Exiledvillan
29-08-2017, 07:38 AM
You can’t beat the feeling of being down the match when compared to watching at home, BUT, do you really ever get to see the real picture? So, when ANALYSING a match, what’s the difference to being there, constantly ducking and diving behind the 7ft fat tw@ who keeps standing at every exciting moment, and watching TV footage from 21 camera positions, pausing the footage for the loo or that crazy, where the FFF did that come from sneeze, when Hourihane pulls the trigger?
I’ve heard all the ‘yeah but I watch it back when I get home’ stuff. You’re still relying on the play back from the comfort of home. You’re effectively watching the match twice, the same as a TV viewer watching the match back again. Except the TV viewer has 2 perfect views as opposed to one and a half views. The one good view being the same view as everyone else’s two.
Take a match report from our ‘exiled bard’ Statesie, compared to the lads in the pub at full time. Now whilst the latter is a hell of a lot more enjoyable (sorry Statesie, but we have to compete with the Stella Artois and pub factors here, unless I’m reading your report in the pub of course) the report from a presumably relatively sober, but well fed Statesie, the TV viewers analysis offers a more rounded opinion to those who have not seen the match at all.
As I said earlier, the match, atmosphere, the craic, the whole day are unbeatable, but when it comes to analysing key moments, we don’t see the real picture, because we’re up out of our seats roaring the team on, shouting at players to cross, track back, to get the FFF up, looking down at our watch, lifting the young Villan up over/around the fat tw@’s frame.
What I’m asking for really is, for those who watch the match at home to write a little piece each match day, like Statesie used to do, and enlighten those who do not watch the match back when we get home, and especially for those of us who don’t manage to catch the match.
Cheers, Onwards n Upwards
I’ve heard all the ‘yeah but I watch it back when I get home’ stuff. You’re still relying on the play back from the comfort of home. You’re effectively watching the match twice, the same as a TV viewer watching the match back again. Except the TV viewer has 2 perfect views as opposed to one and a half views. The one good view being the same view as everyone else’s two.
Take a match report from our ‘exiled bard’ Statesie, compared to the lads in the pub at full time. Now whilst the latter is a hell of a lot more enjoyable (sorry Statesie, but we have to compete with the Stella Artois and pub factors here, unless I’m reading your report in the pub of course) the report from a presumably relatively sober, but well fed Statesie, the TV viewers analysis offers a more rounded opinion to those who have not seen the match at all.
As I said earlier, the match, atmosphere, the craic, the whole day are unbeatable, but when it comes to analysing key moments, we don’t see the real picture, because we’re up out of our seats roaring the team on, shouting at players to cross, track back, to get the FFF up, looking down at our watch, lifting the young Villan up over/around the fat tw@’s frame.
What I’m asking for really is, for those who watch the match at home to write a little piece each match day, like Statesie used to do, and enlighten those who do not watch the match back when we get home, and especially for those of us who don’t manage to catch the match.
Cheers, Onwards n Upwards