There's nothing we can do about it per se. The price Express FM had to pay for getting their feed back on the iFollow thread was to allow Pompey to install it's own staff on the broadcast team. Express FM, who can't exactly be rolling in it, had to make a choice to follow the money or carry on as they were. I suspect their broadcast rights from games was also mentioned. Rock and a hard place for them. They way they managed it with their staff by telling them by email was a disgrace and cowardly.
On the plus side it means the discussion will be all Pompey and not Bournemouth or that other lot. On the downside no dissenting opinions will be allowed. Solent will now become the sole option if you want to hear criticism on match day.
If Pompey wanted to go this route they should have, in my opinion, just established their own iFollow team of commentators/pundits and used that, not forced the hand of an independent.
Personally I don't want a sanitised commentary, I want good broadcast standards from proper fans of the club who are not afraid to voice opinions that the owners might not like. It needs to be informed, they need to know what they are talking about from a football perspective but it needs passion and they should have the right to hold players, coaches and the owners to account if they think it's justified.
I really, really don't like what they've done here.
