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Do you mean that half the Ch.4 team would like him for a son-in-law, or that many middle-aged wimmin want half the Ch.4 team as husbands for their daughters, and on what evidence have your based your findings, DO? I think we should be told...

Yes, talk about ask questions and not listen to what is said back. What was the point of having so many people titting around at Aintree, anyway? We could've got by with just Clare, just Mick, or (gulp!) just Rishi - but three? I thought that cutbacks were being made to staffing levels, not that the sporting section seems to have been affected, if they can send out so many to do so little. I'd like to say it's good to see Mick back, but not if we're going to have everyone who works with him go on and on about his abscess, infections, being fed through a stomach tube, etc., especially over Sunday lunch. Come on, folks! We didn't get the details of Clare's thyroid cancer, so let's ease up on the intestinal details about Mick.
 
What fools they are - missing yesterday's terrific Ascot and Haydock cards for this afternoon's yawnfest .
 
I know! Then the neck injury, the end of the riding career, the operation, the time off, the new career, the infection, the time off, the new baby, the resumption of the new career... somewhere among all that, he manages to opine that XYZ 'looks a picture' in the paddock! I think next time jocks break their necks, just put up the screens and shoot 'em, have done with it, or else they'll be signed for ATR or RUK telling us about the end of their riding career, their operations, the (That's enough. We've got the point. Ed.)
 
krizon said:
Do you mean that half the Ch.4 team would like him for a son-in-law, or that many middle-aged wimmin want half the Ch.4 team as husbands for their daughters, and on what evidence have your based your findings, DO? I think we should be told...
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I simply mean the producers need the programme to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. I know from watching women-of-certain-years in my own extended family that "He looks such a nice young man" is an oft-used remark when they're watching events (that they might otherwise not watch) with the family.

My own mammy got hooked on snooker because Steve Davis (the player rather than the presenter in those days but the principle is the same) could have passed for one of her sons. I don't know all the C4 guys by name partly because there are so many of them but they all seem to have a similar 'look': clean cut, clean shaven, passable face for telly, etc. You've seen the situation parodied often enough on telly, I'd imagine.

Sport tends to do it less obviously than other programmes, possibly because the sport is more interesting than the other programmes. I'd much rather see programmes presented by knowledgable and intelligent presenters than by tarts in low tops and high skirts, whose knowledge wouldn't fill their cleavage.

Clare Balding is an excellent example. She's a top class presenter and I don't watch her for her looks.

I'm not convinced the C4 guys are that knowledgable apart from McGrath (not a top class presenter but he doesn't try to be) and Francome. I'd never make it as a presenter. People would be switching off their telly and ringing the repair man, thinking there was a problem with their screen.
 
McGrath looks knowledgable talking about the good stuff that the terrestrial channels cover. I'd be very interested to listen to his views about some of the more run of the mill stuff at Catterick on a cold Tuesday or Kempton on a dull Wednesday evening.
 
But part of being a good punter is specialising. Would anyone think less of any pundit/form person who knew feck all about such low level action?
 
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The point of him is that many middle-aged women with unmarried daughters would like him for a son-in-law. Not unlike half the Channel 4 team.
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You think so?? My mother would draw me aside and ask me why I'd brought such a boring dope home and point out how much crap he talks about racing!!! (she'd be too polite to call him a grinning buffoon)
 
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Ha Ha, Richie the 'cougar' hunter eh?:D

People tell me i'm a nice young man most weeks, daint always mean they want me to give their daughters one though.

(sorry):ninja:
 
Memo to B C Byrnes: THE DEW AT NIGHT took you all the way round, well clear in front, giving you an armchair doss at Thurles today. Did you remember the Golden Rule to actually ride him into the last jump, or did you think, this is a piece of piss, my sainted granny could ride this one, and light up a fag? Aaaaaarrrse!
 
Andy Stewart on p2 of today's Racing Post:

"We have had a few major upsets [this season], whether it be Kauto Star, Master Minded or Hurricane Fly".

er....didn't Kauto Star win last week? Perhaps AS had access to the real photo!
 
probably not the right threat, but loved it. did somebody read yesterdays post, and "noel fehily´s week" in particular? says, and now this is a sort of quote "go schooling at charlie mann´s, which takes about an hour and a quarter, putting around 20 (!!!!!) horses through their paces"

so now we know ....
 
That wouldn't be unusual, crazyhorse - the lads warm the horses up, probably give them a canter beforehand, then the pygmy gets on board and takes them over a line of a few flights three or four times, then gets on the next one whilst handing his horse back to the lad giving him the next horse.
 
@shadow, I know, but even considering that it gives fehily about 4 minutes per horse, incl. getting on and off etc. :) that clearly IS thorough schooling ;)
 
I nominate myself for Arse of the Day. Having read Mark Cornford's very optimistic view last night on the RP online that Plumpton would go ahead, although Heavy, I thought no more about the 8.00 a.m. inspection and trundled out to the course, suitably clad in thermal long-sleeved vest, thick warm sweater, gilet, raincoat, thermal gloves, and my lovely new waterproof, fuzzy-lined boots from Cotton Traders, which I was keen to trial. Uh-oh, I thought, approaching Lewes. Looks a bit damp round here. Closing in on Plumpton Green, the little roadway was part stream, with rainwater gushing down its sides. No problem, though, 'cos it was way worse than this when Antonio McMarvellous collared his 3,000th win there. At the track - what? Only six cars? Don't tell me I'm ridiculously early again! Perhaps time for a bacon sarnie in the canteen, then...

Yes, definitely Numpty of the day. But the boots were wonderful.
 
At The Races tv channel.

Think it was the first race at Lingfield yesterday, halfway through the race the horses are replaced by adverts with sound with no race commentary.

As Chaparse would say......."..............nothing standard about our coverage!"
 
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