Can we just stop with Barrie and Terry in general?

Don't forget Phil Clarke's Top 5 Tries of the Week.

Hear hear. They sound like two blokes chatting in the pub - unfortunately for Australians watching the WCC this weekend they had to listen to them too, and from checking forums they are embarrassed for us.

Were they all scored by players represented by his brother by any chance?

Personally I wouldn't mind an Aussie commentator on Sky SL games. If one were interested.

Whatever happened to Tony Rea? Have gave great insight.

Me too. I'm already sick of Baz and Tez after week 2, and why oh why do we have to have Cummins? i mean, by all means use him for a 5 minute segment after the game running through contentious issues but we don't need him chiming in all the time in the already too crowded commentary box!

Much as Ray French annoyed me at times i always thought it was a good mix having him and an Aussie like John Monie or steve Simms giving their thoughts. The current SKY set up at the minute is bloody awful.

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His main purpose seemed to be to dismissing Stevo's greatest excesses of buffoonery with regard to what did and didn't constitute an offence. Now Stevo's retired, so should Cummings.

Cummings was ok to use for 2/3 games just as something different and to hear a refs view on a game. Every week is just tedious and we have incidents were he flip flops from what he said a few weeks earlier with a similar incident.

IMO the fans and our commentators generally don't want to learn the nuances of the rules. They would rather be outraged when they perceive a decision to be wrong, so there's little point in having Cummins there. It just places even more focus on the referees rather than the players. In the NRL games I've watched, they don't seem anywhere near as obsessed with the match officials, and I don't believe that is because theirs are any better than ours.

Agreed with regard to Baz and Tez's big hits. It is seriously cringeworthy, especially with Eddie making the same point every game that they only tend to include ones which are foul play. I don't have an answer as to how they should implement an overhaul, but they definitely need to.

I'm also sick of hearing Eddie's Partridge-esque banter in reference to the idiotic 'Big Hits' piece; "If it's high or illegal - you'll see it on Barrie and Terry's big hits!" It just appeals to the lowest common denominator and assumes that we all find that stuff amusing and whimsical - which I don't think we do.

I'd also agree that Cummins is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard, particularly now that he isn't needed to juxtapose Stevo's ill-informed rants from his made up rule book. A short piece post-game to look at decisions I could tolerate, but there are far too many voices in the commentary box already - his is one that is superfluous, along with O'Connor.

Totally agree. He's just really really irritating.

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What a f thicko.

I don't agree with it either, but it's because the other lot commentating don't know the rules well enough basically.