Like it or not, its a northern sport.

More than likely anyone who has a good understanding of the game (theoretically an important quality) will be from these parts

By "Modernise" do you mean get someone with a posh accent to commentate so we can pretend RL is not primarily a northern sport?

If Joanna Lumley did the CC coverage, it would not make more kids down south want to play RL.

We ARE a northern sport. That is the strenth of our game.

I am all for expansion but lets not be pretentious about who or what we are.

The steretype of our players turning up for training on dark Northern Nights wearing flat caps, smoking woodbines and their faces smudged with coal is frankly a much more attractive stereotype than Tarquin and his chums turning up for traininng at their club after an afternoon at the golf course to find a pleasant bubndle of £50 notes stuffed into their boots (wink wink)

What about Clair Balding, she's possibly changed the image of the game somewhat

How & in what way?

Don't get me wrong I like her on the TV and she seems to show a genuine interest in RL but what has changed in actual RL matters since she started doing the CC coverage?

Your stereotyping of the non-north is horrendous

what's all this northern bollox?

Ray french is just a crap commentator. A squeaky voiced RAT.

They just need a decent commentator doesn't matter where he's from.

I'd agree with that and would see Dave Woods as an improvement on his two predecessors.

Rugby Union commentaries are equally cringeworthy apart from Brian Moore calling a spade a spade.

What's wrong with being northern?

We are a northern sport.

Lets get Ron Atkinson in.

A shovel a shovel then.

The Beeb should be looking to this guy as a permanent replacement IMO www.castigers.com/cgi-bin/tigertv.cgi?159

The Beeb should be looking to this guy as a permanent replacement IMO www.castigers.com/cgi-bin/tigertv.cgi?159