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| The whole Sky team needs a proper shake up
Fresh voices, fresh enthusiasm, more intelligence, more insight, more variety, more technical and tactical talk, less controversy, less labouring on certain incidents, less getting names wrong, less “the Warrington club” (just call us “Warrington”)... less replays of we’ve just seen or faces in the crowd and just show the game that’s going on that we’ve tuned in to see!
With Eddie, he looks for controversy so much he ruins his own commentary sometimes. There was a Cas try last year, it was an absolute beauty! But Eddie’s reaction was “ooooooaaaah I think he’s knocked on there!” He’s so obsessed with stoking controversy he ignored the class and skill of the set up of the try... the ref never even went upstairs to look for a knock-on, it wasn’t even close to being one.
He’s the main voice of the sport, he should be eulogising about good play and shouldn’t be having a bad word said about anyone like they’re all his own son. But he acts like a Union fan trying to make us look daft.
Also any time Warrington or Catalans score a try he seems crestfallen. I know as a Widnes fan from youth who loves St Helens since being a commentator and having his words quoted on the walls of Sts stadium and on t-shirts and in books sold in the Sts shop in the past... and through both he doesn’t like Wire but he should be more professional when talking about us. He has disappointment in his voice when we score, he’s full of snide digs and must say “is it their year?” every single time we’re on. I don’t mind it from fans of other clubs, it’s quite funny, I do mind it when the presenter/commentator uses it as a jibe, it’s unprofessional of the man. And I don’t know what his issue is with Catalans, he really doesn’t like them!
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| Mostly found Australians given exposure with either BBC or Sky over the last 30 years have been decent. Remember Monie, Sims, Rae, Millward etc... down the years and they all came across well. Better than the Baz and tez rubbish anyway.
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| Quote: Biff Tannen "Mostly found Australians given exposure with either BBC or Sky over the last 30 years have been decent. Remember Monie, Sims, Rae, Millward etc... down the years and they all came across well. Better than the Baz and tez rubbish anyway.'"
Indeed and Andrew Voss on Premier was a true breath of fresh air compared with our lot.
On of the real problems with Sky is that it's the same team every game 3 times a week. It's just too much and even if they were great, they soon become stale and when they're not so good, it's just awful.
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| My issue with it is the cacophony of voices, all saying not very much - they talk over each other, go off at tangents, drown out referees addressing players and insist on making a controversy out of every call, often proven to be completely wrong on replay; and the excruciatingly awful "banter" is -clenchingly embarrassing.
I can't understand why they don't freshen it up, trim down the size and scale of the numbers involved, and get some insightful voices actually calling the game, but also knowing when to shut up; it would be cheaper, as well as better.
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| Quote: little wayne69 "He's even worserer at darts
I hope thats a joke Woody!
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| Quote: TheDreadnought "I hope thats a joke Woody!'"
Quote: TheDreadnought "Worserer. Spoken like a true Wakefield dweller'"
Well it certainly went over leeeBrons head,
but it kept him happy with his usual pathetic dig at Wakey ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif)
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