On Sky, Salford v Saints.
"I don`t like repeating myself Eddie."

" I say I don't like repeating myself"

Utterly sick of this idiot now. He's embarrassing for the game.

We need Carney in the chair now.

When is he retiring?

I hardly ever post on here however I totally 100% agree... I actually hate watching SKY games because of him and Hemmings... They hardly ever call games like the rest of the world see they talk utter tripe, they can't call the plays and continually get players names wrong and know zip about the modern game. it is embarrassing

It is about time Sky did something about it and got rid of the pair of them and some others as well. Might start a petition

Alternatively, I suggest you just get out more. It's a big wide world and you only get one shot at life, don't waste it by letting a voice on the telly annoy you.

So sick of hearing the word "utilise" and "utilising".

The fecking irony of Stevo always saying "they need to try something different" time after time after time after time...

"It's T. R. Y. time."

"It's time they tried something different."

"This just isn't working."

"I have to say Eddie....."

"The officials got it right this time."

"It's getting a little tasty out there."

"It's up the jumper time."

They've got to get the message out!

They need to try something like little grubber through or a chip over the top

He caught himself saying that during the saints Salford match. Inspite his best efforts, it still ended with "or a chip over the top" ... I don't think he can help himself!

hahah!

I think the problem is they (Eddie and Stevo) can't stop going on and on about an issue or incident.

For instance how many times did they keep on with the "Red Devilution" yesterday?
I understand they want to help big up Salford and fine mention it and do a segment on it pre-game but don't mention it every 5 mins!

Same goes for the Catalans v Leeds game on now, virtually every time Bailey has touched the ball they've mentioned his sending off v Catalans last season. Mention it once then get on with commentating on the game.

Obviously they're at their worst when it's a refereeing decision.

Catalans v Leeds is being covered by Bill Arthur and Barrie McDermott
HTH

You forgot :
"he's a tough hombre"
"claret"
"Merry whistle blower"
"He was caught in no mans land"

What I liked about the commentary in world club challenge was that I remember there been a penalty given for a ball steal that was actually a knock on. They said once it looked like a knock on, then that was it. They carried on commentating on the game.
On sky we show a ton of replays and Eddie and Stevo constantly bang on about how it was the wrong call rather than forgetting about t and calling the game as it is happening. Then if a try is scored Stevo will so "and this all goes back to the cheap penalty...". They draw too much attention to the negatives going on.

Yeah. I meant my post to include most of the Sky team, whilst Eddie & Stevo are the main culprits it's not exclusive to them.


Yep me too. I don't mind them looking at issues either at half-time or post-game. But during the game just get on with it.

Admittedly I don't watch much Union on TV since I can usually find much more entertainment value in scraping out the crap that builds up in a poorly built drain in my garage but when I happen to lose the remote and can't be bothered to get up and manually change the channel I do see a bit every now and again. The Union commentators don't seem to focus on reffing mistakes/controversies and neither do the football commentators.

stuart cummings, a former referee explains black and white rules as to why a try was ruled out.

stevo still disagrees with decision.

But he only uses those in 'the second stanza'

"It's sheer panic!"

'he's having WOW of a game...'

He reminds me of John Madden at times. Starts a sentence and then halfway through starts making some kind of laughing/eating noise and never actually finished what he started saying.

And in Eddie Hemmings world, is it possible for 'Little' Robbie Burrow to make anything other than a 'scampering' run?

I watch a fair bit of NRL on Premier Sports and that's one of the first differences I've noticed with the Aussie commentary teams. Now and again Phil Gould - the closest there is to an Australian Stevo - might bang on about a refereeing mistake but he usually ends up getting ridiculed by Peter Sterling or another member of the team.

In other news, I like the involvement of Stuart Cummins. Usually provides a calm and reasoned explanation as to why a ref has made a decision. He's obviously reluctant to disagree with a ref's decision but will say if he saw it differently, though can understand why the ref gave the decision.