Marc Nicholas sacked from Channel 9?

[Stephen Bailey]

He was supporting the aussies all through the ashes begging channel 9 to give him the job

You being serious or are you joking?

 

[aussie1st]

Him support Aus, that is a joke. He was so bias towards England it wasn't funny.

 

[jdbais]

It appears that he might be back by the start of the summer as Kerry Packer happens to be a fan of Nicholas and wasn't consulted about the decision.

 

[MWaugh]

i read in todays sun herald that 9 were still in negotiations with nicholas. there is a new ceo in charge. kerry packer would normally throw money at anything to do with cricket but this new bloke is cost cutting every aspect of the station. i for one hope they manage to strike a deal

 

[Ste]

They must have come to some sort of deal with Mark Nicholas, he is back today on Channel 9s coverage of Aus v WI.

Ste

 

[aussie1st]

Who knows whats going on. Nicholas was the main presenter during the opening.

 

[angryangy]

It's an impostor!

 

[sachin]

He sucks.Get him off.Call in Amanda Vanstone!She can either eat him,or deport him.I think i like the former.

 

[cc2003btw]

Whens Nicholas going then, he was there this morning for the Australia match.

 

[siddharth2002]

One guy I didn't like during the Ashes was Slater. Absolute w@anker that guy if u believe me. No offence to his supporters though.

 

[Stephen Bailey]

One guy I didn't like during the Ashes was Slater. Absolute w@anker that guy if u believe me. No offence to his supporters though.

Quite surprised about that, I thought he was really good!

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Slater was good. I liked him.

 

[jdbais]

They must have come to some sort of deal with Mark Nicholas, he is back today on Channel 9s coverage of Aus v WI.

This is from cricinfo;

Survivor It seems reports of Mark Nicholas's demise might be premature. Last week it was announced that the smooth-talking anchorman had been ditched by Australia's Channel Nine less than a month after his UK exposure ended when Channel 4's coverage bit the dust. But, in an about turn, it has now emerged that he is back in talks with Nine after fan and station owner Kerry Packer, who was not consulted over the original decision, kicked up a fuss. Insiders say a new contract is imminent. Crackerjack. But perhaps he won't be looking forward to his next meeting with Geoff Boycott - himself reinstated to the BBC after a seven-year absence - as Nicholas was quoted in the latest edition of The Wisden Cricketer South Africa as saying of Boycott: "He can be so rude to people that sometimes you just want to punch his lights out."

 

[aussie1st]

Nine have made a completly u-turn on Nicholas. He has now been offered a 3 year contract.

Less than a month after Mark Nicholas prepared to fly home to England in the belief Channel Nine no longer wanted him, the network has recalled him to the commentary box and given him a new, three-year contract.

Nicholas has agreed in principle to a deal that will see him call and, increasingly, host Nine's cricket for the next three summers after weeks of complicated negotiations. Nicholas is a contender to eventually succeed the revered Richie Benaud as "captain" of the commentary team.

"I was due to head off in my own direction after the Super Series games and I went into [head of sport] Gary Fenton's office ? just saying goodbye and thanks," Nicholas said at the Gabba yesterday. "He pushed a bit of paper across the table and offered me a contract, which I was completely surprised by.

"I said it was 'going to be tricky ? I'm a long way down the road with things in England and you told me there was no future here'. I think Gary was a bit taken aback, really."

Nicholas later agreed to return after a meeting with Nine boss Sam Chisholm. "Basically, it was too good a chance for me to miss," the former England A captain said. "For me to work alongside Richie Benaud remains extra-special. If cricket's your thing, and television is your other thing, and you get an offer like this in a beautiful country, you want to try to make the most of it."

Nine was keen to celebrate Nicholas's return rather than promote him as a successor to 75-year-old Benaud, who last summer signed a three-year deal that is expected to be his last. "That's a big call," said Nine's director of sport in Sydney, Steve Crawley. "He's up front now and Richie is there. It's not a competition."

Crawley said Nicholas's knowledge of cricket and "sense of theatre" had been embraced by cricket watchers in Australia who got to know him better during The Ashes. "It's no longer, 'Who's the Pom?'," said Crawley. "It's 'Bring the Pom back'."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/cricket/...brings-back-pom/2005/11/03/1130823347996.html

 

[sachin]

Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Get rid of him!Deport that pommy *******...........
I was joking