He must be a Turf Accountant. Hope his numeracy skills are an improvement on his grammar.

As I've said before

Eddie is a WID. End of. He has no liking for us, at all. Not many Wids do. He'll praise us, as he has to as a sports commentator, when we've played well.
I've been in Eddies company quite a few times. He's a pretty decent fella. Very knowlegeable about our game (contrary to the beliefs of many on here), with some good contacts (unless he's a HUGE name dropper). But please, (even a part time) a Warrington fan......DO ME A FAVOUR.

I've met Stepho once, as I have Wally Lewis......both pig-ignorant oafs

Not being funny Lefty G but if you or I had been doing his job for as long as he has then we would have a few good contacts.
It's just that we as fans always pick up on the negatives and accept the positives. No one likes criticism individually or collectively.
What is widely known within the world of RL & Sky TV is that Tony Smith has a disliking to some members of the presentation team and he's mentioned it during the odd interview. With being members of Tony Smith's Barmy Army some people have took on this conflict as a their conflict.
I'm looking forward to this week's playoffs just to sit, watch & listen to them to see if it is bias or just paranoia.

Do you know, I've thought about what Lewis would be like away from the cameras and it was as you described above. I always had the feeling he would be ignorant and up himself, so sounds like I'm not disappointed.

Not really on approaching the bloke like that when he is shopping, but there you go. As I have already said, to suggest he has it in for Warrington is puerile, to suggest he hates Briers [for Britain is laughable.

It is no secret that he isn't on Smith's Christmas card list, it goes back to his GB days, Sky announced he had the job before he had spoken to the players at Leeds or something like that. In interviews Smith is at times painfully difficult with him, but he manages to deal with it better than most would.

As others have said, he and Stevo are genuine blokes doing their job, leave them to it and if you don't like it you know where the volume button is. I cannot abide the BBC commentary team so I stick music on instead, get over it.

I think TS probably has a grudging toleration of SKY and the media, like post professional team sport managers and coaches do - there wouldn't be a sport without the media but having you and your team scrutinised by so-called experts, with the benefit of hindsight, researchers, multitude of camera angles etc. and still not getting their facts right must be galling or downright infuriating depending on who is asking the questions.

I don't actually think Eddie and the merry gang down at SkY hate us, but if they do, great, stock up on blood pressure tablets chaps because we're going to be kicking down the doors on your party for a few years yet .

Excellent idea regarding putting music on over the bbc commentary garbage.
I am just mulling over what would be the best music to suit rugby league, something dramatic , Wagner or heavy rock led zeppelin would probably do the trick. Anything apart from bloody Vivaldi .

Only on a RL forum could we so quickly go from that OP to someone bemoaning the virtues or otherwise of Vivaldi...

You're not Bradford and Wakeys accountant are you?

PMSL

About 18 months ago I was on a flight from Heathrow to Manchseter and Eddie and Brian Carney had the 'pleasure' of being sat to me. I had a few liveners on my previous flight so gave them my forthright views on the game.

Both were real gents, I was suprised by Eddies knowledge of the game. Yes he is from Widnes and he lives in Warrington. He is big mates with Frank Myler. Hardly a crime?

He is not biased

I haven't met any of these people.

However i just can't see why people are so incensed by this. Eddie might have come across annoyed but it seemed to me he was making more of a point about refs not being consistent and not applying the laws as they are should do, and he is right as far as most of us agree on here.

Briers should have had a card of some colour, and as the laws are now it probably should have been red.

Would that have seemed harsh compared with being red carded for an 'real' punch that actually hurt ?

Probably, but thats the rule, and that is what Eddie was putting across.

As far as any subsequent ban is concerned, then the punishment definitely fits the offence, as it was something and nothing really.

He has most certainly never displayed anything but admiration for Briers in the past.