Will someone please shut Rob Hatch up......!!

[Aussieblue]

I love the coverage of cycling that GCN do but Rob Hatch is the worst commentator of the lot. It makes me want to cancel my account with GCN. He is utterly shocking...

 

[movingtarget]

I love the coverage of cycling that GCN do but Rob Hatch is the worst commentator of the lot. It makes me want to cancel my account with GCN. He is utterly shocking...

He has verbal diarrhea mate ............

 

[dusty red roads]

I never minded him early on, but in more recent times I suspect he's been told by those higher up to be more excitable, esp in the finales - so now he's starting to yell himself almost into Kirby territory, nowhere near as bad, but I have found myself muting him on some of the finishes lately. It might not be what he'd personally prefer though, who knows.

 

[laarsland]

Disagreed. Although a bit too excitable at times, his in-depth knowledge of riders and races exceeds all the other GCN-commentators, so a vital part alongside the ex-riders.

 

[RedheadDane]

Disagreed. Although a bit too excitable at times, his in-depth knowledge of riders and races exceeds all the other GCN-commentators, so a vital part alongside the ex-riders.

Hey... at least they aren't complaining about the fact that he pronounces names - or riders and places - correctly, like that other guy did.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Hey... at least they aren't complaining about the fact that he pronounces names - or riders and places - correctly, like that other guy did.

There has been more than one guy or at least aliases.

I wonder who Hatch's verbal diarrhea mate is. Kirby?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I love the coverage of cycling that GCN do but Rob Hatch is the worst commentator of the lot. It makes me want to cancel my account with GCN. He is utterly shocking...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Blythe

 

[kingjr]

Hey... at least they aren't complaining about the fact that he pronounces names - or riders and places - correctly, like that other guy did.

He pronounces them like someone who is attempting to pronounce them correctly.

 

[HelloDolly]

And why do GCN need both Blythe and McEwen ...2 sprinters who basically say the same things, make the same 'jokes' and have the same 'insights' ...there is no colour

 

[fmk_RoI]

Disagreed. Although a bit too excitable at times, his in-depth knowledge of riders and races exceeds all the other GCN-commentators, so a vital part alongside the ex-riders.

Sideshow Rob's mammy says the nicest things about her boy.

 

[tobydawq]

He pronounces them like someone who is attempting to pronounce them correctly.

No, he pronounces them correctly.

 

[kingjr]

No, he pronounces them correctly.

Some of them, maybe.

 

[davidsonduke]

Some of them, maybe.

No one can pronounce everyone's name like a native speaker of the rider's language, but Hatch is multilingual and very adept at pronouncing correctly. Jose Bean is the only other commentator is in the same league.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

I never minded him early on, but in more recent times I suspect he's been told by those higher up to be more excitable, esp in the finales - so now he's starting to yell himself almost into Kirby territory, nowhere near as bad, but I have found myself muting him on some of the finishes lately. It might not be what he'd personally prefer though, who knows.

Hatch tries to make everything exciting even when it clearly is not. He needs to work on his banter/library of useless facts for boring flat stages.
I miss Kirby which is something I couldn't have imagined myself saying a year or so ago.

 

[Kaptain Kool]

Hatch tries to make everything exciting even when it clearly is not. He needs to work on his banter/library of useless facts for boring flat stages.
I miss Kirby which is something I couldn't have imagined myself saying a year or so ago.

Yep. I liked Hatch several years ago but the last few years have been too much for me to handle in large doses. Did you know that the 2020 Giro had 17 "Ride of the Century"s? Or that 83% of the peloton is in the "Form of His Life"? Domestique for the rider 16th on GC gets a puncture with 137km to go on Stage 8, "Dearohdearohdearofdearohdearohdear!"

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Yep. I liked Hatch several years ago but the last few years have been too much for me to handle in large doses. Did you know that the 2020 Giro had 17 "Ride of the Century"s? Or that 83% of the peloton is in the "Form of His Life"? Domestique for the rider 16th on GC gets a puncture with 137km to go on Stage 8, "Dearohdearohdearofdearohdearohdear!"

I really think that since GCN got more involved the producers/editors have introduced a house style which calls for more faux enthusiasm and much more Ineos.
Meanwhile their YouTube content is unwatchable unless you are a fan of Top Gear.

 

[Alexandre B.]

As a foreigner, I like him waaaaay better than Kirby.

 

[Netserk]

I really think that since GCN got more involved the producers/editors have introduced a house style which calls for more faux enthusiasm and much more Ineos.
Meanwhile their YouTube content is unwatchable unless you are a fan of Top Gear.

And then there's the non-English language streams that combine the best of both worlds. A great service for coverage and mostly really good commentators.

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile their YouTube content is unwatchable unless you are a fan of Top Gear.

I liked it when they would go ask the riders more special questions.
Or the "draw a bike in 20 seconds", thing.

 

[staubsauger]

I really think that since GCN got more involved the producers/editors have introduced a house style which calls for more faux enthusiasm and much more Ineos.
Meanwhile their YouTube content is unwatchable unless you are a fan of Top Gear.

It's the same with German Eurosport actually. Their coverage has become Bora TV just like RTL Germany's Formula 1 coverage used to be Michael Schumacher TV back in the day.

They probably want to reach the young tech affine generation with this who are more used to streaming thanks to Netflix & Co.

Problem is that exactly this generation below 35 actually is quite cosmopolitan. So they probably would prefer the more global coverage style Eurosport used to have in the TF1 days, talking about cycling and its stars in general rather than this nationalistic approach known from public TV. Especially winter sports in Germany for example.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

What does it pay? And should it look like an accident?

 

[sir fly]

My impression is that Hatch carries out the required role better than the rest of the personnel.
Hard to imagine Lloyd (for example) building the finishing excitement to exaltation.
Maybe it's the quality of his voice that some find disliking.

Discussions during the "empty" kilometers are a thing of experience, imo.
Forementioned Kirby must've seen and visited the places numerous times during his career which made him prepared. Affinities also play a role.

The broadcast director maps the path commentators follow. Assigning the roles properly shapes the viewing pleasure.

 

[zlev11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Blythe

I think you meant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_McEwen

I had to switch to the Italian commentary feed today (I do not speak any Italian) because I couldn't listen to this guy anymore. The final straw was when he said some room temperature IQ bro sh*t about Nibali always being under the radar or something and delivered it like he was making some genius take.

 

[gunara]

Hatch now has at least two angry threads about him, maybe only Armstrong had more in this forum, more than a decade ago.

And of the English commentators, he's probably among the ones that annoy me the least.

 

[movingtarget]

I never minded him early on, but in more recent times I suspect he's been told by those higher up to be more excitable, esp in the finales - so now he's starting to yell himself almost into Kirby territory, nowhere near as bad, but I have found myself muting him on some of the finishes lately. It might not be what he'd personally prefer though, who knows.

It's the voice more than the content while with Kirby its the opposite............