https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34isCS_TFE For all those that have not seen it, Grand Final Raw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34isCS_TFE For all those that have not seen it, Grand Final Raw.

It was short but the C4 'behind the scenes' show was brilliant and something the sport should be doing much more of.

It was really excellent! The idea of doing it from the assistant coaches POV gave a very interesting and unique perspective. Great idea and very enjoyable watch

Both excellent I thought. The major difference is the commentary. Mark Wilson needs to be made Skys main man. I noticed Steve Mascord tweeting that people just like new shiny things and there was very little difference between the Sky and C4’s coverage of the actual games. I agree in some ways that people do just get bored with the same old and anything new and different gets billed as being great but that commentary from Mark Wilson, compared to Bill Arthur is night and day.

If Sky are the main Broadcast partner, they need to get the best man for the job when it comes to commentary, just like they do for football, cricket etc and not just ‘make do’ with the guy who used to stand in when Eddie Hemmings had a cold.

Having Lockers and Sam Moa mic’d up was brilliant. I know we’ve had players mic’d up before but having the on-field assistant coaches was a nice insight to see their roles. Would like to see more of that and/or players mic’d up.
It’ll be interesting to see the commentary situation with all games on sky next year.