Croft has to go

[86]

Loving Harry. Dont bother coming back Croft. F1 better without you

[Dinoboy]

Yeh not missing Crofty and brundle at all.
So bored of the tick box phrases from both of them.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Yeah, you're a day late and a dollar short there. Ambition over ability I'm afraid. Time for the old switcheroo.

[Adrian W]

These two were for more restrained , a far more pleasant experience, yes the odd mistake but not the endless pointless drivel,

Schiff just spouts stupid inane comments and questions, she was todays weak spot

Edited by Adrian W on Sunday 19th May 16:26

[zsdom]

I enjoyed Harrys commentary today, I especially enjoyed the ‘my west end career finished in the same manner yourF1 career’ quip, genuinely funny

[Forester1965]

Adrian W said:

These two were for more restrained , a far more pleasant experience, yes the odd mistake but not the endless pointless drivel,

Schiff just spouts stupid inane comments and questions, she was todays weak spot

Edited by Adrian W on Sunday 19th May 16:26

My wife's a basically an F1 encyclopedia, has lots of Twitter people on her follows. Apparently the DtS lot didn't like the commentary today because it was too 'boring'. We both enjoyed it more than the usual Crofty much ado about nothing experience. Nice to have some calm analysis instead of getting excited because someone's wearing a new logo or something.

[LM240]

86 said:

Loving Harry. Dont bother coming back Croft. F1 better without you

This.

Martin and Harry would seem to work well, though today was perfectly fine also.

Sky F1 line up could easily be trimmed back further.

[Daston]

Was refreshing, it hopefully shows sky that you can talk about a race for the whole time without the need to dig up pointless facts like it's the 18th race that Alonso has worn heart boxer shorts or some such drivel

[rdjohn]

A big improvement. Egos packed away.

Just calm intelligent commentary is all that we need, we are actually watching the race and can see what is actually going on.

[Rockape]

I enjoyed the change from Croft too. Watched a video of him doing some commentary from the race and you could see how enthusiastic he was. Hopefully he gets plenty more air time.

[thegreenhell]

Just mute Croft and listen the 5 Live for future races. It's what many people have been doing for years.

[fizzwheel]

Agree with you all

Big Big Improvement, calm, analysis and commentary that enhanced what I was watching, take note Sky !

[Piginapoke]

100% better for having Harry commentate. Take note Sky and send the oaf back to darts

[Speed Badger]

I took enjoyed the commentary, enthusiastic but restrained. Interestingly, I was looking at a few random F1 vids on YouTube recently and looked at the comments. Overwhelmingly the comments around Croft's commentary were positive, about how he injects so much excitement into proceedings etc. I think a lot of them might be American, which would tie in with the DTS vibe and audience and why F1 keep him in there.

I don't have an issue with him but the way, he's probably a nice bloke, just some bit of commentary irritates me for forced excitement when there isn't any.

[entropy]

thegreenhell said:

Just mute Croft and listen the 5 Live for future races. It's what many people have been doing for years.

There was a time I used to listen to 5Live with Crofty & Maurice Hamilton than having to put up with The Cock & Brundle.

How times have changed.

I do think there's greater pressure to elevate your commentary style for F1 / TV than for radio and support series, be it whether from the producers and / or awareness that you have a much larger audience to serve.

[pissonheads]

zsdom said:

I enjoyed Harrys commentary today, I especially enjoyed the ‘my west end career finished in the same manner yourF1 career’ quip, genuinely funny

This cracked me up as well - Karun seems like the kind of guy to take it in jest unlike some of the media personalities we have nowadays.

[Castellet]

I think Karun is excellent in many respects, but he did seem to be struggling with the Grid Walk, and needed Rachel to help him out.
MB has obviously earned more gravitas in that role, but even for him it’s often chaotic and embarrassing.

[iandc]

Agree withb all the comments above. Really refreshing to focus on the race rather than waiting for Shouty's inane comments and meaningless stats. The Norris/Max last few laps were gripping,so it was nice that the commentary was controlled but enthusiastic. Can you image Shouty with his screams of "He's catching, catching, catching, oh no he can't get him at this corner"!!

[Gary29]

Unanimous seal of approval on here for the new guy then.

Let's hope the non PH masses feel the same.

[Piginapoke]

iandc said:

Agree withb all the comments above. Really refreshing to focus on the race rather than waiting for Shouty's inane comments and meaningless stats. The Norris/Max last few laps were gripping,so it was nice that the commentary was controlled but enthusiastic. Can you image Shouty with his screams of "He's catching, catching, catching, oh no he can't get him at this corner"!!

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