: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:44 pm  

Dave T wrote:

Actually, I was pretty impressed with the BBC today. The fact that they are prepared to go to the South of France is a bonus, and the presentation was pretty good, with Balding, Morgan and Sculthorpe presenting the show well, and Kear doing a good job in the commentary box.

French and Davies are crap, but I think we all knew that before today.

Technically, the BBC never went to Perpignan. The feed was taken from French television.

It was only French and Davies that were there doing commentary.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:55 pm  

The bizzare thing with French, is that he is a cracking after dinner speaker.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:57 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

The bizzare thing with French, is that he is a cracking after dinner speaker.

So the solution is to get him bladdered??....Then again, I presumed he already was...

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:09 pm  

Claire Balding is a top presenter who does her research; as mentioned earlier the Studio presentation was very good but the French/Davies combo is pathetic.

Davies at 32-28, "its anybody's game"
French, " No try, its not a try, no, he lost the ball, no try........Oooooooooooooooo try, a great try"

French's brain is way behind his mouth and it is time he was put out to pasture and take the whining boyo with him.

Woods and Kear will do nicely.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:16 pm  

reffy wrote:

Claire Balding is a top presenter

Her interview with the Grand National winning jockey yesterday was a classic....

How humiliated did that guy look when Page 3 stunner Claire asked him to smile so we could all look at his tombstone dentures??...

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:44 pm  

WireFanatic II wrote:

Technically, the BBC never went to Perpignan. The feed was taken from French television.

It was only French and Davies that were there doing commentary.

No, you are wrong on this one. The big screen was there, and the branding all over the place was BBC. There were far more angles than the French coverage.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:56 pm  

Plus the fact, the highlights were seeming under control of bbc, whereby the action was paused, and lines drawn yadda yadda.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:00 pm  

the women think her name was tanya sounded abit manley

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:00 pm  

Dave T wrote:

No, you are wrong on this one. The big screen was there, and the branding all over the place was BBC. There were far more angles than the French coverage.

I distinctly heard French say during a replay that they are in the hands of the French producers with regards to the replays and the pictures.

: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:02 pm  

WireFanatic II wrote:

I distinctly heard French say during a replay that they are in the hands of the French producers with regards to the replays and the pictures.

They may have been paying for French staff rather than flying loads of English operators, but it was clearly a BBC production.

The interviews etc. showed this.

When the French cover these games, they do not have the big screen, and the screen graphics showed BBC.