Commentary on TNT and other WB brands

[RedheadDane]

The Danish guys came up with some rather brilliant talk regarding Rodriquez and Moreno in today's Catalunya stage:

"They probably weigh about 50 Kilo, together."

"You could have them in your pocket."



Yeah... I realize this is probably more Great Commentating Moments but I'm too lazy to dig that thread up!

 

[Cyivel]

Brian Smith on message, 'Teams need to go back to the drawing board and do what Sky do and work hard'

That and Kirby droning on yesterday about 'revolutionary' tactics.

 

[Cycle Chic]

The Mute button is the only answer.

 

[Cycle Chic]

So in todays Volta Catalunya, with about 4kms to go to the summit finish....Dan Martin out front... Carlton Kirby named the Movistar rider, who accelerated to catch Martin, as VALVERDE.

Where was Kirby when Valverde crashed at 119kms. What a F**k up this guy really is !!

How much more ridiculous does he have to get until Eurosport tell him to rack off ??!!

 

[will10]

So in todays Volta Catalunya, with about 4kms to go to the summit finish....Dan Martin out front... Carlton Kirby named the Movistar rider, who accelerated to catch Martin, as VALVERDE.

Where was Kirby when Valverde crashed at 119kms. What a F**k up this guy really is !!

How much more ridiculous does he have to get until Eurosport tell him to rack off ??!!

That mistake would've even be on the 3rd page of the list of errors you could write about Kirby's commentating. The guy is a train crash, like he trips over his own thoughts and loses track of what he's on about so all this vaguely cycling-related stuff just comes out of his mouth in a random splerge of pointlessness.

I've watched the Catalunya highlights this week on mute and will continue to do so. Thank god we have E3 tomorrow.

 

[Caruut]

Had some truly terrible pronunciation the other day. Robert Jay-sink, Yo-a-kim Rodriguez. Surely learning the names is the most basic bit of that job.

 

[coinneach]

I like Brian Smith though....he called it perfectly today and if he had been DS in Katushas car, JRod would have won the stage

 

[Cycle Chic]

Eurosport Complaints

Eurosport have a feedback page now...I,ve already left my views

http://feedback.yahoo.com/forums/169857-uk-sports

 

[asdfgh101]

So far: No Qatar, Oman on almost 24 hr delay, Langkawi internet stream quality, poor Algarve coverage, ruined E3 for me today (showed 100km to 60km then cut to 27km with poor sound quality and a cursory apology).

I was ready to commend them on extended coverage of a cobbled classic (Sky showed DDV and have GW, former had ~20 minutes of race coverage, so disjointed as to render it pointless), but alas ES curse strikes again.

 

[Roude Leiw]

I think they do a great job, belgian RTBF streams being geolocalized since this year, I am watching a lot of ES.

I have the choice between German or French ES coverage. German is very bad. I kind of like the french setups, Moreau is great, Jacky Durand can get annoying when he gets too "cocorico". Luckily for the moment, I do not have to put up with Virenque, I suppose they roll him out for the TdF, they should keep him of the telly, I find his voice very annoying and he is the hypocrite of the century.

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

Brian smith during strade bianchi yesterday talking about how.it.will be hard for.schleck to pull off good.form.in July this year like he has done before because "all the top riders have improved on the back of what bradley wiggins did last year"

Oh lord. And the seasons only began.

That does seem to be the new theme on Eurosport, also in Dutch. I am gratefull they have the footage but please, let those commentators shut up.

Glad to have Canvas/Sporza for the rest of the races.

 

[Winterfold]

Dan Lloyd is excellent.

Smithy is good too - but it's a managerial perspective whereas Lloyd tells you exactly what the riders are thinking on that corner or berg.

Chapeau Dan!

Has anyone worked out the shift in the space time continuum that is the Eurosport app schedule?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So far: No Qatar, Oman on almost 24 hr delay, Langkawi internet stream quality, poor Algarve coverage, ruined E3 for me today (showed 100km to 60km then cut to 27km with poor sound quality and a cursory apology).

I was ready to commend them on extended coverage of a cobbled classic (Sky showed DDV and have GW, former had ~20 minutes of race coverage, so disjointed as to render it pointless), but alas ES curse strikes again.

Most of the races you mention so far are not ES' fault. Langkawi and Algarve they had to make do with host broadcaster coverage. Qatar and Oman are nothing more than pre-season friendlies, and while ES have a commitment to cycling, it's also foolhardy to expect them to pre-empt coverage of important world cup wintersports events for that. ES fill a lot of their schedule with Alpine, XC, Nordic Combined, biathlon and ski jumping over the winter, and in February it's kind of peak season for them, whereas the bike races are of little real importance. I've seen people complaining that a race like Qatar wasn't shown because they preferred to show the biathlon World Championships and the Nordic World Championships instead. Could you imagine the reaction if Eurosport decided not to show the Road World Championships in order to show the Püttlingen City-Biathlon on rollerskis or something? But now, biathlon season is over, and the cross-country ends this weekend. Alpine is pretty much done with now.

Once this is done, you'll see a major improvement in ES' coverage of cycling, because it opens up a large amount of space in the scheduling. A large amount of space that it needs to fill in the winter, with no WTCC, no MotoGP and no cycling, which are major schedule fillers for Eurosport.

 

[uphillstruggle]

Brian smith during strade bianchi yesterday talking about how.it.will be hard for.schleck to pull off good.form.in July this year like he has done before because "all the top riders have improved on the back of what bradley wiggins did last year"

Oh lord. And the seasons only began.

What does that quote even mean?

 

[Cycle Chic]

Rob Hatch

Dan Lloyd IS excellent and Rob Hatch is also very good. Rob Hatch is obviously fluent in Flemish and French which is excellent and he knows stuff about the lesser known riders that even Lloyd and Backstedt don't.

Does he live in Belgium and work there ?? he really knows loads about the Belgian scene.

 

[thirteen]

Dan Lloyd IS excellent and Rob Hatch is also very good. Rob Hatch is obviously fluent in Flemish and French which is excellent and he knows stuff about the lesser known riders that even Lloyd and Backstedt don't.

Does he live in Belgium and work there ?? he really knows loads about the Belgian scene.

i think he lives in the UK... but he's fluent and does voiceovers in spanish and french as well as italian: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZwSRqTh3qZgH4ab6aseajQ?feature=mhee

 

[Cycle Chic]

Rob Hatch

i think he lives in the UK... but he's fluent and does voiceovers in spanish and french as well as italian: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZwSRqTh3qZgH4ab6aseajQ?feature=mhee

The commentary between Rob Hatch and Dan Lloyd was so interesting I watched the race again this morning. It was just an awesome race with awesome commentary. Now that's a first with Eurosport !

 

[thirteen]

The commentary between Rob Hatch and Dan Lloyd was so interesting I watched the race again this morning. It was just an awesome race with awesome commentary. Now that's a first with Eurosport !

did they have it on without the technical difficulties (a relay problem from in Paris)?

i got too frustrated with the sound on the stream yesterday, so i ended up watching it in french on La Deux.

i know Rob Hatch is coming over to do Gent-Wevelgem, so i'm hoping to get a stream tomorrow (or Monday, as the case may be).

 

[RedheadDane]

You got Gent-Wevelgem on ES?

I personally quite like the Danish commentators.

What I don't like is what happened Sunday (MSR) when the skijumping went way overtime and ESPlayer had a bonus channel showing the skijumping!
Of course I personally think that the cycling commentators should just have run into the box and kicked the skijumping guys out!

 

[Caruut]

I liked it yesterday with just the whirring of the chopper and the gentle hum of the moto. Then the commentary started up again over a poor phoneline.

 

[will10]

The commentary between Rob Hatch and Dan Lloyd was so interesting I watched the race again this morning. It was just an awesome race with awesome commentary. Now that's a first with Eurosport !

Dan Lloyd knowing every stretch of road along the route really added a lot to the race IMO. I hope ES were paying attention and will continue lining him up for Belgian classics in the future.

 

[Cycle Chic]

and then you watch Tour of Catalunya with Carlton Kirby and Brian Smith whose commentary makes you wana throw the tv out the friggin window......what a bloody earache

 

[distanced]

wasn't that the 3rd time in this tour already that kirby had no idea of the identity of the winning rider as they crossed the line...that's pretty poor stuff.

 

[movingtarget]

wasn't that the 3rd time in this tour already that kirby had no idea of the identity of the winning rider as they crossed the line...that's pretty poor stuff.

Gerrans came from a long way back and he was partly obscured behind a fan's flag. Yes they make mistakes but you have to admit that the organisers did not have it right either. Having one of the Russians finishing third when he was not even in the picture. The graphics have been awful every day, from kms to go to the official finish line order. Constantly wrong. Eurosport can't do much about that.

 

[Cycle Chic]

Gerrans came from a long way back and he was partly obscured behind a fan's flag. Yes they make mistakes but you have to admit that the organisers did not have it right either. Having one of the Russians finishing third when he was not even in the picture. The graphics have been awful every day, from kms to go to the official finish line order. Constantly wrong. Eurosport can't do much about that.

I get fed up of people complaining about Eurosport - AT LEAST WE GET THE RACES...Sky will start airing races soon - they have already aired a Belgian race - I forget which one but I watched one on Sky sports 4. They also did a sporting greats on Eddy Merckx.

Eurosport are currently showing Catalunya AND the Criterium so how can anyone whinge about that. They will probably air Gent Wevelgem tomorrow or next day - the other week there were so many races on I was 'over-watched'.