Lottery Cock up

Just had a look - it looks like he's trying to stop traffic, but then if you think about it - he can't just say stop, as his microphone would be faded down, so holding a hand up indicates there's an issue.

Even then the ball being drawn just getting stuck in the rails is hardly worth all that hassle considering it had already been drawn!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008vnst.shtml - about 3:15 in to it.

Having seen it on iplayer, I couldn't really understand why the official waited for ages while the numbers were read out before stopping the proceedings. It's almost like he didn't notice the ball hadn't come out for ages before glancing over and going "oh ****"...

Plus he gave possibly the worst explanation of a problem ever...

God, what a moron - and even worse so when he speaks. Whatever happened to the original Mr White Gloves, and then I think they had something like "Martin McClaw - please start the draw".


The show though is still so pathetic with the forced banter between host and voiceover, plus the pointless fake clapping.

"Alan, can I have a time check please?"
"It's 8:10pm on a Saturday night."

His answer usually makes me think "It's 8:10pm on a Saturday night. Why didn't I go out tonight?"

I was wondering exactly the same thing.

Camelot used to love having consecutive rollovers, as it generated higher ticket sales. I seem to remember they used to sell double or treble the usual number of tickets when the jackpot reached the £20m mark.

Has some kind of 'cap' been introduced?

Ahhh but if it's only 5 minutes it's too short to be counted in the BARB ratings

So glad they didn't re-draw Thunderball - Would have lost me fiver!

MOREOVER, glad there wasn't a cock-up with the MAIN draw - I would have missed out on £2064 for five numbers!!! WOOOOO!!!!!!

That said, I might have won the jackpot on a re-draw.

BOOOO!!!! It's rubbish!!!!

That is quite ridiculous. After all the ball has been drawn and that machine only draws one ball every night so why stop it? The winning number is TWO. Obviously when they got the machine out someone accidentally pushed it against something and squashed the rails a bit. Then the idiotic drawmaster put his hand up just like a t*** and gave the most unhelpfull extremily rehearced [sic] explanation ever. There is no way you could talk like that on cue.

Anyway rant over - what are the winning thunderball numbers did they eventually go ahead with two?

What's all the fuss about? It came out as a '2', it got stuck, everyone could see that, even watching it back on TV it was pretty damn obvious. It got stuck, it needed a nudge or whatever Alan suggested.

It's not like the time where the machine broke down on Bob Monkhouse, but to be fair he coped well with that one.

Thats almost painfull to watch! I wonder if the drawmaster gets job satisfaction Anyway who's going to get sacked for this and when does the 6 month enquiry start?

Yes - they stuck with the 2. If they'd had to redraw it I think they'd have had to pay out on both numbers really.


Only possible issue there I could think of is that the 2 ball had in some way been tampered with so it would be selected, and the ball not sliding down the tube was evidence of that.


Hope there isn't a complete over-reaction now and they ditch the still rather funky Thunderball machines in favour of the boring old washing machines!