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Question of sport trio axed. (10 Viewers)

  • Thread starter Alan Dugdales Moustache
  • Start date Sep 15, 2020
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • #316
shmmeee said:
While I’m all for diversity for all kinds of reasons, not sure the science bears out the idea that diverse groups perform better TBH.
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Plenty of studies that say it has a real positive effect on a company's profits. Easily searchable. There are a few studies that say otherwise, of course. But even if you could conclusively prove it had no impact at all, it wouldn't be an argument for ignoring it altogether.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • #317
SBT said:
Plenty of studies that say it has a real positive effect on a company's profits. Easily searchable. There are a few studies that say otherwise, of course. But even if you could conclusively prove it had no impact at all, it wouldn't be an argument for ignoring it altogether.
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No it wouldn’t. I don’t think every good thing needs a science factoid to support it is all. Because if the science isn’t solid it makes support for the good thing less solid.

Also if it were true there’s a few women only or majority black businesses we’d have to tell to hire a few white men and not sure that would go down well.

Was basing off this meta analysis that showed no impact on market performance for gender balanced boards. Not seen as much for race TBF


https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2013.0319
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • #318
shmmeee said:
While I’m all for diversity for all kinds of reasons, not sure the science bears out the idea that diverse groups perform better TBH.
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As a whole organisation it would make sense that having a diverse workforce would give a greater range of experiences etc to draw from when making decisions and coming up with ideas.

Operationally it may be a bit more difficult due to language/cultural barriers etc.
 

Blind-Faith

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • #319
shmmeee said:
No it wouldn’t. I don’t think every good thing needs a science factoid to support it is all. Because if the science isn’t solid it makes support for the good thing less solid.

Also if it were true there’s a few women only or majority black businesses we’d have to tell to hire a few white men and not sure that would go down well.

Was basing off this meta analysis that showed no impact on market performance for gender balanced boards. Not seen as much for race TBF


https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2013.0319
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Could you imagine telling a company to hire more white people? There would be fucking carnage and rioting, but not racist towards us oh no no no no
 

Ring Of Steel

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 22, 2020
  • #320
Blind-Faith said:
Could you imagine telling a company to hire more white people? There would be fucking carnage and rioting, but not racist towards us oh no no no no
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No I can’t really imagine any scenario when I’d say something like that tbh
 

clint van damme

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  • Sep 23, 2020
  • #321
Ring Of Steel said:
No I can’t really imagine any scenario when I’d say something like that tbh
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Go on, imagine it and get angry. And if you're not angry enough we'll make up some more half baked improbable scenarios!!
 
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xcraigx

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #322

Paddy McGuinness replaces Sue Barker as A Question of Sport host

The Top Gear and Take Me Out star will replace the BBC show's long-standing presenter Sue Barker.
www.bbc.co.uk
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #323
The big car and sport expert Paddy McGuiness.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #324
What ever happened to RoS?
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #325
xcraigx said:

Paddy McGuinness replaces Sue Barker as A Question of Sport host

The Top Gear and Take Me Out star will replace the BBC show's long-standing presenter Sue Barker.
www.bbc.co.uk
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He gets everywhere!
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #326
shmmeee said:
What ever happened to RoS?
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Probably realised real life was more worthwhile than arguing with nutters on the internet...
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #327
Deleted member 5849 said:
Probably realised real life was more worthwhile than arguing with nutters on the internet...
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Weirdo
 
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rob9872

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #328
xcraigx said:

Paddy McGuinness replaces Sue Barker as A Question of Sport host

The Top Gear and Take Me Out star will replace the BBC show's long-standing presenter Sue Barker.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Let the ball .......


see the foot.
 
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Grendel

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #329
Deleted member 5849 said:
Probably realised real life was more worthwhile than arguing with nutters on the internet...
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Given he was the biggest nutter on here I doubt it
 

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #330
shmmeee said:
What ever happened to RoS?
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Jokes aside, I was genuinely worried about him.

To go from posting 23 hours of the day down to radio silence must incur some serious withdrawal symptoms.

Feels weird he just dropped off the face of the earth. Probably came back as one of the new argumentative posters with the shitty and unoriginal usernames though!
 
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Grendel

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #331
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
Jokes aside, I was genuinely worried about him.

To go from posting 23 hours of the day down to radio silence must incur some serious withdrawal symptoms.

Feels weird he just dropped off the face of the earth. Probably came back as one of the new argumentative posters with the shitty and unoriginal usernames though!
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He last posted on twitter in January some cryptic quote about crossroads - perhaps he auditioned for the remake as Benny and did not get the gig
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #332
ajsccfc said:
Have they announced the replacements yet? People were raging about Sky Sports sacking some pundits last week for definite box-ticking diversity reasons, Tim Sherwood then turned up in the studio.
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Have to admit, Paddy McGuinness isn't my idea of a minority...
 

rob9872

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #333
Deleted member 5849 said:
Have to admit, Paddy McGuinness isn't my idea of a minority...
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Paddy and Guinness - definitely some Irish in there
 
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1nilandwe...

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #334
Apparently Sam Quek is one of the new captains.
 

rob9872

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #335
1nilandwe... said:
Apparently Sam Quek is one of the new captains.
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Always thought that was likely. She's been on a few times and is quite good, but also very personable. In fact I expected her to be in line for the host.
 

chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #336
Surprised at some of those names. Wonder if the reason they haven't gone for establish sports presenters and pundits is due to the amount of live sport these days. Potentially issues scheduling tapings if they use people who are in demand.
 

Houchens Head

Fairly well known member from Malvern
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #337
Been watching this since it first aired decades ago. Won't be watching again. Can't stand that McGuinness bloke and his bloody annoying Northern accent!
 
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #338
Why they go for mcguinness who knows. Who cares as well but odd. Isa Guha works for the beeb now doesn’t she? She’s have been a good choice
 
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Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #339
Grendel said:
Why they go for mcguinness who knows.
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He's signed a contract, so they want to get their money's worth out of him.

He's as mainstream as they come, too!
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #340
So all the bed wetting about sacking sue barker and replacing her with Alex Scott was unfounded. They’ve replaced a women with a middle aged white bloke
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #341
I like ROS content ,and his previous incarnations and his current one .
Certainly provides a few pages of content then evaporates.
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 8, 2021
  • #342
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
So all the bed wetting about sacking sue barker and replacing her with Alex Scott was unfounded. They’ve replaced a women with a middle aged white bloke
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Who's shit with a regional annoying accent.
Bleeding clown of a presenter.
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 9, 2021
  • #343
Is there a bit of a trend with ageism creeping in ?
Is that the motivation,not that they shouldn't be able to freshen things up with younger presenters, pundits etc if they wish.
 

Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 9, 2021
  • #344
wingy said:
Who's shit with a regional annoying accent.
Bleeding clown of a presenter.
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Regional accents are in vogue at the beeb
 
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Kneeza

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 9, 2021
  • #345
Time they canned the shite. Fckn detest it.
Apropos of not much, they first piloted it in the sixties as a sort of 'non-celeb' sports quiz (and much better for it imo). My bro-in-law was actually on it. He was (mainly) a rugby player at the time, and had played for Wales at second-team level, while also playing cricket for Glamorgan, again well below first XI, so was pretty knowledgeable about sports.
Sadly the poor bugger, 81 now, can't remember it as he has vascular dementia.
 
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