Stadium Announcer

No Charisma. I'm sure it's a robot. Come back Ali..

God he's boring. He reminded me of the boring Priest in Father Ted. I believe he also does the shipping forecast and is available for eulogies. You could stop a riot with that voice. Did I say I thought he was boring? Zzzzzzzzzz.

It's Richard shepherd from radio Wales
My god he is so boring, cutting costs again

Omg boring monotone man. Please get rid, he sucks what little life there is out of the place.

What part of only stood in for todays game any of you don't understand? Ffs its in club statement and in other threads! Getting knickers in twist over nothing

At least he didn't burden us with welsh

Crap, boring and no charisma

I'm sure Mr Shepherd is a very nice man, but he is not an announcer.

At best he sounded like Peter O'Sullivan doing the Grand National, but without the enthusiasm!!

Not sure what Ali did or did not do, if they can re-instate him that would be good.

If not they need to get someone in quick as could not hear anything of what was said

Did this new guy also speak in Welsh like Ali did ?

To be fair they wouldn't have had much choice given the fact that they had 24 hours to find someone else

Half time Wayne could well be the next annonocer

FFS he is only filling in, by the next but one home match we will probably have a new announcer , or have Ali back

Did this new guy also speak in Welsh like Ali did ?

If he didn't are you going to relinquish your season ticket in disgust?

Did this new guy also speak in Welsh like Ali did ?

Probably not, shouldn't have to really, only 1% of the crowd speak Welsh and all Welsh speakers can understand English anyway

At least he didn't burden us with welsh

Welsh spoken in Wales! How awful.

Did this new guy also speak in Welsh like Ali did ?

Ali speaks Welsh fluently, Richard Shepherd doesn't.

Did this new guy also speak in Welsh like Ali did ?

Probably not, shouldn't have to really, only 1% of the crowd speak Welsh and all Welsh speakers can understand English anyway

Well done for totally missing the point.

Did this new guy also speak in Welsh like Ali did ?

Probably not, shouldn't have to really, only 1% of the crowd speak Welsh and all Welsh speakers can understand English anyway

Well done for totally missing the point.

Go on then, explain the point I apparently totally missed. Other than our national anthem the Welsh language is totally pointless in the modern era and I really don't care if that offends the patriots.

Did this new guy also speak in Welsh like Ali did ?

Probably not, shouldn't have to really, only 1% of the crowd speak Welsh and all Welsh speakers can understand English anyway

Well done for totally missing the point.

Go on then, explain the point I apparently totally missed. Other than our national anthem the Welsh language is totally pointless in the modern era and I really don't care if that offends the patriots.

Firstly, you stated that 'only 1% of the crowd speak Welsh'. How do you know that? Unless you've asked every single person in the crowd on a particular match day, then you simply wouldn't. I accept that the vast majority of the crowd are English monoglots, however.

When you say that 'all Welsh speakers can understand English anyway', you're totally missing the point. Bilingualism isn't what the majority of monolinguals think it is. Very few people are perfectly balanced in both of their languages; it is completely normal for bilinguals to feel more confident in one language than the other. Cymraeg has official status in this country, so people have a right to live their lives through the medium of Welsh.

As for you assertion that 'Other than our national anthem the Welsh language is totally pointless in the modern era', I've heard it all before. All I'll say is that coming from a silly little youngster like you who acts like he thinks he knows best, I'm not surprised.