Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:53 am  

Until the 2014-15 football fixtures are announced, I wouldn't expect there to be any announcement on dates for the Kiwi tour given ground availability will need to be taken into account.

But I suspect you know that already.

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:06 am  

So did anyone watch? How did RL do?

I'm guessing the entire SL season and 4 Nations summarised in 30 seconds by that old Welsh RU player, and 5 seconds on Sam during the RU section.

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:22 am  

Cronus wrote:

So did anyone watch? How did RL do?

I'm guessing the entire SL season and 4 Nations summarised in 30 seconds by that old Welsh RU player, and 5 seconds on Sam during the RU section.

To be fair they did that with all sports. All time and focus nowadays is dedicated to the 10 nominees and what else happened in sport apart from what those 10 did is rushed through. Wouldn't be so bad but the nominees just give the same old "wouldn't be here without the support of others, it's about hardwork, etc" interviews

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:39 pm  

Who was the more interesting, Hamilton or his dog?

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:02 pm  

Cronus wrote:

So did anyone watch? How did RL do?

I'm guessing the entire SL season and 4 Nations summarised in 30 seconds by that old Welsh RU player, and 5 seconds on Sam during the RU section.

From memory we had Hall (I think) scoring in the cup final, the Flower punch on the ground and a Sts try from the grand final for RL. To be fair though, its become less a review of the year, as it used to be, and more of a "fawning over various people" event.

And there's far too much Eddie sodding Butler too

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:14 pm  

Cronus wrote:

So did anyone watch? How did RL do?

I'm guessing the entire SL season and 4 Nations summarised in 30 seconds by that old Welsh RU player, and 5 seconds on Sam during the RU section.

Nothing on 4 nations iirc

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:19 pm  

For some reason they linked hero Johnny Wilkinson's one code career with two code Sam Burgess' move from South Sydney to Bath. Presenter (Gabby Logan) said England fans would hope "Slammin' Sam" is a great success in RU.

The whole thing is a farce - Hamilton wins - tax exile, he doesn't participate in a sport and his year could not compare with the golfer - BUT - his driving attracts a lot of keen followers who vote! To be fair, even he seemed to admit he didn't deserve it. Big anti-climax - you could see that everyone wanted to golfer to win (who himself looked vexed off).It's about time the stupid show was retired.

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:22 pm  

They managed a feature on Brian O'Driscoll despite him not being British. Good old BBC. They'd never show undue bias towards RU compared with other sports would they?

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:08 pm  

Dally wrote:

They managed a feature on Brian O'Driscoll despite him not being British. Good old BBC. They'd never show undue bias towards RU compared with other sports would they?

The people that run the bbc are probably blissfully aware that Ireland gained independence last century......I know the IRB management are

Re: Beeb Sports Personality : Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:28 pm  

Dally wrote:

you could see that everyone wanted to golfer to win (who himself looked vexed off)

He was probably still scarred from when they showed the clip of him at the Ryder Cup holding a champagne bottle and the cork popping off on its own and then have a gurning fawning Gary Linekar asking him "I hope you don't pop your cork early on a regular basis!"