| That half time cringefest 17:42 - Oct 19 with 9521 views | The_Romford_Blue |
I know there was bigger problems today but wtf was that about with Wardley. There’s one thing appreciating he’s good for the club but the announcer guy (and presumably the club) are taking it too far now.
For those who weren’t there I will set the scene. We’re 2-0 down and suddenly the announcer five minutes into half time gets on the mic with ‘now it’s time. HERE. WE. GO. Ohhhhh Fabio Wardleeeyyyy’ and then proceeded to conduct the crowd into singing Wardleys name. To which we then had him introduce Wardley as if it was a boxing match (weight etc) before he came out the tunnel with the belts. The interview was fine to be fair but the cringe fest was then continued with an attempted rendition of ‘he’s one of our own’ by the half time guy on the mic.
It can’t just be me that thinks this is way over the top. We’re 2-0 down at that point remember. Just screamed tinpot. |  |
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| That half time cringefest on 17:46 - Oct 19 with 6458 views | Garv |
Yeah pretty awful.
The strange assumption that everyone inside PR is a boxing fan annoys me. Surely Wardley himself cringes a bit while he's walking out to that.
Boxing is s hite enough but when it creeps into other sports it's a bit sad. Fair enough to Ashton who presumably is pushing this, but it does need dialling down a few notches. |  |
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| That half time cringefest on 17:50 - Oct 19 with 6376 views | The_Romford_Blue |
| That half time cringefest on 17:46 - Oct 19 by Garv |
Yeah pretty awful.
The strange assumption that everyone inside PR is a boxing fan annoys me. Surely Wardley himself cringes a bit while he's walking out to that.
Boxing is s hite enough but when it creeps into other sports it's a bit sad. Fair enough to Ashton who presumably is pushing this, but it does need dialling down a few notches. |
I can only assume end game for Ashton is Wardley getting a title shot and Portman road then hosting it.
Not sure we need such OTT intros etc in days today when we are losing though. The ‘now it’s time. Here. We. Go’ nonsense suggested it was what the crowd had turned up for ffs | |
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| That half time cringefest on 17:52 - Oct 19 with 6321 views | Garv |
| That half time cringefest on 17:50 - Oct 19 by The_Romford_Blue |
I can only assume end game for Ashton is Wardley getting a title shot and Portman road then hosting it.
Not sure we need such OTT intros etc in days today when we are losing though. The ‘now it’s time. Here. We. Go’ nonsense suggested it was what the crowd had turned up for ffs |
It's what boxing is to be fair.
Like I say, total s hite. | |
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| That half time cringefest on 17:53 - Oct 19 with 6281 views | Sarge |
Thankfully it didn’t sound like any of the crowd joined in so perhaps they’ll take the hint. |  | | |
| That half time cringefest on 17:56 - Oct 19 with 6238 views | _clive_baker_ |
So cringe. By all means get him on for an interview but that stadium announcer can’t read a room, and the forced fun BS makes me want to vom. |  | | |
| That half time cringefest on 17:57 - Oct 19 with 6215 views | Funge |
The announcer bloke needs to wind it in, IMO.
Screaming at the top of his voice 'BLUE ARMY!' etc etc which, in the NSL at least, was met with general disinterest. Comes across like he's loaded up on Haribo and Red Bull.
Agree re: Wardley too. Absolutely fair enough to get him on with the belt, but the whole interview was hyperactive, to say the least.
As you say, bigger problems today, though. That's about as weak as I've seen us under McK - worryingly, West Ham was just as weak.
Mad that it basically took the appearance of the Championship team to give Everton anything to think about at all. [Post edited 19 Oct 2024 17:59]
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| That half time cringefest on 18:03 - Oct 19 with 6083 views | pointofblue |
| That half time cringefest on 17:56 - Oct 19 by _clive_baker_ |
So cringe. By all means get him on for an interview but that stadium announcer can’t read a room, and the forced fun BS makes me want to vom. |
I think this was the key issue - not reading the room. If we had been 2-0 up and the place was rocking, then it would have worked. As it was, everyone was digesting the worst home performance of the McKenna era and couldn't give a damn.
And people moaned about Mark Murphy? | |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:03 - Oct 19 with 6089 views | Blaggers12 |
| That half time cringefest on 17:57 - Oct 19 by Funge |
The announcer bloke needs to wind it in, IMO.
Screaming at the top of his voice 'BLUE ARMY!' etc etc which, in the NSL at least, was met with general disinterest. Comes across like he's loaded up on Haribo and Red Bull.
Agree re: Wardley too. Absolutely fair enough to get him on with the belt, but the whole interview was hyperactive, to say the least.
As you say, bigger problems today, though. That's about as weak as I've seen us under McK - worryingly, West Ham was just as weak.
Mad that it basically took the appearance of the Championship team to give Everton anything to think about at all. [Post edited 19 Oct 2024 17:59]
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The stadium announcer is awful. Doesn't read out the away team, and reads out the Town team like we're in Vegas. That crowd doesn't need him to create an atmosphere. Leeeeeeeeeif Daaaaaa-visssssss and Wes Buuuurrrrrrrnsssss is just way over the top. | | | |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:04 - Oct 19 with 6074 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| That half time cringefest on 17:57 - Oct 19 by Funge |
The announcer bloke needs to wind it in, IMO.
Screaming at the top of his voice 'BLUE ARMY!' etc etc which, in the NSL at least, was met with general disinterest. Comes across like he's loaded up on Haribo and Red Bull.
Agree re: Wardley too. Absolutely fair enough to get him on with the belt, but the whole interview was hyperactive, to say the least.
As you say, bigger problems today, though. That's about as weak as I've seen us under McK - worryingly, West Ham was just as weak.
Mad that it basically took the appearance of the Championship team to give Everton anything to think about at all. [Post edited 19 Oct 2024 17:59]
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The championship based team played well against Liverpool too.
They know each other, the system and the patterns of play. |  |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:15 - Oct 19 with 5918 views | pointofblue |
| That half time cringefest on 18:04 - Oct 19 by Marshalls_Mullet |
The championship based team played well against Liverpool too.
They know each other, the system and the patterns of play. |
For all my... continual... posting about the centre back situation, the mix and match side played well in the second half at Brighton, Fulham and, after a slow start, Villa. We also were more than in the game for the first 35 against West Ham. Whoever plays, the issue is lack of consistency and stupid mistakes. | |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:16 - Oct 19 with 5912 views | Churchman |
| That half time cringefest on 17:46 - Oct 19 by Garv |
Yeah pretty awful.
The strange assumption that everyone inside PR is a boxing fan annoys me. Surely Wardley himself cringes a bit while he's walking out to that.
Boxing is s hite enough but when it creeps into other sports it's a bit sad. Fair enough to Ashton who presumably is pushing this, but it does need dialling down a few notches. |
It certainly does. Watching Ashton grovel round Wardley is not good, any more than having him in on the parade bus was at the end of last season. Cringeworthy as far as I’m concerned.
He’s a boxer who has just smashed somebody’s face in. Great. British champion - well done, but he is not turning out for the team and has no connection with the club beyond his support and a front row seat in the Directors Box. Wardley’s connection to ITFC is basically no different to 30k others. Maybe he’s putting money in, sponsoring in the way Sheeran has and if that’s the case I’m more than happy to be corrected. |  | | |
| That half time cringefest on 18:18 - Oct 19 with 5898 views | Reuser_is_God |
So embarrassing.
Peppa Pig at West Ham was better. |  |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:19 - Oct 19 with 5861 views | pointofblue |
| That half time cringefest on 18:16 - Oct 19 by Churchman |
It certainly does. Watching Ashton grovel round Wardley is not good, any more than having him in on the parade bus was at the end of last season. Cringeworthy as far as I’m concerned.
He’s a boxer who has just smashed somebody’s face in. Great. British champion - well done, but he is not turning out for the team and has no connection with the club beyond his support and a front row seat in the Directors Box. Wardley’s connection to ITFC is basically no different to 30k others. Maybe he’s putting money in, sponsoring in the way Sheeran has and if that’s the case I’m more than happy to be corrected. |
He's doing community work in the club's name - that's was mentioned during today's interview. | |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:26 - Oct 19 with 5774 views | Benters |
| That half time cringefest on 18:18 - Oct 19 by Reuser_is_God |
So embarrassing.
Peppa Pig at West Ham was better. |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:40 - Oct 19 with 5592 views | No_Moore_Kieffer |
Wouldn't leave such a sour taste if it wasn't for the team bus situation last year, and the fact he literally supported Man United until it became convenient |  | | |
| That half time cringefest on 18:40 - Oct 19 with 5571 views | Churchman |
| That half time cringefest on 18:19 - Oct 19 by pointofblue |
He's doing community work in the club's name - that's was mentioned during today's interview. |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:41 - Oct 19 with 5554 views | LittleBoyBlue1 |
| That half time cringefest on 18:19 - Oct 19 by pointofblue |
He's doing community work in the club's name - that's was mentioned during today's interview. |
Like teaching kids how to crack jaws? | | | |
| That half time cringefest on 18:48 - Oct 19 with 5454 views | Jimmy86 |
| That half time cringefest on 17:46 - Oct 19 by Garv |
Yeah pretty awful.
The strange assumption that everyone inside PR is a boxing fan annoys me. Surely Wardley himself cringes a bit while he's walking out to that.
Boxing is s hite enough but when it creeps into other sports it's a bit sad. Fair enough to Ashton who presumably is pushing this, but it does need dialling down a few notches. |
Don't be silly, Wardley will be absolutely lapping it up! It's probably also his people/him pushing it and not the club.. the way he gatecrashed the promotion celebrations told us that... Made himself front and centre..
He wants a fight at Portman Road.. yet, Ashton has seemingly never gone for it, as yet.. | | | |
| That half time cringefest on 18:49 - Oct 19 with 5440 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
The guy on the mic is so annoying.
Somehow he’s worse than Mark Murphy. |  |
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| This, times about 2 million. (n/t) on 18:50 - Oct 19 with 5415 views | Bloots |
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| That half time cringefest on 18:58 - Oct 19 with 5278 views | Jrm_72 |
Agree agree agree.
I mentioned on another post about how unwelcome an appearance from Fabio Freeloader was, after the first half ended with us getting nowhere near the ball for a good 5mins straight.
Chalked down to one of those annoying things the club management does regardless of what fans want or feel. Ref also losing the cool artwork from the programme front 3 games in | | | |
| That half time cringefest on 19:22 - Oct 19 with 5078 views | Zx1988 |
| That half time cringefest on 18:48 - Oct 19 by Jimmy86 |
Don't be silly, Wardley will be absolutely lapping it up! It's probably also his people/him pushing it and not the club.. the way he gatecrashed the promotion celebrations told us that... Made himself front and centre..
He wants a fight at Portman Road.. yet, Ashton has seemingly never gone for it, as yet.. |
I think it's probably six and two threes.
Wardley goes on about wanting to fight at PR, but is probably also playing hard to get. It wouldn't surprise me if he's dangling the carrot of a fight, and Ashton is giving him Norwich tickets and, essentially, and access all areas pass, for fear of scaring off his cash cow.
A bit like an unruly kid at private school, whose father has promised to buy the school a new building if the son doesn't get expelled, or that episode of The Simpsons where Bart becomes all powerful and nobody dares do anything that might incur his wrath. [Post edited 19 Oct 2024 19:30]
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| That half time cringefest on 19:31 - Oct 19 with 4951 views | StNeotsBlue |
| That half time cringefest on 19:22 - Oct 19 by Zx1988 |
I think it's probably six and two threes.
Wardley goes on about wanting to fight at PR, but is probably also playing hard to get. It wouldn't surprise me if he's dangling the carrot of a fight, and Ashton is giving him Norwich tickets and, essentially, and access all areas pass, for fear of scaring off his cash cow.
A bit like an unruly kid at private school, whose father has promised to buy the school a new building if the son doesn't get expelled, or that episode of The Simpsons where Bart becomes all powerful and nobody dares do anything that might incur his wrath. [Post edited 19 Oct 2024 19:30]
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Wardley will have little or no say in where he fights at this stage of his career, Hearn will take him where the dough is, Saudi Arabia. [Post edited 19 Oct 2024 19:36]
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| That half time cringefest on 19:39 - Oct 19 with 4786 views | The_Romford_Blue |
| That half time cringefest on 17:57 - Oct 19 by Funge |
The announcer bloke needs to wind it in, IMO.
Screaming at the top of his voice 'BLUE ARMY!' etc etc which, in the NSL at least, was met with general disinterest. Comes across like he's loaded up on Haribo and Red Bull.
Agree re: Wardley too. Absolutely fair enough to get him on with the belt, but the whole interview was hyperactive, to say the least.
As you say, bigger problems today, though. That's about as weak as I've seen us under McK - worryingly, West Ham was just as weak.
Mad that it basically took the appearance of the Championship team to give Everton anything to think about at all. [Post edited 19 Oct 2024 17:59]
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Today’s the first time I’ve conceded we might be in trouble this year.
I always thought our spirit and fight would be enough. After all Luton gave it a good go last year on spirit and fight and I think we’re a better team than them with better players and a better manager.
But today we looked devoid of ideas going forward and seriously lacking in confidence defensively. Barely won a second ball in the middle of the park as well in the first half really didn’t help matters. | |
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| That half time cringefest on 19:44 - Oct 19 with 4733 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| That half time cringefest on 19:39 - Oct 19 by The_Romford_Blue |
Today’s the first time I’ve conceded we might be in trouble this year.
I always thought our spirit and fight would be enough. After all Luton gave it a good go last year on spirit and fight and I think we’re a better team than them with better players and a better manager.
But today we looked devoid of ideas going forward and seriously lacking in confidence defensively. Barely won a second ball in the middle of the park as well in the first half really didn’t help matters. |
Second balls. Jesus Christ.
I thought we had been banned from winning them today. Every time the ball dropped, I knew it would be a white shirt who picks it up. | |
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