I think
@BBCRosAtkins
is the best journalist on
@BBCNews
right now & I admire him even more by imagining he opens his wardrobe every day to find just 5 identical pristine dark navy suits and 5 navy pressed shirts hanging there. This great man hasn’t got time to mix and match! 👍
I’ve never felt so professionally numb with my heart hurting for the
@WorcsWarriors
supporters and local creditors. Sincere thanks for listening to the commentaries over the years on a club I fell in love with. We’ll always have that one magical night in Brentford!
#RIPWarriors
One footnote to add about yesterday...the
@WorcsWarriors
DoR Alan Solomans is the best coach/manager I’ve dealt with in 25 years covering sport. Courteous, respectful, warm and friendly after a win, loss or draw. Answers every question with complete professionalism and honesty.👍
@HLG_F1
@mrjakehumphrey
Hi Hamilton. I see you live in Worcester...you’d be welcome to sit alongside me in the comms box at a
@WorcsWarriors
match if you think that would help? Happy to share any tips, give feedback on your comms and ways to get a foot in the door! Cheers. Carson.
A sidebar story to the Sale debacle. How many of
@WorcsWarriors
players have had to cancel flights/plans to see their families? Today should have been the end of a very long, difficult season? They already have precious little free time before for the 20-21 term and now shafted.
JIMMY DEAN
⚽️ Still “a long way to go” re Scunny leaving GP.
⚽️ Wages: Suggests assurances have been made to pay.
⚽️ Admits 3/4 clubs targeting players after breach of contract.
⚽️ Hopeful a resolution can still be found.
⚽️ Tears up as he apologises to fans for 3-0 loss.
#UTI
A job to do but it’s going to be an emotional day for
@WorcsWarriors
. If you’d like to send an audio ‘Get Well Soon’ message to
@michaelfats
, please find myself or
@braddersatbbc
at Sixways today. We’ll play out as many as we can on Monday’s
@bbchw
Breakfast show.
#prayforfats
🙏
What a job Mark Robins is doing for our football club in less than ideal circumstances. Give him a new 5-year contract
@Coventry_City
and let him take us back to where we belong!
#stability
#PUSB
#Skyblues
💪
Thank you to
@htafc
for the fantastic way they welcomed us to their home. Courteous, friendly and very helpful, lovely people. Also as we left yesterday, the Huddersfield media congratulating us
@BBCCWRSport
saying “Hope you go up and we really want you to beat Man U!” 😁
#PUSB
Wales’ Grand Slam winner
@JoshAdams951
told yesterday’s Press conference staying at
@WorcsWarriors
would have been “option 1” if no
@WelshRugbyUnion
60-cap rule. Also doesn’t rule out returning to Sixways in the twilight of his playing career.
#rugbyunion
After the sad demise of the Worcester Warriors where I provided
@bbchw
@bbcsport
@5liveSport
Extra commentary for the past 12 seasons, I’m now looking for regular comms/sports reporter work. Please get in touch! 🙏
If they do the ‘rugby family’ is a myth. Also
@premrugby
@RFU
would be setting a dangerous precedent with Wasps, a northern club and one in the south-west reportedly in financial trouble. With Ealing’s ground deemed not Prem standard, they’d critically devalue their own product.
So happy for
#Iron
fans, the players, Jimmy Dean and his staff. It’s clear to see this is still a big club and with the right backing has the potential to go rocketing up the leagues. 💪
What a night! What a win! What a team! Thanks for those who joined us on
@bbchw
tonight for a game I’ll never forget. Congrats
@WorcsWarriors
. Throughly deserved it.
#upwards
👍
🛑PERSONAL NEWS🛑 After 13 brilliant years, today is my last day as a BBC staff journalist. I have resigned in the hope of presenting radio programmes on the
#BBC
and elsewhere as a freelancer. Terrified of not getting work so I’ve done a demo!
#radiojob
If Sale Sharks’ statement infers Worcester Warriors are partly to blame for the controversial postponement, then Steve Diamond should release (like Alan Solomans), what would have been his match-day 23.
#transparency
First win for the new head honcho & it comes under Diamond lights.
@WorcsWarriors
now playing the SD way. Cohesive, abrasive & full throttle. Pure rugby first 20 & overall pressured
@BristolBears
into mistakes. Smith, Searle, VDM & Vailanu immaculate in a 23-man win.
#WORvBRI
❤️📻NEW JOB KLAXON 📻❤️: I’m very excited to announce
@BBCNottingham
Drivetime 4-7pm will be my new home after I accepted a 6-month Senior Broadcast Journalist contract with the station tonight.👍
#Nottinghamshire
Bit of work news: I’ve been invited to stay on presenting
@BBCNottingham
Drivetime until the end of 2019 & I’ve signed up to co-commentate on
@WorcsWarriors
for another season on
@bbchw
. **Experience tells me I’ll be sitting on a park bench muttering to myself by the New Year!**
Thank you for all your get well messages for my poorly boy. Vet says Baxter will make a full recovery and will be playing his favourite game of chasing his ball up and down the garden 55,000 times a day in no time! 👍🐶❤️
Steve Diamond has ties with American investors so it’ll be interesting to see what part he plays in the takeover bid and if he ends up with a significant stake in the club?
Huge breaking news on the
@WorcsWarriors
saga - and we broke it to you first before 6pm on our station. American investors - with big pockets - lining up a bid to take over the Warriors. 👇👇👇
🛑Personal news 🛑 Accepted an emergency loan to
@BBCCWRSport
to help report on
@Coventry_City
until the end of the season. I’ve been lucky enough to cover clubs from Bath City to Manchester United but this is the BIG one! With legendary duo Clive & Oggy tonight at
@Argyle
!
#PUSB
Just back from Exeter. Yes there has to be rotation over these 9 games, but I can’t see the benefit of miss-matched sides? Isn’t it better for clubs to agree to either play their 1st or 2nds? The integrity of the competition can only suffer.
#EXEvWOR
@Donnaglambert
@adamlambert
@BBCNottingham
@shoshannastone
Love it! Beeb editorial policy means if I’ve got a top guest on the programme I can ditch some of the playlist and play their tracks. I’ll find out who is agent is and put in a cheeky bid. If I can pull this off, I’ll invite some of his
#Notts
super fans like you onto the show.
Dominant around the breakdown, pin-point passes and a constant attacking threat with a deft touch/speed of thought. Mr Cool
@Francoishougi
has again proved he’s one of the best scrum-halves in
@premrugby
since lockdown. His partnership with deadly
@Duncan_weir
on 🔥🔥 too! 👍🏉
Mentioned this on the radio earlier…tried to call the
@FA
Press Office today to get an update for
@Coventry_City
fans on when the
@EmiratesFACup
semi-finals fixtures will be confirmed? Receptionist told me to email my query…email duly sent around noon and no reply. Poor.
#PUSB
JT fuming. Asked the players at H-T if they “want to be victims”? Called the defeat unacceptable. Confirms Chris Ashton WILL be in the 23 v Newcastle next week after training on the 4G pitch.
Couple of Xmas shows next week, but sitting in this chair as
@BBCNottingham
Drive presenter for the last time today. It’s been a privilege to chat to
#Nottinghamshire
& I’m proud an extra 20,000 listeners tuned in over the year. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. ❤️
Inept 1st half but flawless afterwards. Solly backs 2-try Ollie Lawrence to be a future England centre. Ted Hill immense and Nanai, apart from under the high ball, bringing the X-Factor. THAT team will not be relegated next season but strength in depth still under the microscope.
Genuine question: Is there an appetite for a Worcester Warriors podcast? Reviews & previews, special guests from the senior squad, coaches, Warriors’ Women, academy, behind the scenes. Bants with the oppo addressing the BIG talking points in
@premrugby
#rugbyunion
? Thoughts pls?
A pleasure to welcome
@HLG_F1
to the
@WorcsWarriors
comms box today after he tweeted
@mrjakehumphrey
saying he wants to be a sports commentator. Unlike me he didn’t mention ONCE how cold he was during a 3-hr live broadcast on
@BBCSport
! A true Warrior! Good luck for the future 👍
1/2
@JimOToole
on
@bbchw
re Worcester Warriors takeover: “The consortium would build on some of the ideas the current owners had, they weren't all bad ideas by the way, there's some great ideas in terms of using the assets at Sixways, but doing it in a slightly different way.”
Last commentary of the season...what a privilege it is to follow
@WorcsWarriors
for
@bbchw
@bbc5lsx
&
@BBCSport
. Hope you’ve enjoyed our 2018-19 coverage?! Sincere thanks to Paul Bolton for looking after us and facilitating all the interviews you hear on the wireless.👍
I’m commentating at Sale Sharks & already feel uneasy. Wouldn’t it be safer to cancel ALL of Sunday’s
@premrugby
matches? Let the table stand and then re-evaluate IF and when the play-offs can go ahead? Tough on Bristol Bears but isn’t this one of those health over sport moments?
Privilege to be back at Sixways today. Difficult to truly evaluate the result because of the red and the unprecedented circumstances. One thing I’ve learnt is that sport for players and commentators alike is nothing without supporters. Let’s get them back ASAP!
#WORvGLO
What a picture, what a game! Delighted the
@WorcsWarriors
supporters finally have something to celebrate. All aboard the express train to Brentford!
#COYW
AUDIO: “Clubs play pre-season to get their bodies fine tuned for the physicality of the sport and we have not been able to do that,”
@WorcsWarriors
DoR Steve Diamond after the 45-14 defeat to
@londonirish
.
#worcesterwarriors
#LIRvWOR
Whatever your party politics,
@BorisJohnson
came across to me as a likeable bloke with a slightly shy, endearing demeanour. He bothered to remember my name, had a firm handshake and loved chatting about
@EnglandRugby
when the mics were off so COME ON BORIS!!
#PrayForBoris
🙏
First day at a new school! I have a peg, pigeon hole and a parking sticker. 😀 Everybody’s been so nice and welcoming. I have a week’s prep before my first Drivetime show next Monday, Dec 3.
#bbcradionottingham
Been a tough couple of months after my contract ended at
@BBCNorthampton
doing a show I loved. Texts like this on
@BBCCovWarks
today though keep me going...thank you! ❤️👍🙂
#radio
JT says just “one or two” more in over the summer so with 20 out and 11 in a more condensed squad next season. My understanding is one will be a top class tighthead prop to replace Nick Schonert. Will post the interview soon
@RugbyWorcs
.
Really sad to be leaving Drive. I was on attachment (loan) and that has now come to an end. Thank you to
@BBCNorthampton
for giving me my first break in presenting and to all the listeners who supported the show. I'LL MISS YOU!!
#onlyme
7 tries to 1 didn't flatter
@WorcsWarriors
to secure Prem status. Privilege to interview
@docallaghan4
afterwards. Me: "Do you know how much you're loved by the rugby world? DoC: "Rugby's a special game and you get out what you put into it and I've given it my heart."
#WORVHAR
@RugbyWorcs
Massively appreciated! Ian is brilliant. At one point, I tried to make a note of the Billy Searle try and my hand was that frozen I couldn’t lift my pen! All worth it through to see such a heroic Warriors performance. The hard-earned points were well deserved. 👍
POST-MATCH NOTES:
🏉 Kvesic suffers “stinger” to neck and is ok. (Mama being assessed)
🏉 Solly going to take a long look at Howe’s KO’d breakaway try. Doesn’t rule out potential formal complaint.
🏉 He believes knock-on from the restart after Mama’s try “pivotal” to outcome.
Back on my old
@BBCNorthampton
show next week Mon-Fri (3-6/7pm). Listen out for a special 'Happy Hour'; Guess The Year; The Missing Word Game and the return of the Friday Pub Panel 🍺. It's going to be Totes Emosh ❤️ (as the kids on the street say!) 📻👍
3/3 rewarding to see genuine improvement and where this club is heading under Jonathan Thomas and his hard-working players. It’s a privilege to do this job and I wouldn’t want to do anything else! 👍
2/3 No in-ear match producer. No live stats. Quickly turn around post-match interviews, jump in the car for long journey home hungry. No feedback and paid very little in real terms.
But I’m not moaning because I LOVE IT! And after 12 years now covering
@WorcsWarriors
it’s so…
Spent the past two nights editing 2 years of live radio shows into a 4-minute demo. Industry experts say though you only have the first 10 SECONDS to impress Programme Controllers and never send your ‘tapes’ on a Monday or a Friday. Good odds!? Wish me luck!
#radiodemo
🙃
This just shows environments make players. Discarded by Brighton, derided on loan at Swansea, comes to Coventry and Mark Robins brings out his true potential. What a player…what a manager!
So this is actually happening! First show back on ye olde wireless is Mon, December 3.
#radio
#onlyme
BBC Radio Nottingham - Carson Wishart
BBC Radio Nottingham - Carson Wishart
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support you’ve shown me being back on
@BBCNorthampton
this week as the ‘fill-in guy’. Apologies for posting these texts, but it’s the only way I can advertise my wares as I don’t have a show of my own to go to. *sob sob* 😪
I'm constantly my worst critic, but got a lovely compliment from my boss yesterday: "You're like a real person on the radio - that's you on there!"
#lovemyjob
👍
Those Premier League commentators with their big monitors, replays, electricity, producers, ISDN lines, engineers, unrestricted views, stadium clocks and pre-match hospitality (+ half-time cuppa) have it tough too I imagine?! 😂
2/2: “and in a more sustainable fashion...that makes it a decent business but also a community asset.
"One of our main planks of our plan would be that... a percentage of the shares would be made available to the supporters."
#worcesterwarriors
One thing radio presenters know is you’re only as good as your producer and mine (Nevine) has been outstanding getting so many brilliant stories on
@BBCNottingham
Drivetime this week. From bollards to penguins...we’ve had the lot!!
#loveradio
Jonathan Thomas after picking up bp v Chiefs: “We’re full of respect for Exeter as a club and what they've achieved, but we want to create our own history over the next few years.” Confirms Ashton in contention to make debut v Leicester. Injuries: Searle (leg gash), Mama (HIA).
Raising a glass to landlord Simon at
@redlionthornby
for hosting my last ever
#pubpanel
on
@BBCNorthampton
. Starring
@hazelnicholson
, David from Whittlesey, Max from Finedon and Damon of Kettering. Regulars 'Gin Lizzie' and 'naughty Nicola' too! 📻🍺👍❤️
2/2 🔷 You’ll NEVER present a radio show. ✔️
🔷 You’ll NEVER do sports comms on network radio (because you’ve never done sports comms on network radio!) ✔️
⬇️**PENDING**⬇️
🔷 You’ll never present a network show.❓
🔷 You’ll never present a show in Yorkshire. ⁉️
#NEVERgiveup
Don't think I've ever been as happy and content in my career as I am now. I love ❤️doing this show and the presents, cards and messages you've sent me this week have been overwhelming. Every person who listens is very special to me. Thank you and Merry Christmas! X👍
Sports commentary is devoid of ebb and flow fans bring to stadiums so it’s so good that 2,000
@WorcsWarriors
fans will be back inside Sixways today! Thinking of the thousands more though who can’t be there so we’ve saved you a seat alongside us. Build-up from 2.30pm on
@bbchw
📻