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Old 22 Jul 2008, 01:04 (Ref:2255586)   #51
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We all have our favourite commentators, mines Martin Haven and some of the RLM guys, but I have to turn Hindy off (Sorry!), yet most love his style.
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Old 17 Jan 2009, 12:29 (Ref:2373301)   #52
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Well I think he's ok in a funny sort of way actually. He's a bit quirky, so pretty good for late night Dakar viewing.
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Old 17 Jan 2009, 15:48 (Ref:2373386)   #53
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He's fine for Dakar. It's when he is commentating on something live that he is out of his depth.
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Old 18 Jan 2009, 21:18 (Ref:2374057)   #54
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He's fine for Dakar. It's when he is commentating on something live that he is out of his depth.
Indeed, he is really good on scripted stuff as his personality adds to the presentation. Live commentary is most definitely not his forte...
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Old 19 Jan 2009, 01:50 (Ref:2374163)   #55
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Indeed, he is really good on scripted stuff as his personality adds to the presentation. Live commentary is most definitely not his forte...

If you ignore the fact he is either two laps behind the action on Motorsport Weekend or worse still gets ahead of himself and tells you who is about to crash before they actually do!
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Old 20 Jan 2009, 16:17 (Ref:2375411)   #56
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If you ignore the fact he is either two laps behind the action on Motorsport Weekend or worse still gets ahead of himself and tells you who is about to crash before they actually do!
True but I'm never too sure if it is totally his fault, the script could be to blame for that.
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Old 20 Jan 2009, 16:32 (Ref:2375422)   #57
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True but I'm never too sure if it is totally his fault, the script could be to blame for that.

I think its more his 'script to eye' co-ordination..
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I have heard a nasty rumour Carlton Kirby is going to commentate on half of the British Eurosport Moto GPs. Havent seen anything confirmed yet though. Please God dont let this be true.
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I have heard a nasty rumour Carlton Kirby is going to commentate on half of the British Eurosport Moto GPs. Havent seen anything confirmed yet though. Please God dont let this be true.
Please god no...

Where did you hear that?
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I have heard a nasty rumour Carlton Kirby is going to commentate on half of the British Eurosport Moto GPs. Havent seen anything confirmed yet though. Please God dont let this be true.
I've seen an advert for Moto GP featuring Toby and Julian, but no one else!
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Kirby is horrendous, utterly horrendous. His inane twitter and nasal giggling is inclined to infect his co-commentators like botchulism. Poor Mark Cole, superb commentator usually devolves into a Kirby clone when seated next to him. I remember Kirby being parachuted into the CART commentary booth and Michel Jourdain Jr morphed into Michael Jordan Jr for the year. They do drag these commentors off the street they really do.
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Old 29 Jan 2010, 21:11 (Ref:2621965)   #62
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Sorry to drag this back up again

But in the back few pages of Autosport they have an article about TV and stuff usually.

The other week it mentioned that Carlton may have shouted "oh f**k" during a DTM session when Gary Paffet made a mistake or something.

Can anyone confirm this, and when it was?

There was also a few other bits about Carlton.
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Old 29 Jan 2010, 21:56 (Ref:2621992)   #63
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Not sure, but I generally shout it during his broadcasts. Replacing 'oh' with 'you', you understand.
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Old 1 May 2010, 18:02 (Ref:2682798)   #64
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Carlton Kirby garbage
Tried to watch Renault world series but the awful commentator (Carlton Kirby)talked so much rubbish and was so busy waffling that he missed all the interesting action and made so many wrong calls that I had to give up and try to find somewhere to vent my frustration.He obviously is so used to bull****ting `cos at no point did he calm down and give any information and his poor co commentator, as usual ,had to skirt round his erroneous calls.Thank gog he`s not ruining moto gp anymore.Oh Dear.
I know we shouldn`t pick on him but he`s so awful and must be stopped.
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Old 1 May 2010, 18:05 (Ref:2682801)   #65
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Still true..oh so true
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Kirby is horrendous, utterly horrendous. His inane twitter and nasal giggling is inclined to infect his co-commentators like botchulism. Poor Mark Cole, superb commentator usually devolves into a Kirby clone when seated next to him. I remember Kirby being parachuted into the CART commentary booth and Michel Jourdain Jr morphed into Michael Jordan Jr for the year. They do drag these commentors off the street they really do.
I share your sympathy for the poor sods who co-commentate..you can feel them cringe and avoid his crappy attempts at handovers.Oh his life..............must be hell.PLease!!!
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This is one thing that really annoys me. Leave the guy alone. I feel he's a damn site better than some other commentators out there and I give him my full backing in a crisis. I mean do you guys and girls want a drool person telling you whats going on cause I sure don't I find his humour sometimes annoying but can't we all be like that sometimes. Like I said it's great to have a bit of humour in the commentary, so please don't knock the guy down unless you've had as much training or can do as good a job as him.
THE GUY IS RUINING SPORT FOR THOUSANDS OF US AND GETTING PAID FOR IT.HE`S NOT FUNNY AND RUNS ON NERVOUS TENSION HENCE THE GOBBLEDYGOOK HE TALKS.MOST IMPORTANT HE WASTES AN OPPORTUNITY TO INTERPRET AND PASS ON INFORMATION WHICH IS WHY HE`S PAID.IT SHOULDN`T BE BULL****...BUT IT IS.
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Old 2 May 2010, 20:06 (Ref:2683394)   #67
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Just out of interest I wonder how much he does get paid. I'd love his job!
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Just out of interest I wonder how much he does get paid. I'd love his job!

I assume nothing as its day release.
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probably rather a lot.
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I assume nothing as its day release.
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I think we should get a list of his quotes together. I'l start us of:

"And Driver XYZ has had a NIGHTMARE !"
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Some drivel about "loving life" or something. Most of its just plain wrong. However if he is looking for a catchphrase then how about "I'm a ****"?
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Yeah, ditto.
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How on earth can this guy still be involved in motorsport commentary!

Surely he must be related to someone high up or something? Can he speak fluent French?? Coz as we know both main motorsport channels are French?

I am staggered at this bloke!! He is enthusiastic yes but I KNOW I could do a better job and do it for free.

So c'mon guys let's see if it would work!!
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