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10 Derek Thompson<br>9 Lesley Graham<br>8 Matt Chapman<br>7 Willie Carson<br>6 John McCririck
I hadn’t realised that so many people found Lesley Graham unbelievably annoying: I thought it was just me.
We really must have problems if someone like McCririck is no shoo-in…
Quote: from Prufrock on 11:44 pm on June 24, 2007[br]10 Derek Thompson<br>9 Lesley Graham<br>8 Matt Chapman<br>7 Willie Carson<br>6 John McCririck
I hadn’t realised that so many people found Lesley Graham unbelievably annoying: I thought it was just me.
We really must have problems if someone like McCririck is no shoo-in…
That John is number 6, suggests you have grudging respect for the man. FWIW, I think JMC is the best thing racing ever had, he is not always right, but he is quiet happy to except that.
There’s some bad, nauseous, dreadful presenters on that list, but most have redeeming features. they have moments where they’re lucid. Moments when they make sense, even Willie Carson. Moments when they don’t think smiling inanely is a TV presenters must, but the one who has no redeeming features whatsoever, EVER is Tangoman.
Quote: from Kingston Town on 3:20 pm on June 24, 2007[br] I did a stint on racing television about a year and a half ago…. I was never sure what was more terrifying :o , facing the cameras the first time knowing everything was going out live, the thought of swallowing the microphone, making sure I didn’t drop the microphone (as hands were shaking extremely noticeably) or………… reading the various racing forum afterwards. <br>Thank god that short lived career is now over  :biggrin:<br>
Good post Kingston Town :biggrin: Do we know who you are then, were you based up north?<br>The big surprise to me is Lesley Graham, I was in two minds whether to include her or Persad for his inane questions. Maybe Persad should have been instead of Naughton who I hear hasn’t been too well.<br>It would have to be Chapman :yuck: for me, can’t do with his repetitive and Mr Know All style. He would be a close contender just with that but even worse, anyone who watched ATR yesterday would testify, he won’t even let you watch the races in peace, constant interruptions with nonsense :thumbsdown:
Yeats, why are you surprised about Graham? She’s so amateurish its painful.. There are plenty of women presenters much better equipped than her.. She’s a div..
Quote: from Kingston Town on 8:01 am on June 25, 2007[br]No Yeats you wouldn’t know me ;)  I was down under at the time.:cool:
I suppose you have to keep talking. Thats the problem with any tv or radio work isnt it Kingston??? Sometimes you really just need to shut up and think but you arent always affored the option.
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Royal Ascot TV saturday, torture an understatement.
BBC & ATR, one of these days a full can of Heineken is going to go through my expensive tv, and when it does I will bring BBC & ATR to court to reimburse me for having to sit through such mental torment.<br>All these presenters should be recorded, and used in a Turkish prison interrogation cell, they would get any information they want after 10 mins, without having to resort to pulling finger nails.<br>BBC :<br>Claire, I am better and more intelligent than anyone else, condescending posh dyke, Balding.<br>Willie, brain of a rocking horse Carson. Actually I am doing the rocking horse a disservice.<br>Rishi, I can’t get far enough up all the protaganist arses, Persad.<br>James, everything thing that is dispicable in a human being, Sherwood.<br>Anyone see the recent film Apocalypto, and the Mayan sacrifices. Wouldn’t you just love to see Sherwood stretched out on the sacrificial altar, and his heart cut out, while he is still breathing, and feed it to him before he took his last breath.
Switch over to ATR, yes what have you got, of course it can only be "TANGOMAN", the mayan sacrifice springs to mind again.<br>What a welcome relieve when Dale Mc Keowns dulcet tones took over for the evening shift.
What would we do without the mute button ??.<br>Suicide would be an option.:angry:
Quote: from SirHarryLewis on 10:05 am on June <br>I suppose you have to keep talking.  Thats the problem with any tv or radio work isnt it Kingston???  Sometimes you really just need to shut up and think but you arent always affored the option.<br>
<br>Exactly Sir Harry – my very first time on and they crossed early so there was dead air for about 8 seconds – believe me that was a lifetime!  <br>It was pointed out with no holds barred by the producer as well afterwards……….. which really did the nerves a lot of good! :biggrin:
There are loads of presenters in Australia and the majority of them are extremely self-confident in their day-today lives, which obviously is what you need to be, but there are a couple on now who are far less so – and they are less cocky about the whole thing and come across as quite ordinary people. :cool: <br>
(Edited by Kingston Town at 11:44 am on June 25, 2007)
How is the complete and utter cretin not running away with this poll?
I can only assume a number of people don’t have access to ATR? :shrug:
I’m baffled also flash. The orange, crawling, arze kissing, squealing gobs**t
e. The only thing that makes me want to turn off racing.<br> A sickening article.<br>       :(:old:
Leslie :giggle: Graham could win this<br> even without a horse<br> but she’s got that tremendous soft spot<br> for telling us all the nice things<br> she did at the weekend :nailbiting:<br> with that awfully nice lawyer chappie <br> who she calls the royal we<br> so underneath we all love her like Nixon
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Quote: from madman marz on 10:49 am on June 25, 2007[br] Wouldn’t you just love to see Sherwood stretched out on the sacrificial altar, and his heart cut out, while he is still breathing, and feed it to him before he took his last breath. <br>
Not me.
I’m secure enough in my heterosexuality to not go berserk at the sight of a mincer on telly.<br>
<br>Likewise. Further, I really don’t see what Marz’s mentioning of Clare Balding’s sexuality brings to the debate here.
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Quote: from Grasshopper on 8:04 pm on June 25, 2007[br]
Quote: from madman marz on 10:49 am on June 25, 2007[br] Wouldn’t you just love to see Sherwood stretched out on the sacrificial altar, and his heart cut out, while he is still breathing, and feed it to him before he took his last breath. <br>
Not me.
I’m secure enough in my heterosexuality to not go berserk at the sight of a mincer on telly.
Perhaps you’re in conflict with an inner demon, madman marz??<br>
Grassy, I can’t care less who’s fudge he packs, its that haughty haughty smug look on his face, which makes a normal gentle creature like me, want to punch his face repeatedly, till it looks like the remains of a quashed tomato.<br>Don’t you just hate they way he moves his snooty puss from side to side always tilting it slightly upwards while interviewing people. A dispicable snob, he is the perfect example of what is wrong with Royal Ascot.
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