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Matt Chapman ITV/ATR

  • 05-12-2017 4:44pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭


    Any thought on this lad?

    I have to say I am a big fan. Very entertaining, very funny but knows his stuff (so much as anyone who follows racing can ever knowtheir stuff)

    On the Line on Mondays is compulsive viewing, and his interviews with MOL and RR in recent times have been essential TV for the racing enthusiast.

    Gimme MC any day over Ted fuppin Walsh.

    Opinions?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    Poor comparison!!
    McCririck is a show pony and a coward. The time Barney went at him he folded like an amateur poker player
    Chapman is far more in tune than that clown


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭paddy no 11


    He's great on ATR

    The whole ITV presentation is shocking and chapmans role in it is terrible whoever is producing that show is doing a terrible job

    Get rid of chamberlain, mick fitz and that other cretin asap


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭brilou23


    Poor comparison!!
    McCririck is a show pony and a coward. The time Barney went at him he folded like an amateur poker player
    Chapman is far more in tune than that clown

    Chapman was mentioned to in that and I imagine would of acted the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,172 ✭✭✭NaiveMelodies


    Love him or hate him people watch him. Job done.


    I like him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    Thought he was good on Sunday at Fairyhouse


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    Love my racing but he is the only one who makes me switch it off....they took the worst from all the racing channels and put them together on itv racing...just seen luke harvey got racing presenter of the year...jesus wept.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    Also about the curley interview chapman actually wanted to sue...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭mick malones mauser


    Racing Uk is a much better channel.some very good analysis.
    Extra subscription fee so maybe not everyone's cup of tea


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    I like him. He’s witty, quick and knows his onions.


  • Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Andalucia


    think he's excellent on attheraces,

    that itv show though, Luke Harvey and Mick Fitz add nothing to the show, Chapman not being utilised correctly


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,941 ✭✭✭krustydoyle


    Chappers is good banter but i find too many of the analysts are hard to listen to.. Fitzy is by far the worst, he offers absolutely nothing when hes on ATR.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭WickIow Brave


    Andalucia wrote: »
    think he's excellent on attheraces,

    that itv show though, Luke Harvey and Mick Fitz add nothing to the show, Chapman not being utilised correctly

    Spot on. I think Chapman's brilliant. Outstanding interviewer, very quick witted and able to coax great answers. He's also not afraid to give a stong opinion. He's totally wasted on ITV with whatever they have him doing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    Chapman knows his stuff but he is like Alan Partridge on speed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭BoroMan32


    He's fine on Attheraces and the On The Line programme is decent light-hearted viewing.

    I haven't been a regular viewer of ITV (as I prefer RUK) but some of his stuff on there has been over the top and annoying.

    ITV had the chance to get some fresh faces in, but they seem to have given more of the same...I can't stand Mick Fitzgerald yet he seems to be on some racing channel pretty much every day of the week. He talks nonsense most of the time, and does so in that annoying voice of his.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    ah the old strong opinions....what are these great opinions please...what can we learn from this great man...and if that is whats passing for wit these days then wow just wow..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭WickIow Brave


    flos1964 wrote: »
    ah the old strong opinions....what are these great opinions please...what can we learn from this great man...and if that is whats passing for wit these days then wow just wow..

    This is why we can't have nice things, folks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    flos1964 wrote: »
    ah the old strong opinions....what are these great opinions please...what can we learn from this great man...and if that is whats passing for wit these days then wow just wow..

    Do you work for the BHA by any chance.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    just how i see it...you like him i do not...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭danganabu


    Find him entertaining enough, but he does try a little too hard at times and its very unclear what exactly he is supposed to be doing on ITV?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    Fair enough and he is knowledgeable on the subject ill give him that but his stance on the reversing of of results of races even if a horse had been knocked sideways once the distance was not close enough... he was against it ...i mean he was hardly impartial as he was drawing a wage from paddy powers or his constant going on about the whip rules....easy target when your sitting with ted walshe....mother of god he would cut a horse in two to win...or how about his mate jamie spencer....surely everybody has seen a way to cocky come from too far behind ride of his...not chapman...he tells us jamie is one of the characters of racing...thats just a few things to start with...sorry to drone on and i know the writing is not great but i hope people see where im coming from...punters need someone better in there corner than a pretendee champion like him....now i hear the phone ringing so i got to go...must be the BHA.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭bookman2


    At least chapman gives an opinion not like the majority of the rest of the presenters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭RivetingRoger


    flos1964 wrote: »
    Fair enough and he is knowledgeable on the subject ill give him that but his stance on the reversing of of results of races even if a horse had been knocked sideways once the distance was not close enough... he was against it ...i mean he was hardly impartial as he was drawing a wage from paddy powers or his constant going on about the whip rules....easy target when your sitting with ted walshe....mother of god he would cut a horse in two to win...or how about his mate jamie spencer....surely everybody has seen a way to cocky come from too far behind ride of his...not chapman...he tells us jamie is one of the characters of racing...thats just a few things to start with...sorry to drone on and i know the writing is not great but i hope people see where im coming from...punters need someone better in there corner the a pretendee champion like him....now i hear the phone ringing so i got to go...must be the BHA.
    ....................................what now??


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Gregk961


    flos1964 wrote: »
    Fair enough and he is knowledgeable on the subject ill give him that but his stance on the reversing of of results of races even if a horse had been knocked sideways once the distance was not close enough... he was against it ...i mean he was hardly impartial as he was drawing a wage from paddy powers or his constant going on about the whip rules....easy target when your sitting with ted walshe....mother of god he would cut a horse in two to win...or how about his mate jamie spencer....surely everybody has seen a way to cocky come from too far behind ride of his...not chapman...he tells us jamie is one of the characters of racing...thats just a few things to start with...sorry to drone on and i know the writing is not great but i hope people see where im coming from...punters need someone better in there corner the a pretendee champion like him....now i hear the phone ringing so i got to go...must be the BHA.

    I get what you mean for the most part but unfortunately there is very little impartial coverage of horse racing. Everybody is connected to somebody else in the industry and people from outside racing circles just come across clueless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    My god dont get me wrong... i certainly am not defending those other presenters...would rather chew off my arm than listen to fitzgearld but why no opinion on the easing off of horses in the closing stages of every race...why no opinion on the camera closing in on the winner and staying fixed on the line ignoring the other horses...are they rallying...are they easing off...surely one off the most important things to see for our form analysis....i swear to god in the last cue card haydock race the camera didnt even stay fixed on the line...they stayed with the winner after the post....they have done that a few times and where was our hero...gurning into a camera...can you think of any other sport where that would be tolerated?...so lets have his opinion on those things for a start and i have emailed him and others but still nothing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭WickIow Brave


    Yeah the ITV camera angles are a complete joke but what do you expect Chapman to do about it? He's not the producer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    But he has a voice and he is in a position to use it..we dont.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭flos1964


    And while your here Wicklow brave sorry about the earlier comment...did not mean to be sarky but can see now how it looked...i too like nice things but i also like the fairness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    I liked him better when he was in Bros.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Like him on ATR but the whole ITV coverage is absolute fúcking sh.ite tbh!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I am reading two books about Bart Cummings, trainer of the winners of twelve Melbourne cups.
    Mark Chapman interview with the great man..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Rock Lesnar


    Big fan of Chapman here, its a shame he doesnt present sunday forum more often, doesnt seem afraid to say what he thinks, and can also be very funny at times to, he's used terribly by ITV but then again as others have said, their coverage is muck, some of the lines from the presenters are so cringeworthy at times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    Slattsy wrote: »
    I liked him better when he was in Bros.

    Bros before Hoes

    Is it just me or is there a right smell of the mediterranean around here?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,722 ✭✭✭posturingpat


    I hear he had a Sunday forum with Walsh last week. Where could one find it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I hear he had a Sunday forum with Walsh last week. Where could one find it?

    Might still be on ATR website


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    Have been sure I heard him on a few programmes lately but could not find any info.

    Was flicking through the channels and I thought I heard him on Dancing On Ice and sure enough it's him, the ****ing sell out :D.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,952 ✭✭✭✭mailburner


    flos1964 wrote: »
    Love my racing but he is the only one who makes me switch it off....they took the worst from all the racing channels and put them together on itv racing...just seen luke harvey got racing presenter of the year...jesus wept.

    I thought that was a joke tbh :eek:

    I like chapman but then again I liked big mac if only for the reason he'd have a go at a non trier from time to time and like someone said here you see it every day of the week a horse not running on merit yet nobody ever questions it.
    You don't bite the hand the feeds you either I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Cant believe ITV never took on Simon Holt and John Francome. 2 unbelievavle commentators/pundits.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ziggy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭Urindanger


    He's after quitting Dancing On Ice after one week. Too much stick from social media apparently. Wouldn't be caught dead watching that tripe so I've no idea how bad he was. Although I presume he was a little stuck for words as he can't name drop Rich Ricci or Faugheen The Machine (TM) every ten seconds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭byronbay2


    Urindanger wrote: »
    He's after quitting Dancing On Ice after one week. Too much stick from social media apparently. Wouldn't be caught dead watching that tripe so I've no idea how bad he was. Although I presume he was a little stuck for words as he can't name drop Rich Ricci or Faugheen The Machine (TM) every ten seconds.

    Didn't quit, was sacked by ITV. Pretty harsh after one week but I wouldn't watch that junk if you paid me so not too upset.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭BumperD


    Your talking about a different audience watching dancing on ice, happy clappers not sure champman was the right man for the job too direct!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,835 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    Is Chapman in trouble? It looks like he was stood down on Irish National day after making a comment about the last fence of the national having more carnage than the M25 after a bank holiday weekend. Has not even been on Twitter since.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Is Chapman in trouble? It looks like he was stood down on Irish National day after making a comment about the last fence of the national having more carnage than the M25 after a bank holiday weekend. Has not even been on Twitter since.

    There's been a few posts on instagram from him anyway. He blocked me on twitter I think for questioning him about why he writes for that absolute shiithouse of a rag.

    Sensitive soul is our Matt, he's decent when presenting Sunday Forum and his paddock interviews can be very good. However he is a total narcissist and he is absolute cringe on ITV for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭BoroMan32


    He blocks anyone who says anything negative about him.

    You just know the clown is sat at his laptop with his own name in a Twitter search.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 976 ✭✭✭supremenovice


    He does go way too far sometimes. Getting jocked off Dancing on Ice after one week should have been a wakeup call for him to dial it down a bit.
    However, I stood behind him at the Open meeting last November for a number of races and he always obliged when people came up looking for selfies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭danganabu


    He does go way too far sometimes. Getting jocked off Dancing on Ice after one week should have been a wakeup call for him to dial it down a bit.
    However, I stood behind him at the Open meeting last November for a number of races and he always obliged when people came up looking for selfies.

    People give out about Mick Fitz and Tony McCoy being too bland and never saying anything insightful, can't have it every way. Yeah he can be OTT but there is no denying his enthusiasm and has a decent knowledge as well, more power to him I say.


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