Retirement of Graham Goode

Sorry that should read " Once" not was

You should never meet your heroes eh

See ya Graham, its been a blast

giddy up, down the road...thank f.

lickety-split my personal fav

GG was in love with the game at one time you know,old age & too many nights away from home have prompted this sad demise,

'and look at this...'

1.01 Thommos after his gigs

I sat next to him at lunch at a meeting at Nottingham a few years ago. He was very pleasant and informative as I recall.

No more than me.

he is the chairman there, nest pas ?!

good morning? id have told him to  **** off!

Very pleased he has been retired. Appalling

So no more 'he's coming back for more' even though the horse is dropping away

Cant stand the man was coming round the corner on top of the stand at ayr racecourse when he walked right into me i said sorry although it was not my fault and he completely blanked me ignorant sod,he wont go short of cash anyway he is allegedly a millionare and director of nottingham racecourse.

Personally always found him to be a top class commentator. Different gravy in the 80's & early 90's but there are now many good commentators. When CH4 allowed him in front of the camera on the morning line, sadly it did him no favours as people got to see the real him.  I took an intense dislike of him from that day onwards

If you listen to his commentaries from the 80s, it was as bad as now.. Has always been gash..

4,5 make it 6

'and to be really fair...'

'the winners of £487,138 in prize money...'

'look left that's (insert horse), look right that's (insert horse), and look further right...'

If GG has retired then surely thommo; if he any shred of decency should also follow suit.

His commentating has got worse and worse over the last few years but as mentioned on here by others, its his arrogance that made me dislike him so much. Happened to pass him at a couple of courses and they way he would look down his nose at you after pleasantly saying hello to him, proved that he aint one of the nicest human beings around.

Most of the racing family dont partically want to acknowledge the normal man on the street, but the majority do say hello.

Goode just thinks he's above everybody else, he is after all a racing commentator!!!!!

Thankfully not been subjected to his verbal Diarrhea often in recent years.

Unforgivable stream of clichés when Desert Orchid won his fourth King George, ruins that video clip every time it is played.

Always wanted to develop a microchip for TV's to filter him out, working on Jim McGrath instead.

just need aussie jim and the wretched dave smith to go now

I shall miss him.
I have lost count of the times when I have obtained massive prices as a direct result of him calling the wrong horse.

Eyesight particularly poor.

Hence his dressing as an Ice cream Salesman for the past 8 years.

On the three meetings I've had with him I wish him a short retirement.

he is allegedly a millionare....

So would you be if you put up a huge lay at 1.01 before you left for work in the morning, and then called home the wrong horse in front in the afternoon.

Never ever apologised for his countless mistakes that cost people fortunes.

Good riddance u arrogant untalented t wat.

Dancing Brave's Derby and Lester's comeback ride on Royal Academy at the Breeders Cup were good calls .

Not if u backed dancing brave it wasn't.

At least 5 years too late, no disrespect to the man but he was the horse racing equivalent of Alan Partridge in the last few years. I actually started to feel embarrassed for him recently.

I always remember he was asked on the Morning Line to commentate on a French Group race on the spot. It was an awful call but the smug look on his face afterwards as if to say " what a clever boy I am !! "" . T wat

did he say,pour etre juste,deux,quatre,six lenths vous nommez

Non !

about time a regular punters poll was taken to determine who is selected to commentate.

allocate numbers of meetings in proportion to votes received

Racing Post have enough pointless polls, this would surely be more worthwhile than most of them?

I have always liked the guy and will be sorry to see him gone.

just last week, and booked for third, won the race

The King is in his counting house

"It's gunna be a bobber, and at the line, a bobber between those two".

Night night GG

thought it was good(e) of him to lend Phil Taylor his jacket for SPOTY.

Subsequently getting turned down for the steward's job really put his nose out of joint.  Words to the effect of how much more experience could they possibly want?  On a par with McGrath for his total arrogance!

Even Sir Peter O'Sullivan (a true legend) went on for too long.

he was good in his day (no pun intended)

bosra shame

Not come a day too soon  - dreadful commentator. All the same phrases " by a neck , by a half ",  " 4, 5,6 lengths clear " etc etc. Not to mention the dreadful 1999 Derby " ... and I swear it's Oath " which I think was his death knell on Channel 4.
I was said good morning to him at York car park and he totally blanked me.


How did he know it was you BS?

'....and in a packing field...'

MR G Date Joined: 11 Oct 01
Add contact | Send message When: 28 Dec 10 22:43 Even Sir Peter O'Sullivan (a true legend) went on for too long

Agree O'Sullivan was a legend & went on for 5 years too long at least, kept transposing the horses names & felt sorry for him as it should have been his employers should not have it allowed it to continue.  He was universally well liked & loved the game so didn't want to retire

The same can definitely not be said of Goode.  He wasnt fit to lace O'Sullivan's drinks

^...or his shoes ?

We still have Thommo

is it pheasant shooting season yet?
Maybe someone will mistake Thommo for one

Not a massive fan of him myself
..............but i remember years ago he gave IL PRINCIPE to make all , on the morning line , and it did just that .
thanks geegee

at 11/1 if i remember correctly

bye gg

you shoulda went long before now...too many blunders in the last 5 years..

You misseD out a 2, GT..

that pic of tommo
         


   

Honest Scouser - I hope you don't think I was comparing GG to O'Sullivan. I was merely pointing out that GG is not alone in going on too long. In fact to be fair to GG I don't think he's any worse than some of the others.

re:saying hello to people

im sorry, but unless you know him on a personal level you have no business saying hello to him, or anyone else, at a racecourse or anywhere else. or did you just say hello because he was "off the telly"??

do you go around saying hello to every stranger you meet? i dont think so

No Dayjur, I don't - but then again, I don't expect to be ignored when we are the only 2 people in the car park, five foot apart from each other on a non race day early in the morning. I was merely being polite and it's a sad world you live in if you feel only people you know personally can say Good Morning to you

as an ex pro footballer i was taught to treat everyone with respect and sign autographs,if goode blanked you like that i think he was a disgrace,you should have told him what you thought of him there and then bosra,mind you he does look the type to blank people,looks a right toff.good riddance to an awfull commentator.

No strong feelings either way about the man,so happy retirement GG.However,race calling can't be easy and after calling so many races must be hard not to repeat your favourite phrases,all sports commentators do it to some extent.Just hit the mute button and try it yourself.

agree with bosra shame

That photo of Thompson just about sums up what an obnoxious person he is. A total t!t.

Rubbish caller of races. Glad he's gone.

Good fooking riddance to the smug, sanctimonious git.

Peter O'Sullivan went on to long?.......My feckin@rse.........I would stil have him on now,he would still be a furlong clear of these clowns like Holt and co.

What was the name of the horse he use to do in a German accent couple of seasons ago,was a chaser,,,think it was called something like Drum and....????

In my humble opinion a whole generation of races were ruined by his rubbish commentaries...

cruithne,i was trying to get the right word and then you said it,sanctimonious was the word,adding `git`  just made it even better.

thought he was going to retire several years ago, is he going for good this time ?
He was alright I suppose, appreciate not an easy job to do, but bit too smug for me.

Sounds like Dayjur must be related to GG with that attitude.Maybe people will say the same about you when you retire if not already retired

For the record Dave Smith has also been relieved of his commentaries for those that didn't know. Official line: contract not renewed.
I don't know whether he has done his last one but only 3 potential days left for him. GG does Uttoxeter on Friday

As others have pointed out, the King George commentary when Desert Orchid won for the last time was truly horrible, and runied the race for ever, imo.

Spewing out a stream of pre rehearsed cliches such as the horrible 'The King's in his counting house', 'will the Orchid Bloom', and 'he's been here before' (about three times), was virtually all he contributed from the second last onwards. Add that to other horror shows like 'I swear it's Oath' etc etc.

Compare that to Sir Peter's moments of genius for Red Rum's last National and Dawn Run's Gold Cup, for example, both of which made those races far more memorable, and you can see why, imho, Goode was very lucky to have had the opportunities he did in his career...