Being entrenched in poverty I cann't afford RUK but I quite enjoyed the articles he'd write in the RP.
His theories are quite interesting and thought provoking ,in a way similer to nick Mordin,  which is
surely the sign of a good journalist.
Lets face it if you had to talk about a mid week card at Pontefract for 4 hours it ain't going to be easy
to not talk waffle.

i would the 2nd half ,after someone through him out at 30,000 ft in the 1st half

I think you should speak for yourself sivergreaser as I, for one, do not agree with you at all ....

The man never stops trying to be something he isn't, fraud?

thought JW called it a day not long ago?

The guy might actually be likeable if he wasn't so entrenched with been superior?

Its called pseudo intellectualism....

Sorry for the late reply Howard. I agree Nick Luck knows his stuff, but the problem is he strains every single sinew to let you know it. And name drops. And overhypes everything. And hero-worships virtually every big name in the game (virtually everyone is 'wonderful this, wonderful that...'). And never lets the action speak for itself - sometimes the action is that good it does not need his gas. And yes, they may employ him in the USA (i've never trusted the Americans on matters of taste btw) but I think they have over the yrs also employed McCririck, and he is an even bigger disaster on TV (if not for the full night, certainly to dip into their coverage).All of the above said, when Nick Luck anchors it from the studio, i quite like him. When he anchors from te track, he just grates horribly.

He is missed on the american racing.
The battleships exacta grid , crusty and the good old boys are desperate for a run.

Stress the word "DULL" the so called comedy is almost staged, give me natural comedy anytime not forced contrived look at me I'm so witty fake humour?

silver is there anything that you will talk to me about that you are not angry about,whats your fav holiday destination.and dont say bloody foreigners

By the way, has there ever been a TV pundit who tipped winner after winner, and deivered a flawless analysis after each race?

If so, could you please tell me his / her name?

Not to my knowledge

There all freeloaders riding the gravy train

Used to quite like dear old john rickman though.He was a real gent

Not angry just can't take to fake people, give me honesty everyday, as for my fav holiday destination, I'm a working class guy with kids and I'd fly back and forth to Salou everyday of the week if I could, perfect working class holiday has everthing children could want and big kids like me.
Never forget or run from your roots

I would love see all his critics on here all have a go at the job he does live on TV.

Some people may not like his manner at times, but to do that job you need an awful lot of self-belief or you would just freeze trying to come up with anything 'half relevant'.

The criticism is unfair in my opinion.

Me  thinks  he doth sport   the fancy feathers of the  literati
  and is what I call  a smarty  Alec !
always  using eleven words  when seven or less will do !!!

Try one word less a day  willo …at least it’s a start ..
I  imagine  like may of his media  ilk he washes but once a week
rises a  ten thirty and strolls along  to the Course , humming   some  little ditty on his way,   no doubt
some  liberal   feminist  squawk  from the  eighties,   which genre he  seems to have a liking  for .

Then it is straight into  what you call  rightly  call his .' analysis  paralysis '  of said races , 
blabbing  on  about some desperate Nag   or other running off a rating of  forty five ....giving us all to believe that  the  beast  has lashings of   thus far  untapped  potential
and  a lineage
going back to Pegasus ....we smash into it  even though  we should know better ... Race over;  he makes light of our misfortune  and turns to his
fellow  pundit ...Nick never brought me any  Luck    Luck !!!! and invites him
to  comment on the  fact that the  female winner  is owned ,trained ridden
and is even  now being  washed down  by a  female
‘sisers are doing it for themselves ‘. he  quips , then  qualifies this rash statement
,'not to themselves'   for some unknown reason Luck  thinks this is
very funny and allows  thirty seconds of air time to go  unfilled
while he recovers  his  composure 


In what way is that of any interest  to the  loosing  punter still perusing  the screen  to see  where  myth of   Pegasus finished up !!!!!! ...he's a definite Wrongun ...get rid of him  is my advice

Its not just RUK george its everything, his articles on the Racing Post sounded more like a college professors thesis, as if to let everyone know how clever he is, hello! we're talking about horse racing here its not science ffs.
But James wants us to think that there is a science to a horse running from a to b, what usually happens the fastest horse wins, hmmm... not much science can do about that eh?

You summed it up for me comingupthehill, why can't he just be himself instead of trying to be way above his stature to prove what?

Sounds like a guy in need of something, attention maybe?

like all the presenters on RUK and ATR, he annoys the hell out of us all by telling us after the race why the winner was the only horse you could have backed, and just like the rest of them, chances are he never even mentioned the winning horse in his race preview.

let's face it, if he and/or any of his presenting mates could pick lots of winners then they wouldn't need to "lower" themselves to speak to the likes of us on TV.

I did email willo once on RUK about a certain racing situation and he just dismissed my email instantly as being nonsense until his co-presenter pointed out that two well known and respected trainers also held the same view.
he instantly switched to talking about the merits of my idea, although I suspect he was talking about the merits of the idees of the two trainers and in his head he still thought that my views didn't count as I was just a nobody.

it's not just willo who treats viewers with contempt though.
it's the old "when did you ever ride a horse" syndrome.
if you're not a trainer or a jockey then you know nothing about racing and you don't belong in our private club. (some of the big wealthy owners and senior members of the BHA are accepted into this exclusive club)

he as missed his calling as he would be a great ventriloquist. His mouth seems like it does not move when he speaks. check it out when he is on screen.

wee eck     09 Oct 11 09:32 
dod I have subscribed to RUK since its inception but after years of listening to what I

consider balderdash from its experts and pundits until Willo appeared I  had the mute

on 90% of the time.


..is why I have cancelled by subscription. Its all pretenious bullshlt - saying anything to fill airtime - with a manner thats suggests an intellectually superior mind.Its 'emporers new clothes' stuff, and an insult to anyone who has the slightest idea about horses and horseracing.