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No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 1:06 pm
by Freez
There will be nothing from the club or comms today in line with the media blackout re online hate.
This is at the request of Morecambe FC.
So no texts today. Hope you understand.

Re: IFollow thread

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 1:58 pm
by RapidShrimp
Freez wrote:There will be nothing from the club or comms today in line with the media blackout re online hate.
This is at the request of Morecambe FC.
So no texts today. Hope you understand.


So no away commentary at all? I’m all for the social media boycott, but this is pretty poor - is radio classed as social media? :?: :roll:

Re: IFollow thread

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 2:00 pm
by dannymorc1
Walsall have commentary!!

Re: IFollow thread

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 2:01 pm
by Keith
RapidShrimp wrote:So no away commentary at all? I’m all for the social media boycott, but this is pretty poor - is radio classed as social media? :?: :roll:


Have to say, I agree with you. Couldn't we tap in to Derek Quinn via BBC Radio Lancashire then?
Home commentary okay.
Away commentary not okay?

Re: IFollow thread

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 2:02 pm
by RapidShrimp
Keith wrote:
RapidShrimp wrote:So no away commentary at all? I’m all for the social media boycott, but this is pretty poor - is radio classed as social media? :?: :roll:


Have to say, I agree with you. Couldn't we tap in to Derek Quinn via BBC Radio Lancashire then?
Home commentary okay.
Away commentary not okay?


Agree with all of that, very confusing decision, and shame not to at least have Quinny, but these two seem okay so far!

Re: IFollow thread

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 2:06 pm
by Keith
Freez wrote:There will be nothing from the club or comms today in line with the media blackout re online hate.
This is at the request of Morecambe FC.
So no texts today. Hope you understand.


I took this to mean no texting in or 'interacting' with fans. No commentary is ridiculous. Wonder if Sky's games are crowd noises only? Oh... hang on...

Re: IFollow thread

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 2:17 pm
by Born again Bill
Noblot 1-0 up !

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 2:37 pm
by Keith
I have it on good authority that there are two separate issues.

The lack of commentary is because Walsall, AGAIN, do not have an ISDN line for iFollow, so Freez & Glen were unable to do commentary.

The lads were unable to clarify this, because the club have asked them not to post on Social Media and they would have been posting on behalf of the club.

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 2:49 pm
by RapidShrimp
Keith wrote:I have it on good authority that there are two separate issues.

The lack of commentary is because Walsall, AGAIN, do not have an ISDN line for iFollow, so Freez & Glen were unable to do commentary.

The lads were unable to clarify this, because the club have asked them not to post on Social Media and they would have been posting on behalf of the club.


Thanks for the information - sounds like a total farce!

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 4:58 pm
by Born again Bill
To be fair the commentators today were very good , could here someone at half time telling them we were listening :lol:

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 5:17 pm
by Little Shrimp
Born again Bill wrote:To be fair the commentators today were very good , could here someone at half time telling them we were listening :lol:


Yeah fair play to their commentators, thought they were decent! Probably could/should have done enough research to clock that we were missing 3/4 of our attacking quartet given they were from the BBC, but overall thought they made good, fair and relatively insightful observations.

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 5:26 pm
by Freez
Misleading title to this thread.
When I posted, the club had asked for a media blackout on Facebook and other media platforms in line with all other EFL clubs.
However, Walsall failed to provide a working ISDN line (as stipulated in the EFL rules and regs) for IFollow today, and as Quinny was doing live commentary of the whole game on a Digital Radio Lancs stream, they couldn’t broadcast to both Lancs and IFollow, so I rang Ifollow and informed them they would need to stream the home comms to both clubs.
Tbf, I also spoke with the EFL who contacted me as to the nature of the problem, and informed them of the lack of a working ISDN.
So as Keith alluded to,it was the club following the media blackout, and Walsall taking it a step further by not supplying the requisite working technology! Of course, we obeyed the media blackout, which meant we couldn’t tell anyone why we weren’t commentating!!
We will be back for the decider at the Mazuma next week, fingers crossed!

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 5:31 pm
by tim-sanchez
Born again Bill wrote:To be fair the commentators today were very good , could here someone at half time telling them we were listening :lol:


I thought they were good as well, much better than some we've put up with this season

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 5:47 pm
by Bare bum
They were fair and balanced and reasonably knowledgable even though they called us Tranmere a couple of times.
I liked the comment on Yann Songo'o "He's a big unit" - yep, a chest freezer, I thought...

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 6:03 pm
by Keith
Freez wrote:Misleading title to this thread.


I'd changed the title because there was already an iFollow thread, where there were comments about the game, and before I knew why there wasn't any commentary. I explained what was going on when I was given permission to share the info.

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 7:13 pm
by Freez
I know, I realised that, thanks for the update.
It’s going to be a long week :roll:

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2021 11:36 pm
by Keith
Freez wrote:I know, I realised that, thanks for the update.
It’s going to be a long week :roll:


Is is Saturday yet???

Re: No Morecambe iFollow at Walsall

PostPosted: Sun May 02, 2021 4:53 am
by Westgate Wanderer
Are we there yet?