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SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:51 pm
by IanMcL
Sir Mark Cavendish lifetime achievement award. Great stuff.
However, on stage to applaud him were 3 other Cycling Knights of the realm and the female equivalent, a Dame.
When they achieve, those cyclists achieve!
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:04 pm
by Lip
I can't believe Wigan Warriors coach Matt Peet didn't win coach of the year
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:07 pm
by helmclaret
IanMcL wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:51 pm
Sir Mark Cavendish lifetime achievement award. Great stuff.
However, on stage to applaud him were 3 other Cycling Knights of the realm and the female equivalent, a Dame.
When they achieve, those cyclists achieve!
Christ a female winner… I guess you are fuming Ian?
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:09 pm
by bobinho
helmclaret wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:07 pm
Christ a female winner… I guess you are fuming Ian?
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Think you’ll find Christ was a male winner… but I’m sure that’ll end up cancelled at some point in the very near future….
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:10 pm
by CrosspoolClarets
Taffy mentioned in the programme on the list of the dear departed which was a nice touch……..
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:17 pm
by IanMcL
helmclaret wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:07 pm
Christ a female winner… I guess you are fuming Ian?
No - all greats sports people.
I voted, online, for Sarah Storey.
Can't quite come to terms with 3 women doing the presenting though! Clare Balding is exceptionally though.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:52 pm
by jdrobbo
IanMcL wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 9:17 pm
No - all greats sports people.
I voted, online, for Sarah Storey.
Can't quite come to terms with 3 women doing the presenting though! Clare Balding is exceptionally though.
She’s absolutely the best in the business
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 10:19 pm
by burnmark
The SPOTY theme music is a brilliant piece.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 10:29 pm
by Andingle
I didn't watch it but was there any acknowledgement for Kevin Sinfields charity fundraising?
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 10:40 pm
by Stonehouse
Can’t believe that England’s greatest batsman Joe Root hasn’t won it.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 10:43 pm
by LincsWoldsClaret
The BBC certainly highlighted all the sports they don’t cover.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:09 am
by nil_desperandum
Stonehouse wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 10:40 pm
Can’t believe that England’s greatest batsman Joe Root hasn’t won it.
Very difficult for a cricketer to win it as it’s a public vote and the BBC show hardly any cricket, and Test cricket is probably a “minority” sport compared to Olympics, PL etc
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:17 am
by nil_desperandum
To be fair Stokes won it in 2019. - the only cricketer since Test cricket disappeared from the BBC in 2005, but Stokes got it for his remarkable exploits in the World Cup which were on terrestrial tv and got a lot of coverage
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:26 am
by bart_claret
Andingle wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 10:29 pm
I didn't watch it but was there any acknowledgement for Kevin Sinfields charity fundraising?
Didn't watch it myself but apparently not according to TalkSport though I think that Kevin doesn't do it to win these type of awards.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:33 am
by mdd2
Kevin deserves a knighthood IMO given his charity work.
What he did for his mate, Rob Burrows, before Rob's passing and what he has done since is truly remarkable and so so selfless, although I note he already has a CBE.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:30 am
by AlargeClaret
KH is a worthy winner imo , Olympic gold in a blue riband event is an incredible achievement . The show itself though just feels a bit lacking in content ( I guess the bbc have so few broadcast rights now ?) It used to be a huge kinda “ national event “ type show but just feels a bit generic . I was rather hoping Alex Scot would be dressed like a prostitute again ( yes I know she bowls from the Pavilion end) but still .
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 6:05 pm
by IanMcL
Usually an Olympic winner, in Olympic year, I think.
Lifetime achievement next year? Andy Murray?
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 7:42 pm
by Big Vinny K
AlargeClaret wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:30 am
I was rather hoping Alex Scot would be dressed like a prostitute again ( yes I know she bowls from the Pavilion end) but still .
You never lose that Mills & Boon touch do you ?!!
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:16 pm
by ISpeds00
Never heard of her
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:23 pm
by timshorts
ISpeds00 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:16 pm
Never heard of her
Andi murray?
She plays/played tennis and has an annoying mother.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 12:12 am
by what_no_pies
Should have been Russ Cook. He risked his life running across Africa for charity. As sporting achievements and being aspirational go it knocks spots off all those that were in the sanitised BBC mix up.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:42 am
by Spike
Spoilt at the end by not wishing us Happy Christmas
Why can every other religions festivals be named whilst Christmas and Easter cannot
Seasons greetings what for the football season?
It’s a holiday only for one reason Happy Christmas
Image the uproar if the BBC called Eid the Festive season
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 9:10 am
by martin_p
Spike wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:42 am
Spoilt at the end by not wishing us Happy Christmas
Why can every other religions festivals be named whilst Christmas and Easter cannot
Seasons greetings what for the football season?
It’s a holiday only for one reason Happy Christmas
Image the uproar if the BBC called Eid the Festive season
It’s political correctness wokery gone mad I tell you!
But don’t let the facts that ‘season’s greetings’ has been around as a phrase since those notoriously woke Victorian times and the word ‘Christmas’ is all over the BBC spoil those thoughts for you.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 10:31 am
by AlargeClaret
Spike wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:42 am
Spoilt at the end by not wishing us Happy Christmas
Why can every other religions festivals be named whilst Christmas and Easter cannot
Seasons greetings what for the football season?
It’s a holiday only for one reason Happy Christmas
Image the uproar if the BBC called Eid the Festive season
I get that the bbc is a sea of woke etc , though if you really really wanted to be wished a cheery Christian “hale fellow well met” Happy Christmas ! by an ogre like lesbian or indeed a black lesbian or maybe both together ? This could be procured on the internet somewhere other than the BBC?
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 4:32 pm
by evensteadiereddie
Spike wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 7:42 am
Spoilt at the end by not wishing us Happy Christmas
Why can every other religions festivals be named whilst Christmas and Easter cannot
Seasons greetings what for the football season?
It’s a holiday only for one reason Happy Christmas
Image the uproar if the BBC called Eid the Festive season
Beyond parody.
Re: SPOTY
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 4:50 pm
by Woodleyclaret
An excellent choice well deserved
