Clare Balding to join Channel 4

EC1 said:
yes i knew her husband was a trainer..but that still doesn't tell me why she got the job..there are many trainer's wife's out there...i just never got why she got the job ..just never saw what she brought to the table.
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Was there not talk of Sara Cumani presenting?

I assume as part of one of the failed bids as nothing more has been said.

Edit: Close but no cigar. It was Luca's daughter Fancesca. Second comment as before. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ra...-host-C4-racing-coverage--Marcus-Townend.html
 
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jinnyj said:
Because she was a friend of Graham Goode I think and she met Andrew Franklin. I was working for her husband at the time as assistant and I am pretty sure thats what happened. She knew diddly squit about racing - still doesn't!
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well maybe at the time it worked but nowadays i think anyone they keep has to have something to really offer...shake off the image that the ML has now with racing fans..we should want to watch it and find something of interest
 
I think Clare Balding is very good and I am sure freed from little Jimmy Krankie she will be much better .

Francome is no loss - he is endlessly inaccurate and couldn't tip coal no matter how good a jockey he once was .

My hope is that Graham, Stevenson,Tom Lee, Plunkett get their P45s

I should be happy for - Cattermole and Spencer to stay ( at least if Catt is presenting he isn't commentating ) Holt , Luck and even Jim McGrath and Big Mac .

The ideal C4 team for me would be :

Balding
Luck
Hislop
Mellish
Nevison
Holt
Hoiles
 
I have just read that Fitzy and Persaud are joining Clare Balding in the move to C4 :eek::eek::eek: - does anyone know for sure? Can't believe they'd be quite so stupid!
 
good news

carsons toast

indifferent news
grahams leaving anyway going back to her corporate lawyer scene

bad news
Mrs Spencer is staying
yes it true fitzy who i dont mind is part of the team as is pershad both have been confirmed

for the C4 team although the decisions have been made apparently they have yet to be officialy informed
 
I reckon if he was still around they should have got jimmy saville

That would have bumped up the viewing figures
 
I love CB but with the news that shes going to be presenting a new quiz show as well as taking over Good Morning Sunday, I do fear that the world is going to very soon suffer from Balding Fatigue...
 
Out:-
Persad out - Balding out - Spencer out - Cattemouth out -
That positive / negative table shitology they go on with.

One of McCririck or Stevenson out
All bookies reps
All ex jockeys

In:-
A proper punter - a specialist for each race type
Somebody with a sense of humour -
A review of the week's decent races -
A decent looking bird and bloke (I'm not a sexist pig)
 
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