I think Dainton is quite a likeable sort of guy but definitely a few bits that didn't work.

He and Jon Wells seemed to be at cross-purposes on whether King was doing enough in the game, and I think at some point Dainton might even have described Thewlis as a MOM contender (which respectfully he was not).

Coverage was amateur, and that's being generous. I heard the Thewlis comment too, and assumed a case of mistaken ID with Dufty.

I'm going to give Dainton a chance as he's new to RL. To be fair, I think the appointments were made at the very last minute when the TV deal was sorted, so not much time to familiarise with RL players. We'll see how he goes over the season.

I used to enjoy Jon Champion on the BBC before he was assigned solely to football.

Ah well, at least we only got Dave Woods from the beeb and not John Kear, Brian Noble and Jiffy!

Definitely struggled with names for Wire & Cas and a few bits of wrong information. Fitzgibbon has been called Harrison a few times this season ... it's no wonder they think Harrison is playing so well. Teething problems & lots of new commentators.
I suppose when you are watching a game you can't always tell who's who. Probably best not to scream out the wrong name though.

Bill Arthur has been commentating for years and still gets names wrong on a regular basis

Ray French did well to get one name correct the entire game.

Where is Eddie Wareing when we need him (being sarcastic for any youngsters on here).

I always thought that Wareing presenting It’s a Knockout showed how little the BBC thought of our sport.

I take a different view as TBF It's a Knockout was must see viewing on a Saturday night in the 70s.

Granted he was no Stuart Hall but Eddie presenting big time RL on the BBC certainly put the sport in the parochial north

Holiday town Parade ,It's a Knock out ,3-2-1 , no wonder the pubs were full on Saturday nights.

Wasn’t It’s aKnockout on Friday?

It may well have been as the show aired during the salad days time of my life.....oh for the summer of 76 every day was sunny and a 'Saturday'.

However, I never thought of hosting It's a Knockout was a put down and don't get me started on Jeux Sans Frontieres, where the intrepid Eddie and co got stuck into the Fil Rouge.

I’d forgotten about Fil Rouge, French triallist played for the reserves at Half back never really kicked on

Surely Ray French should have been on Fil Rouge not Eddie Waring?