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Not to mention WBD themselves, promoting the big launch of the SGP-Verse... whatever the hell it is?!? Which makes it such a strange decision for a company with so many TV channels available to them.

I sincerely hope not... I'm going to be spending half my time round my old mums house sorting her TV out!

No, just able to empathise with the difficulty that some others find in trying to work with technology

And I thought this was all going to be a thing of the past after Brexit I may be being pedantic, but it was not televised, it was streamed. A lot of the more senior folk out there would not have been able to see this if they didn't have an Internet connection and if they did they've still got to work out how to install the app and watch it through that. Why do you think the majority of "Television" programmes are still transmitted in a linear fashion. Not everybody is setup to watch streamed events. Eurosport 1 was available and hasn't it been switched to Quest in the past? So this weekend we've had a "sprint" race not televised and only open to 999 people and a World Championship Grand Prix not televised a new low point for the SGP series under WBD

It's even more puzzling as WBD are the actual promoters of the event... why would you want to go to all of the trouble and expense of purchasing the staging and broadcasting rights and then not televise it, especially on a channel that was only showing recorded sport?

Holder & Lambert are quite comparable to me, both are prepared to make the hard moves, maybe not as extreme as Bartek, Lindgren & Doyle, but because of this they are probably more consistent than Doyle & Lindgren. Bewley has all the talent and speed needed, he's got to decide how much he wants it and if he wants to go to the extremes, especially while Zmarzlik is riding like he is. Laguta has shown in the recent past that it can be done, but Zmarzlik does seem to have upped his game in what he's prepared to do since Laguta was WC.

Is it the first time a GP round has not been televised in its history? I know a few were tucked away on the red button during the Sky era, but at least all those with Sky were able to watch it

Terrible coverage from WBD again tonight, not even going to go into it not being shown on either of the Eurosport channels in favour of WEC and the World Climbing Championships, the after show was also terrible, no real analysis or interviews just a fireworks display on TV! An effing fireworks display on TV! You don't know what you've had until it's gone and what the sport would give to have IMG/BSI back running the show!

As honest as Woffy's interview was he didn't really address the elephant in the room, he clearly backed out of a few moves tonight like he had done for the last few years, the difference tonight was that he had the speed that if he'd made those moves he would have easily qualified for the semis. The thing is the level has moved up another notch since Woffy last won his titles, riders are riding more extreme, Doyle, Holder, Zmarzlik, Lindgren... they'll just make the move and leave the opposition to deal with it and to be fair, Woffy has never been that kind of rider. At least he's not shooting his mouth off so much these days so he's a little more palatable. And I'm afraid that Bewley is pretty much in that same mold, and who can blame them after the injuries they've had. Lambert has the best chance of joining that top table for me, he's a hard rider but isn't making those extreme moves... yet. Great night for Doyley, best he's been since 2016/17. And a pretty decent GP all in all.

Vaculik looks like he's wearing a thong when you see him stood up

I'll be sure to check in with you to see what I can and can't reply to

I'm perfectly chilled thanks @Mr Bee, I will enjoy the season ahead as I have enjoyed my seasons past, as you would know if you've read all of my posts, and I will continue to give my opinion, positive or negative, whether you agree with it or not. What I will not be doing is calling out people for their opinion. Enjoy the GP tonight... especially the first 30 minutes

Haha you just couldn't resist going off topic to talk about me again! Ridicule you? How could I ridicule a grown adult that calls himself Mr Bee, it would be almost impossible. I feel truly honoured that you've broken your 19 year silence to come on here and personally have a pop at me. Perhaps you should start your own topic up about me and then you can discuss me to your hearts content with everybody else in your echo chamber that agrees with everything you say, well, NEWS-FLASH: Nobody is interested in me, or your opinion of me. You know what, these spats break out from time to time and they're terribly tedious unless you're involved in them, in which case they can be quite fun. See you in the SGP-Verse, it's coming soon apparently

So tired that you're prolonging your bullying and trolling. You think I moan about "everything" and I troll "all" the social media, you're sounding crazy! I don't hide behind silly made up names (though perhaps I should with people like you on the loose) and I don't go into topics to initiate personal attacks on people. If you want to discuss the topic, discuss the topic, if you want to bully and troll me, put me on ignore, somebody on here will tell you how to do it.

Okay, you're coming across as a bit of a weirdo now Richard Cleaver, trolling me on here and trolling me on TwitterX. You seem to know far too much about me or think you do... please make better use of your second chance at life, oh and put me on ignore.

Hypocrite! I'm discussing the SGP... you just come back with a personal attack. You need to try and communicate with people better with your second shot at life.

Yes, you're right, it's a brilliant idea to release it first on the platform with the least amount of users... gold medal to whoever thought that was the correct decision. Yes brilliant idea to miss the first 30 minutes of coverage tonight, another gold medal! You think that's all great stuff and should be sung from the rooftops? You need to open your eyes to what WBD have done to the GP series... there's a new stage on the centre green whoop de doo! I have the Discovery+ app so there will be no meltdown from me.

"Android dominates the global smartphone market with a 70.69% share, while iPhone (iOS) has a 28.58% market share" SGP-Verse "App only available on iOS devices" Another brilliant move by WBD!

Okay... I can be bothered: I thought it was a complete shambles, I'll try an keep it brief Wasn't shown on TV "limited crowd" WTF! It's a World Championship event, what other "Sport" would limit it's capacity to 999 in a 58,000 capacity stadium. And they couldn't even reach their own self imposed capacity! I thought we were back in lock down! The timing captions were all over the place, at one point somebody was showing 9 hours, then on another occasion I was watching Vaculik's time and it was running at about 50 seconds and then all of a sudden when he crossed the line he went top! No idea when a session was coming to an end with the only indication of the camera cutting to a bloke holding a red flag! What actually happened during that final quali session, there's clearly no communication between commentary and the pit "reporter"? Why did Huckenbeck not come out for his 2nd session? What the camera's did show was all over the place, there was no context as to why we were watching a particular rider on screen when we were I can't believe how low WBD have taken the sport, at SGP level, in the few years that they've been in control. (I can really) It was a great race at the end, which did salvage it slightly... but so what, we've seen great races before and we'll see 'em again

Jesus Christ! What a complete 5h1t show! Where do you even start? I can't be bothered...

I've listened to a couple of Drop The Clutch episodes and it's like listening to a conversation at a day care centre! Won't bother with any more!

Prime time!

The M1 is a total joke at the moment... 2 hours from Leicester! for 60 miles! They may as well just close it and do what ever it is they need to do!

Not a single mention of a tractor! This AI ain't all it's cracked up to be

Anybody?