POLL: should Tomilaris be replaced?

531Aussie said:

I say 'YES' to proposition 24 -- get ride of him!!!

surely they could get someone like Phil Anderson to replace him. I don't care if Phil doesn't have to hoity toity voice and won't pronounce the tossa accents on the Southern European names 🙂

this is a cut and paste from another forum, hope you don't mind 531

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what does everyone think of Tomalaris, peronally I think he is a
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A TOOL

He has been to 10 tours and still has not learnt the nuances and intricacies.

case in point: O'Grady has got in one more breakaway (read:yet another) and not won.The break splintered because, ofcourse, no one wished to ride a fast man to the finish. Now O'Grady whinges and whines and curses the other riders in the break when they cross the line into the marshalling area. The y exchange words. Now Tomalaris jumps in with bromides and platitudes and proves the sycophant that he is.

He asks questions to the effect of, "is that in the spirit of cycling, not chasing, not doing a pull" note, tomalaris would not use the term pull for cycling 😄 that is strictly a nocturnal leisure activity.

Instead of asking OG "did you have the legs" "why did not you make the first move" "why did not you force selection" "why did you expect them to ride you to the finish" "did you expect the break just to stay together for a group sprint"... proper journo's questions. Probing OG's tactics and his road smarts. Assessing his legs on their merit on the day, Tomalaris reduces the 2 minute piece to pandering to Ogrady and feeding his ego.

Alternate case: The only time he has made a "hard-hitting" question, is when he asked a question regarding OG's age in another interview before the tour. When OG had turned 30, did Toma expect his career to slide, has he any knowledge of the most fruitful periods of a rider like OG's career bikeforums.netrolleyes.gifOpen ↗

Contradicting himself: Before the 2004 tour, he tell Mcewen he cannot win, that everyone is saying Petacchi is the best in the world and the fastest. EXCEPT, on Toyota World Sport, Tomalaris has mentioned Mcewen being the best sprinter in the world for 3 years since his stellar 2002 season. 🙄

Jingoistic best, always going on about our world domination in cycling. 🙄
Never mentions our lack of depth in the classics or GC, the categories that really matter. *Personal opinion, Robbie Mac is a legend and my favourite rider 😄 , just trying to be impartial.

Something needs to be done to unseat this fool from our July coverage. Dave Culbert is a brilliant presenter for a former athlete, and a brilliant presenter full stop. He caters to the layman, and the racer. He knows his stuff, like a racer. Plus the credibilty of being on the podium of a world athletics championship. He is my man.

that was a yes btw 😄

Jeez, cross posting? I dunno :p 😄

I hope you don't mind, but I've quoted you on the rec.bicycles sub-forum 🙂

http://www.cyclingforums.com/f181-aus.bicycle.html

I think it takes about 24 hours to register on there

Phil Anderson would be a huge improvement 😎

531Aussie said:

get ride of him!!! 🙂

get "ride" of him.!!?? what kind of Freudian slip is that? 😄

531Aussie said:

get "ride" of him.!!?? what kind of Freudian slip is that? 😄

531 wants to get "nasty" on tomaralis...

62vette said:

531 wants to get "nasty" on tomaralis...

have a poll in sbs's cycling central forum 😎

Bwahhhh - this is a very funny post.

Agree 100%!

Get ride of him!

cyclist2 said:

have a poll in sbs's cycling central forum 😎

there isone, but it's only had a couple of replies.

cyclist2 said:

have a poll in sbs's cycling central forum 😎

there is one, but it's only had a couple of replies.

I'm dumb. Who's Tomilaris?

jur said:

I'm dumb. Who's Tomilaris?

host of Cycling Central on SBS, 5:30pm, Sundays, and does a bit on the Tour de France coverage

531Aussie said:

host of Cycling Central on SBS, 5:30pm, Sundays, and does a bit on the Tour de France coverage

I'm reallllly dumb. After a year of cycling I have not cottoned on to SBS Cycling Central. 😠

jur said:

I'm reallllly dumb. After a year of cycling I have not cottoned on to SBS Cycling Central. 😠

No, you're not dumb!! Just no-one had told you about it!! I didn't know about it until a few months ago. Again, after maybe a year of riding. I still forget and miss it.

IS it still on??

Yep, it's still on, and this is the 2nd, or if not the 3rd summer of Cycling Central

SBS also occasionally have highlights of other European races on Sunday mornings during the colder months, between about 10am and 12pm

C'mon guys Tomo is enthusiastic and already a member of the SBS sport crew and lives in sydney, what other qualifications are required? 😕 Just hope he keeps out of the lycra while on air this season, dont need to see middle aged amatures on tv, I ride beach road :p nuff said, role models only please.
Phil A works for Ch10 and does not live in Sydney, rural area with hills and space seem to be his preference, does not = SBS. 😄
17.30hr on a sunday suits me just fine.

531Aussie said:

I say 'YES' to proposition 24 -- get ride of him!!!

surely they could get someone like Phil Anderson to replace him. I don't care if Phil doesn't have to hoity toity voice and won't pronounce the tossa accents on the Southern European names 🙂

Actually, just because Tossalaris...sorry, Tomalaris, pauses, puts on he accent and then says a name in "not an aussie accent" doesnt mean he gets it right.

Case in point...once referred to Michael Boogert as......"Mish-elle Booger " as if he was possibly french. In fact he is Dutch so he is just "Michael" like he would be in Australia. (and the surname is pronounced "Bow-gert"..hard to write phoentically)

For too many years we have had the excuse that something is better than nothing...now Aust has a great cycling coverage and a sub standard level of commentary/reporting.

So there. That's what I think!

OZ Matt said:

Case in point...once referred to Michael Boogert as......"Mish-elle Booger " as if he was possibly french. In fact he is Dutch so he is just "Michael" like he would be in Australia. (and the surname is pronounced "Bow-gert"..hard to write phoentically)!

I REALLY can't stand the way he say "Merckx". He just say "Mercks", like the rest of us; oh no, he has to put on some pox Belgian accent, and says "Me-airks"

[censored]!! :p

this was on the another Aussie forum today:

Thunder said:

Tomalaris to Davis: "is Robbie getting slower?"

he fkn clocked 75 kph on stage one and gapped the big boys by two lengths!!!

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Havent any of you guys heard Phil Anderson commentate?