Sums it up sky bias

They have it spot on - no bias
All they had to add was and ‘they are unbeaten v Boro in 3 games’

All fair enough for me
 
It doesnt upset me at all because why would i give a sht about sky or any other national media outlet. The bias on local tv used to annoy me years back because it was clear it was an intentional disrespect to boro it was that extreme. Havent watched tv for years, i dont even own one, so it doesnt bother me now. Turn off, tune out and drop the chip - they aint worth it
 
I'd rather the media bigged them up and ignored us. The more quotes like this, praise for their cracking season, let's us just fly under the radar a little and get on with the job in hand.

And I do hope Coventry are get a teeny bit over confident based on their last trip to the Riverside.......

I just hope they don't adopt the same tactics - 6/7 men behind the ball defensive set up and Gyokeres conjuring up some individual magic with their "stock ball into the channel".

Would it be a shock if this is how they set up? Longer the game goes on even play for Penna's.......?
 
Jedi boro said:
Is it really.

I disagree
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If this was the other way around and we’d come back from Division Four to the Division Two playoffs in about 5 years, having had to play our home games in, say, Darlington and Barnsley for two years and been driven to the brink of bankruptcy by a set of horrible owners, and we were about to play a team tipped for promotion and the bookies’ favourites for the promotion… you’d be saying stuff like ‘it’s a free hit for us, they’re the favourites, we’ve come from nowhere, nothing to lose, the pressure is theirs,’ etc.

I just can’t see how you can look at those quotes from whichever Sky pundit it was and decide it’s proof of anti-Boro bias. It just isn’t.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
What they’ve said is all true. It’s a free hit for Coventry. We were tipped for promotion and the pressure is on Boro, not them
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With all due respect, that’s bollox. We are marginal favourites, but not by much. There is an expectation from cov fans that they keep it tight and try and nick it. They are in this, and could sneak it. A free hit is when you go away to Man City as a bottom half side. There is pressure on them, their fans expect them to keep up their good away from. They’ve lost about 1 in 14 and their fans think that can continue.
 
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BoroMart said:
With all due respect, that’s bollox. We are marginal favourites, but not by much. There is an expectation from cov fans that they keep it tight and try and nick it. They are in this, and could sneak it. A free hit is when you go away to Man City as a bottom half side. There is pressure on them, their fans expect them to keep up their food away from. They’ve lost about 1 in 14 and their fans th ink that can continue.
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2/5 v 7/4 isn’t what I would call a marginal favourite.
 
Absolutely disgusting. They should just say something like “Coventry might win. Or Boro might win” and leave it at that. Nice and balanced and non committal.

To suggest this is set up nicely for Coventry because they had no expectations at the start of the season is an insult to this historic football club.

No respect. Disgraceful.

Yours offendedly
Linny
 
It's not even a free hit anyway. A free hit usually refers to a game no-one expects you to win but a defeat makes no difference to the overall season. Wednesday's game is the opposite of that. I doubt Coventry will get as close to promotion again for a while.
 
BoroMart said:
With all due respect, that’s bollox. We are marginal favourites, but not by much. There is an expectation from cov fans that they keep it tight and try and nick it. They are in this, and could sneak it. A free hit is when you go away to Man City as a bottom half side. There is pressure on them, their fans expect them to keep up their good away from. They’ve lost about 1 in 14 and their fans think that can continue.
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You’re arguing about something different.

Like it or not, Boro going up this season would be the least interesting thing to come out of the playoffs. To an outside observer. We were tipped to go up and spent a big chunk of cash - again.

The others: Sunderland have been in the third division and have got into the playoffs in their first season back, Coventry have been down to the fourth tier and the edge of bankruptcy, and been homeless for two seasons, and Luton have been down to the fifth tier(!) and the edge of bankruptcy, slowly grinding their way back and finishing 3rd with one of the smallest budgets in the league. Boro finished 7th last season.

That’s not to say there isn’t anything interesting about Boro’s story because there clearly is - Carrick has done a fantastic job and we, for the most part, play really entertaining, progressive football that is a pleasure to watch. But in comparison to the other three clubs and their recent histories, stories, narratives - which is the important thing here, let’s face it, when discussing TV companies and pundits - the Boro moving from 7th to 4th just doesn’t have the same sense of intrigue to it.

Luton were there last year but they’re still an amazing story because they’ve repeated it, with a tiny budget. Coventry are a similar story to Luton but a bigger club. Sunderland are in their first season back. Boro are the favourites for the tie tomorrow.

Acknowledging that there is slightly more intrigue about the other three clubs involved this season, or saying there’s less pressure on them because of what they’ve spent, where they’ve come from, etc - is just not the same thing as being biased.

You read this board and its amazing how determined people are to find an anti-Boro agenda when there just isn’t one. Pundits and journos may get their facts wrong at times but they get them wrong about all clubs outside the top six or seven, and even then it’s touch and go. I used to think everyone had a grudge against Boro when I was a teenager but I realised that actually most people just don’t care enough about us. We’re just another football team from just another town.

Commentators, pundits, officials… they are not biased against us.
 
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viv_andersons_nana said:
You’re arguing about something different.

Like it or not, Boro going up this season would be the least interesting thing to come out of the playoffs. To an outside observer. We were tipped to go up and spent a big chunk of cash - again.

The others: Sunderland have been in the third division and have got into the playoffs in their first season back, Coventry have been down to the fourth tier and the edge of bankruptcy, and been homeless for two seasons, and Luton have been down to the fifth tier(!) and the edge of bankruptcy, slowly grinding their way back and 3rd with one of the smallest budgets in the league. Boro finished 7th last season.

That’s not to say there isn’t anything interesting about Boro’s story because there clearly is - Carrick has done a fantastic job and we, for the most part, play really entertaining, progressive footbsll that is a pleasure to watch. But in comparison to the other three clubs and their recent histories, stories, narratives - which is the important thing here, let’s face it, when discussing TV companies and pundits - the Boro moving from 7th to 4th just doesn’t have the same sense of intrigue to it.

Luton were there last year but they’re still an amazing story because they’ve repeated it, with a tiny budget. Coventry are a similar story but a bigger club. Sunderland are in their first season back. Boro are the favourites for the tie tomorrow.

Acknowledging that there is slightly more intrigue about the other three clubs involved this season, or saying there’s less pressure on them because of what they’ve spent, where they’ve come from, etc - is just not the same thing as being biased.

You read this board and its amazing how determined people are to find an anti-Boro agenda when there just isn’t one. Pundits and journos may get their facts wrong at times but they get them wrong about all clubs outside the top six or seven, and even then it’s touch and go. I used to think everyone had a grudge against Boro when I was a teenager but I realised that actually most people just don’t care enough about us. We’re just another football team from just another town.

Commentators, pundits, officials… they are not biased against us.
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Dont come round here speaking common sense. It's a conspiracy from the FA down, and Sky, the BBC and ITV all hate us.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Commentators, pundits, officials… they are not biased against us.
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I agree with almost all of your post, but there definitely will be individuals who are biased towards and against clubs.

I don't think there was an anti-Middlesbrough angle to the commentary on Sunday, but I do think it was favoured towards Coventry.

Part of that will undoubtedly be because theirs is the more interesting story this season, and it was a home game.

At the same time, Carrick has got more attention than Robins this season and is definitely given the most favourable coverage of the four play-off managers because he's the biggest name.
 
TeaCider said:
I agree with almost all of your post, but there definitely will be individuals who are biased towards and against clubs.

I don't think there was an anti-Middlesbrough angle to the commentary on Sunday, but I do think it was favoured towards Coventry.

Part of that will undoubtedly be because theirs is the more interesting story this season, and it was a home game.

At the same time, Carrick has got more attention than Robins this season and is definitely given the most favourable coverage of the four play-off managers because he's the biggest name.
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But that's different to bias, that's because journalists need to find "an angle" to make the story more interesting, which they do. However some on here then think it'a all a massive conspiracy theory and Rupert Murdoch is sat in a dark rooming plotting ways in which Sky can downplay any Boro achievements.
 
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