The Sky commentators have an inherent bias, even though they’ll deny it.
Doesn’t McDermott work for Leeds still?
And O’Connors son plays there. Both ex Wigan players as well.

If you were a casual fan, you wouldn’t notice the poor coverage, but the majority of those watching RL on Sky will be genuine fans of the game, and they can see it for what it is.

Sky will just try and provide the coverage as cheaply as possible, hence Bill Arthur being the main commentator.

The problem is they'll argue that Hull have had 2 ex players as a studio guest this season in Radford & Leon Pryce. They'll forget to mention Lee did the FC/Castleford game - he's coaching Cas next season & already working with the Cas board & team. Leon then did the Huddersfied game - his son just happens to play for them.

You are correct re inherent bias. Stevo had no time for Hull ever since his merc was keyed in the car park.
I remember the following week when he was presenting, Hull scored and he actually said....Throw me a bucket!

And Leon celebrated when his son scored, but that was understandable.

Shame they haven’t had Jamie Shaul on. I think it’s nice when they have a player on who’s out with a long term injury. Keeps them involved and always nice to get a player’s perspective on the game.

Johnstone gets a 1 match ban.

Sao - "Initial contact is with the upper arm and back of opponent and rides up over the head of the opponent." NFA

Does that mean he shouldn't have been yellow carded?

this is also baffling Hodgsons comment


I thought there was much more to like in tonight’s performance than there was on Thursday (in the defeat against Leeds).

We are still working to be more clinically offensively but we were in the contest and had Bureta (Faraimo) scored in the corner, it would have been a different result. Not necessarily a win but a lot closer than it was.

So yeah, disappointed but at the same time, plenty to like in that performance.

well as fans we didnt see anything different or in fact anything to like in the performance apart from Big Chris Satae.
No mention of our biggest problem once again the poor discipline of the team
The loss of Johnstone for sunday is no miss.
Had Shaul been playing nine he would have been on the shoulder of Satae last night when he made the break down the middle
The sooner he if fit the better

I know now why FC are not living up to fans expectations. Refs are biased and incompetent. Players cannot run fast enough. To make matters worse Sky commentators are anti FC and there are no guests that have sufficient FC credibility. Life is certainly hard in the west.

Apart from

I can see what he means. I thought we had more energy, in the second half especially, than Thursday and I also thought we asked more questions defensively of Saints than we did of Leeds.
Up until the sin binning we looked like we could at least have a crack at getting something out of the game whereas on Thursday we never looked in after half time.
Neither were great performances but I don't believe his comments are as baffling as you make out.
Also what do you expect coaches to say to the media? They are hardly going be uber negative to the press are they.

Yay, well done Keef you got something right.

No surprise we had more energy when the management of the interchanges were better and everybody got on the pitch!

He is still raw but you can see there is a player in Mitch, hope he gets another year on his deal especially with him only counting as 50% on the cap for next season.

So with Johnstone copping a 1 match ban will we see Shaul at 9?

No news on Connor, Taylor and the rest? These 5 week injury are lasting forever

Life must be incredibly harder and much more dull in The East, as you spend most of your time writing drivel on here