RTE Sports Personality of the year - Where's Roche

Slideshowbob

With Nicolas Roche's book flying off the shelves and being Irish sports book of the year, how come he ain't even listed as a possible winner?

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/sports-novelties/rte-sports-personality

Beasty

from paddypower
"Others on request"

There are not many poor bookmakers;)

What did he achieve this year to warrant being one of the contenders?

RobFowl

From the same bookies the odds for BBC spoty



M Cavendish 8/13 L Donald 33/1 A Strauss 100/1 D Clarke 11/4 A Cook 50/1 D Greene 100/1 R McIlroy 7/1 A Khan 100/1 A Murray 100/1 M Farah 8/1

Slideshowbob

RobFowl wrote: »

From the same bookies the odds for BBC spoty



M Cavendish 8/13 L Donald 33/1 A Strauss 100/1 D Clarke 11/4 A Cook 50/1 D Greene 100/1 R McIlroy 7/1 A Khan 100/1 A Murray 100/1 M Farah 8/1

There is a separate thread for BBC spoty:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74676007

Slideshowbob

Beasty wrote: »

There are not many poor bookmakers;)

What did he achieve this year to warrant being one of the contenders?

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/aib-may-call-in-yates-guarantees-176159.html

Well whoever bought his book must value him as a sportsperson!?!

RobFowl

Slideshowbob wrote: »

There is a separate thread for BBC spoty:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74676007

Cookie_Monster

why's trap there, he become Irish all of a sudden

also ditto McIlroy & Clarke (and prob some others)... so could they win both the Irish and Brit ones then?

Leroy42

Where's Roche?

I bet his DS was saying exactly that on most of the mountain stages of the TDF!

Slideshowbob

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

why's trap there, he become Irish all of a sudden

also ditto McIlroy & Clarke (and prob some others)... so could they win both the Irish and Brit ones then?

Supposed Trap could win just like AP McCoy won the British equivalent last year.

If you really want to go down the "is McIlroy Irish?" path:

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056304207?page=1#post_72867457

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056305161?page=1

Surprised anyone in cycling would mention that given what the history of what the sport went through over the years on this island

http://www.ucd.ie/ibis/filestore/wp2006/71/71_kh.pdf

Beasty

Slideshowbob wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/aib-may-call-in-yates-guarantees-176159.html

Well whoever bought his book must value him as a sportsperson!?!

Does this not qualify him for Sports Writer of the Year?;)

Slideshowbob

Beasty wrote: »

Slideshowbob wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/aib-may-call-in-yates-guarantees-176159.html

Well whoever bought his book must value him as a sportsperson!?!

Does this not qualify him for Sports Writer of the Year?;)

Yeah I gather once they vote for him and he gets more votes than others!!

tunney

Slideshowbob wrote: »

With Nicolas Roche's book flying off the shelves and being Irish sports book of the year, how come he ain't even listed as a possible winner?

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/sports-novelties/rte-sports-personality

I love cycling and hate soccer but I'd vote for Trap over Roche any day. Roches is immensely unlike-able and hasn't really achieved anything.

manwithaplan

The term "Sports Personality" is deliberately vague but giving this to Roche would be stretching it to its very limits.

There is a tendency for those involved in a particular sport to get behind "their man" (or woman). The horseracing world campaigned hard for McCoy over a number of seasons. But AP had given them plenty of ammunition and the tipping point was when he picked up the couple of major races that had previously eluded him. I would wholeheartedly support a campaign for a cyclist to get one of these honours (and I believe Cav deserves the BBC one this year) but I'd be struggling to write a campaign manifesto based on Roche's 2011 season.

My sense of balance in reviewing the 2011 sporting year may be a bit off given that my recollection of it is:

"something, something, something, Leinster, something, something, THE DUBS, something, something".

RobFowl

Slideshowbob wrote: »

Surprised anyone in cycling would mention that given what the history of what the sport went through over the years on this island

http://www.ucd.ie/ibis/filestore/wp2006/71/71_kh.pdf

Nice link, politics and sport make poor bedfellows......

cipo

Hilarious thread... It's not even Friday!!

Roche for sports personality... You need to great at sport & you need to have a personality too!! ;-)

Only messing, he seems like a good lad just poor direction innhis career.

Definitely not a winner or even runner.

Only one person in my opinion- Katie Taylor. Phenomenal athlete.

Bambaata

What exactly has Roche done this year to deserve a nomination?

fat bloke

I liked Roche's book but God bless him he's not a contender for any "personality of the year" competition.

Bluefoam

+1 for Katie Taylor. Awesome athlete...

check_six

Katie Taylor supporters may hold off till next year when she might have had a good run at the Olympics.
In rugby the Leinster team were hugely impressive winning the Heineken Cup and O'Brien and Sexton were stand-out stars. Maybe there's a World Cup hangover that might work against them, but they were good there too.
Richie Dunne's performance in Russia was awesome. I hope Robbie Keane's karaoke exploits keep him distracted from making an attempt at this prize. Trap is interesting, but just because we have managed to squeeze out of our qualification series doesn't mean we have suddenly started playing any better football. It's still painful to watch. Being in the Euro Championships will make it a little easier to bear, however.
Kilkenny have an array of hurling automatons who could be given a gong any year when other sports are quite.
The Dubs won, but their winning captain, Cluxton, is kind of an anti-personality.
We all keep close track of Roche's exploits, but even with his higher profile generally now he will need a some big marquee name results to get this award.
In summary.... I dunno who to give it to.......!

manwithaplan

check_six wrote: »

The Dubs won, but their winning captain, Cluxton, is kind of an anti-personality

Cullen was captain actually but is not a contender for the gong. Alan Brogan was Footballer of the Year but not in the kind of stand-out way that would be required to win this.

evolutionix

i have been away at two of his races in 2011 and in fairness... 2011 personality of the year... I am a big fan of his but what has he done this year ... he didnt excel any more than dan martin really? theres a lot more deserving sportsmen/women this year