thehog said:How is DK going without Wiggins?
Is he still saying he's in control?
He's moved onto Uran.
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thehog said:How is DK going without Wiggins?
Is he still saying he's in control?
@spokesmen 17 May
I've not actually seen a single day of the Giro, is it good?![]()
@dmyrcr 17 May
@spokesmen looks good, sounds crap.
@PatisserieCyc 17 May
@spokesmen please come back soon!!! Sean sounds like he’s losing the will to carry on
movingtarget said:It's not only Eurosport it's the organiser's coverage who sometimes go for ages without giving a time gap and don't identify the riders on screen. Still not sure why Quigley kept calling Visconti in the lead and then kept calling Scarponi, Visconti. Very odd as they ride for different teams and look nothing like each other.
cocteau_ireland said:Yeah, Visconti attacking out of the peloton to chase down Visconti was my highlight.
gooner said:I think after today Declan should stick to commentating on F1.
Pricey_sky said:He does F1? Thank god not for Sky sports F1. He'd be constantly commentating on Buttons race and ignoring the other 21 drivers.
gooner said:Even though Harmon wanted a break from the commentary, I'm still a bit surprised to hear he hasn't been watching any of the Giro. As he's still with Eurosport it should still be his job to keep up on all affairs cycling so when he comes back for the Tour he can inform the viewer to a sufficient level on results and a rider's form. So when the Tour now comes along and we say something has to be discussed about Wiggins, Harmon now can't refer in detail to anything of what he did in the Giro. I find this not good enough.
He's free to do what he wants in his spare time but if the commentary is going to go down a level as a result of all this, I would much rather Eurosport put Robert Hatch as primary commentator. He comes across in his commentary with more enthusiasm than Harmon anyway and has good in depth knowledge of the peloton where he delivers the information in good expressive terminology.
OnTheDrops said:Where did he say he hasn't been watching?
I don't think he is coming back for the tour.
Telmisartan new said:Quigley is the worst cycling commentator i have ever heard,bring back Harmon and his Fabian man-love,would take that any day over constantly mixing up riders names,disorientates the viewers and ruins the race,as others have said,how the hell can he get Visconti and Scarponi confused,one wears pink and one wears navy blue? He also thinks Visconti is Spanish then says "oh yeah,he's won some minor races like the Tour of Turkey" Misses the crucial element that its an Italian victory on home soil by the 3 time Italian road champion.Unforgivable.![]()
OnTheDrops said:Did you see when Evan's attacked it took quigley ten seconds to see it, by which time the attack was over.
Avoriaz said:Agree mostly on DQ. What grates the most is his odd insistence on referring it to "giro d'italia" rather than THE giro d'italia.
gooner said:Even though Harmon wanted a break from the commentary, I'm still a bit surprised to hear he hasn't been watching any of the Giro. As he's still with Eurosport it should still be his job to keep up on all affairs cycling so when he comes back for the Tour he can inform the viewer to a sufficient level on results and a rider's form. So when the Tour now comes along and we say something has to be discussed about Wiggins, Harmon now can't refer in detail to anything of what he did in the Giro. I find this not good enough.
He's free to do what he wants in his spare time but if the commentary is going to go down a level as a result of all this, I would much rather Eurosport put Robert Hatch as primary commentator. He comes across in his commentary with more enthusiasm than Harmon anyway and has good in depth knowledge of the peloton where he delivers the information in good expressive terminology.
Morbius said:What winds me up about Quigley is his belief that time gaps go down when riders are going uphill and then go back up when they ride downhill. This is more than just saying the break will struggle on a climb. If a commentator doesn't understand the basics of the sport then he has no business doing the job.
Morbius said:What winds me up about Quigley is his belief that time gaps go down when riders are going uphill and then go back up when they ride downhill. This is more than just saying the break will struggle on a climb. If a commentator doesn't understand the basics of the sport then he has no business doing the job.