It’s all wrong and has been for years.
It’s too late to change Eddie. He’s forgotten he’s a commentator and just seems to be there to stoke controversy and give us his non-expert opinion. He’s been involved in the sport for over a quarter of a century yet he still acts as if every rule is brand new to him. He’s also obsessed with sticking the word “the” in front of everything. “The Leeds Rhinos”, not simply “Leeds” or “Leeds Rhinos”, “The English”, “The Catalans”, “The Saints”, “The xxx club” as in “The Warrington club” or “the Wigan club” instead of just simply saying “Warrington” and “Wigan”.
Barrie and Terry bring nothing to the table apart from a typical thick Northerner stereotype.
Phil Clark only pipes up when he’s being pro-Wigan or positive about a player who’s signed up to his Brother’s agency.
Wells gets everyone’s names wrong and is too loud and speaks too quickly but he’s better than the others.
Cummins is a clueless hasbeen ref who makes a fool of himself and the sport with his continual incorrect ramblings.
Carney is good and is actually better on the Gaelic footy when he’s not surrounded by Bafoons.
The whole thing needs a shake up, a clean slate and just give Carney the presenter gig and bring in a whole new team of one commentator and one co-commentator, one pitchside reporter and then have different people in the studio each week including coaches and captains of other teams who aren’t playing that night to bring some up to date and intelligent/insightful talk to the panel for once. Maybe keep Wells in the studio instead of sticking him on his own outside so he doesn’t think he has to shout.
But Sky don’t give a poop really. As has been proved in all the programming we’ve lost over the years and the money they [don’t] put into the game.
