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Do we need A butch woman to voice Rugby League ?
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Is this the idea?.... Butch woman to encourage a butch sport. Sorry..she's not even a good presenter. she just shouts....
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And his uncle was called Shirley.
regardless her looks shouldn't enter into it. Not everyone is as shallow as you
She does have a rather deep voice though.
And Jamie Peacock has a rather high voice, does that make him any less of a man ?
Sarra Elgan has done some RL when S4C was showing it.
Other than Davies and Carney its just nothing but Northern accents which only emphasises the ‘Northern Sport’ stereotype.
There needs to be some more balance with the coverage and get some voices which are not northern.
Sky should get one of the SSN girls involved a lot more.
The BBC used to have Clare Balding anchoring their RL coverage.
She used to have a page in the Evening Standard on a Thursday, sports section. She devoted three quarters of it to being taken to a Broncos v Wigan game and finding it all terribly exciting. I doubt the Broncos ever had three quarters of a page since.
Shortly after that article, she got the BBC gig.
Still, it didn't stop some Northerners writing into a magazine bemoaning her, with the usual "posh" and "Southern" insults.
No you give the jobs to the best people and if they happen to be from the north then fair enough
Dave Woods and Eddie are good commentators. As is, the non northern sounding Bill Arthur.
Best pundits ( for me ) are Brian Noble ( or Brian Northern as my other half calls him ) Brian Carney ( Irish accent ) and Barry and Terry ( both northern )
But you cannot employ somebody to do a role based purely on where they were born. Claire Balding actually hosted rugby league prior to Tanya and Chappers and she didn't do a bad job of it.
That's because Rugby League is a northern sport.
I know London have a team. But it was artificially created. And the team have failed to capture the imagination of Londoners - at least, so far.
What about the Dragons in France? They are also very Southern!
Paul Cullen doesn't listen to the question he just goes on about what he likes
The backchat crew are good chris irvine is from Nottingham lives in yorkshire now
And the South Wales Scorpions. They are very Western!
London have two full time professional teams.
Which is the second?
London Skolars. They've been fully pro for a few years now.
Good stuff thought they were part time should get promoted next season
We go full time 1st December for next year
Are they ? Like Tony I was convinced they were part time amateurs.
They turned fully pro a few seasons ago.
They have Broncos regularly turning out for them.
Unless they've gone back to being a semi-pro or amateur side? But I've not heard anything about this.
They used to market themselves at Broncos games as "London's Second Professional RL team".
That doesn't preclude them being part-time pros though. Frankly, if they were full-time, they should be doing better than 7th in a 9-team division.
No great loss. His other posts have him talking about football and Big Brother.