my favourite Barry Mac moment was in a thursday night game last season when trying to explain tactics - he came out with "well Bill,it's not rocket surgery".........

'(insert dummy half) hasn't gone it alone yet, well he now?.... No, he goes wide'

I remember Barry Mac once saying something along the lines of "he's clearly injured his shoulder there that's why he's limping"

Must have been for a bet

Barry Macs greatest(s) -

'What on earth is a WKD???'
'Wingers are just muscular linesmen!'

yeh,remember that one

the other one I recall from Barry Mac (maybe it's well known 'up north' ?) is the expression "Meat Pie" (try) then followed by "with chips" (plus conversion).

Stevo moments :

"it's time to put up the tent and park the camels" (game over,play for time) or,

"it's up the jumper time"

classics

Good, entertaining thread. Here are my personal faves/gripes:

1. Stevo's pronunciation of 'super'.

2. Everytime Eddie asks Stevo a question in the studio and he begins answering him and then turns to face the camera, as if he's having the conversation with the viewer.

3. Eddie is getting annoying with his "mana from heaven" quip.

5. Everytime a decision is referred 'upstairs', Eddie likes to chip in with, "those 3 little words - benefit of the doubt".



6. (insert proficient goalkicker) doesn't miss these!

Stevo, just after any form of biff - "He didn't miss!"

The biffee walks away, unscathed - "He is one tough hombre."

at the meerest hint of aggro between players Stevo always comes out with "it's getting a bit tasty out there"..........he's like the rest of us,dying for a punch up !

Well, we don't need this in our game!

that freaks me out everytime! phil clarke is much worse for it, when he turns to the camera, chin slightly down, looking at you sideways as his head turns - its like a hungry Apex predator catching you in his sights and deciding you would be a tasty meal!
again i should point out, it was not my intention so start a thread about how annoying stevo is, more an appreciation of his and the teams idiosyncrasies.

Any team trailing in the game that concedes a penalty can be said to be "losing the plot".

'No doubt about it, all over the man trying to play the football'

'Can he add the extraaaaaaas?'

Yeah that irritates/amuses me in equal measure, epecially when he uses it like "That was a syuperb bit of rugby league football...."

This one for me too.

If a team is attacking an opponents line but don't score, its always "There not utilising the dummy runnners!!!"

We could play "Stevo Bingo" - each of us choses a Stevo phrase and the 1st one out wins. Could be a decent game, well it might have been if there were more than 3 or 4 phrases to choose from.

The Stevo drinking game now there's an

Has anyone mentioned 'second phase'?

This thread has turned into 'a right shamozzle', you guys are all in 'cloud cuckoo land!"

There are.

I think 'reefed' comes from the old scottish 'reiving' which was the stealing of cattle/horses back in the 17th and 18th centuries. Reiving is quite close to reefing in sound.

'Without a doubt' though you'd think his bosses at Sky would 'get the message out' about him 'losing the plot' with the overuse of clichés and 'give them the rounds of the kitchen' if it doesn't stop.

and i thought i had too much time on MY hands

After having a little look, without a doubt, it looks like you worked overtime on this.

In terms of Stevo quotes there's plenty to choose from

Seriously though this made me laugh. Well done Aardvark.

No one has mentioned about Stevos kink for drop goals. Oh and it's not a forward pass, it's the 'momentum rule' !



Still he doesn't say "good bullocking run" .

I'm surprised no one has said "skill factor".

Don't mind it, just the way Stevo uses it, like when Brucie used to say "on the turn of this card will determine", it's just terrible.

Thread wrecker

Plus about 20 "one-pointers"..