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Pink Ball wrote:'I loved that pub quiz feature they had in 2013', said nobody ever.
SnookerFan wrote:Apparently it was 2012, by the way.
snooky147 wrote:You are all very easily pleased. nonsense content and useless trivia from out of date ex players. Some substance needed not a bloody puppet doing interviews.
snooky147 wrote:You are all very easily pleased. nonsense content and useless trivia from out of date ex players. Some substance needed not a bloody puppet doing interviews.
Pink Ball wrote:snooky147 wrote:You are all very easily pleased. nonsense content and useless trivia from out of date ex players. Some substance needed not a bloody puppet doing interviews.
I don't think it looks very good for snooker that the BBC persist with this crap. No other sports broadcaster is as demeaning as that to the sport they are showing. You'd never see ITV4 doing a piece on what snooker players like to get at the deli.
SnookerFan wrote:Pink Ball wrote:snooky147 wrote:You are all very easily pleased. nonsense content and useless trivia from out of date ex players. Some substance needed not a bloody puppet doing interviews.
I don't think it looks very good for snooker that the BBC persist with this crap. No other sports broadcaster is as demeaning as that to the sport they are showing. You'd never see ITV4 doing a piece on what snooker players like to get at the deli.
The BBC don't get the balance right, that's the problem.
I don't mind a few "fun features", where you get to know the players. But not all the time. The BBC use these features to disguise the fact that they don't know anything about a player. Also, they repeat them all. So if you've seen Hazel Irvine interview a player at home, you've seen her do it at every tournament for the past two years. (Did you know she plays the piano, Shaun Murphy didn't.)
Also, and this is a must, now matter how fun a feature is, it's not more fun than live play. If there's a choice between live play, or one of your excellent features, we want play. No exceptions.
SnookerFan wrote:My main gripe is when they admit to having no knowledge of a player. They should know about a player, they're expert pundits. Why are they not watching any snooker, if it's not on the BBC?
I don't watch tennis, but I can't imagine the commentators sit around during matches going; "Well, I don't know who this bloke that Andy Murray is playing is...."
Why do it in snooker?
armchair de critique wrote:SnookerFan wrote:My main gripe is when they admit to having no knowledge of a player. They should know about a player, they're expert pundits. Why are they not watching any snooker, if it's not on the BBC?
I don't watch tennis, but I can't imagine the commentators sit around during matches going; "Well, I don't know who this bloke that Andy Murray is playing is...."
Why do it in snooker?
exactly, they almost look down (or dismiss as irrelevant) on any tournie that is not covered by the BBC....especially the China/European events
SnookerFan wrote:snooky147 wrote:You are all very easily pleased. nonsense content and useless trivia from out of date ex players. Some substance needed not a bloody puppet doing interviews.
Sarcasm is lost on you, isn't it?
Pink Ball wrote:
exactly, they almost look down (or dismiss as irrelevant) on any tournie that is not covered by the BBC....especially the China/European events
snooky147 wrote:Somebody should send this thread to the BBC. Not that it would do any good. I am resigned to watching with the sound muted unless Neal Fouls is commentating. I simply cannot listen to Virgo or Taylor anymore, I know exactly what they are going to say and they bore the life out of me. And god forbid I hope Eurosport dont employ Yates or that will get muted as well. Fountain of knowledge yes, but he can't actually commentate. Oh and dont forget going back to the BBC, KEN Tirtytree Docherty. Why they employ someone who cant speak is beyond me.
Umm rant over
Cloud Strife wrote:snooky147 wrote:Somebody should send this thread to the BBC. Not that it would do any good. I am resigned to watching with the sound muted unless Neal Fouls is commentating. I simply cannot listen to Virgo or Taylor anymore, I know exactly what they are going to say and they bore the life out of me. And god forbid I hope Eurosport dont employ Yates or that will get muted as well. Fountain of knowledge yes, but he can't actually commentate. Oh and dont forget going back to the BBC, KEN Tirtytree Docherty. Why they employ someone who cant speak is beyond me.
Umm rant over
Racist.
snooky147 wrote:Somebody should send this thread to the BBC. Not that it would do any good. I am resigned to watching with the sound muted unless Neal Fouls is commentating. I simply cannot listen to Virgo or Taylor anymore, I know exactly what they are going to say and they bore the life out of me. And god forbid I hope Eurosport dont employ Yates or that will get muted as well. Fountain of knowledge yes, but he can't actually commentate. Oh and dont forget going back to the BBC, KEN Tirtytree Docherty. Why they employ someone who cant speak is beyond me.
Umm rant over
snooky147 wrote:Somebody should send this thread to the BBC. Not that it would do any good. I am resigned to watching with the sound muted unless Neal Fouls is commentating. I simply cannot listen to Virgo or Taylor anymore, I know exactly what they are going to say and they bore the life out of me. And god forbid I hope Eurosport dont employ Yates or that will get muted as well. Fountain of knowledge yes, but he can't actually commentate. Oh and dont forget going back to the BBC, KEN Tirtytree Docherty. Why they employ someone who cant speak is beyond me.
Umm rant over
KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:Blame the people showing up with "Where's the Cueball going?" t-shirts. It only encourages them.
SnookerFan wrote:KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:Blame the people showing up with "Where's the Cueball going?" t-shirts. It only encourages them.
Erm.... Yeah!
I do own one of those T-Shirts.
barrydoherty54 wrote:That Snooker Loopy Pub Quiz was hard to watch.
kolompar wrote:I don't get you all I much prefer funny old snooker legends to boring nobodies commentating. And there's nothing wrong with those features.
SnookerFan wrote:kolompar wrote:I don't get you all I much prefer funny old snooker legends to boring nobodies commentating. And there's nothing wrong with those features.
Come on, those Pro File ones are seriously twiddle.
I can forgive the pub quiz slightly, though it did come across as more fun for the participants than the viewers.
But for bucks sake, Davis and Hendry going; "Consistency", "Cue Ball Control", "Ability to hit a red quarter ball", whilst waving their hands round like muppets.... It's just so naff.
SnookerFan wrote:kolompar wrote:I don't get you all I much prefer funny old snooker legends to boring nobodies commentating. And there's nothing wrong with those features.
Come on, those Pro File ones are seriously twiddle.
I can forgive the pub quiz slightly, though it did come across as more fun for the participants than the viewers.
But for bucks sake, Davis and Hendry going; "Consistency", "Cue Ball Control", "Ability to hit a red quarter ball", whilst waving their hands round like muppets.... It's just so naff.