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Frnacesca Cumani is ok she presents CNN winning post very well and I think Oli for main presenter.
Give Chapman a secondary role and his own spin off show on itv4 where he takes calls after the racing has finished.
Please keep boring Ed off the show though.
Thank goodness Kyle looks to be out of the running, that would have been a major error
Mark Pougatch – fine but not sure how much he knows about racing
Clare Balding – hardly appears on Channel 4 nowadays, still comes across too school-mistressy to me
Nick Luck – growing on me a bit but still comes across as Lord Snooty
Oli Bell – yawn, like Luck he’s bit too posh and can be very dull
Ed Chamberlin – haven’t seen a great deal of him but seems a good choice
Matt Chapman – if he can be toned down then perhaps but still gets on my nerves too much
John Inverdale – great choice and a very natural broadcaster would bring a breathe of fresh air to the coverageI would personally be happy with Martin Kelly from ATR, surprised he’s not been mentioned
If, ITV really want a fresh start I really cannot see Luck or Balding in the frame.
Inverdale would be the safe bet at the helm.
Shirley Crabtree – Easy, Easy, Easy…and so on
That pantomime killed UK wrestling.
The kids and numpties were only interested in seeing Daddy squash his baddy opponent and the diehard fans checked out. When Daddy inadvertently killed Mal Kirk it was game over and the U.K. scene has been a backwater ever since.The funny thing is that British Wrestling has risen from the ashes and is now in a very healthy state with very good shows and packed houses in lots of places now.
Maybe we will even get Wrestling on ITV after the racing has finished ?
Kent Walton had a spell covering horse racing for Associated-Rediffusion in the mid-1950s.
Looking at some of the names fancied for a position with ITV I believe Walton could do a better job, even though he died in 2003.
Mark Pougatch – fine but not sure how much he knows about racing
Mark Pougatch does go racing – it may not make him an “expert” (whatever that is) but he wouldn’t be approaching it with zero knowledge.
If he was to become the front man than I would also make John Hunt odds-on to be the lead commentator.
I would personally be happy with Martin Kelly from ATR, surprised he’s not been mentioned
Id say hes not mentioned because is isn’t very good. He regularly makes factual errors, and for someone who is supposed to be a racing broadcaster i get the impression that he doesn’t pay any attention to racing other than when he is presenting, which is the reason he pronounces horse names wrong far too often.
The big problem channel 4 had, which ITV would do well to avoid, is this idea that you need about 15 people to present the show. Usually three in the studio plus guests, brian and tanya in the betting ring (which there is no need for at all), Balding and fitzgerald blowing smoke up mccoy’s rear end somewhere down on course. Plunkett trying to get interviews from horses. Mattie Bachelor appearing every so often for no reason at all. And whoever else that they have scattered around whatever course they are at.Fingers crossed balding gets nowhere near the new ITV team,she ruined BBC racing and then did the same to ch4 racing
Certainly rather have Balding than the grating Luck.
I would rather ITV started afresh when they takeover – nobody, from the Channel 4 team whatsoever to be utilized.
Otherwise, it will be just the same old same old.
According to Claude Duval in last weekend’s sun Martin Kelly has been interviewed for the job.
I don’t watch ATR that much so haven’t seen enough of Martin Kelly to judge if he’s as bad as suggested but he’s another fresh faced presenter that racing needs. I doubt thewexfordman agrees but that’s nothing new.
I think there is a serious danger of change for changes sake here… Martin Kelly is a bland talking head . For me you can’t beat Nick Luck as a front man ( totally knows his stuff ) and Graham Cunningham is an excellent pundit ( witty informed and encapsulates form really well)…there is nobody that equals either of them in their current roles in my opinion.
Totally agree about nick luck,I think he’s done more than enough to secure the main role.
For me ITV need to go back to having a separate jumps/flat team and reverse the ch4 idea of putting the humans ahead of the horses.Can’t believe people like Nick Luck
Me too.
I’m sure he’s a pleasant person in real life, but his fawning interviewing style really grates. (Not of course that he’s unique in this regard).
No one wants to see every other interviewee being given a doing over, and clearly when your talking to someone like Sheikh Mo then you have to be pretty deferential, but he could do with being a lot more probing than he is. For a journalist, he has very little nose for a story, or what questions to put when he does stumble across one. In fact he seems more to deliberately look the other way when any hint of controversy arises!
And why do we have to have so many old Etonians and old Harrovians occupying all the pleasant, well-paid jobs in our sport?
Can’t believe people like Nick Luck
Me too.
I’m sure he’s a pleasant person in real life, but his fawning interviewing style really grates. (Not of course that he’s unique in this regard).
No one wants to see every other interviewee being given a doing over, and clearly when your talking to someone like Sheikh Mo then you have to be pretty deferential, but he could do with being a lot more probing than he is. For a journalist, he has very little nose for a story, or what questions to put when he does stumble across one. In fact he seems more to deliberately look the other way when any hint of controversy arises!
And why do we have to have so many old Etonians and old Harrovians occupying all the pleasant, well-paid jobs in our sport?
If you had seen his interview a few months ago on ATR with Tommo when his horse was running you would know he isn’t very pleasant and clearly thinks being interviewed for the ‘competition’ is beneath him.
If anyone watched the recent Dickensian series on BBC-1 he reminds me of Arthur Havisham.
Think Luck is okay and certainly preferable to the ungenuine Balding and the juvenile Bell, Bell’s pronunciation is also on a par with Kellys, which is pretty poor for someone with a paid for privileged education.
Could see Pougatch doing a good job, he did an excellent job presenting the Peter O’Sullevan tribute programme on R5 but surely it must be the end of the road for Tanya after stealing a living for 15 years (is it really 15 years?)
At the end of the day it will just be down to who ITV fancy.
According to the Racing Post, Bell, Chapman, Cumani and Chamberlin are already pencilled in if they want it.
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