Wire Quin, has it occurred to you that if the commentary is also used on broadcasts to Oz/NZ that Voss might want to convey to the viewing audience things about culture/society in another country?

Wire Quin, has it occurred to you that if the commentary is also used on broadcasts to Oz/NZ that Voss might want to convey to the viewing audience things about culture/society in another country?

It's great see ignorance in action.
May I just point out that the commentaries are worldwide so the information is not just for parochial audiences.

They're brilliant, end of. Fans love hearing back stories about Hunslet and Workington. Gives the tournament depth and personality.
Favourite Vossy line so far?
When Sam thaiday got cleaned out in game 1:
'Wake up Sam, you're not on holiday in austria'

That makes it all the more worrying

Listening to Voss is like a breath of fresh air compared to the usual guff, not sure how he’d go week in, week out, year in…

Whilst Noble is obviously knowledgeable, his constant bigging up of Chase has become a little irksome.

Nobbies constant reference to juice in the tank, Diesel in the engine ... is utterly monotonous

As is your input on this thread.

Go easy on wire quin,the little fella has had little warm felling in his tummy in the last few days cos people have actually been taking notice of him

Have they?

Tony Rea is doing a good job now for the Wales game, knowledgeable and informative.

To be fair, Cricket lends itself to the Henry Blofeld/Bumble commentary style of chatting inane nonsense - The actual action is so stop-start that it needs the comedic element to keep the listener/viewer interested.

As for sport like ours, it doesn't need jokes, anecdotes and wacky characters, it needs an actual commentary - A description of the action has it unfurls, with a minimal analysis to guide the viewer along.... For me, the guy on the BBC (Dave Woods?) does a decent job, its just a shame he has Jiffy with his incoherent rubbish beside him - Best for me would be Shaun McRae or John Kear as analysts, who are both intelligent guys, and who importantly know when to shut up and let the commentator do his job.

To be fair he did a great job on Sky before he went to Union.

No.

So Vossy enjoyed his drive to Fax and hs chicken roll in the 3 pigeons pub. Could you imagine that every game

Now we await Nobby telling us about the teams energy levels.

No, because he wouldn't be having a chicken roll in the 3 Pigeons pub every game.

But we have heard which pub he's been in and what he eat and drank, every game.

Nice to hear him enjoying the culinary delights of the UK. Plus it will be good for local business. Fair play to the bloke.

I hope he writes a book about his experiences in the pubs around the UK once the World Cup is over. I'd buy it.

You can't please everyone but the majority of posters seem to be a fan - And I am too in fairness.

But then again I don't hate Eddie & Stevo. Only current commentator I can't stand is Jonathan Davies.

loving the latest commentary after a big tonga hit (and i mean big hit), "he's left 3 of his ribs on the pitch, bring on the bbq sauce"

I'm disappointed by the lack of 40-20 attempts in this World Cup. In a normal televised superleague game there are at least 10 attempts according to Eddie.

Careful what you post about on here, Inspector Wire Quin from the Humour(less) Police might try to lecture you about enjoying yourself.

The commentary I've heard this World Cup with voss in particular really does beat down the Eddie and Steve duo into the ground and then some.

I never comment on these Eddie and Stevo/ commentary topics but having seem the difference from what I hear week in week out we really are served up the rubbish left at the bottom of the pan.

hmmm, northern beer

I took that northern meter test thing on facebook yesterday.....proudly 0% norvunner!