I too am absolutely fed up with the general negativity overwhelming our great game.
Well said TRB.

I know exactly what you are saying. However they can also be positive. I used to watch the champoinship games a couple of years ago on Thursday nights and the mindset of the commentary team was very positive.

Also I have noticed it depends on which teams are playing. Usually Friday night is a battle between two of the top 4 and everything is brilliant. This is followed by Saturday tea time against a couple of bottom teams and every mistake is highlighted.

The best team would be Bill Arthur and Brian Carney and good bye Eddie and Stevo.

Quite right TRB
Negativity breeds negativity

Good point. I think it was this years game against HKR when I came home and watched the coverage - they had decided it was an 'average' game before the kick-off and the whole commentary failed to match the efforts of the players because they had gone into that mindset.

Commentate on the game you buffoons - credit the side good enough to create the overlap or the gap - not just the poor sod who missed the tackle, or worse still, who 'gave away the penalty 60m upfield' - giving away a penalty doesn't concede a try!!!!

Yep - and this is from our biggest partner! I'm amazed that no-one can there can see that they are devaluing their own product - or maybe that's the bigger point.... kidding - I think!

The one thing with the nrl coverage is its always made sound good a play can be just ordinary but the commentator makes it sound like the best play ever.
Very similar to how things were a few years ago Nigel Stammer Smith made union sound like the best game ever and league commentators made ours sound dull.
Its a bit like Ozzie version....Smith out to Sykes,Sykes draws his man,out to Collis,COLLIS SIDE STEPS AND GOES THROUGH THE GAP ..TRY.........Our version...Smith out to Sykes,Sykes draws his man,out to Collis,Collis side steps and goes through the gap...t r y.

Cancelled my subscription this year (new years eve to be precise, so technically last year) when asked why, I told them that their coverage of my favoured sport was being killed by its presenters.
I'd like to think they took note, but I'm a realist and I'll have to settle for the £90 a month staying in the bank!!

Yep and so they change our Catalan game to Saturday with a tea-time ko

Yep it is now.

Showing at 17:45 kick off on the website - only a 40 mins difference if they are altering it but that could mean half the crowd arriving after the main turnstiles close if it is changing

Eddie has just stressed it is a 17:05 kick off but I never believe a word he says 0icon_smile.gif

The two OAP's that are stevo and eddie are really becoming quite tiresome. Eddie in particular just doesn't know when to to shut up.
Part of the fun of playing and watching rugby is the chat between players and ref. Without fail when something kicks off the pair of them speak over what the ref might be tellling a player or explaining to whoever. Listening to the ref and being able to hear him might give us all a better insight into what is going on rather than what the man with the wig thinks who lets face it has probably never picked up a ball in his life.