saints v catalans : Sun May 10, 2009 5:43 pm  

I'll never call the two clowns on sky again, after listening to the B.B.C. commentary today French and Kear were telling us every two minutes what a good game Ben Thaler was having and as soon as they said it He made yet another mistake He was terrible, also Darling Jonathan in the summary box seemed to go to sleep three times what a terrible droning voice that man has, Eddie and Stevo rule O.K.

: Sun May 10, 2009 6:02 pm  

I don't think Rugby League is blessed with commentating talent.

Currently, I'd go for Bill Arthur and Phil Clarke.

: Sun May 10, 2009 6:40 pm  

Paul_Lyon wrote:

I don't think Rugby League is blessed with commentating talent.

Currently, I'd go for Bill Arthur and Phil Clarke.

Iwould agree with you on that.

: Sun May 10, 2009 6:45 pm  

The next wave is trying to come through......

Re: saints v catalans : Sun May 10, 2009 8:17 pm  

peawapp wrote:

I'll never call the two clowns on sky again, after listening to the B.B.C. commentary today French and Kear were telling us every two minutes what a good game Ben Thaler was having and as soon as they said it He made yet another mistake He was terrible, also Darling Jonathan in the summary box seemed to go to sleep three times what a terrible droning voice that man has, Eddie and Stevo rule O.K.

The mistakes were shockingly one sided. A invisible forward pass which cancels an opening try for the Dragons, two penalties given to the Saints in the Catalans' 20m for balls which were not clearly in Saints hands (each penalty ending in a try for St Helens), and others...
The Saints are already good enough. We don't need the ref to remove any hope of winning the game

: Sun May 10, 2009 8:30 pm  

watching the game as a neutral i didnt see the ref help either team on purpose.
think yourself lucky you got fast tracked to super league and didnt have to suffer the clowns we have each week

you was beaten by a far better team, go away, lick your wounds and give it another go in the league

: Sun May 10, 2009 9:03 pm  

Well mate when even the BBC commentators list only mistakes against our side, I think that it does not come only from my standard level of paranoia.

: Sun May 10, 2009 9:35 pm  

what a missed opportunity it was, nowt to do with the game, imo the game should not of been selected for tv, i reckon we as rl knew it was going to be a one sided romp, why o why did they not select the cas/fax match, and i did suggest it prior to it being such a close result, the game today would not of attracted any new fans to our game that's for sure, and as for french well he should be put out to grass by the bbc. dave parkinson for the job.

: Sun May 10, 2009 9:37 pm  

The Beeb are hopeless at picking games, this was always going to be a walkover.

I'd have moved the Cas v Halifax game to Sunday, it was always going to competitive but nobody could have known how much so.

: Sun May 10, 2009 9:58 pm  

Well I can't complain about us being on TV, but I think that the Fax match should have been picked because the team does well and it is not often enough we can see Championship sides. The Fax match should have replaced the Wigan match.

In any case with a proper refereeing the game St game would have been more interesting. St Helens would certainly have won, but at least we would have had a better spectacle and more suspense.