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The Continued Demise of TMS


Bungo Bill said:
The telly version is on BBC2 at 7pm on Thursday.
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its on the iplayer now
since ive moved to IPTV and get a dodgy stream i listen to less TMS than ever unless im in the car, i understand what the BBC want from Hartley is a new younger and female audience but your never gonna gets kids to listen to it really, so she seems to alienate the regular TMS listener,

i am glad that Isa Guha is back with the BBC this summer though, i think she's excellent,

The last away ashes i found myself watching the Fox Sports stream from australia with her, Gilchrist, Vaughan etc and rather than BT sport when it went back to Matt Smith and Alistair Cook in the studio
 
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Sillypoint said:
its on the iplayer now
since ive moved to IPTV and get a dodgy stream i listen to less TMS than ever unless im in the car, i understand what the BBC want from Hartley is a new younger and female audience but your never gonna gets kids to listen to it really, so she seems to alienate the regular TMS listener,

i am glad that Isa Guha is back with the BBC this summer though, i think she's excellent,

The last away ashes i found myself watching the Fox Sports stream from australia with her, Gilchrist, Vaughan etc and rather than BT sport when it went back to Matt Smith and Alistair Cook in the studio
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Some of the fox commentary stuff is okay but the shouting and screaming down the mic they tend to do would have Richie Benaud turning.
 
Used to prefer listening to TMS than actually watching at times, not as good as it used to be,tried talksport 2 but switched off when Harmison kept whittering on about Newcastle United.
Don't mind Aggers, Bloefeld was amusing, Vaughan?..i don't particularly like,he thinks he's got a sense of humour, but actually hasn't
Alex Hartley I don't think is a fit for test match cricket, ok in a 20/20
Boycott was Boycott, total marmite
Tuffers is simply amusing whether he wants to be or not
All in all, not as good as it used to be
 
wednesday1957 said:
Used to prefer listening to TMS than actually watching at times, not as good as it used to be,tried talksport 2 but switched off when Harmison kept whittering on about Newcastle United.
Don't mind Aggers, Bloefeld was amusing, Vaughan?..i don't particularly like,he thinks he's got a sense of humour, but actually hasn't
Alex Hartley I don't think is a fit for test match cricket, ok in a 20/20
Boycott was Boycott, total marmite
Tuffers is simply amusing whether he wants to be or not
All in all, not as good as it used to be
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Doubt you’ll find many Harmison admirers on here :lol: Although I do quite like listening to him when he’s with John Norman and Neil Manthorp.
 
seaham ftm said:
Doubt you’ll find many Harmison admirers on here :lol: Although I do quite like listening to him when he’s with John Norman and Neil Manthorp.
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probably won't....its not the fact its Newcastle, its the fact plays going on at the time, you don't know who's facing, bowling or fielding change,
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
The Beeb place diversity way above viewing/listening figures nowadays, especially in sports.
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I watched a comedy programme celebrating 100 years of the BBC (or something) with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. They had one sketch about how white, male and middle class the BBC used to be and then finished the sketch off by saying that the more diverse the BBC became, the more they worried that they weren't being diverse enough......... it kind of hit the nail on the head, for me
 
I was listening to the cricket in the car the other day with TMS and thoroughly enjoyed it. Angers is a great host and I can even put up with Vaughan.

Marks retired from The Guardian and The Observer in 2020. What’s to say this isn’t his decision to cut back in his TMS role? He’s 67 now and might not want to work.


I’ll miss him as he was always a favourite of mine, even in his playing days. He always offered a different view on things.
 
wednesday1957 said:
probably won't....its not the fact its Newcastle, its the fact plays going on at the time, you don't know who's facing, bowling or fielding change,
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To be fair I can’t pass opinion on his commentary as I’d usually be watching on television but I do enjoy his podcast on talksport with Manners, good insight and opinions.
 
What is the situation with Aggers now? He used to be titled the BBC's Chief Cricket Correspondent and have regular articles published on their website. It appears now that he's been usurped by Stephan Shemalt?
 
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