The best bit about Les Ross's calls were when he returned to WM and started doing than again after about twenty years, during which time the internet was invented and the price of international dialling was slashed.
Quote from: tomd2103 on August 16, 2014, 09:07:03 PMQuote from: steffo on August 16, 2014, 08:58:24 PMHe did a live commentary last season on a game at the same time R5 were live.Whilst flicking from station to station - Tom is very very poor.Yeah, I don't know how he landed that gig really. Growing up, it always used to be a commentator (I remember Ian Crocker - the guy who is on SKY now) with Tom doing the hosting and summarising job. Don't know if the commentary was something he wanted to do or was asked to do, but without wanting to sound unkind, he's not great in that role. Slashed budgets... BRMB/Free can't afford a commentator so Tom Ross if forced to do it. To be fair he must put in the hours over the week...
Quote from: steffo on August 16, 2014, 08:58:24 PMHe did a live commentary last season on a game at the same time R5 were live.Whilst flicking from station to station - Tom is very very poor.Yeah, I don't know how he landed that gig really. Growing up, it always used to be a commentator (I remember Ian Crocker - the guy who is on SKY now) with Tom doing the hosting and summarising job. Don't know if the commentary was something he wanted to do or was asked to do, but without wanting to sound unkind, he's not great in that role.
He did a live commentary last season on a game at the same time R5 were live.Whilst flicking from station to station - Tom is very very poor.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on August 17, 2014, 06:26:29 PMThe best bit about Les Ross's calls were when he returned to WM and started doing than again after about twenty years, during which time the internet was invented and the price of international dialling was slashed. No idea who he was, but I used to like the Caledonian Comment caller.
Talking of Les Ross. Some of the best in depth interviewing. Ever.
I do have a bit of sympathy with less on that one. He's from the seventies school of wacky, zany presenters and Hardeep has the image of being a bit of an eejit so Les was bound to do it light-heartedly. He should have had the ability by now to turn it round once he saw which way it was going but it wasn't really his fault when Hardeep decided he wanted to be taken seriously.
Quote from: dave.woodhall on September 01, 2014, 11:01:09 AMI do have a bit of sympathy with less on that one. He's from the seventies school of wacky, zany presenters and Hardeep has the image of being a bit of an eejit so Les was bound to do it light-heartedly. He should have had the ability by now to turn it round once he saw which way it was going but it wasn't really his fault when Hardeep decided he wanted to be taken seriously. That Hardeep bloke is a prat. Fair play to Ross for not giving two hoots about him.