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Listed below are comments made by thegillspies between Wednesday, 13th August 2008 and Sunday, 10th May 2009.

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Andre and Steffi's Six appeal 10:43am on 10 May 2009 In the this current climate of the misuse of taxpayers money, re MP's expense claims, it strikes me as rather odd that the BBC 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.
Have you seen any Muntjacs? 8:24pm on 30 Oct 2008 My parents have Muntjac deer regularly walking through their garden eating their flowers & bulbs! They live in a small village in Warwickshire called Priors Marston. Love the programme - thanks for all your hard work. :-)
An epic two weeks on the coast 4:15pm on 22 Aug 2008 Phelps, Bolt, Hoy, Ainslie, Walker - all gold medal perfomances!

As to the comment that Rob is the new Gary Richardson, he is the original Rob Walker - move over Gary, you've got serious competition!!!

Thanks for making sailing so interesting and exciting to us naive landlubbers. Hope you all enjoyed a few well deserved beers last night!
Where are all the crowds? 10:04am on 13 Aug 2008 China’s admission that they hiring in ‘spectator’s to fill the numerous empty seats, means that whatever the platitudes about this potentially being the ‘best games ever’, by the measure of public support this is certainly not the case. If the organisers cannot ‘encourage’ the population of 1.3billion ‘public’ or the ‘corporates’ to enjoy the plethora of sporting excellence on offer, they will have failed to provide the Best Games.

London 2012 organisers should therefore not be overawed by the opening ceremony or the ‘no expense spared’ facilities, impressive though they are.
It will almost certainly be the case that every venue in 2012 will be filled to the rafters, just witness the 1m+ people who came to view the London legs of the 2007 Tour de France, the ever present public queues at wimbledon, or the full stadiums back in Euro 1996, the list can go on.

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