Croft has to go

Croft has to go

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paulguitar

23,782 posts

114 months

Saturday 11th March 2023
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maz8062 said:
It seems to me that some folk watch F1 blindfolded with Crofty’s voice on loud speaker. If you can see what’s going on and understand F1, one doesn’t have to take what he says as gospel. There’s brundle and the trackside crew plus one’s own view of the racing. Crofty for me is is just back ground noise. Sometimes I agree with him others I don’t, but he never gets in the way of me watching the show.
But he screams pretty much constantly. I wish I was able to tune him out as you can, but all that really works for me is muting the sound completely. It's not a great loss, let's face it, the cars sound st these days anyway.



Teddy Lop

8,301 posts

68 months

Saturday 11th March 2023
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maz8062 said:
It seems to me that some folk watch F1 blindfolded with Crofty’s voice on loud speaker. If you can see what’s going on and understand F1, one doesn’t have to take what he says as gospel. There’s brundle and the trackside crew plus one’s own view of the racing. Crofty for me is is just back ground noise. Sometimes I agree with him others I don’t, but he never gets in the way of me watching the show.


I guess this might then be difficult for you to grasp but we are all not alike, some of us struggle to tune out distractions on a brain functional level.

Some of us just think he's a ¢uπ+, and find a brain dead moron shouting over the highly technically involving sport we follow unnecessary. If you took David croft to an exquisite restaurant he'd undoubtedly squirt ketchup over everything you order. Lots of it, like the whole bottle. Over your cevice starter. And then over your steak. And then over your cheese board, and some in the wine. And he'd think its brill, because that's the kind of cretin he is.

LukeBrown66

4,479 posts

47 months

Saturday 11th March 2023
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Best post ever Teddy, much love !!

MarkwG

4,873 posts

190 months

Saturday 11th March 2023
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Teddy Lop said:
maz8062 said:
It seems to me that some folk watch F1 blindfolded with Crofty’s voice on loud speaker. If you can see what’s going on and understand F1, one doesn’t have to take what he says as gospel. There’s brundle and the trackside crew plus one’s own view of the racing. Crofty for me is is just back ground noise. Sometimes I agree with him others I don’t, but he never gets in the way of me watching the show.


I guess this might then be difficult for you to grasp but we are all not alike, some of us struggle to tune out distractions on a brain functional level.

Some of us just think he's a ¢u?+, and find a brain dead moron shouting over the highly technically involving sport we follow unnecessary. If you took David croft to an exquisite restaurant he'd undoubtedly squirt ketchup over everything you order. Lots of it, like the whole bottle. Over your cevice starter. And then over your steak. And then over your cheese board, and some in the wine. And he'd think its brill, because that's the kind of cretin he is.
Agree, I try my best, but it's like some tone deaf clown whistling over my favourite music.

HardtopManual

2,447 posts

167 months

Saturday 11th March 2023
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Teddy Lop said:
maz8062 said:
It seems to me that some folk watch F1 blindfolded with Crofty’s voice on loud speaker. If you can see what’s going on and understand F1, one doesn’t have to take what he says as gospel. There’s brundle and the trackside crew plus one’s own view of the racing. Crofty for me is is just back ground noise. Sometimes I agree with him others I don’t, but he never gets in the way of me watching the show.


I guess this might then be difficult for you to grasp but we are all not alike, some of us struggle to tune out distractions on a brain functional level.

Some of us just think he's a ¢u?+, and find a brain dead moron shouting over the highly technically involving sport we follow unnecessary. If you took David croft to an exquisite restaurant he'd undoubtedly squirt ketchup over everything you order. Lots of it, like the whole bottle. Over your cevice starter. And then over your steak. And then over your cheese board, and some in the wine. And he'd think its brill, because that's the kind of cretin he is.
He'd proudly order his steak "burnt to a crisp" and, when the cheese board arrived, ask where the Primula is.

Stan the Bat

8,964 posts

213 months

Saturday 11th March 2023
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Sandpit Steve said:
Can anyone persuade David Croft to Tweet something very political and left-wing? It seems to be working in the football.
Seems to be backfiring a bit now though.

Stan the Bat

8,964 posts

213 months

Saturday 11th March 2023
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LukeBrown66 said:
Best post ever Teddy, much love !!
Excellent post.

Fundoreen

4,180 posts

84 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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Without all the shouting and analysis you can see that a sport is pretty boring as shown by match of the day last night.

paulguitar

23,782 posts

114 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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Fundoreen said:
Without all the shouting and analysis you can see that a sport is pretty boring as shown by match of the day last night.
think we all accept F1 can be dull, but it doesn't help at all to have Croft wailing over it pretending something interesting is about to happen. We know it isn't.





LukeBrown66

4,479 posts

47 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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I will only ever defend the man in this way.

And that is to say a lot of modern F1 is utterly boring, and he is employed to spice it up, I cannot think of anything more fake than trying to make something interesting when it insn't, yet motorsport is always guilty of this in fear of being criticised by the rights holders who are effectively your pay masters. Hype has to be given it just has to be, everyone needs to shout, everyone to scream, it is pathetic, embarrassing and boring. I do not think ALl of it is his fault, I think he is being told to be shout a bit.

I would not want to know I am going to have to talk about Catalunya for three days knowing it is a dump, always has been and will be, yet we have been going there for 30 sodding years.

The product he is given to talk about for hours on end is often shamefully dull

500TORQUES

4,737 posts

16 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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HardtopManual said:
He'd proudly order his steak "burnt to a crisp" and, when the cheese board arrived, ask where the Primula is.
He'd eat yours too, based on the size of his stomach.

Daston

6,081 posts

204 months

Sunday 12th March 2023
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I get that he has probably been told to shout a lot. However it doesn't have to be this way, I thought the DC MB pairing was fantastic when the BBC ran the show. It was like listening to two mates talk about a race that you also happen to be watching.

Adrian W

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13,926 posts

229 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Croft just said Verstappens failure is a turn up for the books, oops

Sixpackpert

4,577 posts

215 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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His insistence that Logan’s time was deleted because he crossed line on the inside of turn 27 was embarrassing. Martin couldn’t understand as if you cross the line on the inside or outside you would hit a wall…ask Lando!

I thought it was because he crossed the pit line entrance, so did Martin. We were even treated to an onboard lap showing there was no way you could put a wheel over the line at turn 27 because of a wall!

It wasn’t until JV explained it from the pit wall that he understood…up until that point he had given the definitive explanation that made no sense!!

I just feel sorry for him now, not angry because I actually watch the footage and have some knowledge! I just feel sorry for the people that have to work with him!

Megaflow

9,484 posts

226 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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I couldn’t help but notice he has been removed from the F1 YouTube channels qualifying highlights yesterday. I have high hopes for more of the same during the race highlights

paulguitar

23,782 posts

114 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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He said today that Lewis and Max had 'brake-tested each other' here in 2021.

Completely unacceptable.



MarkwG

4,873 posts

190 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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paulguitar said:
He said today that Lewis and Max had 'brake-tested each other' here in 2021.

Completely unacceptable.
Taking impartiality lessons from Fiona Bruce, maybe...

andygo

6,825 posts

256 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Another burning relevant fact was it was 17 years ago that Alonso got his 25th podium. Really? I was missing that nugget.... Get rid.

aterribleusername

311 posts

64 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Megaflow said:
I couldn’t help but notice he has been removed from the F1 YouTube channels qualifying highlights yesterday. I have high hopes for more of the same during the race highlights
Yep, the race highlights used the C4 commentary! Made it so much more watchable.

RobB_

1,035 posts

189 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Had the international feed on today, not once did my blood boil hehe