Eurosport commentary

[Jancouver]

Little poll for PR

How many "goodness me" will be used during PR

A) 50-100
B) 100-500
C) 500+

 

[argyllflyer]

Little poll for PR

How many "goodness me" will be used during PR

A) 50-100
B) 100-500
C) 500+

D) off the charts!

 

[the sceptic]

are the skybot commentators usually this clueless? jesus christ.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Once again Kirby is doing a brilliant job as the Eurosport commentator. 10/10
Like so many artists, Kirby is waay ahead of his time.

 

[the sceptic]

Once again Kirby is doing a brilliant job as the Eurosport commentator. 10/10
Like so many artists, Kirby is waay ahead of his time.

"Evans is far behind, this doesnt bode well for Contador who is not a good time triallist"

10 minutes later

"Let there be no doubt about Contadors time trial abilities"

incredible.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

He is the Tim Patch of commentators

 

[Cyivel]

Kirby's maths...

 

[elfed68]

He is the Tim Patch of commentators

No, Carlton's the Ron Burgundy of commentators!

 

[murali]

this time around, i had to mute the commentary half the time.


calling them skybot is an insult to even skybots in thsi forum.

 

[sfdoddsy]

I signed up to this forum just to express my amazement at the awfulness of the commentators on Eurosport.

The Basque finish was comically inept, but pretty much every race I've seen this season has been similar.

Prediction, followed by prediction being proved wrong. Analysis, followed by analysis being proved wrong. Commentary, followed by commentary being proved wrong.

It's very funny, but I suspect that isn't the intention.

 

[Cyivel]

I signed up to this forum just to express my amazement at the awfulness of the commentators on Eurosport.

The Basque finish was comically inept, but pretty much every race I've seen this season has been similar.

Prediction, followed by prediction being proved wrong. Analysis, followed by analysis being proved wrong. Commentary, followed by commentary being proved wrong.

It's very funny, but I suspect that isn't the intention.

Welcome.

10c

 

[Descender]

I'm not exaggerating when I say I was laughing out loud during that last hour of commentary today. **** was hilarious.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Kirby and Stephens - the blind leading the partially sighted

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

Disgraceful stuff from Kirby and Stephens today.

 

[hfer07]

Eurosport should do some internal quality control to avoid what took place today with Kirby- it was "embarrassing"

 

[VeloHuman]

I was shouting at the screen when they kept calling Kwiato the winner because they'd missed the intermediate sprint, where Contador was 7 seconds ahead.

Also, the whole time they're going on about Evans's chances to podium as if it were a lock, and they've barely said anything about TvG the whole race, when in the end, TvG finished just ahead of Evans.

 

[Fzotrlool]

What about an online petition? 10,000 pro-cycling fans against Kirby?

We demand consistency from Eurosport!

 

[The Hitch]

Jesus christ that was something today. Contador was 2nd on the intermediate, in front of Kwiatkoski, they saw it because they ****ing made a mention of it when it came on screen and then they started acting like Contador was going to lose and like he needed to go faster in the 2nd section.

They then spent much of the 2nd half talking about how close it was going to be and when Contador came over the line in pretty much the exact time expected they went "oh my god, where did that come from".

 

[JRanton]

Jesus christ that was something today. Contador was 2nd on the intermediate, in front of Kwiatkoski, they saw it because they ****ing made a mention of it when it came on screen and then they started acting like Contador was going to lose and like he needed to go faster in the 2nd section.

They then spent much of the 2nd half talking about how close it was going to be and when Contador came over the line in pretty much the exact time expected they went "oh my god, where did that come from".

Matt Stephens needs to get it into his head that Kirby is a complete idiot and automatically question everything he says. He allowed himself to be carried along by the idiot today.

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

Matt Stephens needs to get it into his head that Kirby is a complete idiot and automatically question everything he says. He allowed himself to be carried along by the idiot today.

Stephens must be in a weird position though. When Kirby starts talking about Sagans future gt victories, most of us (not me personally, I find it to entertaining) would want to punch Kirby in the stomach to make him shut up. But since they are live on the air, and he doens't want to make to much of a scene he has to go along with the Kerbs to keep him happy.

 

[The Hitch]

What about an online petition? 10,000 pro-cycling fans against Kirby?

If there was a way.

 

[Roude Leiw]

I rather enjoyed Moncoutie on the french ES today

 

[roundabout]

Whenever a new post is made in this thread I am hoping against hope that it's the great news of Kirby being fired so I can go back to watching cycling with the sound on

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Jesus christ that was something today. Contador was 2nd on the intermediate, in front of Kwiatkoski, they saw it because they ****ing made a mention of it when it came on screen and then they started acting like Contador was going to lose and like he needed to go faster in the 2nd section.

They then spent much of the 2nd half talking about how close it was going to be and when Contador came over the line in pretty much the exact time expected they went "oh my god, where did that come from".

I wonder whether Stephens wasn't more to blame. Kirby is essentially obliged to keep talking. If there are only the two of them there (I assume they don't have any other staff present other technicians necessary to maintain a stream) he has limited chances to keep across all the data (though he shouldn't be totally ignorant f it). If Stephens had taken it upon himself to scribble down some times and point them out to Kirby, they could have avoided making such daft comments.

Who knows, by actually using the evidence in front of them, they could even have sounded remotely intelligent and informative.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Kirby is essentially obliged to keep talking.

This is the problem. The guy has to fill dead air while some guys are pedaling their bikes interspersed with helicopter shots of ... guys riding their bikes... and make it interesting.

You want miserable? I was passing some time watching and old P-R with Phil and Paul talking over the race and it was insufferable on top of OLN's bizarre camera choices. They may as well have talked over a tractor pull contest.

If Kirby could go back in time and fix his mistakes, would the collective opinion be any better?