Your views here on the RUK and C4 coverage...
If you tune into C4 now you can watch a group of people eating dinner...
Your views here on the RUK and C4 coverage...
If you tune into C4 now you can watch a group of people eating dinner...
40 mins to go before kick off and Nick Luck is talking fashion
The dinner setting is now annual it seems..
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
RUK on the other hand have put up a pretty good show all morning.
Has Steve Mellish just got out of bed?
I think there must be fish and chips in the middle of all that!
The Cheltenham song is so bad I actually had to turn over to Loose Women.
I've only got Ch.4 (due to penury... all contributions gratefully received!), but the fact they have some six or so staff rambling on course, in every sense, and none had the wit to put up their bins to see which were the two loose horses travelling unharmed, while solemnly - at the end of the day - announcing that KNOWHERE was dead, is unforgivable. It makes you think they'd got their snouts in the trough in the Press Box, or were propping up bars somewhere else, just popping out for a few inanities to camera in between.
Power is good. Control is better. (Lenin)
To be honest, having lost the subscription to RUK and persevered with Channel 4 today, I'm very glad I'm going to Cheltenham tomorrow and for the rest of the week. I always worried that by going to the track, you might miss a lot of the build-up, a lot of the interviews, info etc.......
Not any more...I'll miss nothing.
ive taken RUK for one month only and not regretted in the slightest. Coverage has been as informative, opinionated and as free from the droning sentimentailty as you would expect
First class
Give it time, clivex, give it time... ! The droning, unsentimental but deadly dull, is a straight 9.5 on anyone's Technical Merit card. Obviously, they'll all be 'up' for this week, but you'll have to put up with Jonathan Neesom's constant sneer about anything spelled f-l-a-t, and especially something which rhymes with 'all weather'. After a while, the joke wears very thin indeed. RUK seems to be heavily biased towards NH, hunter chases, and would probably much prefer to cover PtPs than anything that didn't have an obstacle in the way.
Power is good. Control is better. (Lenin)
Oi!!!! There's nothing wrong with hunter chases or point to points, I'll have you know!!!!!!
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
RUK irritates the life out of me. Half an hour between races. 20 mins taken up watching a re-run amid endless blether. Few minutes of parade and more blether. Why can't the opposite be true? Let us have a good look at the horses and save the re-runs 'til later. Besides: can't hear it in the pub
One thing that Channel 4 have over Racing UK is Simon Holt. For me he's the best commentator around especially for the big races. Racing UK are ok when they use Richard Hoiles but unfortunately they also use Mike Cattermole who is pretty bad to be honest.
Ok, it was nice to hear talk of Moscow but by god this dinner setting is tough to take.
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
To be fair Venetia is easy on the eye. What the hell has Biddlecombe got tied round his neck though?
Channel 4 are awful gone to interview the Whaley-Cohens now..............no paddock shots for the Neptune that I saw......what the ferk is going on?
Ah! but a man's reach should exceed his grasp......
Shadz - nothing wrong with hunter chases and points at all. I like 'em myself, but if presenters are paid to present whatever's on, I'd rather they didn't spend the day looking sulky and whining about not being at Larkhill!
Power is good. Control is better. (Lenin)
Channel4 have reached new lows - everytime I switch over its a fecking documentary or something - not LIVE coverage.