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You are allowed –
1 Anchor
2 paddock commentators
1 roving reporter (who also does jockey-on-horse-post-race interview)
1 post-race interviewer (winner’s enclosure – can be anchor)
2 analysts
1 betting ring reporterDream team might be stretching it a little.
I don’t think you need half that number.
Studio – John Hunt – he can do the betting as well, you don’t actually need anyone in the ring.
Course & Interviews – Matt Chapman & Gary O’Brien
Paddock – Paul Morrison
You can analyse the races yourself if you want to.
Job done and plenty of money saved.
Sean Boyce
Lydia Hislop
Steve Mellish
Jonathan Neesom
Ken Pitterson
Eddie FremantleShuffle and deal, though I would be happy with a daily diet of principle meeting and two aways at ten minute intervals in order to keep chatter to a minimum
Anchor would be Nathan Hughes. Need someone with a cool head to stop the warring analysts Gingertipster & TAPK coming to blows, but this would be fun as long as Ginge was barred from talking percentages. 5 minute piece each week as a Review of the week’s racing entitled "In My Opinion" by Ricky Lake. Triptych down in the paddock commenting on the well-being of the horses. Main Commentator – Steve Caution.
Anchor would be Nathan Hughes. Need someone with a cool head to stop the warring analysts Gingertipster & TAPK coming to blows, but this would be fun as long as Ginge was barred from talking percentages. 5 minute piece each week as a Review of the week’s racing entitled "In My Opinion" by Ricky Lake. Triptych down in the paddock commenting on the well-being of the horses.
Main Commentator – Steve Caution
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Thanks for the nod Homer but I could never be neutral and tend to get too emotionally involved.
"And coming into the closing stages it’s Louis The Pious in front but here (At F*$#in& last) comes Frank Spencer on Horsted Keynes, racing up to the line it is Louis The Pious hanging on from the fast finishing Horsted Keynes, who is going to be second a F$*& my nap up. Louis The Pious wins it, thanks for F$@# all Mr Spencer, you useless B*$%*&# and it’s back to Gordon Wilson in the studio for a feature on John Gosden called Genius or Tosser?"
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
I would have, with apologies for any mis-spelling:
1 Anchor – rishi Persad
2 paddock commentators – Willie Carson and Clare Balding
1 roving reporter – Mike Cattermole
1 post-race interviewer – Clare Balding
2 analysts – Jim McGrath and Alan Potts
1 betting ring reporter – waste of time, anyone can do itDerek Thomson as anchor
Big Mac doing the betting
Francome/McGrath doing the paddock & post race analysis
Cattermole doing the interviewsThat would be enough for me, simplify it and get back to basics as C4 Racing once was. I don’t think the likes of Balding, Persaud, Fitzgerald etc add one iota to the programme or presentation.
Derek Thomson as anchor
Big Mac doing the betting
Francome/McGrath doing the paddock & post race analysis
Cattermole doing the interviewsThat would be enough for me, simplify it and get back to basics as C4 Racing once was. I don’t think the likes of Balding, Persaud, Fitzgerald etc add one iota to the programme or presentation.
Totally 100% agree with this post. If it wasn’t broke before, don’t fix it.
Derek Thomson..Anchor/Interviews/Betting
Cunningham .. Pre and Post Race Analysis
Francome .. Paddock
Emma Spencer .. Make up
Tanya ..Walking the dogs
Tom Lee.. Gone to the DogsDo away with the Computer screen and the awful pointing fingers and freeze frame, just show the re-runs and more trainer interviews not jockeys they are the worst tipsters.
Derek Thomson on a Friday night at Newmarket is magic, his sense of humour, the losing ticket bucket he passes round after every race, giving punters free days at the races if their ticket is drawn, and even his race calling, which seems to have improved. He gets everyone smiling with his cheeky banter.
Get rid of the stuffed shirts and bring back Thommo and some of the original team.
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I’d love the chance to do the paddock analysis homer.
Sweating up, grinding teeth, carrying weight around the girth, bit wooly looking and acting coltish .. Big Mac’s chances are looking slim for a return to the Dream Team.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...1 Anchor – Lydia Hislop
2 paddock commentators – Paul Morrison
1 post-race interviewer / Roving reporter – Matt Chapman
2 analysts – Steve Mellish, Jonathan Neesom
1 betting ring reporter – John McCririck1 Anchor – John Rickman
2 paddock commentators – Jimmy Lindley
1 post-race interviewer / Roving reporter – Julian Wilson
2 analysts – Graham Rock, Jim McGrath
1 betting ring reporter – Len MartinIt would appear the once much praised Nick Luck is becoming a tad predictable,its quite apparent when GC and Jimbo are tucked up firmly in bed making love to abit of Black (Timeform gist) the party animal with looks to kill and a hairstyle to clean sewers is knocking back one too many G & T’s,he had the face of a bloodhound chewing a wasp both Friday and Saturday.The guys professionalism and knowledge isn’t impacted by him burning the candles but christ his hotel Mirror was changed 5 times during the week.
I would be quite happy waking upto Lydia Hyslop every morning,we could watch the Morning Line together then go racing,she’d be my Anchor during the afternoon session too……..
What would be an interesting idea would be to have a member of the public having a go presenting the Morning line now and again,it would give a much less feel of them and us that the racing team on C4 often portray.Mind you Cormacks obviously ‘one a them’ now he’s chief Royal Ascot Photographer for Womens Own magazine.
Ha ha – you can’t beat a bit of filly-spotting TAPK. You never know when one will pop up at a big price.
Off topic..but without starting a new thread, I see Jim McGrath (Hotspur) has got the chop at The Telegraph.
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