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Earlsdon_Skyblue1 · Mar 10, 2026

I don't really see what the issue is here to be honest. It is true he hasn't been playing much, and it is true that he isn't happy about it.

I watched the interview and he does talk about the team as the priorty, which is great, and what you have to come expect from our players who seem to uphold good standards and be professional. I suppose they could have gone with a better headline to reflect that, but equally if he hadn't said anything here I wouldn't have even noticed. I feel as if this reaction is a little bit over the top from him, which has now made it about himself.

SBT · Mar 10, 2026

Flying Fokker said:
He wasn’t trying to upset the apple cart.

It was a very measured interview by him.

CWR interviews are poor. I know Lorna Bailey is a fan, but her stint on the City games was poor. She was too close to her emotions and was negative even during games we won.

Sorry to say that having watched the interview back, Woolfy is being a bit precious here. His mentions about the season being difficult for him and not being the season he imagined are obviously some of the most noteworthy/unusual parts of what is otherwise a pretty bog standard interview. So you can understand why someone else at CWR picked it out, because that’s their job.

I can also understand Woolfenden being frustrated at that being the takeaway from the interview, but ultimately if he wants the focus to be on the team then he shouldn’t be volunteering stuff about himself - the players literally get trained on how to do this.

Sky Blue Harry H · Mar 10, 2026

Agree with the misrepresentation bit about Woolfy, but there are a lot more amateurish local radio stations than CWR, when it comes to footie coverage. Some of the stuff from opposition stations on ifollow has been hilarious in the past (both quality and bias)

SBT · Mar 10, 2026

Sky Blue Harry H said:
Agree with the misrepresentation bit about Woolfy, but there are a lot more amateurish local radio stations than CWR, when it comes to footie coverage. Some of the stuff from opposition stations on ifollow has been hilarious in the past (both quality and bias)

As I said, if Woolfy is upset about overly negative and sensationalist coverage now, good luck to him next season!

Marty · Mar 10, 2026

When you listen to the other stations, you do realise CWR is one of the better ones.

tskezz · Mar 10, 2026

A lot of hate towards CWR here but it looks to be a post from BBC Sport at a national level, I'd guess the CWR team who have the relationships with the players and club have nothing to do with it.

Yours sincerely,
CWR employee.

Kingokings204 · Mar 10, 2026

Marty said:
When you listen to the other stations, you do realise CWR is one of the better ones.

christ…. Really?

rob9872 · Mar 10, 2026

It's not really about the content. This is our local station who are funded from a national level and resorted to a cheap clickbait headline. They absolutely should be called out for it and it should have been by us rather than the player having to do it himself.

One major attribute of our sustained success has been the togetherness of the squad, all rowing in the same direction, whatever the contribution and we dont want anything to derail that. They knew what they were doing by choosing that soundbite. Lampard has other priorities, but I wouldn't be surprised if they've been told more formally by Doug.

Shit station anyway who work for paedos.

AFCCOVENTRY · Mar 10, 2026

Looks like it was panic stations at CWR then,..

theskyisthelimit · Mar 10, 2026

Kingokings204 said:
christ…. Really?

I think it was Norwich or Preston radio who hired someone who just screamed down the microphone at every little tackle. It gave me a headache how he carried on and how bias they were. This was when we had Clive still and made me realise how good we had it

alexccfc99 · Mar 10, 2026

CWR coverage is on it's arse - As I imagine most local radio coverage of every team in the country is due to the major cuts to BBC Local Radio services

Personally I think it is a massive shame that Clive's tenure couldn't culminate in this season

Ricketts · Mar 10, 2026

I try and listen to the opposition commentary where I can. Middlesbrough are very good as are Millwall.

AOM · Mar 10, 2026

The focus on negativity drove me mad earlier this season as well when they'd be asking other players after the game what they thought of Haji Wright's goal drought. What are they expected to say?

Saying that, I think the questions Rob asked to Woolfenden in this instance were fairly reasonable, and it's just the socials have decided to run with a negative angle

AOM · Mar 10, 2026

Marty said:
When you listen to the other stations, you do realise CWR is one of the better ones.

Agreed, although I think Clive has been a big miss this season

Skyblueweeman · Mar 10, 2026

When I stream games when I can't go, it seems to be pot luck whether you get Gurney/Oggy or the oppositions commentary.

I have to say, I always hope its Gurney/Oggy because as some have mentioned, there's comms from other clubs, whose coverage is dreadful. There have been some decent ones as well to be fair but on the whole, they seem to be more 'un-balanced' than Gurney and Oggy and some of them are simply OTT on their support for their own team (which I get).

Gurney and Oggy do seem calmer and more balanced.

Granted, I don't have to listen to either on local radio (Gurney, I guess more than Oggy) than you lot up there.

SBT · Mar 10, 2026

AOM said:
The focus on negativity drove me mad earlier this season as well when they'd be asking other players after the game what they thought of Haji Wright's goal drought. What are they expected to say?

It’s not the local media’s responsibility to be happy clappy about the club all the time, especially when the fans themselves are asking ridiculously negative questions of the team.

AOM · Mar 10, 2026

SBT said:
It’s not the local media’s responsibility to be happy clappy about the club all the time, especially when the fans themselves are asking ridiculously negative questions of the team.

I agree that his drought is something worth discussing, but I don't see what is to be gained by bringing it up with the players post-match?
I appreciate CWR isn't there for the clubs benefit, but the doubling down on the same negative aspects in the phone ins/fancasts/etc week in, week out can be tiring

SBT · Mar 10, 2026

AOM said:
I agree that his drought is something worth discussing, but I don't see what is to be gained by bringing it up with the players post-match?
I appreciate CWR isn't there for the clubs benefit, but the doubling down on the same negative aspects in the phone ins/fancasts/etc week in, week out can be tiring

What would you ask the players after the game?

Deity · Mar 10, 2026

CWR are burning their bridges each season with King.

It started with how they handled the fans forum after the Robins sacking. Note Kimg tends to use the clubs own resources now for set piece interviews.

CWR need City and City need CWR …. Gurney isn’t essential to either.

I don’t mind Rob actually, he’s a fan with a mic. You won’t get insights but you do get raw emotion.

alexccfc99 · Mar 10, 2026

Deity said:
CWR are burning their bridges each season with King.

It started with how they handled the fans forum after the Robins sacking. Note Kimg tends to use the clubs own resources now for set piece interviews.

CWR need City and City need CWR …. Gurney isn’t essential to either.

I don’t mind Rob actually, he’s a fan with a mic. You won’t get insights but you do get raw emotion.

The fans forum after Robins was sacked was embarrassing and turned into a farce, I am amazed Doug never walked out of it - There lies the drawback of having Rob and Lorna who are obviously fans on the mic as they let their emotions override their professionalism

AOM · Mar 10, 2026

SBT said:
What would you ask the players after the game?

About the game, how they think their season is going personally, what barriers they've had to overcome, etc.
It's why I think the Woolfenden question was fine in context, but I wouldn't ask other players what they think of Woolfenden not playing

Sky Blue Pete · Mar 10, 2026

tskezz said:
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Fair play him calling it out
Also probably shows it’s been needling a little
And to be fair you’d want it too wouldn’t you
Second half he was excellent on Saturday and he’s got a chance to cement a place in the next 2 games at least

PUSB-We_are_going_up · Mar 10, 2026

skybluecam said:
CWR just isn’t very good these days. Gurney has a massive ego. Lorna acts too much like a fan. Oggy is Oggy.

That new bloke seemed alright though

skybluecam · Mar 10, 2026

Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
I don't really see what the issue is here to be honest. It is true he hasn't been playing much, and it is true that he isn't happy about it.

I watched the interview and he does talk about the team as the priorty, which is great, and what you have to come expect from our players who seem to uphold good standards and be professional. I suppose they could have gone with a better headline to reflect that, but equally if he hadn't said anything here I wouldn't have even noticed. I feel as if this reaction is a little bit over the top from him, which has now made it about himself.

Think he’s probably just frustrated that he’s come in to the team, kept a clean sheet and won and the headline is about him not playing.

I suspect there’s a bit of a rift between the squad/club and CWR. Don’t think Frank likes them.

Sick Boy · Mar 10, 2026

skybluecam said:
I suspect there’s a bit of a rift between the squad/club and CWR. Don’t think Frank likes them.

It's not surprising after the fans forum, it was like something out of Phoenix Nights.

fernandopartridge · Mar 10, 2026

tskezz said:
A lot of hate towards CWR here but it looks to be a post from BBC Sport at a national level, I'd guess the CWR team who have the relationships with the players and club have nothing to do with it.

Yours sincerely,
CWR employee.

A lot of the social media stuff is done in Salford. I'm in the office today so going to go down to MC and put the windows in.

Flying Fokker · Mar 10, 2026

PUSB-We_are_going_up said:
That new bloke seemed alright though

You mean SBT?

ajsccfc · Mar 10, 2026

When things like this happen you can see the appeal of social media and people having the avenue to get their message out directly rather than have it edited and misconstrued by someone else.

Sky Blue Pete · Mar 10, 2026

Doug is such a professional with the forum
He will always answer questions he fronts up any difficulties and is adamant that ccfc deserves to be at the very top of the game and is setting everything up for this to happen
Look at his recruitment of Frank and top level coo’s and ibbotsons pedigree
He’s done a bloomin good job

Dougin · Mar 10, 2026

CWR used to be class back in the day. They used to let the right charcters on the phone in.

They wont let them on now its gone all woke, like this forum.

Ones its woke there is no fun in anything.

RoboCCFC90 · Mar 10, 2026

I thought CWR's handling of the Doug King appearance after Mark Robins got sacked was very poorly handled in truth.

I think CWR needs a shake up in truth.

clint van damme · Mar 10, 2026

RoboCCFC90 said:
I thought CWR's handling of the Doug King appearance after Mark Robins got sacked was very poorly handled in truth.

I think CWR needs a shake up in truth.

Unfortunately they had one and replaced Eakin with someone inferior.

Dougin · Mar 10, 2026

CWR needs axing like the rest of the BBC. Full of Paedos and sex freaks.

CovValleyBoy · Mar 10, 2026

MAFF said:
I can't listen to the match coverage on CWR anymore. It's dumbed down, lowest common denominator shite probably manufactured for the 15,000 happy clappers who supported Liverpool before 2023. Alos, Bailey and Gurney are irritating beyond belief. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to get rid of Clive and replace him with these 2 clowns?

Calm down Maff , I didn't go Northampton either or League 2 matches very often. Clearly most of us didn't. We still cared deeply.
Like many, I think we were waiting for a team & a club to support.
Now we have one.

PS can't stand Liverpool.

Sky Blue Pete · Mar 10, 2026

Dougin said:
CWR needs axing like the rest of the BBC. Full of Paedos and sex freaks.

Mmmmmm

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