C'wealth 2018 Commonwealth Games 4-15 April

[JackNah_8]

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[Catters 070911]

RussellEbertHandball I'm interested to know which are your favourite Olympics?

I'm going to exclude Sydney because obviously you had a unique experience attending so many events. So other than Sydney, which Olympics evoke the fondest memories for you?

I remember as a child, how cool the Moscow 1980 opening and closing ceremony was.

 

[Catters 070911]

Sounds like clickbait.

So we know that they were entitled to have a camera infield and they could have started earlier with their own footage from said camera. They then also had only about 24 hours to develop a production.

In no way would that have been a professional or worthwhile program.

Yes, technically they could have shown it...but not realistically.

Also, it happened to clash with its highest-rating program (so they claim), MKR.

According to Channel 7, MKR> anything else they show.

 

[Underdog]

Griggs latest reply

Yep, so like i said, just one camera in the stadium, and it was all subject to delay. Laughable (and impossible) to suggest a broadcaster could offer a program to a professional standard under those conditions.

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[Underdog]

Also, it happened to clash with its highest-rating program (so they claim), MKR.

According to Channel 7, MKR> anything else they show.

They would have shifted MKR to another night. They'd get better overall ratings.

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[Wallaby]

MKR pays the bills. It is massive. We sports fans like the Comm games, but for most people, they would rather watch reality TV shows. Also, the ads for a show like MKR are worth more to Ch 7 than ads during the Comm Games.

They were trying to get more people to watch MKR. By putting it on just before the closing ceremony, they hoped to get a few casual CG fans who switched on early. I bet they had quite a few 'dramatic shockers' on MKR that night (purely by chance, of course - I'm not suggesting reality shows are scripted or manipulated in any way).

Oh well - the only good thing that may come out of all this is brouhaha is that maybe we do away with all Opening and Closing Ceremonies completely. They are all, without exception, a load of overblown, pretentious, uninteresting, expensive crap.

 

[Satan]

MKR pays the bills. It is massive. We sports fans like the Comm games, but for most people, they would rather watch reality TV shows. Also, the ads for a show like MKR are worth more to Ch 7 than ads during the Comm Games.

They were trying to get more people to watch MKR. By putting it on just before the closing ceremony, they hoped to get a few casual CG fans who switched on early. I bet they had quite a few 'dramatic shockers' on MKR that night (purely by chance, of course - I'm not suggesting reality shows are scripted or manipulated in any way).

Oh well - the only good thing that may come out of all this is brouhaha is that maybe we do away with all Opening and Closing Ceremonies completely. They are all, without exception, a load of overblown, pretentious, uninteresting, expensive crap.

Not a chance , the organizers et al wont miss their 15. Minutes of fame

 

[JackNah_8]

Sunday's MKR episode was so boring and pointless. It felt like a filler episode that ch7 decided to play before the closing ceremony.

 

[GreyCrow]

Sunday's MKR episode was so boring and pointless. It felt like a filler episode that ch7 decided to play before the closing ceremony.

It had no relevance to anything. The only thing it did was set up a penalty for 1 team. Pointless

 

[JackNah_8]

It had no relevance to anything. The only thing it did was set up a penalty for 1 team. Pointless

Nothing happened lol what a waste . Ch 7 shouldve just aired the closing ceremony at the time. But they want people to watch MKR

 

[Satan]

Nothing happened lol what a waste . Ch 7 shouldve just aired the closing ceremony at the time. But they want people to watch MKR

Had it been 9 , 60 minutes would have been on or the voice or ...

 

[brucetiki]

Had it been 9 , 60 minutes would have been on or the voice or ...

At least it wasn't 10 - we probably would've had Neighbours repeats

 

[Satan]

At least it wasn't 10 - we probably would've had Neighbours repeats

No 96 would have been better

 

[brucetiki]

No 96 would have been better

Could Number 96 be shown before 10:00pm these days

 

[drd23]

Peter Beattie's apology didn't last long RussellEbertHandball

GOLDOC chairman Peter Beattie apologised on Monday morning, saying they got it wrong in bringing the athletes into the stadium early.

But by Tuesday afternoon, he told Sky News he had had enough of taking the blame and that people making negative comments were "whingers".

"One of the problems we have got is we are getting to the stage of being a pack of whingers," he said.

"When people try and do positive things everybody who wants to whinge whinges. I just say to Australia we are bigger than this.

"We should be about positive things about building things about doing things and we should not try and tear down people who want to do that — I mean, whinging is easy."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-...hannel-seven-ratings-my-kitchen-rules/9668082

 

[JackNah_8]

Lol so we are whingers

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Hahahahaha so we are whinging about the Australian Idol reunion tour at the ceremony lol

 

[JackNah_8]

Lol how dare we whine about the Aust idol singers

 

[LukeParkerno1]

I hope we keep whinging as it shows how incompetent he is and was

 

[pepsi]

We should complain about it, otherwise people who are paid handsomely get away with it.

Katie noonan who was the musical director and had her son sing at the closing ceremony, defended the all girl singing karaoke session in "this current climate." I'm sure she had a say in some of the sexualised song choices. She should cop plenty of criticism as well.

 

[brucetiki]

I seem to be a bit late but I went to the Commonwealth games. It was really well organised and if it were a bit cooler it would have been lovely. Sitting in the hockey arena sweating myself half to death in my Hawks jumper was fun. An athlete from my school won a couple of bronzes so that was cool. I also bumped into a bunch of para-athletes which was absolutely awesome. The Para-powerlifting was amazing
Overall the games was a massive success.

Closing ceremony notwithstanding that is pretty spot on.

It was a warm (and at times wet) games, but the majority of events, and transport, worked without a hitch.

The only other major mistake GOLDOC made (besides the closing ceremony of course) was relying on the trams as the primary source of transport for the swimming. They simply couldn't cope with the sheer number of people.

But all up, it was a great games. The integration of the para-athletes was inspiring. The venues were generally spectacular, and we saw our fair share of upsets.

 

[Beejay Crow]

A Pom journo saying we are too jingoistic (he mustn't have attended the London Olympics). Maybe its because we were too good and one every second event: http://www.news.com.au/sport/common...s/news-story/7660e88d5392c6bff5b8a1a0a5f615d2

 

[brucetiki]

A Pom journo saying we are too jingoistic (he mustn't have attended the London Olympics). Maybe its because we were too good and one every second event: http://www.news.com.au/sport/common...s/news-story/7660e88d5392c6bff5b8a1a0a5f615d2

It was hosted in Australia. What did he expect. 2014 was very Scottish. 2010 was very Indian (especially the chaos and corruption). Need I go on...

 

[Satan]

Watching London marathon and Kurt Fearnley is up in top 10 in wheelchair class

 

[JackNah_8]

It was hosted in Australia. What did he expect. 2014 was very Scottish. 2010 was very Indian (especially the chaos and corruption). Need I go on...

Let's see what Birmingham delivers ....