BBC Sports Personality of the Year

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

A bit premature but anyone got any ideas - serious or pi$$taking? I reckon that the cupboard is a bit bare this year. Surely there's a distant member of the Royal Family who has played some posh sport in the past 12 months?

 

[LlcoolJ]

Bare knuckle fighting champ Ronnie Pickering.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I'm just WAITING for someone to completely misunderstand the award and say "but he/she has no personality at all".

It winds me up EVERY time.

Oh, and Jessica Ennis-Hill will win.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Lewis Hamilton surely?

 

[n1 gull]

Joe Root did well this year, but I can't think of many candidates?

 

[pasty]

Lewis Hamilton surely?

but he has no personality at all

 

[Postman Pat]

A bit premature but anyone got any ideas - serious or pi$$taking? I reckon that the cupboard is a bit bare this year. Surely there's a distant member of the Royal Family who has played some posh sport in the past 12 months?

Calde?!

Jessica Ennis is odds on to win it, after winning world champs.

Followed by
A Murray
L Hamilton
C Froome
W Rooney!?!?!
M Farah
A McCoy
Joe Root
T Fury
G Bale

Fury 66/1 could be interesting if he manages to beat Vlad Klitschko

 

[crodonilson]

I reckon Murray still has a good shot and is an attractive price. If we win the Davis Cup he will have almost won it single handedly (they will definitely get team of the year) and it will be in the forefront of peoples minds.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Not Andy Murray. he's just become Scottish again when he lost to Nadal

Unless of course we win the Davis Cup final, when he will revert to being British again.

 

[AmexRuislip]

A bit left field I know, but how about Sebastian Coe, brave man taking on the job of Olympic tsar, dealing with all the alleged drug tw*ts

 

[Stat Brother]

Jessica Ennis is odds on to win it, after winning world champs.

I wrote this:-

If Ennis is competing and wins gold there's your SPOTY winner, irrespective of tennis, cricket and cycling.

here:_
https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?319238-BBC-Sports-Personality-of-the-year-2015

When Ennis was 20/1,

 

[Easy 10]

A bit left field I know, but how about Sebastian Coe, brave man taking on the job of Olympic tsar, dealing with all the alleged drug tw*ts

Are you joking ?

Coe has been Vice President of the IAAF for the last 8 years. The systematic state-sponsored doping of those cheating Russian athletes all happened under HIS watch, while he was busily fellating his great mate and predecessor Lamine Diack, who has now been arrested on corruption charges.

His first reaction to the findings of WADA's indepedent investigation was to call it a "declaration of war" on his sport. He was either complicit, turned a blind eye, or totally incompetent. Regardless, he should've been SACKED, not made President. Going by his current track record in the job, he seems very ill-equipped to clean up the sport. He's almost Blatter-like in his "didn't know nuffin about if guv" attitude.

So no. He wouldn't get my vote.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

I wrote this:-

here:_
https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?319238-BBC-Sports-Personality-of-the-year-2015

When Ennis was 20/1,

Good call BUT I'd be laying off now, as not Olympic gold I reckon she's the worst odds on shot I've ever seen

 

[LlcoolJ]

Are you joking ?

Coe has been Vice President of the IAAF for the last 8 years. The systematic state-sponsored doping of those cheating Russian athletes all happened under HIS watch, while he was busily fellating his great mate and predecessor Lamine Diack, who has now been arrested on corruption charges.

His first reaction to the findings of WADA's indepedent investigation was to call it a "declaration of war" on his sport. He was either complicit, turned a blind eye, or totally incompetent. Regardless, he should've been SACKED, not made President. Going by his current track record in the job, he seems very ill-equipped to clean up the sport. He's almost Blatter-like in his "didn't know nuffin about if guv" attitude.

So no. He wouldn't get my vote.

100% this. Oily, self serving politician of the lowest order.

The worst thing about the (excellent) London Olympics was the foot up it gave to him and Boris as they somehow managed to take full credit for something we all paid for and that thousands of paid and unpaid people made possible.

 

[Stat Brother]

Good call BUT I'd be laying off now, as not Olympic gold I reckon she's the worst odds on shot I've ever seen

She's nailed on the winner, by virtue of the fact I didn't take my own advise @ 20/1. double

 

[drew]

Are you joking ?

Coe has been Vice President of the IAAF for the last 8 years. The systematic state-sponsored doping of those cheating Russian athletes all happened under HIS watch, while he was busily fellating his great mate and predecessor Lamine Diack, who has now been arrested on corruption charges.

His first reaction to the findings of WADA's indepedent investigation was to call it a "declaration of war" on his sport. He was either complicit, turned a blind eye, or totally incompetent. Regardless, he should've been SACKED, not made President. Going by his current track record in the job, he seems very ill-equipped to clean up the sport. He's almost Blatter-like in his "didn't know nuffin about if guv" attitude.

So no. He wouldn't get my vote.

Or, he knew things weren't right but also knew he couldn't do a thing about it until he was in the top job! Are there any other candidates you would like to see in the top job to tackle this. As for Blatter, it's not a case of not being aware of what was happening on his watch, just how much he was involved in what was going on. Him and Platini.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Are you joking ?

Coe has been Vice President of the IAAF for the last 8 years. The systematic state-sponsored doping of those cheating Russian athletes all happened under HIS watch, while he was busily fellating his great mate and predecessor Lamine Diack, who has now been arrested on corruption charges.

His first reaction to the findings of WADA's indepedent investigation was to call it a "declaration of war" on his sport. He was either complicit, turned a blind eye, or totally incompetent. Regardless, he should've been SACKED, not made President. Going by his current track record in the job, he seems very ill-equipped to clean up the sport. He's almost Blatter-like in his "didn't know nuffin about if guv" attitude.

So no. He wouldn't get my vote.

100% this. Oily, self serving politician of the lowest order.

The worst thing about the (excellent) London Olympics was the foot up it gave to him and Boris as they somehow managed to take full credit for something we all paid for and that thousands of paid and unpaid people made possible.

Or, he knew things weren't right but also knew he couldn't do a thing about it until he was in the top job! Are there any other candidates you would like to see in the top job to tackle this. As for Blatter, it's not a case of not being aware of what was happening on his watch, just how much he was involved in what was going on. Him and Platini.

Fair enough

 

[Easy 10]

100% this. Oily, self serving politician of the lowest order.

The worst thing about the (excellent) London Olympics was the foot up it gave to him and Boris as they somehow managed to take full credit for something we all paid for and that thousands of paid and unpaid people made possible.

Yup. And then watched on as the Russians cheated their way up the 2012 medals table as a direct result of the IAAF's years of inactivity and then collusion with the Russian Athletics Federation and its Government to dispose of its athletes doping samples. Stinks to high heaven, and has resulted in multiple athletes being cheated out of medals they would have won. And Coe was there in a senior position of authority through all of it. He failed in his job, abjectly.

Or, he knew things weren't right but also knew he couldn't do a thing about it until he was in the top job! Are there any other candidates you would like to see in the top job to tackle this. As for Blatter, it's not a case of not being aware of what was happening on his watch, just how much he was involved in what was going on. Him and Platini.

Sorry, that's not good enough. If that was indeed the case, then he allowed London 2012 to go ahead in the knowledge that athletes were drugged up to the eyeballs, and did nothing. In fact Coe initally came out swinging, in full-on DENIAL mode before the extent of the cheating was fully revealed by the publishing of that report. Now its all the mealy-mouthed crap we hear from politicians promising "root and branch reforms" blah blah.

If he was was truly clueless that all this was going on, then he's not fit for purpose. If he knew about it, then he's a disgrace who should be out on his ear already. Nothing I have seen from him convinces me he's the right man for the job.

 

[goldstone]

I'm just WAITING for someone to completely misunderstand the award and say "but he/she has no personality at all".

It winds me up EVERY time.

Oh, and Jessica Ennis-Hill will win.

Agree. Why Sports Personality? Why not just plain old Sports Person? Sportsmen and women seem to be a bit lacking in the personality department in my opinion. I give you Andy Murray.

 

[Guinness Boy]

HOW about SEMI for OVERSEAS personality after HIS amazing success with ZURICH?