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- but you've changed your mind about.
For me, it's Colin Murray.
When he used to be on all sorts of sports productions on tv as 'flavour of the month' he used to irritate me immensely.
I've been a regular listener to TalkSport radio since about last December and I now find his programme one of the best on the station - and he doesn't irritate me at all.
I'm very surprised about it - but it's a fact.
For me, it's Colin Murray.
When he used to be on all sorts of sports productions on tv as 'flavour of the month' he used to irritate me immensely.
I've been a regular listener to TalkSport radio since about last December and I now find his programme one of the best on the station - and he doesn't irritate me at all.
I'm very surprised about it - but it's a fact.
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has hardly got much competition on that station
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Well, that's true enough, other than Mike 'Porky' Parry - but it's the fact that I once would turn off the tv when Colin Murray was on because he annoyed me so much, but now I have a bit of a fondness for him - mainly because of his and his fellow guests singing along to all sorts of stuff - that has made me start this thread.
Perhaps some presenters are just much more suited to radio than tv - and vice-versa? |
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I've always thought he was ok. Part of the problem is that TV networks find a presenter they like and decide to have them commentate on stuff they know nothing about, in Murray's case the obvious example being darts. I doubt he'd ever watched a game before getting the gig. Still, sooner him doing it than Claire Balding, or Rishi Persad!
Incidentally, I've never tuned in religiously but I used to love Murray on 5Live's Saturday morning Fighting Talk programme. Only heard it once since he left but it wasn't the same. |
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Never listened to talksport btw.
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Hello Easter.
I definitely agree with you on TV networks flogging to death any presenter they they think is 'flavour of the month/year' and doing them no good whatsoever when they show total ignorance about the sport (in particular) they're presenting. How can the TV producers have such a poor regard for knowledgeable viewers of a sport that they think 'any old sod talking hogwash will do" - and drive their main audience of the sport away?" Talksport's well worth listening to as it has many a gem on it. A lot of the time it's the same old football story re-hashed by the various presenters/programmes, but Colin Murray's show tends to have some great guests on it and is always a laugh. The same as 'The Two Mikes' with Mike whatsit and Mike Parry - Parry being such a nutter that he has me in stitches at times! Parry is usually on at about 1am on a Tuesday morning for an hour - and from 1am for 3 hours on a Thursday. |
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How can you stomach all those ad breaks Tom?...they are relentless and so repetitive.
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The ones I can't abide, I still can't abide!
Colin Murray - accent. Nicky Campbell - thinks he's so clever. Derek Thompson - because he's a pr1ck. Steph(business bird on BBC Breakfast - accent. |
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Agree with Steph..typical of the BBC to force her annoying accent on us southerners what like speak proper
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Twizzle, they just pass me by now and I don't even hear them any more.
I suppose it's because I'd rather listen to TalkSport than watch the evermore populated by daft, stupid women on tv and Radio 5 - especially first thing in the morning - that it's the lesser of two evils. Especially when you have ad breaks of 4 mins on the tv channels. With TalkSport it's probably about 2 mins, max, when they do a big one. |
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Clerkmore, give Murray a try these days on TalkSport. I don't think his accent is anywhere near as pronounced as it was on tv/Radio5.
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Maybe he's more relaxed on TalkSport - or because he doesn't have to 'over-emphasise his NI accent' - which I can well imaging the idiotic women, 'all for PC' producers in the BBC sports dept encouraging him to do.
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I agree with you to some extent about Murray TT. There was a time when I would have liked to have taken a baseball bat and beaten him to death, but now I think I'd settle for just punching him in the face twenty or thirty times.
Matt Chapman is the one, for me. Again, used to have fantasies about disembowelling him and burning him alive, but these days I think he's all right. |
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Haha! Great stuff Jed!
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Derek Thompson. Then I met him and spoke to him on quite a few occasions. Was an okay guy to be honest.
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Rishi Pershad (oh dear...)
But now I adore him. |
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Noel Edmonds x 10.
Couldn't abide, but I've changed my mind. Now (since Deal etc) really, really dislike the sycophantic, smug, sanctimonious, psychobabbler ... taking advantage of people who have no basic understanding of the laws of probability who become overwhelmed by greed. |
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this is a tough question. I'm struggling to think of any TV presenters that I like.
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I'd echo akabula's thoughts on Thommo - used to ghost-write a column for him, was a decent bloke.
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