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Post by interceptor on Feb 27, 2015 6:55:59 GMT
I liked Twentystone as a player during the moustachioed years. I think he has carved out a decent career at radio brizzle moving from sports journalist to everyday presenter. Today I have two massive problems with him which is making it impossible to listen to his shows.
1) he says 'this aaaaaafternoon' constantly, stretches the word out but more importantly he says it more than any other word in his whole show. It's driving me so mad I end up counting. Just listen. It does not matter when his show is on either He says it morning, noon and night.
2) Geoffs quest. It's crap. His quest should be to find another quiz.
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Post by brisgas123 on Feb 27, 2015 7:02:28 GMT
Don't listen to it then...
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Post by interceptor on Feb 27, 2015 7:06:41 GMT
Thanks very much for sound advice. I really was struggling .
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Feb 27, 2015 7:19:33 GMT
When Ben Prater was presenter of drive time it was an informative local news magazine show. Under Twentyman's stewardship it has degenerated into not much more than a lazy trivial quiz show.
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Post by bluegashead on Feb 27, 2015 7:30:59 GMT
I cant listen to him anymore myself, I also find myself counting how many times he says scroll of honour, I live in a small cul de sac and he said it 5 times before I got out of my road. Maybe he hasn't got anything else to say but 5 times in the space of 90 seconds is ridiculous.
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Post by Alveston Gas on Feb 27, 2015 7:59:06 GMT
I think he does a brilliant job of presenting a mundane radio show with a budget smaller than Altringham. Really the bloke is a top chap and was fantastic for the Rovers and has carved out a nice little job with the BBC - deserves some credit!
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Post by badbloodash on Feb 27, 2015 8:51:25 GMT
I think he does a brilliant job of presenting a mundane radio show with a budget smaller than Altringham. Really the bloke is a top chap and was fantastic for the Rovers and has carved out a nice little job with the BBC - deserves some credit! Won't have a bad work said about the bloke he was a key player in the 1990 team a man who always had time for the fans and on a personal level when I was seriously ill helped organise a charity match between rovers legends and my own team hill fields old boys along with billy Ocean ,billy Clarke ,frankie Bennett ,lee noble gave up their time these boys were not only great rovers players but top men off the pitch and let's remember you could have some knob like Bobby gould on instead |
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Post by interceptor on Feb 27, 2015 9:30:09 GMT
Like I said, I liked him as a player, he was a capable footballer at the level and think he has done a good job at Radio Bristol. I am delighted that he has done such good charity work, it really is commendable and I am not being sarcastic in the slightest.
If you are a radio presenter it is critical not to use the same words repetitively. IF you have to listen to the word Aaaafternoon an unprecedented amount of times coupled with the long drawn out Geoffs quest, as a listener you are going to switch off. My problem with this is then I cannot hear any news about Rovers!
I would switch on again if he could temper This Aaaafternoon with; Today, between 3 and 5pm, before 6 o clock, on this Saturday or any other words that are not aaafternoon. I bet you are getting pissed off just reading it!
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Post by c4h10 on Feb 27, 2015 12:53:30 GMT
I more than liked Geoff as a player. He came to Rovers as a 27 year old, from a team that had finished at the bottom of the league. He was put into a team of kids, and it was a case of "cometh the hour, cometh the man". He was as much responsible for Rovers ascendancy as Gerry Francis, in my opinion. I always felt that Rovers should have appointed him as manager, with Olly as assistant. As regards radio, when he first appeared he was about as exciting as a block of wood, but he soon learned his new trade. I like his programme. What I don't like is that he is still head of sport while he prefers being a general broadcaster. My Friday night used to be "The News Quiz" on Radio Four at 6.30; "Twentyman Talks Back" on Radio Bristol from 7.00; then "Friday Night is Music Night" on Radio 2 from 8.00. For years.
That got messed up by moving his programme forward to start with, and then totally abandoning it (whilst pretending it was being moved to Saturday evening, following the match commentries; the Saturday programme is, in fact, no different to what it always was). I think Geoff should hand the reins of the sports programmes on. Let's have "Somebody Else Talks Back" after his programme at seven-o-clock. Rant over.
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Post by brizzle on Feb 27, 2015 16:21:45 GMT
Geoff Twentyman was a stalwart of BRFC under Bobby Gould and particularly Gerry Francis. He was a very good player. who seemed to care about the club and its supporters. He was integral to our success in that era, and in many ways as much of a major cog as Ian Holloway was, just a bit quieter that's all. But for me Geoff blotted his copybook when he left the club in 1993 to go to Ireland, when for whatever he delivered a withering broadside at the club, and using the word ''amateurish'' too. Now all of us who have supported BRFC for longer than five minutes might privately agree, but you wouldn't want (or expect) your former centre half who had performed heroic deeds for the club for the previous seven years to be making such comments publicly. Not least of all because it might give some comfort to our cousins south of the river. Now I don't know the reason for his uncharacteristic outburst, but I assume that it was frustration and (perhaps) disappointment that he hadn't been appointed manager when Francis left for QPR in 1991. Who knows, eh? In any event he did return a couple of years later as Holloway's assistant, but that never really took off, and before you could say Jack Robinson he was gone again, this time never to return. But Geoff Twentyman is not alone in venting his frustration on leaving Rovers. Over the years I have witnessed many players depart for pastures new, some couldn't wait to go, some were indifferent and others positively didn't want to leave . . . like our Geoff. But it does seem to be a fairly modern phenomenon to me. One such player who didn't want to leave, and always stands out for me was Ray Mabbutt. Now I grew up watching Ray, and an absolute pleasure it was too. He was brave, skillful and tenacious, a vital cog in BRFC's wheel for a decade. The sight of him ploughing through the Eastville mud was a joy to behold. But of course there comes a day, and when it came Ray's way he didn't take the news well at all. It seemed to me that the soap opera was mostly played out on the back page of the Evening Post, he saying that he was fit and hungry whilst the club saying thanks . . . but no thanks. In what was perceived by many as an act of revenge by Ray on the club, he sent his eldest son Kevin to the Dark Side as an apprentice, thereby depriving the Rovers of what was potentially a good acquisition. But the younger son Gary, refused to follow his elder brother to Trashton, saying that he didn't want to be Kevin's shadow. All's well that ends well, eh?  |
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Post by LJG on Feb 27, 2015 16:47:20 GMT
Why be a ? Don't tune in to Jack FM and listen to them tug one off over the sheeds then.
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Post by bluegashead on Feb 27, 2015 17:57:27 GMT
I really like the bloke he just goes on a bit lol
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Post by kingswood Polak on Feb 27, 2015 18:44:13 GMT
I think he does a brilliant job of presenting a mundane radio show with a budget smaller than Altringham. Really the bloke is a top chap and was fantastic for the Rovers and has carved out a nice little job with the BBC - deserves some credit! Won't have a bad work said about the bloke he was a key player in the 1990 team a man who always had time for the fans and on a personal level when I was seriously ill helped organise a charity match between rovers legends and my own team hill fields old boys along with billy Ocean ,billy Clarke ,frankie Bennett ,lee noble gave up their time these boys were not only great rovers players but top men off the pitch and let's remember you could have some knob like Bobby gould on instead Are you all good now Dave ? |
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Post by a more piratey game on Feb 28, 2015 0:17:34 GMT
I think he does a noticeably good job. The 'aafffternoon' thing is down to his Scouse roots. I can cope with that. Very good player, very good local broadcaster in my books
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Post by a more piratey game on Feb 28, 2015 0:19:27 GMT
I think he does a brilliant job of presenting a mundane radio show with a budget smaller than Altringham. Really the bloke is a top chap and was fantastic for the Rovers and has carved out a nice little job with the BBC - deserves some credit! Won't have a bad work said about the bloke he was a key player in the 1990 team a man who always had time for the fans and on a personal level when I was seriously ill helped organise a charity match between rovers legends and my own team hill fields old boys along with billy Ocean ,billy Clarke ,frankie Bennett ,lee noble gave up their time these boys were not only great rovers players but top men off the pitch and let's remember you could have some knob like Bobby gould on instead Were you perchance one of those who used to turn up in 'Hillfields Gas' caps? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 0:32:15 GMT
He struck me as a bit pompous but I judged him on playing for the gas which he was very good at.
Wether it was a tash or a caterpillar we'll never know.
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Post by Bath Gas on Feb 28, 2015 6:46:58 GMT
He struck me as a bit pompous but I judged him on playing for the gas which he was very good at. Wether it was a tash or a caterpillar we'll never know. He's a very down to earth bloke off the pitch, loves his sport and gives quite a lot of his free time to helping out with charity stuff. |
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