I was going to mention this, but thought I'd had enough of a rant already!

you are correct but sometimes Phil Gould and Ray Warren have their eddie and Stevo moments too...



I think it was the Friday night game "Rabbits" was banging on about a strangled larynx but couldnt be sure whether it was pronounced Lar-in-x or lar-nix....it was a bit excrutiating but at least he can snap out of it and get down to some brilliant commentary.



one thing does bug me about Aus commentary is the love in for Melbourne Storm who are by far and away the most boring team in the world (succesful with it I know) their five drives and a kick out of their half is regularly lauded as the storm "being brilliant at sticking to their processes" and even when Billy slater kicks a bloke in the throat he does nothing wrong any anyones eyes.....

I missed that one, and suppose they all have their moments, but generally they're very good, and when they are joking it mostly comes across as knowledgeable ex-pros having a laugh. Whereas with Eddie & Stevo it's so bloody forced because they're desperately unfunny - they're like when senior managers get up to make a speech with 'funnies' in, and it's just cringe-making. At least you normally only have to suffer that once a year, not every time you turn a match on.



We might as well have Alan Partridge, at least it would be intentionally awful.



See, I'm ranting again.

The presenting team on Sky Sports is a joke. Brian Carney and Phil Clarke are sometimes the only ones who talk any sense and Phil Clarke sometimes struggles with that. I hate watching on Sky.

BBC commentary isn't any better, I prefer Sky to be honest.

That's not entirely surprising, given that you're a Saints fan.



Wellens the best player in the world - when he wasn't even the best full-back in the world?



Every pass Cunningham made - even basic deliveries from the play-the-ball sending Eddie into orgasmic raptures.



Come on, even you lot must have been embarrassed by some of that.

Clarke is terrible at times , give more of the gig to Carney and Wells .

Stevo says 'utilize' about every 10 words or so, it's barely an exaggeration. 'Utilise the dummy runners' it get very, very annoying when they only explanation for a team not clicking in attack is due to this. Also any kick that finds touch when a team is in the lead is deemed as brilliant by Stevo, even if it's a poor kick that went wrong. The Stevoisms were amusing for a while but his commentary could be recorded beforehand and played during the game as he doesn't have any new insights or anything useful to say.

I've started watching a few of the Championship games this year and I must admit the Premier Sports coverage is superb considering the budget. I'm a big fan of the video ref mic that they have explaining the reasons for the decision.

They need to get the message out there: "hey, come on, our commentary team is bobbins". Eddie more so than Stevo IMO.

Yeah the Premier Sports coverage even thought not in HD is pretty good and they should definitely look at having a video ref mic for the Super League games.

Yep, Clarkey's Sports Science degree certainly gives him the opportunity to bore the socks off everyone with his theories and in-game predictions.



Sadly, he makes what is really a simple game seem very complicated.