Me neither, Sky are obsessed by doing the 'right thing'. It's better to have a player who knows about the actual physicality of the men's game. An ex BARLA player would have been better than the woman who was on the Hull v Hull KR game.

Well having now watched the game back I thought she was alright. Not fantastic, but alright.

Did she offer me any great insight or make interesting points that I hadn't already thought about? Well no. But she was articulate and seemed knowledgeable enough. She was an improvement on Barry and Terry imo (I think they call that damning with faint praise).

I am happy for her to stick around and we can see how she goes when she gets a bit more comfortable in the role. She wasn't out of place. Don't really understand the comments saying she was rubbish.

Same here. She wasn’t amazing but certainly was no worse than most of the men on there who constantly come out with ridiculous platitudes and cliched rubbish.

Not big on Sky sticking women in for the sake of it like they are doing in football, but the female commentator yesterday was not bad at all and tbf a big improvement on the likes of dumb and dumber and Phil 'turtle neck' Clarke.

The woman who did the post match interviews for the Hull derby was Australian. She was, as you would expect, excellent.

YAWN

bore off,,, go post on NRL sites

Are you saying that no woman could ever commentate on the men's game then?

She currently plays in the women's Super League so has knowledge of playing the game, probably more so than the likes of Dave Woods and Eddie Hemmings.

Far better than Angela Powers. Not excellent, but she'll grow into it hopefully. No Trina Gulliver though

Only caught the 1st half but she was ok. What she said was fine but did sound a bit quiet, perhaps understandable when you’re new to the gig and most likely nervous. If she can speak with more confidence which should come with more appearances she’ll be fine.

The lady in question didn't bring any insights into the game. Maybe thats just a lack of experience, but I was left wondering why she was on the panel.
As for Brian Cox, he is a numpty whose knowledge of space is pure guesswork because like just about evrry other person on this planet he's never been there.

Well said....

Well she was the only one that realised it was a shoulder charge on Sneyd. The others completely missed it, even on a couple of replays. In fact, Jon Wells was banging on about how good a tackle it was!

Yeah, guesswork has gotten him a lot of gig at universities and on TV.
I find the guy quite irritating, but I definitely wouldn't question his knowledge, especially based on such a poor reason.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/ ... staff-told It's a sad state of affairs when women struggle to get employment on sports channels and this scumbag was in a job for so long

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/ ... staff-told It's a sad state of affairs when women struggle to get employment on sports channels and this scumbag was in a job for so long

Great insight as usual bazza

A number of years ago I had the leisure to watch a lot of one of the women's Union World Cup tournaments. The quality was awful and the skill levels similar to the U14s boys team that I was coaching. Every tournament since then has seen a steady and strong improvement in the quality as the number of players has increased and I now enjoy and even look forward to watching games. Women's Rugby League is still some way behind in terms of participation and structure but that will come with time. Opportunities to officiate will become more common and the number of personalities available for commentary will increase. At the moment there are few top class female commentators in RL but there are also few top class male ones either. Rather than employing good commentators, like Claire Balding, we limit ourselves to a pool of ex-players with little media ability. All around the world broadcasters are taking the opportunities that using the best figure heads of either sex offer. Canal Plus in France has a fabulous female RU presenter heading up their coverage who certainly brings knowledge and style to a line up of otherwise hairy blokes. Barry McDermot is not going to widen our appeal.