yes old wogan is a bit potty at times. If you cast your mind back to 2003, his exact comments after Jemini performed was "They've done us proud"2099net wrote:Of course, Wogan (our commentator) was delusional throughout the competition, saying at least twice that our entry was the best we'd had for years [?] and that Andy Abrahams had given an excellent performance.
Yes Andy Abrahams was poor, his voice sounded quite shaky to begin with and it was just a poor song in general.
Well I can understand a certain amount of this neighbour voting. I wouldnt say that Ireland are guilty of it, as quite they didn't give us top marks, some years Ireland gives us relatively nothing and even nothing whatsoever some times, so I don't think it's actually the same situation as further East. Of course Andy Abrahams is probably known in Ireland a bit, so that could explain it.As for the contest, I really don't know what can be done. I can't rant and rave to much about the UK's placement this year, as I wouldn't have voted for it. But then again, I thought Russia's song was just as bland as ours. And its clear neighbours are primarily voting for their neighbours. Even the UK benefited from this with the votes from the Republic of Ireland. It's clear you can't have a contest supposedly about "music" continue like this, it really is a farce when you can predict the top 3 countries – if not their exact order – 90% of the times the votes come in.
The same could be argued for other countries. It's highly plausible the Serbia entry could be known in Montenegro etc, but yes on the hole the neighbour voting in the East is getting ridiculous.
In fact I actually freaked out the people who I was watching it with, they all thought I was psychic. Because nearly every time I guessed who each country would give their 10 and 12 points to. They asked how I knew, and I said "I know what a map of Europe looks like."
Like you Netty I don't know how this situation can be solved. Obviously a lot of countries out East and relatively new having only split up in recent years. Perhaps in time they will relaise they're not going to be invaded just because they didn't give Russia 1 points.
But then again it happens in other places. Scandinavia are just as bad. And Germany virtually always gives Turkey 12 points.
Although where did the UK's points from San Morino come from? They were a little bit out of the blue weren't they!
Something was just not quite right at the beginning of the song. Perhaps he was nervous. The short fallout in the audio feed (which strangely occurred at my end) didn't help either. Nevertheless, I was disappointed at the UK's low placing, and frankly I'm sick of it happening over and over again. I want the UK to do well for the first time in like eleven years! 
