Carlton Kirby

[Hont]

20% = the percentage of syllables uttered by Carlton Kirby in the last kilometre of a race that are actually intelligible.

I now see he's cropped up on Sky, doing the Giro highlights. I can only guess that someone at Sky was told to recruit "that guy from Eurosport who's really good" and there was a case of mistaken identity.

Rob Hatch is much better.

 

[LarryDuff]

In defence of all cycling commentators it's not easy to talk practically nonstop for up to 3 hours especially when in a lot of stages nothing significant is actually happening.

 

[Shadow]

Agreed. But if nothing is happening, then nothing needs to be said. This is television, not radio!

 

[Hont]

B*ll*cks. Kirby is doing the Tour for Eurosport.

 

[jagman.2003]

I like Carlton Kirby. There, I said it. He makes me laugh. His "GVA vs SVB dishing out GBH" line yesterday was priceless.

I try not to rely on him for useful information about the race though.

I like Charlton too...! His comments on the Belgian Airforce the other week were excellent.
Certainly fills in the gaps for me for when the racing is a little flat to watch.

 

[SomethingLikeThat]

Did anyone see that competition Eurosport was running a few weeks ago looking for commentators? http://road.cc/content/news/117766-...ort-competition-will-see-someone-win-vip-trip

 

[Dayvo]

I've enjoyed the commentary by James Richardson and Rob Hayles on the few occasions I've heard British Eurosport.

 

[MikeonaBike]

Has anyone heard anything of David Harman recently? He's the best cycling commentator by far, it is a shame that someone that good at the job has disappeared off the radar.

 

[Hont]

Has anyone heard anything of David Harman recently? He's the best cycling commentator by far, it is a shame that someone that good at the job has disappeared off the radar.

+1. I believe he is doing some work around the Yorkshire stages of the TdF (possibly announcing). The last statement I saw on the TV issue was that Eurosport had no plans to engage his services. Shame.

 

[Buddfox]

Has anyone heard anything of David Harman recently? He's the best cycling commentator by far, it is a shame that someone that good at the job has disappeared off the radar.

I thought he had been quite ill / signed off with a stress related or other similar illness?

 

[simon briggs]

i actually like Carlton Kirby - I like his excitable style - It must be bloody hard thinking of something to say on a sporting event that lasts 4 plus hours and nothing really exciting happens until the last 40k

 

[Hont]

Not content with all of the above (and doing very average commentary for the Le Mans 24 hour btw) he's now taken to calling Sean Kelly "Sean-y".