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<br> McGrath does tend to wear a flatcap on National day<br> It is a bit on the large size which may be significant. :cheesy:
Thompson cried in the bath during the Top Cees affair<br> proving he doesn’t just do theatre on the box<br> and is a down to earth Gazza type who wants to connect with his emotions.<br> He was pretty plain Jim when he started out<br> serious and dull and no whoaa, but tipped exceptionally in the early days. He had the runs.<br> He picked up his wife on a racecourse<br> so has a terrific ability toi mix pleasure with business.<br> He saw a gap in the market<br> and went for the cheeky chappy with a grin.<br> He has survived where many <br> like me still eat fish and chips out of a bag.<br> His family love him to bits<br> and he carves a good roast<br> in Toad of Thompson Hall.
flatcapgamble…He can adopt me, I’ll just put a bag over my head when he tries that little fella on me :biggrin:
Quote: from Maurice on 5:04 pm on Aug. 7, 2006[br]
Jim McGrath makes £500kpa, allegedly, from punting,
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Hmmm, he’s clearly putting people away on telly then.
Seabird,
I was bored one afternoon in 1983 (ish) and watched Channel 4 Racing from Chester.
Two horses I remember, Morgans Choice and Seismic Wave, but mostly, on screen, there was this outlandish character talking in a strange language, looking like a bloated Sherlock Holmes and ranting like someone had dropped a hot conker down his trousers.
In the days of Wham, Kevin Keegan and mass unemployment, he was unusual, different from the norm, and for some reason attracted my interest.
You can keep bland – and while you’re at it, you can keep your po faced media-savvy pretty boy pundits who’ve survived through the Halo effect and society’s worship of the surface.
McCirick is live self-satire and I think people sometimes miss this fairly simple observation.
Refreshingly, the big man is also a link to a bygone era of the game where to admit to horse racing invited accusations of wasted lives and idle raffishness.
Examples include George Cole in the St Trinian’s films, Jeffery Bernard, Donald Sinden, (Patrick Cargill’s punting sponger of a brother in "Father, Dear Father") John Aspinall, Sangster and Benson, Prince Ras, public school ne’er do wells a plenty and all the characters Cubone and co mention in their threads.
That’ll do for me.;) An era full of fun, I reckon.
(Edited by Maxilon 5 at 5:31 pm on Aug. 7, 2006)
It seems to me that in most businesses these days, the drive to win new customers overcomes the fear of alienating present customers.
Good Point and one of the reasons why I stopped watching the morning line ages ago.
To follow on from Seabirds comments most successful companies selling products today understand their target market along with customers. I don’t think the morning line understand either :angry:
The format did nothing to retain me as a customer. Over the weeks it became clear to me there was no reason to get up on saturday morning to watch the antics of tommo el al.
It’s been said before, the content of the program is dated but “theyâ€ÂÂ
Memories are made of these eh <br> BIG MAC ?
<br> Excelellent piece madmax <br> and your thrusting films do you little enough credit.
I would add Jimmy Edwards the wacko character<br> and Billy Bunter who invented the word Crikey !<br> Oh and dotheboys hall one mustn’t leave out :old:Dickens
I happen to know Big Mac had a fairly active TOTE account <br> :cool:
flatcapgamble…gamble edits one letter as he becomes a scaredy cat <br>:)
(Edited by gamble at 7:37 pm on Aug. 7, 2006)
One more suggestion for Channel 4 racing as a whole – PLEASE stop keep going on about Scoop 6. Most racing enthusiasts aren’t really interested. Even the Beeb have got this right it’s barely ever mentioned. Any mention of Scoop 6 has me immediately stretching for the remote control.
Fair points :old: Toad not of Thompson’s Hall
The big bookmakers had tentacles that stretched right into<br> the hot powder rooms of the morning line studios.<br> Not much of a wonder that. Is it honchos !<br> <br> McGrath I believe got in trouble for his negative<br> don’t have a bet there pragmatic cautious betting approach.<br> He was axed for several episodes, remember it ?<br> May be described as a sojourn<br> or a school holiday<br> but I for one missed his thin clear lips<br> and rather nervous half smile
The show became a bit hackneyed deliberately<br> and my feeling is the boys were booted into touch by <br> the powers that be in flutter racing.
flatcapgamble… remember Dennis’s old line that racing is boooring,<br> so in some ways you have to blame the architects and planners rather than the spouting talking heads that dole out the ol’ spaghetti :dance:<br>
LOL Gamble. I’ve used the phrase "more seconds than Billy Bunter" several times in the last year and I get tarmac-licking looks. A bygone age…
Maurice, I reckon McCirick is cleverer than people give him credit for. Good writer too. I used to enjoy his columns; clearly written and without any of his TV trimmings which, obviously, fail to appeal to the "serious" punter.
BTW, I forgot we were talking about Thommo. Don’t really have much of an opinion on that thorny issue. Pols.
Madmax, my :old: opinion is weaned from my mother’s milk, the armchair that transports me to the stars and trifling<br> with some big names, which gives me muscle edge over normal house residents -<br> I put up De Niro a couple of year ago. The bed has always creaked since. <br>Bumped into a heavily pregnant Claudia Schiffer and sampled some of what she is paid for.
I have always written Tommo rather than Thommo<br> never believing he had a horse in him.
Crikey may well have been Corky the Cat
and the loveable Bunter Y A R O O O O O
flatcapgamble… Bunter Schiffer and Corky were equally as big :laugh:
The BBC don’t usually mention the Scoop6 because it is run in conjuction with C4 and the meetings they cover. What mention did the Stewards’ Cup get on Saturday morning?
I usually switch on the ML while I sit in the other room sorting out my figures. If I overhear something of interest I’ll go and watch it for a few moments but there have been many times I haven’t got out of my seat.
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I usually switch on the ML while I sit in the other room sorting out my figures.
<br> :old:ee well confused
<br> Exactly how many of you are there ?
<br>flatcapgamble…Now if Maurice was Schiffering I could understand it :giveusahug:
I love the Morning Line. Couldn’t get enough of it before it started at an unearthly hour. I could watch it all morning otherwise.
I always mute Thommo before he makes me heave something at the telly, but I have to admit, although Big Mac is a sexist */?&%$*, he does have intelligent things to say from time to time. He’s clearly not an idiot, and I’d imagine, a good journalist.
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