No room for Brundle ?

[nrayner]

RE BBC coverage

http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.p...

David Croft a contender to commentate http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/presenters/croft_bio... There's a linky to his lead up to Monaco - he seems to know his stuff, or good at reading a script.

Fronted by Adrian Chiles - I find him very insightful and quick on the uptake, as well as great at taking the piss, hopefully he will be able to take this persona forward into the over-serious F1 world.

Shame about Brundle, if it's true.

[skinny]

agreed, shame if we lose brundle

[itr786]

brundle is the best think about watching forumula 1 on ITV.

[IainT]

So that'd be croft replacing the cock and Chiles replacing Ryder - leaves room for Brundle to be the voice of expertise on the commentary team...

[nerf]

agreed, it would be very bad news if brundle wasnt hired. although it seems that croft would take allens job and chilles to take ryders place.. still a few roles left, fingers crossed......

[RobbieMeister]

Maybe it's a case of Brundle not going coz they won't take his best (geezer, fink, fowt, ain't not got the car underneef 'im) mate.

[kevin ritson]

Please, not Chiles, have you seen that dreadful evening magazine programme he presents? I thought we got rid of dull brummies when Mansell retired...

Besides, he'll equate everything to Soccer

[rev-erend]

Agreed - shame about Brundle .. he was by far the best thing about F1 !

Perhaps he could be persuaded to take on Le Mans again

[DrTre]

IainT said:

So that'd be croft replacing the cock and Chiles replacing Ryder - leaves room for Brundle to be the voice of expertise on the commentary team...

Tis the way it reads to me too...fingers crossed. The Beeb will drop an almighty bk if they don't get him onboard IMO.

[nrayner]

kevin ritson said:

Please, not Chiles, have you seen that dreadful evening magazine programme he presents? I thought we got rid of dull brummies when Mansell retired...

Besides, he'll equate everything to Soccer

I think he's pretty good on the Apprentice follow up program. And zero soccer mentions, I would mark him down seriously for that.

[forsure]

nrayner said:

kevin ritson said:

Please, not Chiles, have you seen that dreadful evening magazine programme he presents? I thought we got rid of dull brummies when Mansell retired...

Besides, he'll equate everything to Soccer

I think he's pretty good on the Apprentice follow up program. And zero soccer mentions, I would mark him down seriously for that.

He was good on 'Working Lunch' too.
He has to dumb-down for the early evening slot - shows that he understands his audience.

[oobster]

I quite like Adrian Chiles - he's quite good on MOTD2 too.

I did read something a while back about used toilet roll getting sent to him in the post. Bit weird.

Agree with other contributors - Brundle NEEDS to continue in his current roll once it's on the BBC.

[matt3001]

Hopefully there will be room for Suzi Perry in a Louise Goodman role. I don't know how credible the article is, it mentions getting Top Gear presenters, that is absolute BS, Richard Porter has rubbished those rumours

[anonymous-user]

I cant see Suzy coming onboard, she is far too involved in Moto GP, which she is outstanding in doing, she obvioulsy loves that environment.

I wouldnt be at all surprised if Martin comes to the BBC, just as Murray went to ITV, these TV producers know what the score is most of the time, especially BBC producers who in sports coverage are always better than ITV. Fingers crossed for Martin, the rest i wont miss.

[Mr_Thyroid]

johnfelstead said:

I cant see Suzy coming onboard, she is far too involved in Moto GP

Plus she often critisises F1 on the MotoGP coverage for being dull. I think it would be a mistake to employ her. It would devalue the F1 coverage and undermine her passion and credability on the motoGP coverage.

[Le Mans Visitor]

To be honest I don't care who gets the gig, I am just looking forward to no more adverts!!

[LanCat]

We may have to wait until the season is over before any announcement is made, at least concerning those who have ITV contracts at the moment. It may be that Brundle's contract is covering more than F1 and negotiations will keep plans uder wrap for now.

[waynepixel]

Adrian Chiles, the BBC are joking right, what the hell has this man got to do with with F1 motor racing, or sport in general come to think of it. Brundle has only been an F1 drive for the top teams, and also has over 15 years experience in F1, I am thinking that maybe having an F1 driver on the team might just be what BBC need, logic tells me Brundle has allot of contacts around the F1 paddock and this alone could help secure interviews with drivers and team managers.

Adrian Chiles, what does he bring to the table, apart from his fked up face.

[Slippydiff]

matt3001 said:

Hopefully there will be room for Suzi Perry in a Louise Goodman role

Hopefully not, pointless token totty that is (as indeed is Goodman) neither wanted nor needed.
For decent Moto GP coverage you only need listen to Ryder and Moody on ES.

If the Beeb could find someone decent to go alongside MB all would be fine and dandy.

Edited by Slippydiff on Wednesday 21st May 21:00

[dumbfunk]

I can't remember ever being moved to write to a large organisation about anything but the prospect of losing Brundle's contribution is making me want to change this habit. Does anybody have a clue about the right email or postal address - he's been such a huge part of my F1 enjoyment for so long I'd love to see how he does with a co-commentator who isn't terminally annoying.


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