Putting all the live stages on 7Two - an SD channel. Grrrr!
Robbie is good, Meares is OK (but not as good as Bridie). Liggett is getting senile, but such is life.
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Robbie is good, Meares is OK (but not as good as Bridie). Liggett is getting senile, but such is life.
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Non stop ads, replaying the same small bits of previous stages over and over again, the grabs to the weather guy who rides a bike in his spare time but knows absolutely nothing about racing. I think they should of done more to promote why you would travel to SA or Aus in general. Most of the interviews with spectators are completely pointless.
Which would be why I watch the stages on delay, so I can use the skip button to zap past the time wasting parts of the broadcast.
I'm seriously liking the changes that Stuart O'Grady has made to the course this year. Gone are the days where the whole race was a sprint-fest, decided by bonus seconds. Now there's something in it for everyone - TT specialists, climbers, and sprinters. Even the routing of the Victor Harbour stage, putting a serious hill 20km from the finish, made for a much more exciting stage.
It's a pity the Ch7 broadcast is so utterly shite, but a big thumbs up from me for the routing of this year's race.
** I'd still like to see them ride up the Old Norton Summit Rd instead, but I guess it's so early in the stage that they don't really care about making that climb hard. The route up the New Norton Summit Rd is more scenic, with Morialta on the left.
It's a pity the Ch7 broadcast is so utterly shite, but a big thumbs up from me for the routing of this year's race.
** I'd still like to see them ride up the Old Norton Summit Rd instead, but I guess it's so early in the stage that they don't really care about making that climb hard. The route up the New Norton Summit Rd is more scenic, with Morialta on the left.
Must admit I'd love another tough hills stage & the city circuit for the sprinters right now.
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So in effect it was the rain soaked prologue that was the difference between first and second - Unfortunately you can't control the elements.
Yea I did like it finishing on the Lofty stage though but yea you could have the city circuit the day before, Willunga earlier make it a week-ish long event.
They mix it up all the time really, I'm all for 2 extra stages.
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Yates was plan B. Vine deserved the win, he took the race on whilst others just followed, rode really smart on the crosswind stage, team supported him really well. There was 5 mins between start times for Dennis and Vine in the prologue and he beat him, no way is Yates riding the same time on a road bike as those two.
Agreed - the rain was not the difference between their performances in the Prologue. Well, it was - in that Vine handled the conditions better. Both had to deal with the same conditions (unlike Bettiol, who had a dry track).
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Thought it was a cracking race. A bit of something for everyone and helped by a strong start list. Hopefully more of the same next year.
It’s always hard to read too much into early season results but it couldn’t have been a better start for Vine now he’s riding for one of the big boys.
It’s always hard to read too much into early season results but it couldn’t have been a better start for Vine now he’s riding for one of the big boys.
Cadel races in Geelong this weekend - highlights my home town brilliantly.
I didn't think it was possible, but the TV coverage for the Cadel race is even worse than the shitty job they did on the TDU.
Ch 7 only have 1 helicopter, and 1 moto camera unit for the entire race. Pathetic.
With the weather making the helicopter cameras useless, they're stuck trying to cover the whole race with a single moto camera.
... And then the moto got stuck at the back of the race, while the contest was exploding at the front.
I give them some allowances for the weather, but only having a single moto camera is unforgivable. They should have had a minimum of 3, as they did for the TDU.
Intermarche will be extremely disappointed in the coverage. Taco spent 130+ km off the front, and got all of 3 minutes of TV time, due to the lack of cameras.
Please strip 7 of the broadcast rights, as they don't have a ****ing clue of how to cover a cycling race.
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Ch 7 only have 1 helicopter, and 1 moto camera unit for the entire race. Pathetic.
With the weather making the helicopter cameras useless, they're stuck trying to cover the whole race with a single moto camera.
... And then the moto got stuck at the back of the race, while the contest was exploding at the front.
I give them some allowances for the weather, but only having a single moto camera is unforgivable. They should have had a minimum of 3, as they did for the TDU.
Intermarche will be extremely disappointed in the coverage. Taco spent 130+ km off the front, and got all of 3 minutes of TV time, due to the lack of cameras.
Please strip 7 of the broadcast rights, as they don't have a ****ing clue of how to cover a cycling race.
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How bad was the commentary of the finish. McEwen & Keenan were so busy fapping over Matthews and Ewan that they didn't even mention the winner until after he crossed the line.
How about you focus on calling the race as it's actually happening on the road - not the race as you want it to happen with your pro-Aussie bias? They spend so much time talking about the Australians, that a lot of the time they miss the real action on the road.
I used to rate Keenan and McEwen as commentators, but they're becoming as bad as the Ch7 football commentators, with the Australian bias that they have allowed to dominate their calls in the last year or so.
How about you focus on calling the race as it's actually happening on the road - not the race as you want it to happen with your pro-Aussie bias? They spend so much time talking about the Australians, that a lot of the time they miss the real action on the road.
I used to rate Keenan and McEwen as commentators, but they're becoming as bad as the Ch7 football commentators, with the Australian bias that they have allowed to dominate their calls in the last year or so.
You would have thought he was the only rider in the sprint, if you were listening to McEwen & Keenan. I don't think they named any of the podium riders, during their call of the sprint to the finish.
It was a decent race, constantly breaking every time they went over the two steep hills, only to re-form just before or just after the finish line.
But it was let down massively by truly shithouse TV coverage, and biased commentary, which combined to ensure that the viewers had almost no idea of what was happening at any stage once the action really began on the small loop. I don't think I've ever seen a race with worse coverage, particularly the lack of cameras, but the poor commentary did nothing to compensate.
