Woods, Nobby, RHP, Tanya Arnold and Mark Chapman anchoring today were absolutely outstanding I think, fair play to the Beeb, hope theyre the WC team and the team for the final.

Great work. Take note Sky.

RHP? Are you on glue?

At least Sky turn up with more than two fixed-camera positions and a random bloke with a HandyCam

Today's team are a reasonable set of pundits, infinitely better than French/Davies at any rate.

I do much prefer the beeb's coverage overall but RHP is an embarrassment. He comes across as a bumbling halfwit who is forever tripping up over his words. Not a great advert for the sport if you ask me. Big Eorl, on the other hand, was fantastic. Give that man a job.

The punditry today was by far and away so much better than Sky's tired old format. How refreshing to hear a commentator who could actually commentate on the game without feeling the need to try and start an argument, nor struggling to get a word in edgeways because of the umpteen co-commentators.

Correct. And no: "we're so funny, our little contrived disagreements are just so amusing, everyone out there must love our banter".

Much better than sky and has been for a while now.

The best thing about BBCs coverage is that they're able to get current players involved in the broadcast team, whereas Sky don't. We get stuck with people who were playing 20+ years ago and don't realise how the game has changed.

I like Chapman, afaik he doesn't have a rugby league background but like with Clair Balding he seems to have really taken to the game and speaks with real enthusiasm about it.

To be fair he's a great presenter and is pretty much a household name (again, like Balding). The two must do wonders for RL's image during their albeit limited airtime.

He used to do Rugby League Raw when the BBC had it a few years ago.

Didn't know that, just that he doesn't come across as being particularly knowledgeable but makes up for it with his enthusiasm and skill as a presenter. Regardless he is still a good guy to have involved. Shame Sky can't find someone similar.

Glad this was brought up. Dactyl my tweet earlier and opinion. The coverage was excellent and "exciting". Not something I think of sky's commentary skills.

Seems like you are in the minority

Got to admit I think Dave Woods and Nobby as co-commentator make a good team, especially as they also do the championship on premier. Chappers seems to be making a really good fist of it aswell as anchor for the beeb. Not to mention of co Tanya on the touchline.

Sky on the other hand are awful. Hemmings and his mate are cringeworthy, Carney is a Hemmings wanna be with his copycat "Manna from heaven" type comments. Then there's Baz and Tez Studd and Arthur. I don't mind Jon Wells and Phil Clark but they have boring statto type roles.

If they had a braincell between them, they could rub them both together and make smoke !

As it is they only have the one braincell between them.

Talk about appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Between them and Hemmings and even Clarkey, who bores the hell out of most people with his stats.

Wretched !

I have loved the game since the 1950s, but these pundits make the canal an easy option.

Sky had one thing when they first started, the option to blank the comentators & just have crowd noise please bring it back.

He studied at the University of Hull and watched Hull a few times at The Boulevard.

I would disagree with Carney and Studd, I think they are both very competent pundits, as is Clarke (although he is well on the way to becoming a caricature with his stats). Carney and Clarke often reign in the more ridiculous and uninformed aspects of Eddie and Stevo's commentary when they are assigned to the same game. It has a tendency to sound like a teacher trying to reason with his unruly pupils. Stevo is especially bad, he will latch on to an opinion and even when Clarke or Carney point out the actual laws of the game and how Stevo is wrong he will dismiss them with "it doesn't matter!"

Well done the BBC - Crabtree is intelligent and informative.Far superior to Skys tired presentation.

Agree with comments already made and a vast improvement on French and Davies.
On the flip side though, there was plenty going on in yesterdays game.
Played at breakneck speed, plenty of errors, some excellent tries and when Monaghan tipped the ball back inside on the last play I thought Wire would score.

All good stuff !

Can never take a man seriously who changed his name to accommodate his wife's when he got married

Think Mark Chapman is from Oldham originally but brought up in Nrth Manchester so should know his stuff. He mentioned about watching the 85 final as a kid too so he's not a total newcomer.

I do like the way they're starting to groom some of the players for media careers, but they do need to be slightly more selective sometimes. Eorl obviously does a great job on TV and the radio, Wilkin is slowly starting to move into the sphere (imo he has potential), Tomkins needs a little more work on the media side, but at least he's getting exposure. Whereas Peacock et al unfortunately are never going to be the best to put in front of a camera, through no fault of their own.