / unconvincing last half hour

- Will start the 'Will Morelos get a red card on Sunday' feature

- Above won't last long as the programme will mostly be about Celtic 

 

To be fair the McGregor incident was the biggest talking point. I would say it was even the longest talked about subject on the Gersnet Podcast too. 90% of the game was a nonentity.

[buster. 5,185]

9 minutes ago, pete said:

To be fair the McGregor incident was the biggest talking point. I would say it was even the longest talked about subject on the Gersnet Podcast too. 90% of the game was a nonentity.

To a degree, fair enough but what I don't think editorially consistent at PQ is to suddenly forget about the race for second, how convincingly it has been won and pass it off as if it were never a thing via the now repeated tactic of ,...just ignore it.

 

Or for that matter, not to even mention our game played the same day.

 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2019 by buster.

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It was a sparse gathering in the PQ Gang Hut yesterday. Of course, Big Dick trapped, Al Lamont watched Sky's live coverage on the box and commentated as live. Both John Rankin and Cammy Bell fought to add comment over the canned crowd noise. Post match was similar to last Sunday, eight minutes and end of football coverage. Big Dick was in raptures over McGregor's latest transgression, he read out a list of all Rangers' red cards this season. He ended with, "that has been coming all season, he deserves it". The next breath had him asking both Rankin and Bell to agree with his conclusion, "Rangers deserved their victory, didn't they"? A couple of sentences and Big Dick handed over to Take the Floor. Oh, and no post match interview with Paul Heckingbottom.

 

Before the match, before Big Dick lead the Pantomime players in the latest BBC Scotland 'as live' production; there was a conversation on that evening's Manager/Player/Young Player of the Year awards. John Rankin has a huge future ahead of him at PQ. He thought a Rangers player would win one of the categories. Big Dick was intrigued and dismissed Morelos because of disciplinary reasons. Big Dick remembered rehearsals and asked, "what makes you say that John"? Rankin, obviously relieved not to be questioned on Queen of the South's fall into Championship play-off survival, or the fact that his manager, Gary Naismith had been sacked; spouted a line of pysh that had the Gang Hut cheering, "every dressing room I've ever been in, has a number of Rangers supporters".

 

John's prophecy was correct, Ryan Kent won Young Player of the Year and it was all those Rangers supporters in dressing rooms that delivered the accolade. It wouldn't, couldn't possibly be the lad's talent? This morning's Scottish Sun provided the following information, which proves that dressing rooms full of Rangers supporters are an ill-disciplined lot. In the last forty-two seasons, the Player of the Year award has been picked up by a Sellik player on 23 occasions. Rangers players have won the award on 10 occasions, less than a quarter. The Young Player of the Year has gone to Sellik players on 12 occasions, then it's Dundee United on six, Hearts and Rangers on five respectively. Our success in YPotY is a tad over 10%. 

 

While we are on this roll with the constant stream of pysh emanating from John Rankin's mouth. I would like to add, in two seasons where Rangers managers won the Treble, Jock Wallace in '77/78 season and Alex McLeish in '02/03; the Manager of the Year awards went to Billy McNeill(Aberdeen) and Martin O'Neill(Sellik). 

 

Rangers supporters in every dressing room, what are they like?      

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The more informed Gersnetters(most of you) have PM'd to inform me John Rankin is currently at Clyde.

 

I can only assume it was the hordes of Rangers supporters in the Palmerston dressing room that drove him out. Probably fed up with the amount of pysh he spouts?

[buster. 5,185]

On 06/05/2019 at 08:13, buster. said:

For the record, the Sunday Sportsound podcast didn't even mention that Rangers were playing Hibs, never mind providing the score, report, etc.

Editorial cut and run before FT ? 

First time I can remember that happening.

 

They did manage to talk about the race for 3rd place between Aberdeen and Kilmarnock for a while without mentioning that the previous race for 2nd place had been won by Rangers by a double digit point count (currently 14 points). 

 

Monday Sportsound prediction

- Very brief mention of Rangers 5 wins IAR / convincing second place

- Much more time spent on the McGregor red card / continuing discipline issues / unconvincing last half hour

- Will start the 'Will Morelos get a red card on Sunday' feature

- Above won't last long as the programme will mostly be about Celtic 

 

Podcast from Monday night continued the relatively new 'Ignore' tactic regards Rangers winning games and now being a strong second place (14 points ahead of 3rd).

They did give serious time to talking about McGregor's red card and slipped in the name of Morelos in relation to bad discipline.

 

Fair enough, to feature the McGregor red, but not to completely ignore that we've achieved to put so much distance between us and 3rd place.

Last week it was focus on the two penalty decisions and not mention the performance/increasing gap.

Two weeks ago it was just completely ignore our result and performance.

#Pattern

 

You contrast that with the coverage of 'the race for second place' when Aberdeen and Kilmarnock were in touch and the delight they took in inferring that Aberdeen's four 2nd places was a new natural order of sorts. It's as if they've pulled the last episode of a mini-series and just forgot about it.

 

But they did find time to pose the tabloid question of whether we give Celtic a guard of honour. 

#EditoriallyTakingthePish

 

They also featured Steve Clarke and his MOTY award, fair enough.

When mentioning his lack of Cup success, they said that Celtic had won the two trophies and didn't mention Alfredo Morelos with two hat-tricks* and that Rangers had put them out of both competitions. Strange, given how keen they are to bring up the fact that Aberdeen put us out of the Cup competitions #EditoriallyInconsistent 

 

To be editorially fair myself, I have to say the programme gave a surprisingly short feature on Celtic.

 

 

 

* it was actually two x 4 goal haules, with the first having a wrongly disallowed goal (No prizes for guessing what PQ said or didn't say about it back in the day). 

For PQ, it's not Alfredos goal stats they are interested in.