SPOTY..........

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  • rickyrider
    rickyrider Posts: 294
    Wiggo has to be the massive favourite - his achievements this year are quite unparalleled. And it seems to be the consensus so far...
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Wouldn't mind him winning SPOTY, but if he accepts a knighthood then he's a traitor and a puppet.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Oh lord, dont start bringing politics into it. We're just discussing an annual appreciation fest
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    rickyrider wrote:
    Wiggo has to be the massive favourite - his achievements this year are quite unparalleled. And it seems to be the consensus so far...

    Wheres that poll from?
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Wouldn't mind him winning SPOTY, but if he accepts a knighthood then he's a traitor and a puppet.

    A traitor to whom?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    LL:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... _a_6719906
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Wouldn't mind him winning SPOTY, but if he accepts a knighthood then he's a traitor and a puppet.

    A traitor to whom?

    I agree with LeCom.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    frenchfighter wrote:
    disgruntledgoat wrote:
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Wouldn't mind him winning SPOTY, but if he accepts a knighthood then he's a traitor and a puppet.

    A traitor to whom?

    I agree with LeCom.

    A traitor to whom? Is he alread a traitor for accepting an MBE and an OBE?
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  • pat1cp
    pat1cp Posts: 766
    I'm surprised Laura Trott wasn't short listed.

    Joey Barton for Overseas Personality of the year. :?
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  • Abdoujaparov
    Abdoujaparov Posts: 642
    pat1cp wrote:
    I'm surprised Laura Trott wasn't short listed.

    Joey Barton for Overseas Personality of the year. :?

    She wanted Wiggo to win anyway and her not being nominated should help.

    Wiggo's a shoo-in. The only threat to him is if he fails to get his vote out because people think it's a foregone conclusion.

    Ennis is hard to vote for ("only" one gold), but will do well enough to take votes from Farah, while Hoy won't do the same for Wiggins.
  • Neale1978
    Neale1978 Posts: 484
    A woman on facebook is saying something about a corrupt bbc board not allowing cyclists winning the spoty two years in a row?

    Any truth in that or b/s?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Neale1978 wrote:
    A woman on facebook is saying something about a corrupt bbc board not allowing cyclists winning the spoty two years in a row?

    Any truth in that or b/s?
    Everything on the internet is true. How dare you doubt it.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Conspiracy theories already...fantastic!
  • Neale1978
    Neale1978 Posts: 484
    Common sense calls b/s of course but you never know thats all
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    And Auntie Beeb have previous - they did fiddle the outcome of the voting for the new dog/cat's name on Blue Peter... :)
  • Nick Fitt
    Nick Fitt Posts: 381
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    And Auntie Beeb have previous - they did fiddle the outcome of the voting for the new dog/cat's name on Blue Peter... :)

    Based upon that, then Murray will win
  • lostboysaint
    lostboysaint Posts: 4,250
    Ben Ainslie - not only a fourth gold medal making him the most successful sailing Olympian ever but also stepped straight into a new class (AC45) with a crew and immediately made an impact. Oh, as well as just being a genuine personality "they've made me angry......."

    Bradley Wiggins - how can you look past someone with the palmares he has this year?

    Andy Murray - another personality, yes really, and a major title, an Olympic Gold and Silver and finalist in other majors as well as "minor" title wins. Properly established as one of the four "aliens" at the top of tennis.

    Difficult to see past those three.
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  • derbygrimpeur
    derbygrimpeur Posts: 822
    Voted for by the public and independently verified isn't it? Fiddling is BS


    Wiggins
    Farah
    Ennis
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,599
    Neale1978 wrote:
    A woman on facebook is saying something about a corrupt bbc board not allowing cyclists winning the spoty two years in a row?

    Any truth in that or b/s?

    Would that be like the team prize vote been taken away from the public after st Helens rugby league won it. John inverdale later stated that there were suspicious voting patterns in the north west ie the sports heartlands.
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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    gsk82 wrote:
    Neale1978 wrote:
    A woman on facebook is saying something about a corrupt bbc board not allowing cyclists winning the spoty two years in a row?

    Any truth in that or b/s?

    Would that be like the team prize vote been taken away from the public after st Helens rugby league won it. John inverdale later stated that there were suspicious voting patterns in the north west ie the sports heartlands.


    First the Blue Peter voting scandal, and now you tell me this.... :shock: :shock:
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    RichN95 wrote:
    It's ironic that Hoy and Storey made the list but the two people they got dropped in favour of - Kenny and Trott didn't.
    Isn't storey a paralympian? Nothing to do with trott?
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    Wouldn't mind him winning SPOTY, but if he accepts a knighthood then he's a traitor and a puppet.
    Kids from kilburn don't kollect k- nighthoods!!!
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Something I realised this morning as the penny hadn't dropped before and I had thought it was a sporting achievement award but stopped watching some years ago.
    What ? well it's a "Personality" award among sports people and as Wiggins goes out of his way to avoid any personality then it must be unlikely he will win Spoty.

    You see on breakfast TV this morning were three women and Eamonn Fatso who said that even though the Twitters were full of Wiggo (like they did for Cav) he and his women thought that Mo with his gleaming smile and shinning teeth would be first choice because of his "Personality".
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    PBo wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    It's ironic that Hoy and Storey made the list but the two people they got dropped in favour of - Kenny and Trott didn't.
    Isn't storey a paralympian? Nothing to do with trott?
    She is. But also used to be in the pursuit squad before getting the chop at the end of last year.
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  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    dortmunder wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    ju5t1n wrote:
    It's hard to see past John Terry for this anyway

    Who is John Terry?

    Captain, Leader, Legend so I'm told!

    By your wife?
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    I tells you, it would be a shoo in any other year for wiggo.....but bookies or no, I think it's really hard to call. But here's my analysis....

    Outsiders :
    Adams - great smile not enough...
    Storey - probably not enough recognition
    Grainger - good story, but not quite enough....

    "Oh, I'll vote for him another year, he's bound to be in with more chances, and he wasn't in the Olympics...."
    Mcilroy

    Probably not unless British public suddenly shows massive appreciation of a non mainstream sport....
    Ainslie (fwiw he's in my top 5...)

    He's already won it, and he didn't do as we'll this time....
    Hoy- well known and liked, top brit Olympian ever, but prob not worth a second win....

    Personal profile won't quite make up for (slightly) lesser sporting achievement.
    Simmonds - great, but not like she clean swept, and swimming suffers from medal dilution...
    Ennis- granted the heptathlon is tough, but she "only" won one medal...

    Which leaves us with the main contenders, based on magnitude of achievement...
    Sir Bradley of Wiggins - fave for a good reason, but maybe cycling still not quite getting enough love in this country. Some won't like his cnuting.
    Laird Andy of Murray - pros: Olympics/ first major, high level in a global sport loved by daily mail readers. Cons: andy not loved by daily mail readers...wait til he wins Wimbledon
    Baron Weir of Wolf - could benefit from the Paralympic appreciation society, epic performances, what a competitor. Also, unlike some of the other para events that look like a primary school teacher invented them to give the rubbish kids a chance, he competes in an established, tough sport, with genuinely word class fields. Cons: despite our embracing of the Paralympics will we wring our hands that it'll look like a sympathy vote?
    Mo, Lord Farah of Middle Distance- pros: epic achievement, high profile, blue riband event, that smile, genuinely likeable, the mobot. Cons: the mobot

    All the above just goes to show I haven't a clue, and I feel 4 or 5 really good cases could be made.....
  • roypsb
    roypsb Posts: 309
    It should be Wiggins and I think it will.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Daily Mash nails it
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    1st Wiggins, 2nd Ennis, 3rd Farah (that's Mo, not Tyler...)

    But to be honest, I really don't care for it. Just wanted to be right with my prediction!
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    I hope Wiggins wins and comes up with some more rafflesque jokes.
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