Same here. Sky+ it then tune in about 30 minutes later to see all the guff, half time waffle etc at X30 speed. Lineker and Co. get the same treatment on Match of the Day.

Unfortunately, I think it's in the job description to talk drivel.

Absolutely brilliant section, particularly given most RL coverage in this country isn't exactly high grade analysis.



I think it would be worth doing it for both, just have someone from a non-tv game on the Boots and All section. If Huddersfield would have lost, I'd have assumed it would be Luke Walsh doing it maybe?

Very true indeed.

they said right at the beginning that broughy would be doing it, i imagine the focus would have shifted to what we did wrong rather than the things we did well?

Wells is brilliant and exactly what I want from the coverage. I want to see how and why the tries were scored. Not some out of date claptrap from Stevo, or Eddie trying to sound like he knows what he's on about.

Carney' good too and is getting better all the time as a presenter.

Ideally I'd have Carney as presenter as well as bits with Wells.
Eddie or a new person as main commentator (but only match commentator, no presenting or analysis)
A guest (Kear/Noble etc) along with one of Wells, Carney or Clarke as 2nd & 3rd commentators. (But a max of 3 in total)
Then Wells & Carney doing the analysis.

I still think Eddie has a place if he's restricted to just commentating because I think he's pretty good at that, but Stevo, as much as I like him, he's had his time. And the sooner we can boot Stuart Cummings out of Rugby League entirely the better.

Understatement. They have a commentator in O'Connor who literally doesn't know what he's talking about. He tried to claim tonight that Daryl Clark hasn't played well this season because Warrington "throw the ball about", until it was pointed out to him that they have made the least passes of any team in the league. The fact that we have thoughtful and intelligent analysts sitting around doing nothing while a glorified fan like this is on commentary week after week is an insult to the viewers. McDermott is no better either.

Even if you had lost, I'd have imagined there would still have been some successful plays put on by Brough which they could have looked at. If it was a major capitulation, probably what went wrong yeah, but there's always gonna be stuff to talk about for a halfback, whether good or bad.

yeah true, but it would have been good to get a perspective from a losing player ( although not wishing that we lost

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Wholeheartedly agree about Wells.
He is outstanding.

Carney as a presenter is very good too.

As said I don't mind Eddie as a commentator but Stevo needs to be retired (with honours)
O'Connor is worthless to me, even on preplanned Boots and All but I don't agree about McDermott. He knows his stuff, they just don't use him well enough.
I hope they don't try and make him into a characature like Stevo.

They tried to do it last week with Luke dorn, with little success as he waffled a bit about the lads doing a good job or some such. John wells almost creamed himself, you could hear in his voice how excited he was when brough got all technical-

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Quote jools="jools"They tried to do it last week with Luke dorn, with little success as he waffled a bit about the lads doing a good job or some such. John wells almost creamed himself, you could hear in his voice how excited he was when brough got all technical-'" Like the Brough interview, Luke Dorn's was quite remarkable for a player still in his kit after coming off the pitch: www.skysports.com/sitemapvideo/R ... p4fNjRMjgC