Just watched the Saints Wire game on Sky Plus, i know we've sold our souls to Sky, but im not sure that allows a commentator to tell a Super League player to stop talking nonensense when Lee Briers had a pop about only having 4 days off till the Wigan game.
What is nonsense is a media mouthpiece having a pop or even some say in how we run this game.
Plus it was clearly a joke, Eddy needs to avoid being a Victor Meldrew in his final years on telly.

So, old Eddie has a go at Briers, first time for everything I suppose.

Makes a change from the usual licking he recieves from the sky team!

He hardly spat the words at him. He was just correcting the idea that Sky Sports were responsible for Warrington only having a four day turnaround. As an employee of Sky Sports it is his job to ensure that they are not cast in a bad light by interviewees, particularly if they are mistaken about the facts.

Eddie certainly had his redvee tinted specs on watching the game.

I thought himself was from Warrington?

Liverpool (which = St. Helens for RL purposes).

Didn't watch the last 20 minutes or so of the match. What was actually said in the interview? I can't believe Eddie would say anything wrong of Briers he normally licks his boots clean so much that he has had confirmed Cherry Blossom poisoning on more than one occasion!

IIRC all Eddie did was correct Briers on the fact that it's five day's between matches. Not the four that Briers had stated.

it's Stevo who is in love with Briers, not Eddie! everytime he kicks the ball upfield - 'wonderful kick, Briers is just controlling things out there'

Briers for Britain, that was Eddie wasn't it?

one of my pet peeves with Eddie that one. The instant that certain players kick the ball Eddie states "(insert players name) with a great kick" The ball hasn't even left the guys boot laces, so how he knows its gonna end up being 'great' is beyond me.



.......its the small things!

Personally dont like Briers but do think he has got a point, not fair that in a game which could have an effect on who finishes top of SL, one team has 8 days recovery time compared to the other team only having a 5 day turnaround.

Although that said, I bet Mr Briers wasnt complaining too much at Magic weekend when Wigan and Saints have to contest a derby fixture every year whilst Wire get an easy 2 points against lower teams like Salford and Widnes (which is due to Sky wanting Saints v Wigan to play) so swings and roundabouts really

So far as I know, the regular season starts and ends on the same weekend for all teams. If one team has a 3 day recovery time advantage over another team, that will be precisely balanced out by a total of 3 days disadvantage/s against another team on another day. Unless they can have their own year somehow permanently lengthened by a few days.

2 easy points against Widnes or 2 easy points against Saints. I doubt Briers is worried which team the easy points will come against.