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Treat people as individuals and you’ll scarcely ever stray into dodgy patronising or prejudiced territory.
Are you implying that I’m prejudiced?
This is certainly not better than Channel 4.
Nick Luck is a way better anchor than Chamberlain…..world class in fact.
Anyone who think Nick Luck is world class seriously needs to get their head looked at, pompous, stuck up and arrogant.
I wish they would drop the winning trainer/jockey is a genius bollocks. Or the winning jockey is the hardest worker in the weighing room and doesn’t get the rides he deserves. Or if those cliches have already been exhausted(which is often) the rider is the nicest bloke to ever be born in the history of mankind. There must be at least one who is a tosser.
But that is more of a gripe with racing coverage full stop, not just itv.
Glad I’m not the only one who is sick of hearing this!
I just cant get this out my head when Chamberlain Said to J P Mc… You owe racing a lot! pffffffffftttt! his he having a laugh really!
correct me if im wrong i swear i heard that
Anyone who think Nick Luck is world class seriously needs to get their head looked at, pompous, stuck up and arrogant.
Flipping between RUK and ITV gives a clear picture of Nick Luck’s superiority to Ed Chamberlin in the anchor role. Luck is hugely more enthusiastic than Chamberlin, but critically he’s far more fluent – he just never stumbles over his words and always seems to frame the key moments effectively. By contrast, Chamberlin still looks and sounds nervous and unsure.
Mike
Nick Luck is world class and RUK are streets ahead of other racing broadcasters (and, yes, I’ve had my head looked at – all they found was hair lol).
<p abp=”437″>One positive is no one said
<p abp=”438″>“cheltenham is racings olympics”
Didn’t they? I could have sworn I heard someone yesterday say, “these are our Olympics.”
3.09 on Wednesday. Twenty minutes before the Champions Chase, and TV have just spent two minutes’ screen time with their pretty weathergirl telling us that it’s sunny at Cheltenham today.
AArrgghh. What is this bollocks?
Nick Luck is world class and RUK are streets ahead of other racing broadcasters (and, yes, I’ve had my head looked at – all they found was hair lol).
Oh course he is world class. NBC are more than happy to have him during the Breeders Cup where he takes center stage in all the big pre and post race interviews. He will definitely have that gig for them at Royal Ascot when they do coverage of the event for the first time. He most certainly was not the problem at Channel 4
3.09 on Wednesday. Twenty minutes before the Champions Chase, and TV have just spent two minutes’ screen time with their pretty weathergirl telling us that it’s sunny at Cheltenham today.
AArrgghh. What is this bollocks?
Beats ads for Dubai by a few lengths
Having switched between ITV and RUK this afternoon, I believe the RUK presentation and professionalism is much superior. Nick Luck is the perfect anchor, and hearing Simon Holt calling some of the races is a reminder of what terrestrial viewers have lost. AP is improving as a performer, obviously what he says is worth hearing.
How many times will Oli Bell say “Put it into words” today? Over/under is 5.5.
One landed already
This is certainly not better than Channel 4.
Nick Luck is a way better anchor than Chamberlain…..world class in fact.
Gleeson is brilliant at conveying betting ring excitement….not what he is made to do here.
Graham Cunningham and Jim McGrath were excellent at evaluating form and Cunningham was amusing aswell.
Hoiles is not a better commentator than Simon Holt and could do with turning his mic up for starters.
McCoy is getting worse and should be dropped ( doesnt want to be there) and Fitzgerald has nothing but cliches to offer.
Chapman just doesn’t seem to suit the big occaision…..not as bad as Tanya but not the answer either.Itv have changed things for changes sake without doing anything that different but the changes they’ve made have been bad ones and they’re bringing no gravitas to the sports premier meeting and even though its early on day 1 we can be confident that it wont change.
Here is the thing, the viewers did not want facts, that some , might have found boring (yet insightful eg Graham Cunningham who got awful unfair criticism) they wanted “fun” , “banter” etc. It is all about the bantz now a days sadly.Cunningham, will not have far to look for other work on tv, he is good.
Gleeson and Chapman go well together, in fairness. I like Gleeson (Gleeson and Lee on RTE were a good combo too)
AP ? bha, could be forgotten about, but does a decent job with the specials like that recent piece with Martin Pipe.
Chapman is doing the wrong gig. He should be doing the parade ring and post races. He is good when he calms down
Cunningham amusing? I must have missed that bit. I found him unbearably pretentious, his favourite saying was how a horse had put in a “dull performance”
No it wasn’t enough to say it did a bad run, it was a “dull performance” I’ll be glad if I never see him on my screens again.
a “dull performance”
To be fair, he’d be more qualified than most on that score.
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