Arghh, I get this now... I think! The Sky guy sits with the timekeepers and stops the clock on the large screen as best he can at the same time as the official timekeepers clock. So it is possible that they could be a second or so out, but no more than that I assume?

So the 'live' clock they use for the RU must be actually controlled by the timekeepers and one assumes that this will now be the case for Super League games and as such already in place at HQ?

Want me to finish you off?

Fnarr, fnarr, oof !!

OMFG. CNT BELIEF IT. ITS FINALI APPEND.

I suppose I could riff a list of things that I care as little about as the new countdown clock at Headers...

Let me see: Low-carb diets. Michael Moore. The Republican National Convention. Kabbalah and all Kabbalah-related products. Hi-def TV, the Bush daughters, wireless hot spots, ‘The O.C.’, the U.N., recycling, getting Punk’d, Danny Gans, the Latin Grammys, the real Grammys. Jeff, that Wiggle who sleeps too darn much! The Yankees payroll, all the red states, all the blue states, every hybrid car, every talk show host, everything on the planet, everything in the solar system, everything everything everything everything everything everything–eve–everything that exists — past, present and future, in all discovered and undiscovered dimensions. Oh! And Hugh Jackman.”

Just cos your gurrrrrrlfriend is in itttt. errrrrrrggggh. Girls are sicky.

Girls are sticky.

I believe the RU version incorporates an alarm which is used to wake the fans up at the end of the game.

Just to clarify:-

Carol Vorderman, Father Jack and Elliot from Scrubs are sat with the Skyman and use Europe’s ‘Final Countdown’ at the end of each game to make it more exciting?

I’m in.