Quote ="moto748"I appreciate it's a TV commentary not radio, but I wish the Sky crew in general would tell us who has the ball, who passed to who, etc, a lot more. Do they expect the viewer to just know? Even viewers familiar with the team can't always recognise players. With our stupid gold lettering on the shirts, I struggle to identify Wigan players sometimes, so how would I be able to tell Salford or HKR players? I'm not saying they should recite the name of every single player who touches the ball, but it's annoying when a player makes a break, say, and the commentators are still droning on about some previous incident or some anecdote completely unrelated to the game.
Once again, the Aussie commentators are much better in this regard.'"
Tbh player pass player commentary isn't easy.
With radio commentators often get players wrong and often miss out much of naming players too.
They can get away with it on radio. You can't on television and all those mistakes will be magnified. Sometimes it's best not to commentate where you'd struggle.
I know...I've been a match day radio presenter in my younger days.
