Steve Pritchard

@irishpeloton Tbh I don't think we tried enough of the history, rivalries etc at GCN, production time/costs always seen as too high. I'd agree they're the interesting bit! But I disagree - I think there is a space with longer reels, Tiktok etc for these...

£370 a year now to watch cycling in the UK & Ireland. It used to be £40 a year (and was actually £20 with an early bird offer). I can understand WBD continuing to simplify the trail of logos they've been dragging around (Eurosport, D+, WBD, HBO, Max, TNT, GCN) but for the average cycling fan, they're just going to see the bottom line which is that this is a ten-fold increase to watch their favourite sport. I can also understand some of the comments that young people don't really watch 'telly' anymore and that they'll find the sport now through YouTube and TikTok. I have my doubts about this. I found the sport, as I;m sure a lot of people in the UK & Ireland did, because my Dad watched it on Channel 4 and back then, watching telly was a social thing, you watched what everyone else in the room was watching. Ironically now, social media, is not socialised, it's personalised. Feeds and the algorithm are personal. My kids are not going to see what I see. Are they going to watch over my shoulder while I scroll through my cycling-filled feed and wonder what it is I'm getting excited about? Are they fuck. I don't think anyone has figured out properly yet how to present the sport to potential young fans on social media. By miles, the highest engagement racing clips we used to get at GCN were crashes and silly stuff like when a dog ran across or someone celebrated too early. I fear that the algorithm will lead to a fetishisation of crashes over the actual interesting things in the sport which is more grown up than the bollocks and nonsense that ends up on social media feeds. The actual interesting things are the history, geography, politics, geology, culture, gastronomy, rivalries, tactics, heartbreak... how do you convert those into soundbites for TikTok? I'm not saying it's impossible. But if this is the actual future of broadcast cycling media, I don't think that lock has been picked successfully at all yet. I will be very interested to see how it all unfolds this year.

"Don't worry, this train goes to Didcot" Train flys straight through Didcot to Reading. I'll get to Oxford at 1015, nearly four hours after I left, and 2h15 late...

Today's 'fun' @GWRHelp experience: "stuck behind freight train, won't be long" "will be long, but we're diverting now" Back to station I started at, 1 hour later. "Don't worry, still going to London" At a station further away (and nowhere near my car) "not going to London" FFS.

Hey @sainsburys bought this from your Stroud store and has gone off before use by date. Can I get a voucher?

@irishpeloton @daniellloyd1 😂😂😂

2023 - Everything goes right for Jonas Vingegaard and Sepp Kuss Jan 2024 - They spend some time with @daniellloyd1 2024 - Everything goes wrong for Jonas Vingegaard and Sepp Kuss

@collinsadam But do you have students running with ballot boxes to win the first result count?

Been here for a few general elections now and they’re nowhere near as fun as Australia - exit polls here are way too accurate; not enough drama/chaos as the real-time numbers come in.

@irishpeloton Sadly that's completely accurate

@stevewpritchard I can’t be worse than anyone else who’s had that job for the last 20 years

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@jamessordillo I know how you feel!

Sport can do that to you when you’re so heavily involved. Cards on the table, I want nothing to do with Hockey. 20+ years involved and I can’t stand it right now. Dont want to be involved, don’t even want to watch it 🤷‍♂️ Maybe one day again, but right now would happily not

I don’t mean to brag but not having to worry about conditioning, recruitment, preseason fixtures, this seasons budget, planning for next seasons budget, staff recruitment & everything else my off seasons have been consumed by is amazing 😅

A buffet of coaching, fill your boots... 😋

@bglendenning @jonawils Careful Barry, you've a track record of upsetting fans of magpies...

@chrisradar @NPUAhockey Well done 👍

This week after 8 years of umpiring, I was promoted to the National Prem panel, gaining my National Badge. Thank you @NPUAhockey

100% this. Ride a bike? You're a cyclist.

@russellearnshaw @RockitRugby It's the Glos player who has his hands on his hips and walks off to the side line that gets me 🤣

Rugby should have a 'Ball in air' time as 'ball in play' is misleading. It should also have a 'Bounces in the backfield' and 'Aerial contests won' stats to help fans (and coaches) understand kicking effectiveness... what other stats would help? @RockitRugby #SkilfulKicking

@RJPcoach Fell out of love with it - get a lot of joy I got from coaching from developing early career people at work now.

Has anyone thought about the end of their coaching journey and what that might look like? Do you see yourself coaching until the wheels fall off? Do you think that you've got an expiration date?! Do you feel that you'll fall out of love with it? How old is too old to coach?

@CoachRossco Ah shame just seen this - good luck 🤞

A big BUCS day out for hockey! 2.30pm and 4pm push backs at Uni.Bath Sports Village. Would be lovely to see anybody who is living down this part of the country. Just let me know.

@MoneyGrabFC Yes, this is the magic drill which unlocks winning

Can anyone translate this?

Hey @maxrushden @bglendenning please can you ask why @archiert1 isn't in Podolski's kebab shop?

Interesting way to analyse transfer success, keen to see the final results!