Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:29 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

360000 votes for Andy Murray?! Who the hell are these people?! It's quite scary that they walk among us.

Probably tennis fans, in recognition that he spearheaded a Davis Cup win for G.B. the first time for nigh on eighty years.

Great effort from R.L fans though, surprisingly putting aside parochial alliances for once & with Lizzy Jones pulling off an incredible performance it’s certainly done the profile of the game no harm.

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:31 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

360000 votes for Andy Murray?! Who the hell are these people?! It's quite scary that they walk among us.

The Scottish.

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:36 pm  

fc baldy wrote:

1st Lizzie Jones then sir Kev 2nd......just put our sport on the map...I wonder how they will fix it in future so that we don't get in it again.

FFS, put your tinfoil hat and pitchfork away for 1 night, enjoy the moment with Kev and Lizzie.

Build on tonight stop finding chips and conspiracies!

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:50 pm  

Switched over to the red button channel afterwards which was backstage at the event. Steve Bunce made a great comment, he mentioned that over the last several years of this event that when someone is nominated from a smaller sport in terms of profile compared to some of the others that they always say that they're going to vote heavily to get their person into the top 3 but come the event they never do. Rugby League said the same this time but actually backed it up and praised the sport for doing so. Also interviewed Lizzie Jones who came across really well and they were full of admiration for her bottle to sing that particular song.

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:23 pm  

72,330 villages decided to give their idiot access to a phone tonight

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:34 pm  

Him wrote:

72,330 villages decided to give their idiot access to a phone tonight

BBC were having fun weren't they cutting to Greg Rutherford a couple of times when Fury was interviewed and then cutting to Fury when Ennis Hill was collecting her award.

Can you imagine if he'd have been in the top 3 instead of Sinfield, when it came time to shake the hands of the guys and kiss the cheek of the women on stage it would've been an awkward spot when he came to Ennis-Hill and Clare Balding.

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:45 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

BBC were having fun weren't they cutting to Greg Rutherford a couple of times when Fury was interviewed and then cutting to Fury when Ennis Hill was collecting her award.

Can you imagine if he'd have been in the top 3 instead of Sinfield, when it came time to shake the hands of the guys and kiss the cheek of the women on stage it would've been an awkward spot when he came to Ennis-Hill and Clare Balding.

Yep. It just depresses me slightly that there are such pillocks willing to support someone with such ridiculous and horrible views. You sort of think these kind of views have been slowly eradicated over the last few decades, but then a Tyson Fury or a Nigel Farage or a Nick Griffin pops up every now and again and bring the feckwitted out of the woodwork.

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:02 am  

Voted a couple of times online, actually thought he'd get more votes tbh.
Decent result for RL but Murray no.1, pah.

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Mon Dec 21, 2015 5:36 am  

Actually, I consider Samuel Burgess of Dewsbury should have been the rightful SPOTY winner.

Re: Sinfield - 1st ever RL player on the BBC SPOTY shortlist : Mon Dec 21, 2015 7:30 am  

Fair result for me, Murray different persona when he plays for Great Britain, brilliant for Sinfield to get so many votes, thought Mo would have been in the top 3. Lizzy put the icing on the cake for the RL exposure.