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| This is now totally beyond a joke. Even if you were TRYING to make Rugby League a laughing stock, Mr Smith.
Five of them on commentary! There LITERALLY isn't a second when one of them isn't twittering on. It is absolutely UNBEARABLE!!
Mr Smith, do you seriously believe ANYBODY has the will, let alone energy, to attempt to listen to every word whilst trying to watch a match?!
SORT IT OUT NOW! PLEASE! Terry 'setasix'' O'Connor HAS to go.
Posh up the game; you've dumbed it down to the depths.
Eddie Waring would be embarrassed.
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| RL claims to be an innovative sport! We brought in the video ref. Ref cameras, promotional adverts which have never been done before!
We had two fantastic commentators in Eddie and Stevo for years who have now unfortunately run their course. Carney sounds like he trips up on every other word, O'Connor sounds like a neanderthal even though he can come up with some great point. Cummings, why the hell is he there? Talks nonsense to back his ref mates up. McDermott is the one I thought would be poor but actually is the best.
So let's be innovative again. I have two options:
1. Let Jonny Vegas take over commentary! Especially if it's Saints or Wigan. It would be comedy gold!
2. Get that fella from Cas on. The one with the famous commentary "GERRIM OFF THE FIELD! I CAN'T SPEYK! SEND THE DIRTY GET OFF! IF YOU'VE GOT ANY BOTTLE REF HE'LL WALK!!" Always brings a belly full of laughter when I hear that!!
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Was discussed around the Brisbane game but the safety aspect wasn't quite there.
Quote: "Sky Sports’ Rugby League coverage is pushing boundaries by using a playercam for the first time ... when Leigh take on Warrington.
It is a first for Rugby League and also a first for high intensity, body contact sport in the UK. Sky are experimenting with the technology and Warrington player Kurt Gidley will wear the camera inside his jersey during the game.'"
Well, this is exciting, what do we think?
The use of the playercam open up many possibilities, not just in the viewing experience, but also when it comes to using the footage possibly in marketing and advertising.
Video of the cam in action on the Sky Sports website here: www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... warrington
Anything else we would like to see in future Sky Sports broadcasts? I suppose it's too late to have new titles half way through the season..
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Was discussed around the Brisbane game but the safety aspect wasn't quite there.
Quote: "Sky Sports’ Rugby League coverage is pushing boundaries by using a playercam for the first time ... when Leigh take on Warrington.
It is a first for Rugby League and also a first for high intensity, body contact sport in the UK. Sky are experimenting with the technology and Warrington player Kurt Gidley will wear the camera inside his jersey during the game.'"
Well, this is exciting, what do we think?
The use of the playercam open up many possibilities, not just in the viewing experience, but also when it comes to using the footage possibly in marketing and advertising.
Video of the cam in action on the Sky Sports website here: www.skysports.com/rugby-league/n ... warrington
Anything else we would like to see in future Sky Sports broadcasts? I suppose it's too late to have new titles half way through the season..
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| What was going on in the interview Barrie did on SSN last night?
He was either badly edited or just ranting.
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| My wife thinks that Crabtree looks too much like Prince Charming in Shrek.
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| Pity O'Connor didn't watch 100s of hours of NRL match broadcasts and learn how to commentate before he was let loose as a cheap option on national subscription TV for which sports lovers pay heavily. Get him off match commentary now and, as Jean says, bring in Tony Rea. NOW. Not next season.
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| and switch off the ref's mic whilst playing is ongoing. You don't have an audible ref in soccer so why with RL?
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| O'Connor sounds so rough and thick. It's embarrassing and denigrates the sport.
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| Nobody wants O'Connor as a coach. Doesn't that tell the Sky Sports hierarchy anything??
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| Why didn't they show Gidley's POV when he got wiped out by Hansen and Stewart, or when he knocked on?
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| Quote: Wigg'n "Why didn't they show Gidley's POV when he got wiped out by Hansen and Stewart, or when he knocked on?'"
Yet they show him feeding a scrum...
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| Thick thick settasix
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| Is rugby league the only sport where the lead commentator doesn't know, or pretends to not know, the rules?
We don't need Cummings
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