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I've recently started watching ITV Racing properly (sound up) and for the most part I enjoyed it today.

I find Richard Hoiles boring and I don't much like many of his turns of phrase, but he's certainly competent.

Ed Chamberlin gives it a good go and it's good he's got someone on machine watch feeding him info, though I find his effusive praise for every interviewee having "done well" a bit cringe.

No issues with Leona Mayor, better prepared than many and opinionated.

Ruby Walsh is best and he forces Mick Fitzgerald to raise his game and get off the fence.

Oh, Chapman.

I'd have just loved one person he approached to say: "I don't talk to people who don't properly pay all their taxes and debts," but it was never going to happen.

I left the Racing Post before Chapman joined, but none of my ex-colleagues had a good word to say about him and they're weren't a jealous bunch.

I've heard other negative things since.

I once had a very brief dealing with him and it confirmed everything I'd been told.

Ed Chamberlin has his faults, but I'd say he's essentially a decent bloke.

I couldn't say that about Chapman.
 
an capall said:
Chapman's broadcasting normally washes over me. This is show business after all and he is employed to be a show pony, payed to neigh and sh!t as the occasion demands it.

But today I really wanted to see no more of him. His faux emotion and empathetic posing made me want to barf.
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Aye.

Poor Nicky in tears and Chappers wouldn't even give him a hug.
 
Ian_Davies said:
I've recently started watching ITV Racing properly (sound up) and for the most part I enjoyed it today.

I find Richard Hoiles boring and I don't much like many of his turns of phrase, but he's certainly competent.

Ed Chamberlin gives it a good go and it's good he's got someone on machine watch feeding him info, though I find his effusive praise for every interviewee having "done well" a bit cringe.

No issues with Leona Mayor, better prepared than many and opinionated.

Ruby Walsh is best and he forces Mick Fitzgerald to raise his game and get off the fence.

Oh, Chapman.

I'd have just loved one person he approached to say: "I don't talk to people who don't properly pay all their taxes and debts," but it was never going to happen.

I left the Racing Post before Chapman joined, but none of my ex-colleagues had a good word to say about him and they're weren't a jealous bunch.

I've heard other negative things since.

I once had a very brief dealing with him and it confirmed everything I'd been told.

Ed Chamberlin has his faults, but I'd say he's essentially a decent bloke.

I couldn't say that about Chapman.
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Chapman looks like he'd be a bit of a prick
 
Ian_Davies said:
Ed Chamberlin gives it a good go and it's good he's got someone on machine watch feeding him info, though I find his effusive praise for every interviewee having "done well" a bit cringe.
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Exactly this. With knobs on.

I was at my grandaughters annual 'Grandparents Open Day' at the school last week and the teacher said this time and time again to any pupil who had managed to get through a poem* or a song without getting distracted or melting down halfway in. They are all eight years old.

(* My Lily chose to recite Dante's Divine Comedy in the original 14th century Latin. We were all captivated and those three hours just flew by.)
 
As I've bored everyone with before, I once worked with Chamberlin on Sports Advisor, he's a bit younger than me, and my recollection was he was a really nice bloke and very polite and respectful towards everyone.

He doesn't actually seem to have changed that much since but, as stated, imo he's a bit "cringe" on ITV Racing at times.

(I want to get an ante-post bet on Lily to be a high achiever in life).
 
Ian_Davies said:
I've recently started watching ITV Racing properly (sound up) and for the most part I enjoyed it today.

I find Richard Hoiles boring and I don't much like many of his turns of phrase, but he's certainly competent.

Ed Chamberlin gives it a good go and it's good he's got someone on machine watch feeding him info, though I find his effusive praise for every interviewee having "done well" a bit cringe.

No issues with Leona Mayor, better prepared than many and opinionated.

Ruby Walsh is best and he forces Mick Fitzgerald to raise his game and get off the fence.

Oh, Chapman.

I'd have just loved one person he approached to say: "I don't talk to people who don't properly pay all their taxes and debts," but it was never going to happen.

I left the Racing Post before Chapman joined, but none of my ex-colleagues had a good word to say about him and they're weren't a jealous bunch.

I've heard other negative things since.

I once had a very brief dealing with him and it confirmed everything I'd been told.

Ed Chamberlin has his faults, but I'd say he's essentially a decent bloke.

I couldn't say that about Chapman.
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The reference to Ruby raising levels of Mick Fitz is a good one

Ed Chamberlain seems a lovely fella but is just too timid and image fronting to be enjoyable

Chapman in person is likely an idiot but I enjoy his YouTube show and welcome his promotion of racing
 
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I'd never have thought there was anything 'public schoolboy' about him. He's always struck me as a failed poly student from the suburbs who merely arselicked his way into racing.

And I've made better hairstyles with my pubes.
 
an capall said:
Exactly this. With knobs on.

I was at my grandaughters annual 'Grandparents Open Day' at the school last week and the teacher said this time and time again to any pupil who had managed to get through a poem* or a song without getting distracted or melting down halfway in. They are all eight years old.

(* My Lily chose to recite Dante's Divine Comedy in the original 14th century Latin. We were all captivated and those three hours just flew by.)
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You don't look old enough to be a grandad.;)
 
Chapman is in full annoy-DO-mode this morning.

Opens the show with a shout about how the money has come for Joyeux Machin. It hadn't. It had been pink across the board since yesterday evening.

Then he, in his usual full-arrogant style, persisted in pronouncing the 't' in Montregard, despite Stewart Machin next to him pronouncing the horse's name correctly.

He is bad at the best of times but on days like today he has me wondering if I should be doing an Internet search for anger management courses.

I really would never tire of clubbing him with a baseball bat.
 
I find him loud and abrasive minus likeable qualities to offset that

He's one of those I'd like to put one of these on, that's activated every time his voice goes over a certain number of decibels or talks over someone or just breathes in way that annoys me......
Could be decided by the thumbs up and thumbs down button on your remote, the more thumbs down the bigger the shock.. :ROFLMAO:

Shock Collars for Dogs
 
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I have recently started watching ITV Racing with the sound up - various people on it irritate me and Chapman (about who I've - without asking, I hasten to add, these people's lives don't interest me - been reliably told some fairly gross things over the years) would be pretty high up the list.

But I only watch it when the live racing broadcast and, as my Stone Age telly doesn't get ITV4, I won't be watching it today.
 
pawras said:
I find him loud and abrasive minus likeable qualities to offset that

He's one of those I'd like to put one of these on, that's activated every time his voice goes over a certain number of decibels or talks over someone or just breathes in way that annoys me......
Could be decided by the thumbs up and thumbs down button on your remote, the more thumbs down the bigger the shock.. :ROFLMAO:

Shock Collars for Dogs
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Man, I would be all for that.

Can we set the decibel level at 1 and the starting level of shock at 50,000v?
 
I used to like him because he always had some genuine knowledge to share, which often offset his general level of prickness. These days he has become a parody of himself, and only serves to encourage punters to shout “wanker” at the telly.

He actually loves any publicity and attention. Disgusting narcissist.
 
Ian_Davies said:
I have recently started watching ITV Racing with the sound up - various people on it irritate me and Chapman (about who I've - without asking, I hasten to add, these people's lives don't interest me - been reliably told some fairly gross things over the years) would be pretty high up the list.

But I only watch it when the live racing broadcast and, as my Stone Age telly doesn't get ITV4, I won't be watching it today.
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I gather it's b&w cos the licence is cheaper...
 
Len Madeiros said:
I used to like him because he always had some genuine knowledge to share, which often offset his general level of prickness. These days he has become a parody of himself, and only serves to encourage punters to shout “wanker” at the telly.

He actually loves any publicity and attention. Disgusting narcissist.
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He's becoming like a pantomime villian
 
pawras said:
I gather it's b&w cos the licence is cheaper...
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I hope you're sitting down when you read this - it's COLOUR.

The couple I bought my apartment off in 2011 were retiring to Alicante and left literally everything,

I moved into a fully-furnished show home of a place with everything I could possibly need.

14 years later, most of it is still intact, but the flat screen TV which is either FreeSat or FreeView (I forget which) stopped receiving all but the most basic terrestrial channels some years ago, so I watch most of the racing on my equally-ancient iphone XR.
 

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