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Well done ITV Racing – a few left-field choices but pretty much exactly what I wanted.
[x] No Down, Francome, Luck or McGrath
[x] Only one or two survivors of C4 and BBC line-ups
[x] Knowledgeable fresh faces
[x] Oli Bell
[ ] Matt Chapman?
[ ] Simon Holt?
RP’s article.
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews
Why anyone employs Rishi I don’t know.
Don’t even know the other two.
Are Oli Bell and Sally Anne Grassick any good?
Can’t say I’m sold on Hayley Turner yet, but maybe she will run on strong.No Mick Fitz is the best selection of the ITV racing team.
I don’t know Sally Anne Grassick but there doesn’t seem anyone there with an obvious love of jumps racing.
Posh boy Oli Bell gets on my nerves on RUK, like Viltash I’m not sold yet on Hayley Turner but will give her a chance. Rishi Persad I’m in two minds about.
So glad Tanya and Tom look to have gone just hope they won’t bring in Dave Nevison instead.
It will be a shame to lose Graham Cunningham as he does a very good job. I think Jim McGrath has had his time now and hopefully they won’t use that Northern chap (from Timeform who appears on ATR??) who just gets on my nerves. The same with Tom Segal and most importantly PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dump Mick Fitzgerald
Haven’t seen any news about the lead commentator yet, if they will bring in John Hunt or Gareth Topham or stick with Simon Holt or Richard Hoiles?
Whenever she was interviewed Turner used to end virtually every sentence with ‘so’. Now she has made so much progress it is only about half of them. It is beyond me how anyone can have watched her performances on ATR and thought it was a good idea to give her this job.
It does surprise me that Oily seems to have been preferred to several others. Personally, I would have said let’s see what you are like after another 10 year’s experience. At the moment he too often just sounds like a rather silly prankster who has just left school.
The Team appears to be missing a National Hunt type figure or figures. That doesn’t mean more ex-jockeys. Perhaps someone has had second thoughts but I expected Alice Plunkett was going to fill the role.
I don’t think that’s the full team, the only ones that were mentioned as not being part of new set up are those I highlighted so other pundits may still be in. Bruce Millington (whose paper broke above recruitment stories) has tweeted Chapman ‘1/20’ to be the betting face. I think they will surely still have some additional pundits to declare.
Pretty clear they’d make some significant changes. While no one likes to see someone losing out, I think they did need do have a bit of a clear-out to freshen it up.
Any show without Jack and Linda Ramsdens prima donna ‘ Oh i need to change my clothes for the next race’, am i looking good in this ?, daughter Emma is just fine with me but then i guess i’m old school.
I question whether there is no “household” or “star” name for events like Derby Day and the Grand National, does that matter? I’m not proposing that they bring in someone like Jeremy Kyle (heaven fordid) or Ant & Dec but think they need someone that the TV audience recognises
It looks like a boring team.
Persad is cheesy mediocrity personified. How he gets so many of these gravy-training gigs is beyond me. Watching the likes of him sends me to sleep.
You need someone to say something controversial. Like a horse racing Roy Keane. Mccrick, for all his detractors, at least could hold the viewers interest. Ditto Chapman.
Maybe we need to train up Ginger Tipster or Steve Caution as future presenters
Jesus that’s awful.
This ITV gig is rapidly morphing into a mass dance of well connected, cardboard cutout, Newmarket types, who’ve done a media course.
I wont be watching too much of that.
It looks like a boring team.
Persad is cheesy mediocrity personified. How he gets so many of these gravy-training gigs is beyond me. Watching the likes of him sends me to sleep.
You need someone to say something controversial. Like a horse racing Roy Keane. Mccrick, for all his detractors, at least could hold the viewers interest. Ditto Chapman.
Maybe we need to train up Ginger Tipster or Steve Caution as future presenters
I swear far too much for TV and tend to wander off at tangents. I’d only be interested in my own bets as well, so unless they come up with a “Scoop Two” bet, then it wouldn’t work.
The Chemistry of the above duo wouldn’t work at all. Unless you are happy to watch a presenter beaten insensible with a microphone by the co-presenter before watching it disappear up his “Chutney Silo” then it is going to cause numerous complaints.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Unless you are happy to watch a presenter beaten insensible with a microphone by the co-presenter before watching it disappear up his “Chutney Silo”
Sky Box Office could well be interested in this.
Mike
Oli Bell- Nepotism is alive and well
Sally Anne Grassick- Ditto
Hayley Turner- Can’t string together a coherent sentence
Rish Persad- Why? Just why?Tanya Stevenson, Gina Harding and Tom Lee have apparently been told services won’t be required- at least that’s good news.
Why anyone employs Rishi I don’t know.
Persad is cheesy mediocrity personified. How he gets so many of these gravy-training gigs is beyond me. Watching the likes of him sends me to sleep.
Rish Persad- Why? Just why?
mmmm, I can’t think why. Could it be his extensive and varied presenting career with an in depth knowledge of the sport, unrivalled by any other presenters? Could it be his groundbreaking and searching interview technique? Surely he must be the best candidate for the role, what other possible reason could there be? 
Or could it be……………………
Well done ITV, get that diversity box ticked! Job done.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Personally I couldn’t give a monkey’s who presents anything, racing or otherwise. Just show me the sport and I’ll form my own opinions. Commentators are important and maybe send one decent interviewer but the rest of them can get off the gravy train and sit in a studio.
mmmm, I can’t think why. Could it be his extensive and varied presenting career with an in depth knowledge of the sport, unrivalled by any other presenters? Could it be his groundbreaking and searching interview technique? Surely he must be the best candidate for the role, what other possible reason could there be? 
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