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| Sounded as though Dave Woods doesn't have a lot of time for Davies either. A few barbed shots.
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| The RFL could do with getting BBC interested in showing games from the Championship downwards & get the gospel out to a wider public than rip off sky.
The wife can't stand Jonathan's voice but i wonder if he keeps the people in the Valleys interested in RL.
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| Quote: ninearches "The RFL could do with getting BBC interested in showing games from the Championship downwards & get the gospel out to a wider public than rip off sky.
The wife can't stand Jonathan's voice but i wonder if he keeps the people in the Valleys interested in RL.'"
Probably not
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| Quote: LeedsLurch "The BBC & the the CC is the biggest opportunity of the year to bring the sport to a wider audience yet they have the most negative pundit doing the commentary. Jonathan Davies is so negative and always pointing out mistakes, errors or what the team should of done better rather than getting excited about the good stuff. With people like him to a wider audience what do they have to get excited about. Shouldn't he be celebrating good passages of play, while technically correct he's so down on the dour side. Get rid and bring in a positive personality that can sell the game'"
I said much the same as this whilst watching. Rarely a positive thing to say- and from his comments hasn’t recognised the game’s moved on since his days playing.
As for JJB - I really don’t get how he’s managed to get commentary roles- you can’t understand a thing he says most of the time!
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77270_1562571079.jpg The Leigh and Wakefield fans mentality......
Say something negative about any other team than theirs - Its an opinion
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| Quote: JEAN CAPDOUZE "Jonathan Davies is not a Welsh miner but a Welsh whiner. He is such a depressing commentator. He has little to say that is insightful. He prefers cliches like "ball watching."
Get him off! He is doing the game no good by being on the BBC.'"
To be fair, all the people involved with the game on the BBC are walking cliches. Jon Wilkin is the worst offender, closely followed by JJB
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| Quote: Big Ask "I think Jiffy is more positive than he used to be
It’s JJB that needs binning. If he’s says resilience once more I’ll cancel my TV licence.
Oh yeah, that’s not possible, but never has anyone been so dim and annoying with a voice that sounds like he’s got a couple of socks stuffed in his mouth.
Rant over'"
You've never heard Dennis Betts then
If RL wants to attract a new audience through it's TV coverage, we could do with pundits that are both well spoken and knowledgeable or, perhaps go with Aussie or KIwis.
I know that we have a Northern based sport but, to those outside the M62 corridor and especially those in the South, JJB and Peacock do nothing to change peoples perception of the game and much as I think they are ok their presence in the studio is akin to having Eddie Waring doing all of the commentary.
Great knowledge but just "too northern"
We keep on hearing how we must expand the game and attract new audiences but, while ever we stick with this format, it just isnt going to happen.
Having said that, for those of us who live in the heartlands and enjoy the game, Saturdays coverage was excellent, form the Women's final , which was a tight encounter, the Wire v Hull game which again, was close and a decent watch, to the plucky fight of Halifax, who, although never looked like scoring, battled till the end against Saints.
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| I know hes an obnoxious character, but in a few months Boris Johnson will be out of a job - and he appears to be able to sell ice cream to Eskimos. Maybe we could employ him on a zero hours contract.
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| davies' main problem is, he clearly doesn't watch the product, there's no point rolling him out if he's not paying attention to what's going on in superleague.
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| Quote: Fantastic Mr Catpiss "davies' main problem is, he clearly doesn't watch the product, there's no point rolling him out if he's not paying attention to what's going on in superleague.'"
He may not watch the product. But that is not his main problem. To be brutally honest, his main problem is that he is not very bright.
Jon Wilkin is at least intelligent and somewhat educated.
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| Another minor BBC whinge:
Despite it being a rather quiet Saturday afternoon for sport - BBC Radio 5 Live chose to put commentary of F1 Qualifying for the German Grand Prix on its main AM channel, pushing the RL Semi (Warrington & Hull) onto 5 Live Sports Extra (digital channel).
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| Quote: shinymcshine "Another minor BBC whinge
Despite F! being the equivalent to watching paint dry, it's a massively bigger sport than RL, so, no surprise in RL playing second fiddle.
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "Despite F! being the equivalent to watching paint dry, it's a massively bigger sport than RL, so, no surprise in RL playing second fiddle.'" the German grand prix was one of the best last week but it needed break downs and weather conditions to level it
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| Quote: snowie "the German grand prix was one of the best last week but it needed break downs and weather conditions to level it'"
F1 is one of those sports that I've never really got. I can see its popular and so I've tried - but sadly it's a bit like the kings new clothes. The same applies to tennis, golf, snooker, darts and horse racing. Where am I going wrong?
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| Quote: Ruune Rebellion "To be fair, all the people involved with the game on the BBC are walking cliches. Jon Wilkin is the worst offender, closely followed by JJB'"
Noble wins hands down in this 'facet' of the commentating game.
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| Quote: Seth "Noble wins hands down in this 'facet' of the commentating game.'"
That is unfair. Brian Noble is a good man, a nice man. He has many uncliched thoughts, unlike the Welsh Whiner, Jonathan Davies.
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