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Cheers Lewis. Nice to know of the updates that are in progress and look forward to seeing the changes when they take effect.

Is there anything outstanding that we should expect for the World Cup Coverage, or do you have any exciting ideas for it that haven't been publicised yet?

Really enjoyed the 'live reaction' stuff but think that it should be used sparingly. There is always the temptation to expand on something that has been well received but it should be kept in mind why it was needed.

An event which was as global as that should attract the kind of coverage the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ gave it. However, an equally similar incident in the Premier League should not.

Keep up the good work and look forward to hearing about the plans for the World Cup...maybe you could give the license fee payers a chance to give feedback on some of the ideas?

Why am i not surprised that you fail yet again to mention motoGP or any kind of motorcycle racing, after this seasons poor ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ coverage & poor isnt strong enough to describe your attempt at web coverage im starting to think mad murdoch ( junior or senior )might have a point.

agree with #2, the live reaction to WC playoffs was brilliant, but please dont overuse the idea. Well done!

Well look at your motorcycling section & tell me thats good enough, the picture on the new date for silverstone is of F1 you couldnt be bothered to even dig out a bike picture that about sums your whole approach to bike racing.
You only bother with motoGP ignoring WSBK BSB WSS ( Brit world champion ) or any of the other major series.
Now if your now saying you will provide the resources to bike racing like say one of the other minority sports like sking or rugby union then Great but we both know you wont.

Should be very interesting to see.

I personally love the Live Text stuff and I think it should be done more often. Being a football fan of Plymouth I was wondering whether you could do a similar thing to the Saturday's Live Text for the Premier League. The Championship is a really well supported league and I think deserves a bit more coverage and a Live Text thing for it would interest a lot of people myself included.

Cheers
Chris

Blazey, whilst I don't wish to speak for Lewis or anyone at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, from where I'm standing it looks like you've got a bit of a chip on your shoulder about something.
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ only has so much money to cover an awful lot of sport, and therefore there are going to be certain championships and events that don't get as much coverage as the fans would like. To argue that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ doesn't cover the BSB or WSS is a little short-sighted, as the last time I checked, they don't cover the F3000 or GP2 either. I strongly doubt that it's that they have anything against motorcycle racing, but more to do with the fact that unfortunately, there's only so much pie to share out, and a lot of hungry mouths.
Also, I'd hardly call Rugby Union a minor sport. ;)

Blazey, I assume you got out of the wrong side of bed this morning?

Let's be honest, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ do an absolutely fantastic job in covering so many different types of sport. All you have to do is look at the A-Z page of sports and you will see a list of around 50 and that's not to mention all the blogs, special features, interviews, videos, special micro sites... etc!

In the interest of a fair debate (and before you scream at me for being biased towards the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳) I shall play devils advocate. The F1 and Football sections do seem to get a lot more effort put into them, whereas other sections (such as MotoGP) are a little less in-depth, but you have to realise the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport website is a fantastic place to come and quickly catch up. There are always going to be other websites out there that can give you more in-depth content on every subject, but that is because they are private companies with large workforces. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ do a fantastic job delivering us all the content they do, considering they have to keep the workforce to a minimum otherwise people will complain that the license fee is too expensive.

Just to clarify my point a little further and help you too, I am an Ipswich Town fan and while the Football section is great I do like to find out more about my club and read up on gossip, so I view other sites as well. I think this is probably what you should do? I use a site called NewsNow.co.uk, if you go on there I'm sure there is a MotoGP section which will show you all the latest news in real time from all the MotoGP related sites out there. Give it a go mate!

And remember, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is what makes Britain so fantastic!

The use of better headline structure sounds good if it helps with the search process.

As a long-time user of the bbc sport website there have been one or two changes and innovations I've liked and some that I haven't. The use of Live Text for busy days of sport, such as cricket updates and football coverage have been great but using it as the headline for the live reaction (the day after the incident) for the Henry Handball was O.T.T. and an irrelevance.

Everyone knew that the result wouldn't be overturned and let's face it, there wasn't exactly much 'reaction' worth putting on the page. As nothing was going to change it was a worthless exercise.

Interesting story? Yes.
Worth devoting Live space to? Definitely not.

An auto-refresh feature for 606 wouldn't be a bad idea!

But: The website has developed greatly since I was first using it, fantastic work - keep it up!

I wish the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ would make changes to 606, when was the last time that had wholesale changes?

I reckon at least 6 years.

Can i make a personal and totally pointless (ie it is the flavour of the month and hence unstoppable) appeal for LESS reaction from the general public and the whole 'tell us what you think' marlarkey?
I know i'm contributing to it now but i'd like the media to have expert people telling me their expert opinion some of which i might or might not agree with. I dont really want to see the endless reaction of Joe Schmoe of Guildford. Mainly because (a) he knows nothing and is not a professional (b) if i wanted to know the average man's view i'd ask my mate down the pub (c) he's probably a Man U fan who knows even less than nothing.
For something like the Henry handball i'm not really interested in 5,000 separate Irishmen telling me how terrible it was but would prefer the view of one or more of your football correspondents and some people in the game. Preferably including Roy Keane!
And in advance of your World Cup coverage can i also suggest you try and make an effort to give more coverage to teams other than England. Sounds perverse but with many players from other countries in the Premiership i'm sure there are plenty of people keen to have some interest shown in their club players playing for other countries. Maybe a weekly feature on Valon Behrami's latest hair colour? Far more interesting than another drone about John Terry.

The example you use contradicts your point about search engine optimisation. No football fan is going to search for 'Republic of Ireland'.

And please, please, preserve us from headlines like the google-chasing local newspaper sites - 'Rafael Benitez tells Steven Gerrard to play with pride' or something. Cart before horse.

Lewis, I think perhaps my comments did appear hardline but in reality I think the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ sometimes seems to try too hard to be funky and up-to-date when in reality the core product of bringing news is great.

I guess I was just reacting to the story as I saw it. The story was about two foreign countries (albeit the UK's nearest neighbours) and I'm not sure how much coverage would have been given to other countries.

I'm sure there was a lot of traffic, I followed the link myself, because the headline was talking about live reaction. In reality there wasn't much and it wasn't of an official nature.

On most occasions when something like that is happening, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ site normally updates the existing story with quotes etc and this seems to work.

I don't have an issue with big stories (World Cup, Champion's League and FA Cup 3rd Round, draws being examples) being covered as there is a sequence of events coming thick and fast, I just think that the story limped along and too big a fuss was made on the site. Hope that explains it a bit better!

Your comments about live feeds for the Championship makes a lot of sense, why cover somethign if you can't give a good, live and regular update.

I think (and hope) many other people are like me and have an interest in lots of different sports; as a result, having one place to get stories and results would be really useful. To that end it would be great if money was spent on reporting a range of sports, boxing, racing, rallying, athletics, etc rather than on fancy Live text stories.

Having said all of that, maybe I'm just getting old!

I have to say I was suprised at the reaction-to live text, I NEVER knew it was a live text till when I checked the site again...I'm torn really, coz I felt like Beeb were making too much of a fuss. Just don't do it again, unless England win the world cup maybe!

Otherwise, the live text is superb, I think it's the first thing I come for on this site. It is interactive, and the commentators have a sense of humor, and one day I'll sue for being kept on the edge of my seat! ;-)

Among many things I want on the site, is better European football coverage, as in other leagues besides the EPL, SPL and Championship. At least more tables, more charts, stats from the other big leagues. I know you had live text coverages of El Clasico and the Milan Derby, plus Phil Minshull's blog, but surely you can do better than that. At least with more scores, charts and stats.

Coming to cricket, you do live texts of England matches and other big tourneys, a bold exception is last year when you did the Ind-Aus test series. I would like to see more outside England matches, for example you could've covered the ODI series between the 2 countries-which was a cracker.

And tennis-I would like to see more schedules please...I was looking for starting times of the Murray-Nando match, not to find any! You cover Queens-Wimbledon quite well, but quite not other tournos. Please see into that.

Good to hear about the changes.

Will ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ continue to get their sports news from Skysports and pass it off as their own under there new changes?

I'm amazed how many times I read the phrase "³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport Understands" several hours after hearing the same sports story on Sky.

I've got agree with Drummond Murdoch - the reason I clicked on the live feed for the Henry handball story was because of the reaction 'oh, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ are doing live feeds on sports news stories now?' and I felt it was a bit OTT. I can see it working if you have press conferences to cover though.

One question that all the RoI/Henry coverage got me thinking about was why the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ cover Irish sport quite so much? By this I mean the Republic, rather than Northern Ireland or all-Ireland sport - after all, it is a different country?

Longer News Headlines...erm no thanks.
Just a snappy title would be nice, its the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport website, not the 10 O'clock News.
Also can we have the top 4 not be mentioned for a day in the Main Sports Headlines, like 'Gerrard signs new contract' or 'Terry thinks Chelsea can win', it puts me off clicking Football. Only when they play, they should be mentioned.
Funny how Ceefax is being mentioned, I thought the Sport Department was raving on how great the Red Button was and how we would no longer need Ceefax...they were wrong!
Also, I agree with one poster, 606 needs changing, its a mess.

Cricket - back in 2007 during the Ashes series, I emailed a suggestion that the Scorecards and the Live coverage could do with some coverage of the runs per over rate - ie a graph. Even aftger the live coverage some indication of the run rate as the game progressed would add to the scorecard, especially for the ODI and Twenty20 games.

When I suggested this before I got a positive feedback that it would be looked at and possibly implemented - though not for the 2007 Asshes / ODI games.

Any chance of looking at it again before next season ?

Found the Live Reaction interesting -- though I share the concerns of Thoughtsonfootball and others, that it should not be overused. It could get old fast, otherwise. For instance, the Cheating Frenchman incident was just below what I'd personally consider significant enough to warrant such coverage; even though I did enjoy it.

Most importantly, encourage the [writers/moderators/chairmen -- whatever one should call them] of such discussions to be ruthless with the material to be included, and to keep up the banter. They're usually reasonable at it, but Thursday's was particularly well done. Thanks.

It's good to hear from you Lewis.
It's understandable that with finite resources you simply aren't going to be able to cover absolutely everything, everybody wants, but there is an insatiable appetite for European football that a lonely blog and/or the odd pics from the biggest of all derbies will satisfy. It would be good for a directory to quality webpages. While the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ can't do everything, a one-stop shop is still something to aspire to, even if that includes links elsewhere.
In terms of the football league this site is a bit of a let down. As is the Football League show in honesty, but you have no control over that I know. However I'd say that it probably has a lot lot more followers than the football league. Coverage of matches is patchy, a few sentences on each game isn't really enough.
Again, perhaps you could identify some suitable websites/blogs out there on the rest of the web. People come to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport site because it is a quality site, it's one of the key arguments I use against those who are anti-Beeb, you can't take the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News/Sport site away! If you can't cover everything, find someone who does!
I love the football Gossip Column too, sadly addicted, I check it most mornings, but find it particularly frustrated if its 8 O'Clock and still not been updated since the previous day, or more gets rammed in during the middle of the day. Can you shed any light on this? It'd be decent to have a complete version in the morning, and any additional bits of gossip that come to light during the day posted at the top, separately - for it's annoying to find some more has been sneakily added in the middle!

Just another wish-list. I love Phil Jupitus' football column in 'The Times'' 'the game magazine,' if you get the chance to nab him to put a few words on here that would be amazing but I know that's just a fantasy!

Good blog!Just a little question.Is there going to be a live text for the ACON in January?I've asked Stevo and Cheese!The first didnt bother to reply while the latter offered apologies on behalf of her dozy colleague and mentioned there where tentative plans for the latter stages.Probably!So Mr Wiltshere will there be a live text or not?The last one a couple of years ago(Thanks to Bevo and Fletch)was a rousing success so i hope we get another.thanks!

I do very much like the live text idea for stories of real significance that are liekly to develop during the day/days ahead.

However the Henry handball was a good example of when it would be completely over the top to use such a service. Look at the reality of the situation here. It happenned, there was a flurry of reaction in the morning press/phone ins etc. After that any further news/developments that were not simply either regurgitation or fan comments was very unlikely.

Sport rarely generates news items important enough for this kind of thing outside of the live action.

Lewis, generally I love the scope and depth of the sports coverage. But the thing that really winds me up is to see different headlines during the day or week for what is essentially the same story, with nothing more than a couple of new sentences added. To be fair to the sports website, this is a fault of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ website generally. If there is a genuine new development then by all means create a new article, but I waste a lot of my time checking out stuff that looks new but isn't.

On a more positive note, it was great to see the coverage of Robert Enke in such depth on a british site. I live in Germany, so expected it to get the full monty, but I think the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ did a good job in their coverage as well.

Lewis - regarding Cricket and the Over information, a quick and simple change would be to alter the Main Scorecard in the "Fall of wicket" section ie
Fall of wicket (Over)
107 (19) Gm Smith
201 (32) Amla
217 (36) Duminy
312 (46) de Villiers
349 (50) Boucher
354 (50) McLaren

Just add in the Overs bowled at the Fall of each wicket

Hellow Lewis, I have a bit of an annoyance with the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Football League Games.
When the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ won the rights, the then-Sports Editor Roger Mosey said that he would try and get each team covered in the games (despite only 10 games being won for live coverage).
However, Newcastle got the 1st game alongside West Brom in August, THEY then got the Ipswich Match in September..and I hoped that it would be the last of Newcastle...oh no, it has not, they are back on in December against Middlesbrough.
I think this is a disgrace, Newcastle have been on twice and now for a3rd time is ridculous.
We have had nearly all of Newcastle's games picked up for Sky and can the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ be reminded that we all dont support Newcastle, we all support the other 23 clubs.
Sp why choose Newcastle all the time?
Other clubs are missing out on TV Cash so you and Sky can cover the costs of Newcastle's relegation!
Pathetic!!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure if this is the right place to make this comment but couldn't see a better place

Gary Lineker doesn't have the best of reputations amongst football fans in spite of hosting a good programme

Lineker didn't help himself at the end of Match of the Day with his 'throw away' comments on the Blackburn v Stoke game. I can understand the match being left to the end of the programme as there were no goals to show. However most unbiased comments on the game will have it down as an entertaining game. For the Stoke fans this was our best performance in 18mths in the Premier League where we created many chances fo an away team

For Lineker to describe the match as poor and boring suggest to me that he hadn't seen the game. In that situation a GOOD commentator would have kept his comments nuetral. Nuff said!