What about the 'Jonathan Woodgate making a cup of tea'. For f@@ks sake

They now do things just to piss off Pools and Darlo fans, that much is obvious......

Darlo fans wont care tonight Jonny,they werent playing

I was talking in the general sense.......

sorry to say but the coverage we and darlo get of our so called local tv and radio stations is totally pathetic,even if the so called big three are,nt playing they find something else like the fooking newcastle eagles chuffing basketball as if i,am interested in that load of codswallop ,sorry rant over

This station really winds me up. It is supposed to serve the whole of the community not just a part of it. It is obviously run from boro by boro fans - playing repeats of boro 'action' from a previous game when there is a live match being played by a local team?? Whats that all about?

We should get together and make our objections known....

or do the obvious thing - simply never tune into it!!!

Well the problem with that is there is even less coverage on the other channels, and they have adverts on all the time. Looks like I might have to invest in a digital radio at some point.

The problem with that is that digital radio was no better last night. They only use the extra options when Boro are playing.

no point in doing that until the arseholes who run the show have disappeared. Ivan Ash?? Do me a favour!!!!

Agreed - he makes Brian Arrandale look competent!

Arthur Pickering is the best Pools commentator I've heard, tells it like it is, both on air and as a scribe in the local rag.

I remember way back when he was the Pools reporter for the Mail. That was in the 70's I think - he did seem good from what I remember

Didn't Radio Tees change its name to TFM years ago?

That boro twat Mark Page who used to work for Radio Tees before moving to Radio 1 now works for Radio Tees formerly Radio Cleveland but not the same as Radio Tees. So Radio Tees is not BBC Tees, Radio Tees is Radio TFM. And BBC Cleveland is radio Tees which is not TFM. None of these are Radio 1 or Radio 2 come to that although I believe that there is a tie in between Radio Tees and Metro Radio but not BBC Tees.

Clear ?

I always thought Mark Page was a Hartlepudlian?

he was on the team sheet for Aldershot away match, 82/83. They spelt it Mark Cage, though. Some prankster had rang up Aldershot with the team sheet which they promptly sent off to the printers, no questions asked.
Also on the team sheet were Arthur Pickering, Vince Barker and Reg Smythe. One or two actual players were mentioned as well.

I was at that match - I thought Vince Barker had a very good game.

you get to hear them screaming while they are coming in their pants, commentating on a Boro throw-in inside the opponents' half.

It is true, replays on the radio are comical to the edge of farcical. At the time it's at least informative but later on its just a man shouting.

Particularly annoying was when I was driving up to the Pool on a matchday and when I got in range of BBC Boro I'd tune in to see if there was any late news, team selections etc and I'd ALWAYS get some shouty shite from last weeks Boro game or David bloody Hodgson moaning about silly mistakes and the last piece in his jigsaw after a 1-0 home loss to Torquay, followed by one sentence like 'Oh and Hartlepool are at home to Benfica.....we'll be covering Boro Under 13's at High Hesleden.'

Spot on Kev - what has happened to Brian Arrandale anyway? He seems to have been usurped by this Ivan Ash character