Outside of the commentary, Stevo seems well spoken and a fairly intelligent guy. His analysis once the game is over seems a lot better than what he actually says during the game (usually limited to the same phrases every week like "He. Will. Be. Furious", "Expect the chip over the top" and "Surely he'll take the one-pointer"icon_wink.gif.

It seems like when he commentates, something takes over him. Whether it's because he simply gets over-excited and he talks a bit of rubbish in the heat of the moment, I don't know.

Phil Clarke's become a caricature of a statto. I've never heard anyome come out with as many useless stats as he does.

"Hull concede more tries than any other team from a kick to the corner, in the last five minutes before half time, on the fifth tackle when they are defending a repeat set with only 12 men in wet conditions away from home"

I spotted the Stevo Colemanball and it made me laugh a lot. he does drive me mad with the amount of nonsense he talks. Agree about Clarke too - he used to be really good but seems to have completely lost the plot slightly himself recently

They are all (exception being Eddie, who was a sports journalist for The Liverpool Echo, but I don't dislike him either) very credible RL fellas. I love big Barrie, but I sometimes think that "Tez" is very serious about his commentary, (but to be fair he is always spot on), but that doesn't mean it's bad because it's not.

I like "Stevo" though, being a Penrith Panthers fan, I'm well aware of how (certainly in years gone by : which was hard to make an impression as a Pom) much he contributed to the days when The Panthers were fairly new in Oz RL, and most of the time he's pretty near the mark.

Phil Clarke, strikes me as a really nice lad, but for goodness sake Phil, stick to your roots and don't change the way you were as a player and GB manager: you don't have to.

P.S. I suppose I might try to "clean up my act" too, if I'd almost ripped Matthew Ridge's nuts' off in a NZ v GB Test match as Phil did. ( much reported in The Southern hemisphere).

P.P.S. Thinking about it, maybe he's ok after all.

Trust me its harder than you think commentating, its very easy to get over excited and talk a bit of rubbish when somthing special is happening, better to suffer from a bit of verbal diarrea than clam up and be lost for words imo.
Been there, done that and proudly wear the t-shirt

I think the sky commentry is ok, they try and jazz it up to build the atmosphere.

But surely thats what a cheat is? Somebody that indulges in cheating behaviour. He's insinuating the same thing.

It was interesting that Clarke was quoted in a newspaper column saying the rugby league gods must be punishing McGuire for cheating. I wonder if he thought that when his own playing career was ended prematurely by a neck injury?

I think he's shown some biased toward his feelings for Wigan and there are many calling for his head at Sky on several other club forums.

In my opinion Clarke is right in the respect that he was at the very least unsporting. McGuire clearly cheated or if you were being very very lenient he pushed the boundaries of the rules to breaking point.

What was worse in my eyes was McClennan almost unbelievably claiming, with a straight-face as well, that something "untoward" had happend to McGuire in back play and that the RFL should investigate it, insinuating something nefarious from a Wigan player. As people who know me would testify, I hate Wigan with a fiery passion and would love nothing more than for his claim to have been true, but this was a completely out of order attack by a coach trying to cover up his team's "professionalism" in getting a vital win.

Clarke's remark that maybe it's the rugby gods repaying him was rather ridiculous though.

McGuire should not have done what he did but I think it was an instinctive reaction by a very tired player at a crucial stage of a crucial match. (And I question if Phil Clarke would also view it this way if he didn't have such an emotional connection to Wigan?)

I agree with your comments about McClennen, who had obviously been misinformed about the incident and it would have been wiser of him not to make accusations live on TV whilst the adrenaline was still flowing immediately after such a tense game.

Mcguire did cheat and was punished in the correct manner by a penalty being given (if indeed that is what the penalty was given for, I don't think it was clear on the night).

To suggest he cheated anymore than any other player who has pulled back an opponent in open play is crazy and even worse to suggest that the sporting gods are punishing him for it

He's at it again before the Leeds v Wigan game.
He's either swallowed a dictionary, eaten a thesaurus or taken far too many giddy pills

He talking to the kick and clap brigade.

eddie annoys me when cunningham gets the ball and drives at the line, he screams cunningham like he's just got stevo to finish him off