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We all bemoaned Eddie & Stevo back in the day but they were far better than what we have currently. Bill Auther is useless as we know. Pyke sounds like he's commentating on a Sunday league game. All sounds very cheap and the chopping and changing between them all makes it worse. I agree that John Wells has a touch of class about him and usually knows what he's talking about. The rest..

Not sky but I thought Clive Tyldesley was superb when itv aired games. Tbh I thought hemming was okay. Atm I'd rather have Arthur than Pyke.

Punditry
I don't watch it. I don't need Jon Wells micromanaging set plays, to make himself seem insightful.

Commentary.
Godhelpus. McDermott and his crap clichés or trying to be irreverent. When a player's conversion kick was unsuccessful, apparently, he'd hit [ithe beans on toast[/i!!!!. Tonight, he was trying to be funny by making T'Pau song puns. What a prat. Then there's tosh like "staying on the island" and "buying some real estate"

The amount of people.
Tonight, there was Carney, Wilkins and Tomkins

Commentating was Arthur and two maybe three "assistants" (I hardly saw any of it)

Then there's Wells and (I assume, Brooks on the touchline).
So that's 8 maybe 9 people for 1 game of RL. I despair.

Ray French, now he’s retired I’d say Dave Woods.

I’m not really a fan of French (nothing personal against him, he’s a lovely guy and very knowledgeable) simply because he represents the old-school BBC view of RL.

However, I get a warm fuzzy feeling when hearing him on clips of old challenge cup matches on YouTube etc, as it reminds me of watching RL on Grandstand on a cold winter’s Saturday afternoon. Mud, proper old school scraps on the pitch, fans running on at the end of the game etc etc.

I thought Sam Tomkins was excellent last night. No sitting on the fence or bland statements, and not afraid to call out players for their errors. Would like to see him on Sky more often, but he referred to having a role with Catalans arranged for next year.

So after 5 pages, we have a number of 'good' commentators, but quite a few seem to be retired.

Clive Tyldesley seems to come out on top so far, but I'd rather concentrate on those still commentating.

Andrew Voss, Jon Champion - generally positive
Stuart Pyke, Kyle Amor, Sam Tomkins, Jon Wilkin get mixed reviews, but overall positive.
Carney is seen as a little bit below them, and below Adam Hills.

Is that it?
Come on you lot!!

Interestingly there is a seemingly common gripe that there are too many presenters and we could do with slimming them down.
One commentator and one side kick for the 80 minutes.
One introducer and one analyser prior /post match (plus half time).
Get the commentator doing the post match interview, so you can do a good job with four.

Not read all the posts but can’t get my head around Wilkin in the positive camp, the guy just never stops talking and prevents others speaking at times, don’t no if anyone recalls but he was made fun of for this in a challenge cup game on the BBC.

Gary Lineker anyone now he seems to be available

talking of football enjoyed it when Chris Kamara was a guest one time.

Hard to believe Mick Morgan hasn’t received a nomination…

I’d love it he he took over at sky….even if it were just Cas v Wigan as a renaissance!

Hard to believe Mick Morgan hasn’t received a nomination…

I’d love it he he took over at sky….even if it were just Cas v Wigan as a renaissance!

Just watching crufts on Chanel 4 and the very knowledgeable Clair balding is presenter,.she did a bit of punditry on our beloved game and did a good job much better than some that we have

She’s just got the tennis gig on the beeb, so I doubt we’ll see her back in RL any time soon.

She made a great anchor though, which was helping to dispel the old stereotype.

Gary Pillocker would probably say our game is stuck in the 1930s. Now no one reply with he's probably right.

I would as well

Anyone mentioned Kevin Brown? Always thought he was good when he was covering a game. Don't see much of him these days, unless he's doing championship games on a Monday night.

Spot on. When it was first announced that Clare Balding was going to present the RL coverage, my initial thought was "oh no, this is going to be a car crash". I couldn't have been more wrong. She was professional, thorough, and genuinely enthusiastic. Did a great job.

Can we please arrange for Phil Clarke to tweet something comparing the Govt. to Nazi Germany at the end of the 1930's ??

“Do you know Eddie, on average the German army spend 86.7 percent of a battle within 30 metres of the Allies’ front line. And in most wars they have won when they’ve taken more prisoners of war than their opponents by the 39th day of battle”.

Personally, I didn't mind Tony Rea as a commentator, knows the game inside out and comes across very well.
Not heard of him recently, is he still in the UK?

I believe he’s gone home now, but I agree he was a great foil to the silly stuff from Stevo.

I have memories of John Kear being decent as a side kick, and also Brian Noble.

i tend to not let pundits annoy me anymore... a few years ago they would.. now if they say something biased/stupid i just have a little laugh to myself.

Getting annoyed at pundits is deffo something to avoid if you can. It takes the joy out of watching the game (obviously).

I am enjoying watching rugby league much more, now that i take no notice of them.

Gerrr’im off
Get the dirty git off
If you’ve got anything about you Campbell, you’d get him walkin’
Campbell you dick’ed
As cant spake!