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Eurovision 2012 - The road starts here....
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Five Leaves quoted 'We then have the UK. Again, poor live vocals and terrible staging.'
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Five Leaves you will be proven totally wrong in my opinion. What background did Nicole have when she won for the Germans in 1982
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I was talking about Blue last year, sunshine.
I'm sure Humperdinlkes vocal will be spot on and hopefully they've learnt some lessons from last years terrible staging. |
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Sorry about that mate my fault.
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i hope he will take the crowd by storm being first on five leaves
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Very hard to do with a ballad and for me not a very good one. Or one that lacks impact anyway.
He's not one for me at the price Sunshine, but GL. |
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Hi bexley. Two more countries have reported and I'm afraid I'm not in a position to tell you Sweden didn't get the 12 points from each. As promised I won't tell you who did get them.
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I see the aloof Italian is starting to drift a little
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I've got a question for you all: What instructions (if any) do you think the juries will be given? What do you think they will they be looking for?
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We know the official instructions. Isn't it the same every year?
The unofficial, nudge, nudge, wink, wink 'instructions' are the more interesting. They were brought in to even out the playing field for the western european countries and they've done that with Italy last year, Jade and the UK a few years and also getting behind Lena and Germany when she clearly didn't tick all of their criteria. My thinking for awhile is that they may feel it's Spains turn this year. Especially as it's a jury friendly song anyway. If there was a market for who tops the jury vote, my money would be on Spain. |
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They were brought in to even out the playing field for the western european countries and they've done that with Italy last year, Jade and the UK a few years and also getting behind Lena and Germany when she clearly didn't tick all of their criteria.
My thinking for awhile is that they may feel it's Icelands turn this year. Especially as it's a jury friendly song anyway. If there was a market for who tops the jury vote, my money would be on Iceland.  |
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its nearly Western Europe in my book
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Very western Bex
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Any jury members who had their cash in Icelandic banks might not be too keen
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Do you reckon it would be worth asking betfair for a market?
I guess they might not be too keen, but if they closed the market after the rehearsals that the juries vote then there can't be any worries over 'insider trading' |
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vote on*
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It would be more popular than many of the ESC sub markets I reckon.
It could be quite lively. I'd certainly be a layer of Russia ;) |
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Finland deserves to top be with the juries.
Too lowkey and subtle for the viewers, but It's an absolute gem of a song. |
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to be top* ffs.
My head is a real mush today. |
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maybe if she plyaed the fiddle or something
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I'm missing Mr Youtube's input - where are you Melv?
Anything running away with it this year ie youtube hits? Russia? I see Romania has over 5.5m for its official video - seems impressive to me |
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...and a very impressive ratio of likes to dislikes nearly 20 to 1
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The Romanian stats surprise me.
Along with Iceland, it's a song that does nothing for me, yet many of you shroodies really like and clearly many on youtube like too |
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Back to Finland, I'm sure she sings 'Some men share you with a muffin' a number of times
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Money on here for Sweden but no idea why? Just to counter Italy drift?
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Arlene Philips was talking about the "staging" of Engleberts song on loose women today, she responsible for it apparentley. Its very simple 2 female backing dancers with Englebert singing direct to the camera nothing more. Beats me why we have to fly her over to choreograph that.
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Because its the BBC and license fee payers money....and these are the feckers who won't release the voting figures. And I used to be their biggest defender,
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Not keen on the idea of dancers for ballads.
They tend to look out of place. Duuno if the Sweden money is due to the Italian drift, or vice versa |
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No plunge on Sweden on the HS according to oddschecker. maybe its just the realisation there's no obvious song that will beat it? One might of course. Some guy had 1k laid on here which I assume got taken.
I'm making sure Romania is green after endless googling. Just a gut instinct to have it on side. |
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I'm not sure all of those sex workers around Europe will be watching GB
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There's probably a Manding(o) joke in there fll
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And Azerbaijan give Germany nil points
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,830962,00.html |
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Bexley look away now. This a different poll I think but note that 18 out of 21 countries give Sweden 12 points. If she comes across like she did in Melodifestivalen I'll be nervous but hopeful.
http://www.escstats.com/ |
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Its ok George I'm perfectly prepared for Sweden to win and still profit. I'll still wager it will be a higher price after the first few jury results than it is now
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first few national results I mean are disclosed on finals night not jury....
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3.15 now. Someone is reading this thread
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