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I feel quite tense watching it….will we see the runners before the race or not…….?
Today’s coverage was predictable, but still a disappointment. Too much time with "cabin" analysis and post race postmortems and not enough build up to the races themselves. If they cannot show the runners of a single figure race how on earth will people get to see their pick in the Grand National?
There is getting to be less connection with the horses, so even I, a seasoned follower of the sport, hardly know what the horses look like to follow in a race. This lack of connection with the horses will not forge a new generation of racing fans and will begin to alienate those who watch all ready. I do not watch racing to see Clare in a big camel coat or Alice Plunkett with a mike on a pole, or men in suits rabbiting on and on and on. I watch for the horses.
I was at Aintree today which used the C4 coverage of the Foxhunters Chase, and to me it looked as though their cameras almost completely missed Warne jumping the Canal Turn. I’m not a fan of anty-farty camera angles and just want to to see all of the horses properly.
Anyone else hate it when, during the closing stages of a live race, they employ the head-on view for a few moments?
BBC Coverage of the Grand National 1997
Stirs the heartstrings from the very start,
Des Lynham and Peter O’Sullivan set the scene
for a day to remember when you knew you would
be glued to your TV all afternoon as the excitement
mounted race by race until the Big One.
I remember this day so well as I backed the winner.Memories are made of this Channel 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slAPxLB9Q6UWhen I watched this I felt really sad that we will
never see racing presented in this way again.
JacThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Dear Channel Four,
It’s the Grand National. Use the Champions music (the one that goes ‘Dah dah duh dee dah dah, Dah Dah, duh dee dah dah, Dah dah duh dee dah dah dah, duh dee dah dah dah, duh dee duh diddle dah’).
That is all.
FLD
Twitter=@PGHenn
So don't run, just like the others always do
Not only was Tanya dressed like a clown this morning she was talking like one, passing over to the whinging Simon Clare with a "Bookmakers have had an absolute mauling in recent days" (Fobt’s tax increase etc) and saying to other bookmakers that they must be absolutely dreading tomorrow.
She truly is clueless as well as a shocking broadcaster.
I really like Tanya, but I have to agree with that. I felt embarrassed watching it this morning. They’re trying to turn her into something that she isn’t; I was actually missing McCririck today. You can’t have someone presenting that needs to do it by following a script and not even doing that properly.
I wish Tanya would stop going on about bookies losses, and giving them airtime to whinge about it. Nobody cares girl! In fact if anything it is a good thing – bookies losses mean punters winnings.
I know I shouldn’t give a monkey’s what the presenters look like but seriously….does Tanya Stevenson look in the mirror before she leaves home in the morning?
Gina Bryce had a gangster hat on and leopard print leggings, has the fashion show season started early.?
Blackbeard to conquer the World
I thought Richard Hoiles race commentaries today were superb; it’s like he was telling the story of the race as it unfolded. Tanya kept adding an ‘i’ to Orsippus and it was driving me bonkers; she’s tipped the horse in the past so should know what it’s name is
`Jimbo` had two goes at the name Ben Cee Pee M, neither attempt especially near the mark. Perhaps it was a new one on him, the horse having just his 28th start.
There was so much talk of the Scoop 6, I was delighted it was not won.
For all that ,there are aspects of RUK`s coverage I`m not keen on so I`m glad C4 still cover what they do. Personally I hope that does not extend to coverage of over overhyped Good Friday fare.
Not sure that I can say Ben Cee Pee M even when it’s written in front of me; problem with it being that it doesn’t make any sort of sense. Think I’ll let him off with that one.
Tanya kept adding an ‘i’ to Orsippus and it was driving me bonkers; she’s tipped the horse in the past so should know what it’s name is
Nice name, as Orsippus, like the raceorse, was an athlete who thought that wearing running shorts would aggravate his sectionals
Orsippus was an ancient Greek runner from Megara who was famed as the first to run the footrace naked at the Olympic Games and "first of all Greeks to be crowned victor naked
Funny old Tanya used to annoy me with her persistent misnaming of Joss Naylor as Josh Naylor
The equine Joss was a decent chaser but not as good a stayer as the human Joss, who being a wizened and wiry fell runner from Cumbria thankfully did wear shorts
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