I thought Payne might get a nomination, although probably not many votes.
The programme is slowly descending into farce. Its not helped by the BBC having hardly any sport worth showing, much preferred it when it was Sports Review of the Year. Nowadays it just seems to be full of cringeworthy attempts at humour. Buts its long had a tradition of daft awards and nominations
It does seem though that over a period of say 5 years sportswomen have been reasonably well represented on the nominations. It has to be said that, apart from in Olympic years, the populaity of womens sport is fairly low, including amongst women themselves. I reckon there'll be roughly 50,000 women paying to watch a mens professional football match at the weekend. There'll be a decent turn out of women at the RU games. And we know that RL games attract a sizeable female audience. But how many of those women would go to a womens sports event?
Post subject: Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ?
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:27 pm
Chris28
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Why do the Manchester Evening News and the Daily Post get a vote (never mind Nuts FFS) yet not the Yorkshire Post or another regional paper?
Not sure that this would have redressed the balance re female nominees, but seems to show a flawed system. The MEN voted for 3 ineligible candidates FFS
Post subject: Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ?
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:41 pm
WIZEB
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Chris28 wrote:Why do the Manchester Evening News and the Daily Post get a vote (never mind Nuts FFS) yet not the Yorkshire Post or another regional paper?
Can only be with the brand new BBC studios having moved up that neck of the woods.
Post subject: Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ?
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:50 pm
Andy Gilder
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I make it at least four female world champions are missing off that list, while the likes of Darren Clarke and Andy Murray are in on the basis of winning a couple of high profile tournaments (although in Murray's case, not a "major" among them).
Sadly, the sports where the UK has a strong female representation aren't the sort of high profile ones where names of the winners pop straight into your head - rowing, track cycling, open water and indoor swimming, triathlon etc get the same recognition as lower league football in the national media.
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Post subject: Re: Female sports, are they taken seriously by the media ?
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:19 pm
LF13
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cod'ead wrote:It also doesn't help when you see niminations for Rebecca Adlington, who by her own standards of 2010, would admit herself that she's had a quiet year, here nomination seems to have been more knee-jerk than well-considered
A gold & a silver medal in the World Championships is a quiet year?
At the end of the day its is a personality award, not a performance award, therefore those sports with the greatest exposure are always going to produce a greater amount of nominations.
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