I hope to god we never have him commentating again... He's worse than French for getting names wrong! And, wtf is green and grold?

Hearing them cheer as we raised our game to average was embarrasing. The Aussies wouldn't have played like that in the second period had they not blown us away in the first half.

He was awful with the amount of times he got names wrong.

Brian Noble or Justin Morgan should commentate instead IMO.

was trying to work out who English was for the first 10 minutes, i couldn't recall any Australian player by that name

Could have been worse, we could have had Ray French commentating .

Many names wrong, 'bulling up' Saints players, and how long before he says " a good bollocking run " ?

Went to the match watched it live, Watched BBC recording when I got home, watched Sky highlights this morning the Sky commentary was a lot better than the BBC version Eddie Hemmings was a lot better without Stevo by his side

The BBC coverage was clearly done by Sky so I thought internationally they would have got the Sky coverage but in New Zealand and Australia they got John Kear as well.

Have to say though I do like Dave Woods.

At one point im sure England had 13 Westwoods on the field!

It'll be Dave Woods & John Kear again for France v Australia next Saturday on BBC One.

he,s a better at commentating than coaching!!!!!!!!!!

Dave has done well, a Wigan fan as well, went to school with him, played rugby together, we were both about 5 stone lighter, and watched Wigan with him in mid 80's. decent bloke.

Met John Kear on night of grand final in a lift at a Gatwick Hotel, he was a good bloke to chat to, and took my gentle ribbing in good style.

Wakefield fans any comments on this one

I think you got that the wrong way around. Their is one thing for sure he knows how to motivate a team for one off games.

Am I the only person who likes French commentating?

I'm not keen on Dave Woods as his voive sounds like Quagmire off family guy and when your a commentator you need that commentator sound with a powerful voice and he doesn't do it for me.

Ray French when he pronounces names and words starting off saying the begining cylable high, the middle low and the last high. And then a last line very fast.

PETro civorneSAVER, EIGHTeen STONE of Australian beef!

High/ Low /High / High /Low/High / Very Fast !

I think Morgan and Noble would be pretty good.

I love the aussie commentators.

No!!! Noble would bore everybody with his babies and bathwaters.

Dave Woods is a very very good commentator, and I think Bill Arthur is very underated at Sky.

John Kear should stick to his day job I reckon.

He's done okay in the Challenge Cup over the years.

Can I be the first to get in the traditional mention of Ricky Bibey?

Indeed you can Dave. That was down to Bibey somehow finding his way into two pretty good sides though. Kear did it a much harder way, one famous victory in particular

Ah yes. His assistant coaches role in the 21-12 Murrayfield classic is not to be underestimated...

Come on Dave your a knowledgeable League fan. You know he was involved in a much more memorable one than that!

Talking of Assistant Coaches, don't we currently have one who put in a marvellous tackle in a 80's Challenge Cup Final....?

Any more of this and it'll be the Wigan shirt for a season.



He wasn't assistant to Murphy in 1989 was he?