Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:05 am  

Bill Arthur has been commentating for years and still gets names wrong on a regular basis

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:08 am  

Ray French did well to get one name correct the entire game.

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:02 am  

Where is Eddie Wareing when we need him (being sarcastic for any youngsters on here).

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:04 am  

I always thought that Wareing presenting It’s a Knockout showed how little the BBC thought of our sport.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:25 am  

Captain Hook wrote:

I always thought that Wareing presenting It’s a Knockout showed how little the BBC thought of our sport.

I take a different view as TBF It's a Knockout was must see viewing on a Saturday night in the 70s.

Granted he was no Stuart Hall but Eddie presenting big time RL on the BBC certainly put the sport in the parochial north

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:53 pm  

Holiday town Parade ,It's a Knock out ,3-2-1 , no wonder the pubs were full on Saturday nights.

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:24 pm  

ninearches wrote:

Holiday town Parade ,It's a Knock out ,3-2-1 , no wonder the pubs were full on Saturday nights.

Wasn’t It’s aKnockout on Friday?

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:12 pm  

Captain Hook wrote:

Wasn’t It’s aKnockout on Friday?

It may well have been as the show aired during the salad days time of my life.....oh for the summer of 76 every day was sunny and a 'Saturday'.

However, I never thought of hosting It's a Knockout was a put down and don't get me started on Jeux Sans Frontieres, where the intrepid Eddie and co got stuck into the Fil Rouge.

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:00 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

It may well have been as the show aired during the salad days time of my life.....oh for the summer of 76 every day was sunny and a 'Saturday'.

However, I never thought of hosting It's a Knockout was a put down and don't get me started on Jeux Sans Frontieres, where the intrepid Eddie and co got stuck into the Fil Rouge.

I’d forgotten about Fil Rouge, French triallist played for the reserves at Half back never really kicked on

Re: Tonight’s match v Castleford : Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:09 pm  

Uncle Rico wrote:

It may well have been as the show aired during the salad days time of my life.....oh for the summer of 76 every day was sunny and a 'Saturday'.

However, I never thought of hosting It's a Knockout was a put down and don't get me started on Jeux Sans Frontieres, where the intrepid Eddie and co got stuck into the Fil Rouge.

Surely Ray French should have been on Fil Rouge not Eddie Waring?