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The ayr commentary is a must for anyone who wants a laugh. slapstick at its best.
“and its the one in front leading”- priceless
Shame he didn’t call a photo at the end to cap it off
There will be northern-based commentators being turned down for work so that Tommo can get a gig like yesterday.
Just listened to this for the first time and know Tommo is prone to making mistakes but this sounds like there’s something more to this. Can understand him getting names mixed up but he’s actually lost and struggling for words. What was the rest of the commentary like?
Derek is an excellent presenter and all round nice guy, but he’s never been a good commentator and the last few years have been embarrassingly poor.
The vast majority of his commentaries use the same stock phrases –
“Let’s see what’s going to happen”
“This is where it gets interesting”
“Wow, what a finish”
“Photo!”
“That’s one for the judge”It doesn’t reflect well on the industry that no one has had the courage to “have a word” with the Big Fella before it got to this sorry stage.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Derek has been on duty at Wolverhampton tonight. I am sorry to say it but he has been consistently terrible. Every race he has told us “This is going to be close!”
He also seems preoccupied by Luke Morris being on 499 winners at the track and is allowing it to influence his commentary.
And in the 7.30 he managed to not notice that a horse had collapsed on the track, which eventually caused the race to halted and declared void.
The horse’s collapse could just about be seen on screen. But a commentator who uses binoculars would easily have seen it live and been able to alert punters to the possibility of a void race straightaway.
On a more positive note, at least the procedure for stopping the race worked well and all the horses were safely pulled up before they reached the stricken horse.
I don’t think Thommo is alone in not using binoculars any longer. A lot of commentators these days sound like they go by the televised pictures instead of using their own eyes.
What has to happen for those giving him these charity gigs to finally stop? Maybe he’ll call Red Rum the winner of the 8.45 at Chelmsford tomorrow and that’ll still do.
” A lot of commentators these days sound like they go by the televised pictures instead of using their own eyes.”
Glad: A ITV commentator was shown live, behind two screens on set, doing the honours from another track. Its normal these days.6.45 at Southwell tonight. Derek said the leader was “Being challenged on the stands side by the horse called Brinton”.
It was not likely to be a greyhound, was it?
Finally, at last!
Hopefully it will be at Wolverhampton so I won’t have to hear it.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
I might be having an afternoon at Wolverhampton next month. I hope Derek will be on commentary duty now!
He is not a good commentator but otherwise I think he is likeable and I wish him well.
Get him on ITV the bloke actually has some personality.
The more I know the less I understand.
Ironic Tommo says he’s only hanging up his bioculars, given that it’s common knowledge he’s never taken binoculars when commentating, as anyone who’s heard his commentary when the pictures have gone down in the past would know.
The title of his autobiography – “Too Busy To Die” must have been one of the worst anyone could think of.Yeats, that would just have been a tongue in cheek reference to his Cancer diagnosis. Whatever your thoughts on his commentary are, Tommo has brought colour to Racing and I wish him well whatever he does in the future. If you don’t like him, don’t watch.
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