Duffield - Something must be done

desderrick123
desderrick123 Posts: 30
edited June 2008 in Pro race
He's is now so bad it spoils the event, need to turn the sound down to make it bearable. Doesn't know what's going on with the tactics or who's who - get rid of him Eurosport.

By the way who is Hush VOD!!!!!
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  • thamacdaddy
    thamacdaddy Posts: 590
    I thought the guy doing the Giro wasn't the worlds best commentator but this is the first event I have watched now three programmes of and seriously wanted to shout "SHUT THE F*** UP" at the tv. I haven't watched cycling other than TDF where I used to normally watch the ITV or Channel 4 highlight shows until this year and this guy makes me want to fast forward the sky plus recording!!!

    The Mumbling, talking nonsense and repeating the same rubbish jokes over and over is seriously annoying.

    He isn't doing the TDF right?
  • hamish01
    hamish01 Posts: 1
    There must be many possible candidates for commentating these days. David Duffield knows naff all about what he is watching. He does no research and he even forgot that Leipheimer or Levvy as he calls him can time trial. He mumbles, cackles and behaves like he is watching the sport for the first time. And I thought Archie McPherson was bad! Something has to be done - it is bleeding my ears. I too gave the telly some verbal.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    I suspect David Duffield pays Eurosport to be allowed to keep on doing some commentary. He's gone truly senile if today's broadcast is anything to go by. Graham Jones is good though.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    He sounded like a schoolboy who'd farted in class. Giggling fits and a hyper-active mouth. I get the impression GJ is embarrassed.
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  • Bagman
    Bagman Posts: 311
    Must be honest, I had the impression he'd had a few glasses of wine! Commentary spoilt the coverage.
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Was he talking about sausages at one point? We got coverage from 2.30 BST onwards yesterday, it was astoundingly bad. Even my wife, who has zero interest in cycling, commented on how awful it was. I felt deeply sorry for Graham Jones, who appeared to be sober...
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    pottssteve wrote:
    Was he talking about sausages at one point? ... it was astoundingly bad. Even my wife, who has zero interest in cycling, commented on how awful it was. I felt deeply sorry for Graham Jones, who appeared to be sober...
    Same in my abode!
    I know, that at times, when there's little happening in the middle of a long, flat stage, commentators do feel obliged to fill in, but this was only within the last 15km or so!
    Pension the old git off!
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  • Mar ge
    Mar ge Posts: 88
    If he mentions the line about: "the dauphine is like the TdF but without 3 weeks of washing" I'll sell one of my bikes & hire a hit man!
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Come on it was worth it just for the bit about the sausages - I don't know what he was on about - or should that just be what he was on - but it had me in stitches - long may it continue.
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  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    I like duffers, but it took him about 30 seconds to comment on the attack by Hincapie yesterday!
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    Hincapie attacked?
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Yes, Hincapie attacked. However, it may have coincided with Mr Duffield opening another bottle of wine - I think he told us that he was partial to a drop from the region at least twice yesterday...
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    Typical of Mr Butcher to like the bit about the sausages... :wink:
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  • weyayeman
    weyayeman Posts: 1,141
    Its truly awful to listen to him and eurosport should be ashamed about using him.I too thought Graham Jones was embarrassed by him yesterday.
    Nice blokes don't necessarily make good commentators.
    "We shall see" if eurosport drop him he says tapping the side of his nose,oooo he makes me cringe. :evil:
    How son yee divent need gaan doon the Pit,coz thas plenty coal in the coal hoose
  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    pottssteve wrote:
    Yes, Hincapie attacked. However, it may have coincided with Mr Duffield opening another bottle of wine - I think he told us that he was partial to a drop from the region at least twice yesterday...

    Hi there.

    Don't get over-excited now, Hincapie followed an attack, then sat on...

    Cheers, Andy
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  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    andrewgturnbull,
    You should be saying "cheers" to Mr Duffield, maybe, rather than me. Unless it's a case of sour grapes... :wink:
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  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    I'm afraid that he is seriously denting my enjoyment of the coverage. I could listen to david harmon and Sean Kelly all night.
    Duffers doesn't even know who's attacking.
    Dan
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    vermooten wrote:
    I suspect David Duffield pays Eurosport to be allowed to keep on doing some commentary.
    I suspect DD has compromising photos of one of the directors of Eurosport with one or more family pets - I can imagine no other reason why he is still in a job
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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    thamacdaddy wrote:
    The Mumbling, talking nonsense and repeating the same rubbish jokes over and over is seriously annoying.

    Haven't had much chance to watch any cycling on Eurosport so far this year, but not surprised to hear that the Duffield standard of commentary is the same as previous seasons, if not worse. Perhaps he's turning into cycling's equivalent of Ron Manager from The Fast Show. Small boys on the 'cross course, jumpers for obstacles....hmm, you know, enduring image, isn't it? Marvellous.

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • Pork Sword
    Pork Sword Posts: 213
    I've had the misfortune of meeting Duffers at some cyclo cross races in Biirmingham and yes, he's just the same in real life - how I dream of the day when he hangs up his spurs for good ... and, unlike Murray Walker he won't be missed!! :twisted:
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  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Duffer's was really bad yesterday. As somebody who really liked Duffers and enjoyed some of his ramblings, yesterday was the worst I have ever heard, and I am afraid to admit, it is time for him to exit stage left...

    At one point when a rider attacked off the front with 6 Km to go, he starts shouting "Oh my God" about three times in a row. He was about to say it a fourth time, but managed to stop himself, I assume when he realised that he was over reacting.... I mean can you imagine someone attacking in the last 6km! wow

    He kept shouting "whats going on?" .. "why is he doing that?" ... The man is not his old self :-(

    Even my wife questioned what is going on with him!!

    Having said that, I cant wait to see the crap he comes out with today...
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  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    It's such a shame because he made cycling so interesting when I first started watching it but the last couple of days I have been really embarressed to listen to it and for Graham Jones to have to sit next to him
    I seem to remember that he had health problems a couple of years ago so maybe that has contributed to it.
    Sad. :(
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  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    TIME will resolve this issue soon enough. I don't mean the frame maker, I mean Father Time. Not long now, surely.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    1st of June, oh too bad !

    You lot have missed
    http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3688

    You could have pushed him into a ditch or under a truck or something
  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    In the coverage of Paris-Roubaix 2007, it took him 7 minutes to realize O'Grady had launched the definitive attack. A friend and I actually timed it, we couldn't believe it. He was talking about walking the dog while the race was being won! 7 minutes! That's like 5km of Stuey nailing it with the cameras showing only him, and Duffers is going on about "mowing the lawn on this beautiful Sunday afternoon". Painful.

    At least now he's got somebody next to him. When he's alone, torture ensues.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    andy_wrx wrote:
    You lot have missed
    http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3688

    The advert for the ride should have read:

    "The rides follow a simple formula: rewarding routes for Tail end Charlies and for those Going full bore out alike, stunning scenery and roads to come down like a dose of salts and like the rough end of a ragman's trumpet great camaraderie. It will be a war of attrition but it will be with a sense of great satisfaction in both completing the route and in the knowledge that after doing the thick end of 100 kilometers (and thats 60 miles in English money), there will be time for a quick sherbert"
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  • nolance
    nolance Posts: 79
    He has turned into the cycling equivalent of Stanley Unwin(younger readers ask your Mum or Dad),he speaks in incoherent sentences with no discernible start or finish to them.I wish he would tap his nose with a pistol with a hair trigger.Please Eurosport get rid of him.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    weyayeman wrote:
    "We shall see" . :evil:

    I was going to say that he keeps saying that!

    On Sunday he also kept saying, plenty more still to come........ ffs there were only 3 riders left to go and it was a 6 minute time trial. If I kept saying "plenty more to come" to the Mrs, but then only went on for few mins she'd soon do something about it!

    However, it was Duffield who really introduced me to cycling back in 1998 when I was waiting for WC football to start and the Tour of Switzerland would be on, so I do have him to thank for that.
  • stjohnswell
    stjohnswell Posts: 482
    I always enjoy the aimless ramblings of DD. There could be a huge pile-up and a sneaky attack and he'll continue to talk about the time he met the guy who painted the sign on the butchers shop while he was marketing parts for halfords back in the day before they had carbon fibre frames which of course are getting more and more common nowadays a bit like the cheese from this area, which in many regards is like those back home which you all know so well.
  • Birillo
    Birillo Posts: 417
    You've all missed the point. The Dauphine isn't a race; it's a training session.

    DD's discourses on wine, cheese, tricycles and the Normandy beaches are the perfect accompaniment to an event where all the top men want to finish in fourth position. Vintage stuff.

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