jb44 Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 Greetings all Petrolsniffers I am shocked and dismayed to see no posts insulting and denigrating that pile of bovine excrement known as James Allen. Where is the hate-mail, the death threats, the outrage? Being South African I am off course very keen to hunt him down like a rabid dog and then kill him, but your customs' fascists won't let me in; not armed anyway - BASTARDS!!!!So the only sollution is to reinstate the SA GP and send that........that...person to us. Please excuse my cheek, it's where I keep my tongue Johan Buchner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahsGirl Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Lock him in a room and play the bit fromthe British GP where Lewis made a mistake in the pitstops and that should be punishment enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lwindridge Posted July 22, 2007 Report Share Posted July 22, 2007 I have to agree - the man is a total cock and keeps annoying me every race! I'm considering generating a website to generate even more attention for the level of cockness employed! I feel the very annoying part though is if you raise the issue with ITV on their forums, your post just gets deleted - must be moderated by the said cock I feel.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slurms Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Ah the joy of hearing Murry Walker do his commentary one more time.. Reminds you just how bad James Allen is.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvroom Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 I will admit that James Allen is the fly in the ointment of Formula One, but he's not that bad. Damon Hill in qualifying in the Hungarian GP was much worse and every decent sport has bad commentators eg. football has David Pleat and Rugby has Jonathon Davies. I personally think it's god's way of saying "Yes, you can have this tremendously entertaining "sport" but you have to put up with a crevise commentating, that's the rule. If you get rid of James Allen i personnally think Formula One will get worse. I don't know how, maybe they'll all have to drive the same car and not allowed to overtake... possibly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithyrc30 Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Let's be fair though, Damon was hired to voice some opinions on who was doing waht. His profession is not commentating, so to expect him to be brilliant at his first or second attempt would be a stretch. Allen is paid week in week out by ITV to be just that. Except...... Here in Australia we get the the ITV commntary, and I thought on the whole during the race Damon did pretty well, he was engaging and knowledgable, and he didn't make me want to throw things at the TV when he spoke. The complete opposite of Allen. The bloke is a complete idiot. If I have to listen to one more "Isn't Lewis great" speach I think I'll scream.. There was one bit when channel Ten forgot to switch them back on after a break, and we got to listen to the cars and watch the race without any interuptions from the whining idiot. Bliss. Unfortunately they noticed their mistake and turned the reedy voiced twat back on. At the season opener, we got Murray Walker for the whole race!! Absolute gold..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishopkins Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 [ QUOTE ] If I have to listen to one more "Isn't Lewis great" speach I think I'll scream... [/ QUOTE ] Yeah - it's almost as bad as his "Jenson is wonderful and smooth as $hit pate" speech which he seems to have forgotten to do this season...Strange that. Not that I miss it - his histrionics at Button having a jammy win in the rain in Hungary last year were too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bittyboop Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Allen is awful, but I do sympathise with constant the Hamilton sqauwkings. I can imagine ITV top brass will be pushing the commentray team to keep focussing on him as he's great for the ratings. The majority of the people tuning in will only want to hear about the little scamp. It's market forces, people! The end result is regular viewers and people with more than just a passing interest in motorsport and its latest cause celebre get annoyingly narrow-minded, patronising, lowest common demoninator commentary aimed at the novice. It's an unfortunate coincidence that annoyingly narrow-minded, patronising, lowest common demoninator commentary is all the greasy haired, squeaky voiced mute button inducer is capable of. I get the same problem if i try and watch cycling in the UK. On the rare occasion any of the pro-tour is shown the production teams assume everyone is as clueless as they are. The BBC is the worst offender usually sticking some athletics commentator behind the mic to mispronounce names and condesendingly inform me of how a derailleur works or how light guys go up mountains quickly. Utter toss. Notably, Allen used to be the pit correspondant in the days of the great Murray - and got the promotion by default. I think it's time Ted Kravitz got the jump on Allen personally. Take a look at his notebook reports on the itv/f1 sight; very insightful and intersting with good balance and a wry sense of humour. He seems aware of the F1 circus'postion in the grand scheme of things and takes all of the going's on with a pinch of salt unlkie Allen who's clearly a vicarious numpty who considers F1 the be all and end all. I say give Kravitz a go in the commentary box. Cant' be any worse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaymeister Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 That's a great idea!!!! Actually I'd pay good money to see Ted Kravitz batter "The Cock" into a dribbling mess, which incidentally he becomes as soon as Hamilton even thinks about getting near an F1 car anyway. Damon was okay, but not as good as Jenson was when Honda broke the rules a few years ago, maybe he should change careers, I don't reckon he's got a hope with that lot of cretins at Honda. Mind you he would be swapping a bunch of them for one very large one in the shape of JA. Who's for chipping in for a contract maiming of JA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skylinegtrgsl Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 Must Kill The COCK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvroom Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Let's be fair though, Damon was hired to voice some opinions on who was doing waht. His profession is not commentating, so to expect him to be brilliant at his first or second attempt would be a stretch. Allen is paid week in week out by ITV to be just that. Except...... Here in Australia we get the the ITV commntary, and I thought on the whole during the race Damon did pretty well, he was engaging and knowledgable, and he didn't make me want to throw things at the TV when he spoke. The complete opposite of Allen. The bloke is a complete idiot. If I have to listen to one more "Isn't Lewis great" speach I think I'll scream.. There was one bit when channel Ten forgot to switch them back on after a break, and we got to listen to the cars and watch the race without any interuptions from the whining idiot. Bliss. Unfortunately they noticed their mistake and turned the reedy voiced twat back on. At the season opener, we got Murray Walker for the whole race!! Absolute gold..... [/ QUOTE ] Good point well made. Why should we have to put him with this stain rabbiting on our television! STOP THE COCK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahsGirl Posted August 17, 2007 Report Share Posted August 17, 2007 No matter how much we all protest at the lousy haired, cr@p coming out his mouth git, ITV won't change him for some unbeknown reason. He must have a hell of great blackmail strategy. Martin Brundle must have the patience of a saint standing next to him in the commentary box. Maybe we could persuade Martin to tw@t Allen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey11477 Posted August 17, 2007 Report Share Posted August 17, 2007 With every GP I find "the Cock" more annoying than in the previous race. I don't know how he's still got a job, obviously give some exec good head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_is_Back Posted August 22, 2007 Report Share Posted August 22, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Martin Brundle must have the patience of a saint standing next to him in the commentary box. [/ QUOTE ] Nah, he's far too busy talking about himself to notice anyone else. Mediocre race driver. Know-it-all. Hate him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blythy Posted August 26, 2007 Report Share Posted August 26, 2007 such a twat "great start by hamilton" as raikonen out drags him... always a great start ... how can he tell in the first 2 miliseconds of the race? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amaroo Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 The cock was at his biased best today when Webber was closing on Hamilton all the Cock could say was how good Hamilton was going Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horrgakx Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 I don't think he's all that bad. Put it this way, I couldn't do a better job, and unless you could then why complain? To put commentating in perspective, try watching one of the races with American commentators - absolutely shocking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotty Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 [ QUOTE ] I don't think he's all that bad. Put it this way, I couldn't do a better job, and unless you could then why complain? To put commentating in perspective, try watching one of the races with American commentators - absolutely shocking... [/ QUOTE ] James? Is that you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb44 Posted October 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 What if Bernie is keeping the cock purely to draw our attention away from the on-track mediocrity? Bernie is an evil genius and James Allen is obviously misunderstood. I hate myself. Regards johan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted October 18, 2007 Report Share Posted October 18, 2007 Methinks you're mixing your expressions, young Johan - I thought Bernie was a misunderstood evil genius. And James Allen is obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmaniac Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Do not get me started on James Allen, what a poor commentator, and particularly poor in the Brazilian GP where he somehow contrived to miss the lights going out at the start (!!) and was talking about some irrelevant topic of discussion as the lights went out... "bla bla blaa blah blah... and oh, no lights at the top of the screen and a good start there by Hamilton and... " and so on... ITV in general were crap at that race, cutting to an advert break whilst Hamilton's gearbox stopped working for instance, and missing Raikkonen passing Massa in the pit-stops as another example. There were more, but I can't be bothered to find them all out! Oh - and the build up to the show was one of the worst I've ever seen. Far too many completely shite, arty build-up clips. Normally they don't do a bad job of filling the hour before the race - so why did they mess it up so badly this time, with viewing figures their highest in several years!? Maybe that's why; maybe they thought they needed to serve up a different variety of crap to get the general public into the sport.. truly perplexing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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