Israel

[MickeyPaul]

Nah. There's no magic left, Beanie. When I nailed the top 3 in 2004 I had no idea whatsoever about all this voting malarky. I went with what I liked and obviously got bloody lucky that they also happened to fall within the very fucked up winners criteria. It was magic to me then as I thought...... yay... all the good stuff was up top and the crap was at the bottom. If only I knew.

I am fucking sick of Greece and mother fucking Russia sending us PISH and SHIT without a fucking care in the world. Why should they care? They know where they're going to be. They have no need to bother. Send us a lego brick with a wee wig on and a human voice recording set to repeat saying 'Eh? Eh? Eh?' Top fucking 3 guaranteed.

Bastards. Surely we can track all the voters down and kill them? Very slowly? And stick it on youtube.

[Beanie]

We can only hope that next year they do something to redress the balance a little more. I agree tho - I realised as it wasn't even close that Israel(and Portugal), who had stonking songs, well presented, beutifully sung, couldn't have won, no matter how good the performance. That's a pretty horrid message for the contest.

Unfortunately, both nations will probably be delighted with their showing, whereas really they should be wondering how they entered about the best vocalists they could, and were still a country mile behind.

Of course we know all this beforehand, but I sat down, analysed it carefully, and was convinced Israel could go close. Probably not win no, but get within 50-75 points maybe. 150 tho. As I say its the degree to which it happened - so far ahead. I dread to think how many votes Russia and Greece would get if they actually entered a good vocalist and strong song

[MickeyPaul]

Even pissing me off more is those voting results from the semi with Portugal 2nd. That's what I was buying into and the fact the odds plummetted quite dramatically.... Bastards. Those Saturday night, drunken audiences. That's still the best Eurovision performance I've ever seen. Pisses me off. Errrr, fuck you Brucie.