I don't think we'd have done much with the 3 seconds either but would have been nice to have the chance! The stadium clock as mentioned is the same as the ones at the Super League games by the way and is presumably controlled by the timekeeper as, apart from the aforementioned incident at the end, it stopped whenever the referee signalled to do so.

Bluffed his way through the game to be honest, got a lot of players names wrong, even to the point of thinking bulldogs players were playing for Leigh...............obviously not well up enough to recognise the faces.

Seemed to go away from naming players further into the game, and reverted to comments such as "thats a good drive", or "the defence is strong"

However, its the first outing, he'll get up to speed i would hope, and, on the plus side, camera shots, and hearing the video ref were good points!!

The commentary was a breath of fresh air. When they started the timing was a bit off and they kept forgetting names but by the end they were in sync and Brian Noble actually knows what he is talking about (unlike the Widnes fan club on Sky Sports). I agree the video referee audio was excellent, I actually understood the decisions, I am sure if I hadn't heard his logic I would be calling it the wrong decision.

Yeah, I thought he did well at the football last night too

I only got to watch about 20 minutes of the second half but was very impressed (just wish it was in HD!!)

I thought Noble was very good in a co-commentator role, rather than just a summariser.

As others have said the VR audio was excellent and whoever thought of that should be congratulated; I hope Sky introduce this to add to there coverage. It would also stop a lot of arguments or disagreements n the commentary box!

I enjoyed it. Apart from that Bulldogs kit.

I enjoyed what I saw of it, pretty good productions values, Rammo has a lot of work to do on player identification.

Wonder if the VR is always so polite with the TV people?

Sadly I get the impression that Sky seem to think that people would prefer to listen to Eddie and Stevo's married couple act rather than having the decisions explained by the video ref.

Agreed.

A mix of the the Aussie commentators and the English Championship would be good. The Aussies stop talking when the ref is speaking to a player rather than talk over them to guess what's being said!

I thought it was a far cry from watching Sky, in a good way though. Great to watch a RL game without the inane ramblings of Hemmings, Stephenson, Clarke et al. The VR audio was a nice touch aswell. They needed to sort out the refs mic though, sounded like he was speaking long distance on a payphone.

I thought the refs mic was fine, I agree it sounded different but the volume which it was transmitted at was better than Sky's. As I said earlier if it was in HD i really couldn't find any major fault with the coverage.