English rugby commentators
Bahtat
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I've noticed the lack of English rugby commentors watching the six nations. Scotland matches get a Scottish commentator, Wales always get two Welsh commentators, but all other matches including England's get a Welsh commentator and usually a Scottish one. Seems a bit unfair.
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For years it was Bill McLaren........now its Ian Robertson (on the radio)
I think 'Robbo' is losing it a bit now though as his commentaries are full of pauses whilst he tries to remember player's names.......
Where he's still pretty sharp though is when he gives his pre-match predictions on radio 5........he'll often say something like 'Bath should win by 20 points' and sure enough they do !........I reckon he bets on the games......:D
He seems to always be secondary to the Welsh one though.
That would be Eddie Butler, then?
Didn't like Brian Moore years ago. Well, as a player, basically! Really do now. Good double-act.
Furious that the biased BBC still have the English twit Inverdale as the main presenter, though. >:(
(Nah, obviously. But do think he's a twit. ;-) )
I like Brian Moore.
I saw Inverdale in Pumpkin coffee shop on platform 2 at Sheffield station. I don't think the girl serving him recognised him, daft cow.
Sensible woman.
..or is that rose tinted...
Oooohhh not now. Stevo has really started to spout more rubbish each week. Give me Brian Carney anyday ( mind you he isn't English so you can't )
Have ITV announced who they are using for the World Cup yet?
Speaking as a Welshman, I do find most of the Welsh commentators highly annoying and irritating. The worst HAS to be Gareth Charles by a country mile. Luckily for the majority of the UK, he is largely confined to BBC Wales TV & radio. He is closely followed by Eddie Butler who, mostly, seems to do little more than say players names as they pass the ball from one to another. He was famously sacked as the main presenter on BBC Wales' Scrum V TV magasine programme after a massive on-air bust up with Gareth Thomas. Seems he then went from that to on-air commentary, heaven knows why.
Best Welsh commentator was Huw Llewellyn-Davies who spent the majority of his latter years commentating on S4C and has sadly now retired.
As for the coverage, Inverdale used to be very biased, but is better now, Eddie Butler has become very anglocised over the years .
While I find Jeremy Guscott the most annoying and biased.
Andrew Cotter and Philip Matthews are OK, while I also like Brain Moore.
Overall the BBC coverage is till light years ahead of the ITV World Cup Coverage.
Eddie Butler was commentator for many year before that, in that infamous interview with Gareth Thomas, he completely destroyed him, so much so that Gareth was taken very ill after that interview.
Saying that, the sooner Sky get rid of Stevo the better - he's always been poor, but he's a total embarrassment now.
Which is the main job of the play-by-play commentator
I have no problem with any of the others, including Inverdale.
There's an announcement scheduled for tomorrow.
You can't imagine how frustrating it is to try to keep up with what's happening on the pitch with comments like "Well, he shouldn't have done that. He should have done ..." which typically comes from Jonathan Davies (brilliant player though he was) and last week's 5 Live's contribution from Matt Dawson "Just look at the Fiji players! Look at them - just look at them!"
All very well when you have good eyesight, but enough to make me weep!