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Ractrac

Ractrac

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Does anyone know why is there no commentary for away games on ifollow?
 
speedie87

speedie87

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There was Clive and oggy until the recent lockdown , then bbc stopped their commentators travelling. A couple of matches have had a neutral comment or instead. If you get no commentary you can always switch to home commentary.
 
pastythegreat

pastythegreat

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Ractrac said:
Does anyone know why is there no commentary for away games on ifollow?
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Clive and Oggy dont travel to away games because of lockdown rules. They commentate from home using ifollow pictures as their visual. They have commentary on CWR but it will be slightly behind time as they're commentating from ifollow pictures which are a min or so behind time so they would in turn be a min or so behind time on our picture.

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LincolnNick

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superskyblue said:
Much better with no commentary IMO
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I agree and I have now turned all commentary off iFollow. The away commentary is dire and usually incredibly biased. I prefer just to watch the game and formulate my own opinion. I still find it incredibly stressful , far more than attending the games in person.
 
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bluesky88

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WhitwellNick said:
I agree and I have now turned all commentary off iFollow. The away commentary is dire and usually incredibly biased. I prefer just to watch the game and formulate my own opinion. I still find it incredibly stressful , far more than attending the games in person.
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Apologies for being a bit dim but how do you change the commentary please.
 
JimmyHillsbeard

JimmyHillsbeard

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bluesky88 said:
Apologies for being a bit dim but how do you change the commentary please.
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under settings you can toggle between Home and Away. Saturday’s co-commentator at Ewood Park was hilarious - he kept screaming “oh no” every time we attacked in the second half and thought Biamou had been a threat all game.
 
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dadgad

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Oggy is virtually illiterate and the commentariat dreadful. Far better with just ambient noise. 👍
 
Terry_dactyl

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WhitwellNick said:
I agree and I have now turned all commentary off iFollow. The away commentary is dire and usually incredibly biased. I prefer just to watch the game and formulate my own opinion. I still find it incredibly stressful , far more than attending the games in person.
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I’ve watched a couple of games without commentary and liked it but on the whole have enjoyed listening to the away commentators and found them not to be particularly biased. Often refreshingly honest. I seem to remember Middlesbrough’s being good...although I’ve watched so many games this year they’ve all merged into one.
I’ve really enjoyed Oggy’s dulcet tones and he often makes me look like a tactical genius as he regularly makes the same comments as me about a match, just after I’ve said them! Although he uses his dulcet tones, while I’m screaming at the telly!
 
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Cov kid 55

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I must admit that I enjoy Oggy’s insight, and although Clive makes mistakes, I think he’s ok. I also like the fact that they’re pretty unbiased, even handed. I missed the commentary on Saturday, but each to their own. Generally I have found away commentators to be ok, and not too biased. The big exception was at Norwich where the guy hardly mentioned Cov, was totally focused on how good Norwich were, even though we outplayed them in the second half. He was horrendous.
 
Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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I noticed those pricks doing the Blackburn commentary barely celebrated when they scored. It was really strange.

That's one thing I like about CWR. They might be massively overreacting sometimes (I'm looking at you Clive), but when a goal goes in there is normally some kind of shouting and screaming.

The La Liga Santander commentary on YouTube is the best though. They stream all the games on there and the neutral commentators go mad. The other day I was watching a match and the commentator was screaming 'Goaaaaaaaaalll' for about three minutes. He was still going when the other team then scored. Hahaha.
 
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Greggs

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Clive has been giving Oggy a lift to work....................
 
mrtrench

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kg82 said:
What does being illiterate have to do with commentary?
Must be just me that can’t stand it with no commentary. Might be better if there was a crowd. But as it is, random shouts and mostly quiet just feels wrong!
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I didn't know that Oggy is illiterate but I think it's great that despite that he's had a great career in football and is now ending it as a commentator. Dyslexia I presume? He'd have had it hard at school as it wasn't recognised back then. Fair play to him.
 
Frostie

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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
I noticed those pricks doing the Blackburn commentary barely celebrated when they scored. It was really strange.

That's one thing I like about CWR. They might be massively overreacting sometimes (I'm looking at you Clive), but when a goal goes in there is normally some kind of shouting and screaming.
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They sounded absolutely downtrodden didn't they? Sounded like they knew it was inevitable when we scored too. If Mowbray has managed to even suck the passion out of the commentators you can see why so many fans are unhappy!
 
JimmyHillsbeard

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mrtrench said:
I didn't know that Oggy is illiterate but I think it's great that despite that he's had a great career in football and is now ending it as a commentator. Dyslexia I presume? He'd have had it hard at school as it wasn't recognised back then. Fair play to him.
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hmmm. I have to say I think Oggy is pretty good as a summariser and notices and comments on a lot of tactical developments that most local radio football commentary would miss.

That said, I would have thought that if you had a surname that so many people struggled to say for so long during your career (Ogrizovic) and a son-in-law (and grandchildren) called Edjungele you might be a bit more careful about how names are supposed to be pronounced.
 
fernandopartridge

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JimmyHillsbeard said:
hmmm. I have to say I think Oggy is pretty good as a summariser and notices and comments on a lot of tactical developments that most local radio football commentary would miss.

That said, I would have thought that if you had a surname that so many people struggled to say for so long during your career (Ogrizovic) and a son-in-law (and grandchildren) called Edjungele you might be a bit more careful about how names are supposed to be pronounced.
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Oggy came up with his own nickname
 
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JimmyHillsbeard said:
hmmm. I have to say I think Oggy is pretty good as a summariser and notices and comments on a lot of tactical developments that most local radio football commentary would miss.

That said, I would have thought that if you had a surname that so many people struggled to say for so long during your career (Ogrizovic) and a son-in-law (and grandchildren) called Edjungele you might be a bit more careful about how names are supposed to be pronounced.
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I think Oggy is good and seems to have lots of good insights which some former players don't. Having said that I don't mind not having commentary. It's not like we have any when we are in the ground.
 
Orca

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Got to agree with many, I'm pro-Oggy. When they announced he'd be the permanent co-commentator, I thought it would be terrible. He's provided good insight on a number of occasions that fans wouldn't necessarily think about, certainly me anyway, but I'm not an expecially high bar! I find his knowledge of opposition players and their strengths and weaknesses pretty good too. It's clear he works hard on his research.
 
kg82

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mrtrench said:
I didn't know that Oggy is illiterate but I think it's great that despite that he's had a great career in football and is now ending it as a commentator. Dyslexia I presume? He'd have had it hard at school as it wasn't recognised back then. Fair play to him.
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No no, I don’t think he is! I was just responding to the comment above because I think commentary (speaking) could be done without being literate (reading and writing)!
 
chiefdave

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shmmeee said:
Laptop to TV via HDMI cable is the accepted answer.
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Mine has started working on the TV web browser which it never used to. Oddly my Dad has the same brand TV with the same OS, even the same version, as mine and nothing but a blank screen so a bit hit and miss but worth a try.
 
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