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I have enjoyed this series of Inside Sport and I still miss the inputs from Messrs Bunce, Kelly and Livsey.

However I do think most of the guests have worked this series. Having Alan Hansen was perhaps a lazy start, but this week Geoff Boycott and Dave Brailsford did work well. And having Austin Healey on to talk about the impact on the body to a pro rugby player, obviously Des Kelly couldn't have given that insight.

I just wish there was still room for them. Like I mentioned in your previous blog I was hoping for some boxing coverage and then Steve Bunce would have been perfect to front it.

I would also like to see a bit more of the news side of things as opposed to just interviews. The type of thing that James Pearce did in the first couple of series.

I hadn't seen the show for a long time, but tuned in on Monday as I always find Geoff Boycott entertaining. I was disappointed. I didn't think the interchange between him and David Brailsford worked. Gabby would ask a question of each in turn, which was only polite, but interrupted the flow. There was no opportunity for an in depth discussion, just to scratch the surface. Boycott would merit at least 20 minutes on his own.

Great decision to get rid of Des Kelly and Steve Bunce. It was like listening to two idiots in a pub having fake arguments with one of their girlfriends looking on awkwardly. From what I've gathered, many other people thought the same thing.

Fantastic to get Agassi on too, just such a shame that it's being broadcast at a time when barely anyone will take notice.

I've got to admit, this is now less of a "must see fixture" and more of a "if the digibox remembers to record it, I'll watch it". The show has lost its way and this 30 minute documentary (which, I'll admit, I've not seen yet) shows once again that the apple is moving further away from the tree.

You may well be the editor, but as editor you should listen to what some of the viewers are saying.

In the this current climate of the misuse of taxpayers money, re MP's expense claims, it strikes me as rather odd that the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ should fly out Gabby Logan and presumably other members of the inside sports team for a week in Las Vegas (returning only yesterday 9th May-according to Gabby logan on her Sunday morning radio programme)to interview Andre Agassi & Steffi Graf, WHEN IN FACT the tennis couple are going to be in London on or before 17th May to play in the exhibition match at Wimbledon. I hope you do not invoke the date of this non competitive publicity exercise as an immovable deadline, to justify this 'near to exclusive as you are ever going to get'. Surely you could have waited until the couple were in the UK, thereby saving precious licence-payers resources for more worthy expenditure.

Excuse me McIntyre - how dare you critise what the viewers are saying.
I've stopped watching altogether, the show was a waste of time to start with and still is, what happened to the razmataz of what was suppose to be a hard-hitting Sports Show now becoming another show which is suited to Setanta Sports News!
I feel that the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ should drop this, Sky Sports have more better shows : such as Soccer AM, far more suited for me then Football Focus.
Sky make better shows, 'you are live on Sky Sports' is much better then the Danny Baker rubbish that was once the great 606 on Radio 5.

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I have to say I did enjoy last nights show but was also wondering why they were not interviewed in London as they will be here at the end of this week at the latest. The shots of Andre's School were not really justification in sending Gabby and film crew for a jolly in Las Vagas. I could understand it if they were not coming over until Wimbledon say but it seems silly for the sake of a week.

I also asked last week why the goals from Monday Night Football are not on this series. They were before Christmas I am sure (JP was usually in the studio to comment over the pictures). There have been some big Monday night matches recently and waiting until Football Focus (who don't show all the goals anyway) is something ITV would get criticised for I am sure.

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Hi Alastair,
Fab show and your doing a great job... but what has happened to Amanda, she's suddenly just disappeared?

Why am I not allowed to post a comment about plastic surgery?

I see Alastair Macintyre has said he wants to turn this programme into a 'magazine'. Shame it's Hello! Magazine. Where has the journalism gone from this show? We had an extended PR piece for a couple of ex tennis players made at some expense to us all. The programme had no goals from Newcastle's famous win that night. No mention of Shearer's first win. No news at all. Instead it was a lovey-dovey fluff piece. Return this show to journalism, ditch the title Inside Sport, or just close it down ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ. The programme appears to be dead.

Bring back Sportsnight! Have it on a Monday night, review the weekend action (this will be ideal for those busy over the weekend), get a couple of journos in, one BIG interview per week, have an interaction element (so yes it would have to be live) and do a feature a bit like Countryfile's viewer's video diary, call it "your sport" where someone does a short film on the sport they do, be it rowing, clay pigeon shooting, whatever.
Job done

Although undoubtedly legends in the sport, are Aggassi and Graf really relevant to the game as it is today? Surely it should be current stars which Inside Sport are interviewing.

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We have a new roof , we have american and german tennis greats , when will we have a english tennis champion ?

I second Harry Potts. Frankly, I commend the producers for attracting Graff and Agassi for a chinwag with Gabby, but is it what we want from a late night Monday sport's programme? I say combine the best things from Sky- the banter of soccer am, the journalistic structure of the Sunday supplement- with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's contact book and ability to use various media platforms-internet, blogs.

In order to get people watching, and not half-heartedly skimming via the i-player, make a sports programme that revolves around the previous weekend's sporting action.

Less glamour, more nuanced sports journalism broadcasting!

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Credit where it is due, after weeks of compaining about the lack of Monday Night Football highlights, we did get the goals from last night.
However, as Pappatat commented on the show becoming Hello magazine, you seem to have taken this on board and booked brand Beckham for next week. Oh dear! Can we not have our serious sports show back? We've already had the Graf and Agassi programme. Why not more focus on the stars of today and tomorrow?

Why oh Why did we get rid of the excellent Des Kelly, great decision to get rid of Bunce but Kelly is an insightful panelist far better than Geoff Boycott who was quite frankly woeful this week when not discussing cricket.

Thanks a lot for the post was realy interesting to read.
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