What a load of bigotted claptrap from QuarterMoon - must have swallowed the Daily Mail! I am broadly happy with the new team but I wonder how much we will see of Clare Balding given her other commitments. At last we are getting rid of McCririck although I will miss Thommo - he makes presenting look ridiculously easy and has always made me laugh. Alastair Down will be biggest miss tough - I was genuinely moved when he signed off on Saturday. At least we will still be able to read him.
So far - title music is crap and new graphics appalling Bloody confusing too - clare balding stood at a stables, presenters all sat at Cheltenham & racing from...Scotland It can only get better
It's bloody awful. The Theme Rune is apalling, graphics are apalling - the whole thing is just apalling.
Will wait for a Saturday with, say, two meetings before I make full judgement. As Cheltenham was cancelled two days ago there could have been two of the team in 'Auld Reekie'. They could have come up yesterday, got pissed, watched the fireworks and seen The Simple Minds. Hope this is not a sign of things to come; as far north as Haydock or York.
Thoroughly enjoyed todays new look, because of the new presenters probably not and it was probably the chance of being able to look in to the Henderson yard and loook at some of the top stars, but it was a very good idea and Claire Balding presented it very well imo! we will see what it is really like next weekend but overall it wasnt that bad and was fairly impressed.
I think Clare Balding was excellent - although I did like her on the BBC. Need more time to judge Graham Cunningham, but Jim Mcgrath didn't look comfortable. Seemed lost without Francombe. The whole thing in the booth looked disjointed - it didn't seem to flow. That tap-table thing will get on my nerves soon. What did you think of that theme tune? According to Denise Large, it was meant to be like Gladiator!
I only saw the middle part of the programme yesterday and so can’t comment on the beginning or end of the old broadcast but from what I saw the new format was somewhat nicey-nicey, safe, dour and lacked any sort of in-depth analysis or real opinion. I’ll delay making full judgement until they actually cover a full afternoon’s sport but I doubt if the new ‘team’ will win me over. Having a live feed from Seven Barrows was something of a coup for them though and I’m sure viewing figures will prove healthy as racing fans, in their droves, tuned in to catch a glimpse of our sport’s shining star, Mr Henderson. When I did tune the old magic tellybox in though I was most amazed as old girl Claire Balding skipped over to Long Run and Mr Henderson with the words ‘Look at him, isn’t he handsome’! I say has Mr Henderson’s magic worked the oracle in another direction!
God I hate Nick Luck! Looked bored out his skull presenting on Saturday. Dead behind the eyes with that dull monotone voice.
I can assure you that the Daily Fail is far too left-wing for me and I have never been to Marxist idyll Tonbridge Wells. The country is heading down the political correctness road to oblivion but without me. Minorities and queers are massively over-represented on TV proportionate to their share of the population. Ed Miliband will not be a Clare Balding fan as she does not demonstrate social mobility but racing “family” nepotism. On the subject at hand, having now witnessed the ‘new’ Channel 4 Racing, it is clearly a work in progress. The McGrath/Cunningham double act does not work yet because Jim is still sticking with the 2012 style of analysis while Graham wants to do something different. That commentator at Wincanton sounded remarkably like ex-CH4 man Mike Cattermole. I wonder if any of the bookies are betting on how many times somebody talking to Rishi Persad starts by telling him to listen. Aidan O’Brien will be doing so all flat season, but even interviewing winning jockey Nick Scholfield on Saturday he was told. Ironic that the only winner tipped by any of the Morning Line pundits was the odds-on shot nominated by Scholfield. Some things have not changed. Jim McGrath tipping a 10/1 shot to win still has me scratching my head.
I quite liked Village People’s music. Their (alleged) sexual orientation is nothing to do with whether their music is any good. I have no problem with talented people succeeding but us white indigenous British males are really up against it these days thanks to “positive” discrimination. I think we should stop this one here and I will close by saying that I have never voted for any of our elected liars and favour no political party of any persuasion.
I am not boycotting all British racecourses unless they have moved Newmarket across the Channel; and the contraction in my number of visits to the races here in 2013 is not related to the changes in TV coverage. When it comes to the frogs, I think that I am not the only person on this forum that has expressed the view that France is a great country wasted on the French. Some of my visits there might be biting the dust this year also.
