haha the most pointless thing ever. Probably some sort of ploy to get people betting with sky bet in play.... The whole of twitter went margin meter crazy which was entertaining though!

Or the Bundaberg half time show

It's illegal for a broadcaster to do that in this country - or they would, trust me!

Ah ok didn't know that. Scrap it then! Pointless.

The Sky commentary was laughably bad tonight, it's basically a room full of people talking over each other to get their own opinions across and then every now and then Clarkey chips in with a load of pointless stats or compares it to another sport. They're hardly calling the game at all! We need one commentator with a co-commentator during the game and a presenter with 2/3 pundits pre/post match/half time in the studio. Keep Jon Wells doing what hes doing now and have a touchline presenter keeping up to date with news from the bench.

Yep. Being saying it for years. Why they can't seperate studio from commentary box like every other sport that is broadcast by Sky Sports is beyond me.

I was cringing.

Its nearly as bad as "Baz and Tez"

They need to stop this amateur, cringeworthy garbage its embarrassing.

There were far too many statistics. I honestly didn't have a clue what they were on about half the time. They had some kind of bingo card, then some kind of chart. They'll be doing pie charts and brainstorms next.

Are RL fans the most negative people in the world? We had a superb four hour RL programme and some want to moan about something that is reality inconsequential.

As for the margin meter, I don't care but it's got people talking which can't be a bad thing.

It was so bad it was funny.

I have nothing against the principle of trying new things, and indeed in some situations statistics can indeed show the underlying reason why things happen.

HOWEVER, this is not an example of that. It's obvious to anyone who has played/watched RL over the years that momentum is a very very important part of the game. A team can dominate for 70 mins but if momentum shifts in the final 10, then the result will be dramatically affected.

The momentum meter is about as much use as a pair of those "X ray specs" that used to be sold........

Just because it was four hours long doesnt automatically mean it was good. I thought the red button stuff was excellent, most of the build-up hour was them introducing all the new bits. The in-game commentary was as bad as ever and the game wasnt bad but hardly a classic. People were talking about the margin meter but 95% of what I read was negative. Phil Clarke is determined to overcomplicate the sport.

The margin meter was ridiculous, don't know what they were basing it on as it bore little relation to the pattern of the game. Just after half time with Wakefield dominating the play since the restart and having levelled the scores and Widnes losing their composure it pops up to still predict a Widnes win. It finally predicted the possibility of a Wakefield win when they managed to get 8 points ahead, even then it bizarrely predicted a 3 point margin (later amended to 8 points as they opened up a 12 point lead). It would be less gimmicky to ask the studio guests for a predicted result every so often during the game than to dress up Phil Clarke's guesswork as some sort of prediction machine. At least then you could get them to explain the thinking behind their prediction.

I don't even know what it is.

How has no-one mentioned the absolutely god awful "Interchange" green and red lights they've now decided to use? I hadn't a clue how many interchanges were left looking at that monstrosity.

Just what I was thinking.