I'm sure the bloke on the radio had been on the vino,he did say at one point that we were an hour in front of them.

and at one point said it had 'Been all Catalans for the last 15 minutes', when Wigan had just had 2 or 3 sets in the Catalans' half. Bring back Eddie and Stevo all is forgiven!

I agree, he was terrible. When he wasn't getting the players names wrong completely he was saying them wrong. He had Josh Charnley putting Carmont in for the try from the sweeping move when it was Jack Hughes. I don't particularly think one commentator on his own works very well, on the flip side of that neither does about 7 like Sky have!

Dearden was absolutely awful. He did not know the score of the same fixture last season, which i would have thought he would have had to hand if he was anywhere near professional about what he was doing. Quite clearly just a jolly in the sun.

The problem is that we yearn for the sort of professionalism we see from the likes of Channel 9 in Australia. But because of its low status, RL in Britain never seems to attract those kinds of guys. Instead we get monkeys who are happy to work for nuts as long as they think it makes them somebody - hence Eddie, Stevo, Dearden, Hunt, French, etc. I'd include Eddie Waring - he was a truly crap commentator - but at least he was a ground-breaker, doing a lot of work behind the scenes with almost no help from anybody.

The best commentator we ever had, IMO, was Clive Tildesley, who was a football man essentially, but covered RL very professionally and never had a parochial agenda.

He said something along the lines of Catalans 'wilting' then said the exact same thing about us in the next set.

He said about us being dead on our feet about 25 mins into the game, when Kris Radlinski was saying that we were winning the energy battle.

I switched the radio off I found the french commentators fantastic

Sebastian Ragu was the best one. He's a bit saucy, that lad!

I was at the game and take it from me Wigan never looked like losing. They domiinated the game from start to finish. Our forwards outplayed theirs and only Dureau presented us with any problems. I wasn´t aware that Charnley had put his elbow in touch as I was too far away from the screen but apart from a bombed chance when Greenshields took the wrong option in the second half they rarely broke the line. No way could Catalans claim to be robbed. Another really professional performance from the boys and I´d reckon 2 to 3000 Wiganers there.

Think Dearden needed a summariser. Hard to do three hours broadcasting on your own I reckon.

it did sound like that. he was relying on phil kinsella from the studio to back him up.

at the point where a wigan player did that 700th did a 'brilliant' run, i was about to turn the audio off and just watch the match in silence. doe he have more than a couple of adverbs and adjectives ???