I thought thomo

End of the year.
Doing a Frankie and giving everyone 12 months notice.

does he ever know what the fck finishes 3rd ffs

they are miles clear of the 3rd horse

Toucan Sam anyway

^^ we'll leave that one to the judge

There's no doubt he deliberately announced his impending retirement well in advance knowing the gullible racecourse managers would fall over themselves to get him to their tracks. Guaranteed to get more gigs this year than he has in the last few combined.

Is it, no hang in its, oh he's come from nowhere.

Absolute carnage of a commentary there...jeez

His finest moment there, bar none.

His best ever

at least Tommo makes a dull afternoon interesting.

the one leading ..is the one in front

Reminds me of the old betting shop commentaries

Had no idea what was in front, gabbling away while trying to check the colours on his race card lol

think he was getting a bit emotional...

probably his last ever commentary at Ayr.

There's a queue at Beachy Head of in running punters without pictures who depended on Thommo's commentary!

Jan 6, 2025 -- 3:54PM, john42 wrote:

Had no idea what was in front, gabbling away while trying to check the colours on his race card lol

painful

... Not sure saying you " will go off to check " who is in the lead is quite good enough.

it should be a thanks & goodbye moment GC but this is racing

Will they dub it over on replays

The RP replay has the original **** up

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https://x.com/inglisdrev82/status/1876299905876340887

from the wings of the last hurdle to near the line to get a "positive" ID of the winner

in a washing line finish, on a clear day

the one leading ..is the one in front

Even for him that is golden

out of the woods has come from nowhere....if nowhere is in front for almost two furlongs

He still managed to remember his pre-prepared pun at the end: "Come out of the Woods has come out and won it."

multiple recordings all over X last night taking the pish out of thommo.all from racing/tipping sources

Even the racing TV twitter posted it to take the mickey!

https://x.com/RacingTV/status/1876298656418025838

Cattermole was supporting Tommo on twitter last night

He's made an apology...of sorts   https://x.com/tommoracing/status/1876629171205452146

the grovelling apology is almost as embarrassing , 5 good commmentaries before the howler he claims, the hubris of these people never surprises.

Worse than the Christ's Chin fiasco of the 1990s


https://x.com/90sdecade/status/1135093818477428736

Takes a sincere person to apologise tbf.

Very good Die Linke
Real horses Monksfield and Night Nurse, two greats.

Very good Die Linke
Real horses Monksfield and Night Nurse, two greats.

one thing i would say swifty...

at least he had the guts to actually offer up an apology...

many times in the past it has annoyed me when a commentator fks up...

and you never hear a d1ck1e bird from them about it whatsoever...

i didn't like the 9 hour round trip nonsense tbh...

that's part of his job...

and if folk abused him on 'social media' then that's poor imv...

but like i say at least he apologised which is more than some have over the years.

i've always said if you make a c0ck up...

you offer an apology and everyone can move on...

none of us are perfect and we all screw up from time to time (well i do at least).

to be fair as comparative jobs go that was the equivalent of a pilot flying in to a clff face or a open heart surgeon stitching you up with all his tools still inside you,where a mealy mouthed apology mentioning his previous safe flight or heart operation on Twitter wouldn't quite cut it

formoftheace07 Jan 25 14:45Joined: 17 Apr 12 | Topic/replies: 17,068 | Blogger: formoftheace's blog
Takes a sincere person to apologise tbf.



one thing thommo has never been accused of is  being sincere

think FORMOFTHEFACE was posting still with his tongue firmly stuck in his cheek

Barely an apology, he can't even do that right - it was more a moan that people laughed at him.

But he maybe should start by moaning at his TV channel that posted his c0ck-up for all to laugh at!

5 good commmentaries before the howler he claims, the hubris of these people never surprises.


What year was this please. ?

Nobody likes criticism but the racing fraternity have proved time and time again to be the worst among all sports for accepting it.

Probably thought "damage limitation". He doesn't differentiate between abuse and genuine criticism, the latter being justified in spades. I haven't seen anything unjustified or especially nasty. Every caller has to do the road miles, and I'm not sure there was any differnce in the "sunlight" contrast when it was dark at 4pm.
An apology was needed, just not this apology. Stand up and say "yep, that was a godawful job, I got confused and it wasn't acceptable" - then we can move on.