How can Kirby be stopped...

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  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    watched the Le Mans highlights with CK doing the commentary and think half his problem is he doesn't use emotion correctly. he shouts just because it's the end of the stage \ race even if not much is going on.

    Also not a fan of the soft voice with the 1 second pause between each word he does every so often.
  • pinchez
    pinchez Posts: 76
    I find CK very entertaining and for me he adds an extra dimension to cycling the others don't. I would agree however he does get a little too enthusiastic at the finish line even when it's fairly mundane!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    pinchez wrote:
    I find CK very entertaining and for me he adds an extra dimension to cycling the others don't. I would agree however he does get a little too enthusiastic at the finish line even when it's fairly mundane!

    What dimension is that?

    The fantasy dimension of falsehood?

    I guess he's an appropriate British commentator for a population that apparently cares little for facts and a lot for fantasy b*llocks.
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  • stanislav
    stanislav Posts: 1,151
    I guess he's an appropriate British commentator for a population that apparently cares little for facts and a lot for fantasy b*llocks.[/quote]
    Small man syndrome again,why turn that post into having a go at the population when he was referring to Kirkby.You maybe a mod but go to the cake stop if you want to portray your so called intellect
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    pinchez wrote:
    I find CK very entertaining and for me he adds an extra dimension to cycling the others don't. I would agree however he does get a little too enthusiastic at the finish line even when it's fairly mundane!

    Unfortunately, he adds an extra dimension for me, too.
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  • mcstumpy
    mcstumpy Posts: 298
    I think you're trying to make a point re Kirby, but I'm distracted by the bike and a thought that a slightly longer stem might provide the clown with a better position.
  • pinchez
    pinchez Posts: 76
    Lol honestly some people need to chill!

    I'm not an expert but I do enjoy riding my bikes and watching cycling (a lot of cycling!) and that extra dimension CK adds is Fun, I chuckle at is silly stories and have even learnt stuff about different areas the Tours etc. have gone through. I just enjoy the banter and scenery as much as the tactics, for me it's all part of cycling.

    I also enjoy listening to Matt Stephens and Magnus Backstedt, expect I'll got shot down for this as well!!!

    Not so much Sean Kelly, only because he's quite monotone and a little dry
  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    I wish we could rewind the clock to last Thursday when the biggest problem we had was Carlton Kirby.... 'the good old days'.
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Kirby fans, could be a double dose today as he's doing French nationals just now.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Is Carlton moonlighting doing football for Icelandic TV?
  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Pross wrote:
    Is Carlton moonlighting doing football for Icelandic TV?

    England would have done no worse playing him at the back.
  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    pinchez wrote:
    Lol honestly some people need to chill!

    I'm not an expert but I do enjoy riding my bikes and watching cycling (a lot of cycling!) and that extra dimension CK adds is Fun, I chuckle at is silly stories and have even learnt stuff about different areas the Tours etc. have gone through. I just enjoy the banter and scenery as much as the tactics, for me it's all part of cycling.

    I also enjoy listening to Matt Stephens and Magnus Backstedt, expect I'll got shot down for this as well!!!

    Not so much Sean Kelly, only because he's quite monotone and a little dry

    Jesus wept. I've heard it all now.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Listening to him today he got so excited that he could hardly speak, which at least seems like it matters to him. Where as Phil Ligget couldn't even tell Cav won it by a mile as he was banging on about a photo finish.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Oops double post.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    "I've learnt stuff about the different areas the tours go through" - he's literally reading out of material provided by the organiser. Any fool can do that.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    "I've learnt stuff about the different areas the tours go through" - he's literally reading out of material provided by the organiser. Any fool can do that.
    His story about a summer spent working in a French biscuit factory wasn't out of that material at least :)
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    Webboo wrote:
    Listening to him today he got so excited that he could hardly speak, which at least seems like it matters to him. Where as Phil Ligget couldn't even tell Cav won it by a mile as he was banging on about a photo finish.
    But it all seems like fake excitement as if he has to ramp it up as if it's the end of the race

    When bertie crashed he didn't even raise the tempo
  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    If you don't like Kirby then lower the volume for heaven's sake.

    As Webboo says above Liggit completely lost it in the last 500m and had no idea what the heck was going on.
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • MaxCap
    MaxCap Posts: 13
    I'm a Brit living in the States, I go so far as to delay watching each stage by hours (to download the race) just so that I don't have to listen to Liggett on NBC. It's getting embarrassing now.

    Boulting and Millar are like a breath of fresh air. Add in Boardman and Imlach and they have the balance just right.

    I listened to all three coverages to compare today, I'd still take Kirby (barely audible by the end) over Liggett.
  • squired
    squired Posts: 1,153
    A work friend and I were discussing the cycling this morning. One of his comments about the weekend was that he dislikes the commentary of Carlton so much that he is going to get rid of his Eurosport Player subscription and just follow on ITV4. There you go Eurosport, having Carlton is costing you money.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,133
    Yesterday's was a bit of a classic. Insisting the gap was over a minute when you could see the chasers about 20 metres behind...

    (That picture of a yellow jersey next to the time gap on screen gives a bit of a clue where it's measured to.)
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    That picture of a yellow jersey next to the time gap on screen gives a bit of a clue where it's measured to.

    But that yellow jersey was next to a number 2, giving the distinct impression that the yellow jersey was in the next group back, so if that has a time of a minute behind...

    You're right though, seeing Stuyvens in the same shot as the chasers gave the real state on the road away. But it was only then that I worked it out :oops:
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    Defending Carlton to cover up your own misreading of the race is unforgivable ;)
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Defending Carlton to cover up your own misreading of the race is unforgivable ;)

    Guilty as charged, M'Lud...
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    as usual Sean kne exactly what was going on and corrected him
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    I don't know what Hatch must have done to upset people in the industry when Kirby, Boulting and Liggett get the plumb jobs above him. My wife and I were laughing at Carlton's gaffe yesterday, it was like going back to the last year of Duffers but without the tinge of regret that then you were witnessing the fall of a great commentator. As for ITV, Millar could be decent but Boulting just isn't a commentator, we don't need the bleedin' obvious explained to us over and over because you have nothing else to say.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    squired wrote:
    A work friend and I were discussing the cycling this morning. One of his comments about the weekend was that he dislikes the commentary of Carlton so much that he is going to get rid of his Eurosport Player subscription and just follow on ITV4. There you go Eurosport, having Carlton is costing you money.

    On Eurosport Player, there's a feed without advertisements or Kirby. I sometimes switch to that, but then I enjoy Kirby's anecdotes of drinking booze in someone's tent on the beach.
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,784
    squired wrote:
    A work friend and I were discussing the cycling this morning. One of his comments about the weekend was that he dislikes the commentary of Carlton so much that he is going to get rid of his Eurosport Player subscription and just follow on ITV4. There you go Eurosport, having Carlton is costing you money.

    Thats fine if you only watch the tour and a couple of others. ITV show a fraction of what Eurosport cover.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,133
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    That picture of a yellow jersey next to the time gap on screen gives a bit of a clue where it's measured to.

    But that yellow jersey was next to a number 2, giving the distinct impression that the yellow jersey was in the next group back, so if that has a time of a minute behind...

    Only if you weren't paying attention - they'd shown footage of Cavendish getting dropped.

    The number relates more to the number of the camera bike doesn't it? There was lots of little groups, but once the gap was so small they took out the camera bike, that moves the others up one.
  • argyllflyer
    argyllflyer Posts: 893
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    That picture of a yellow jersey next to the time gap on screen gives a bit of a clue where it's measured to.

    But that yellow jersey was next to a number 2, giving the distinct impression that the yellow jersey was in the next group back, so if that has a time of a minute behind...

    You're right though, seeing Stuyvens in the same shot as the chasers gave the real state on the road away. But it was only then that I worked it out :oops:

    At the point CK was blaming it for being wrong, it said Group 3 at a minute or so.

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