Phil Clarke's role is to wind up ts.

He's clearly doing a good job.

Teach him all he know's did you Jeff?

He's rather bland is old Philip

Jon Wells, Brian Carney and Barrie Mcdermott should all be used on a regular basis

Phil Clarke, Bill Arther and Terry O'conner are all pants

Bill Arthur creaming over Clinton Schifcofske was the lowlight for me.

Best line I've heard from Barrie Mac...

Championship Playoffs last year.. possibly a Halifax match. One player made a few knock-ons in quick succession and he came out with something along the lines of 'think he should go round the back and have a word with himself!'



Brilliant!

Quite.

A 35 year old whose last game in the NRL was five years ago before spending 4 seasons in Union, yet he was comfortably the best player on show and his performance was the highlight of the whole SL magic weekend.

If ever a highlight could turn SL into a lowlight, 35 year old Schifcofske certainly did!

How sad then that messrs Tandy ,Gee and Mullins can get gigs in yer beloved superior NRL when clearly past it for SL.
S ,Snort ,Guffaw,Burp ,No Really and all the other usual boring puns you were using under yer tired old AP guise!!

Don't forget Jason smith

They all appear to be Australian!

Regards,
Adrian Vowles, Brett Hodgson and Pat Richards (NRL has-beens but all subsequently Men Of Steel).

Thought Cullen was good this weekend too tbh.

Personally I think he's a complete waste of time.

I'd get rid of him, O'connor and Clark.

Clarke was just stupid. All day he was coming out with garbage.

For the clear, textbook definition of the exact situation in which a penalty try was designed to be awarded, Clarke's words were... "Perfectly legitimate tackle...".

Here endth the debate on the legitimacy of his commentary skills.

his predictions for the results were rubbish to

Think Barrie,Terry,Brian and Jon are worth listening to. Clarke is continually looking for the sensational/controversial angle and he just sounds daft.
Clarke's comments re on field medical care were jaw dropping.

What did Phil The Disgrace Clarke say about the on-field treatment?

I didn't see it, could someone be so kind to fill me in.

Cheers.

He'd also eaten several babies this weekend... allegedly.

Short version...

We shouldn't be so keen to use a stretch. Most players can get up and walk off. Don't want to turn to football.

he said Westerman to be man of steel twice in next 10 years on what I saw yesterday it would be a verry brittle steel more man of wrought iron

Perhaps Barrie Mc is the man to have "a quiet word" with him! He is a plank - total plank and as such he tries the devils advocate line but always shows himself up as a complete and utter twit.

Cheers mate

He's got a point.

Do we want to live in a nanny state with so much regulation, red tape and bureaucracy?

There's way too many players trying it on these days. There was a perfect example in the CC Final last year when a player collapsed in the tackle as if he'd been shot, writhing away in career-threatening agony and motioning for a stretcher. Several minutes of boredom were allowed to ensue whilst this particular player's trainer utilised the extended stoppage in play to issue desperate new game plans and instructions. Once that had been done, the player in question made a spritely and remarkable recovery and played on.

Who do you mean - come on, name names.....

He has a point, I agree. But it was the way he was saying it. He was saying "if the player wants to get up and get on with it, the physio should let them". But that simply isn't the case, because the physio is trained to look out for the player. The player will be full of adrenaline and not thinking straight, and well, isn't a trained medical professional.

He was complaining about times he'd seen players stretched off, wasting 10 minutes, only to play the next week. Stevo was saying "but what about the times they've been stretched off, and not played again all season?!". I agree with Stevo (never thought I'd say that).

You can't perform a scan/proper tests on the field. You have to assume worst case scenario until you know anything else. If a player injurers their neck, gets stretchered off, and the scans and thorough tests show his fine to play next week, I don't think any less of the player for going on the stretcher. Those same scans could've shown his career to be over.

Assume worst case scenario, get them checked properly, judge it from there.

I'm conscious that we don't want it to turn into football, I get that, but it's a lot more "impact" than football and we do need to be looking after the players.

When you somehow manage to make Stevo sound sane it's time to look for a new career ........ Refereeing perhaps, although the range between 'act of god' and 'legitimate challenge' may need some refining.

While discussing Saturday's injuries I thought at the time it took far too long to get medical assistance out to Setaimata Sa.