Rugby World Cup 2015 - Saturday 24 October (ITV)

Semi-Final 1 - South Africa v New Zealand

John Inverdale at Twickenham with Jonny Wilkinson, Sean Fitzpatrick and Francois Pienaar. Craig Doyle pitchside with Shane Williams.

Commentators: Nick Mullins, Lawrence Dallaglio & Shane Williams

Reports: Gabriel Clarke

Mullins was fantastic last night, a great balance of passion, humour and knowledge.

He's fantastic most of the time, but it's nice to hear him on terrestrial TV again. I really hope he does the Six Nations for ITV, as I think were he to be doing regular international games he'd be widely considered the best commentator going.

everyone was brilliant for ITV yesterday lets hope it's the same today with miles harrison doing the 2nd semi final

Aviva Premiership Rugby - Sunday 25 October (BT Sport 2 / BT Sport X1)

Round 2 - Leicester Tigers v Harlequins

Craig Doyle at Welford Road with Austin Healey, Nick Kennedy and Freddie Burns.

Commentators: Andrew McKenna, Nick Kennedy & Austin Healey

Reports: Sarra Elgan

A name I've never heard of as lead commentator today!

works on Talk Sport

Rugby World Cup 2015 - Saturday 24 October (ITV)

Semi-Final 2 - Australia v Argentina

John Inverdale at Twickenham with Lawrence Dallaglio, Michael Lynagh and Sir Clive Woodward.

Commentators: Miles Harrison, Ben Kay & David Flatman

Presumably Gabriel Clarke doing interviews for ITV again?

He really is a good commentator isn't he ? Whether it's Rugby Union or Tennis or whatever. Great voice too

For me i think that is is stronger than Miles Harrison, this isnt trying to discredit Harrison, whom i think is an excellent commentator but Mullins is for me a stronger commentator. Mullins is also very good on the Tennis coverage for BBC and ITV. Looking towards the six nations i would think that it would be Cotter, Butler and Bruce-Ball/McNamara for the BBC and Mullins, Gillingham and Ward or Champion for ITV.

They'll only need 2 comms each for live games, but if the BBC had Butler/Cotter and ITV could get Mullins/Harrison (though Gillingham or Champion instead of Harrison would be decent enough) then that would be an unbelievably strong line-up.

RWC WORLD FEEDS

Sat 24 Oct

South Africa v New Zealand
Tony Johnson and Joel Stransky

Sun 25 Oct

Argentina v Australia
Gordon Bray and Andy Gomarsall

I doubt Sky will let Harrison commentate on ITV, it may be that we only see him on World Cups for ITV. But even then Gillingham is a fine rugby commentator so it would be nice to hear him on the Six Nations for once. It will also be interesting to see what happens with John Inverdale, will it be him on ITV presenting with possibly Mark Durden Smith presenting on ITV as well therefore leaving BBC presenting duties to Gabby Logan and Jason Mohammed.

I hope Inverdale stays with the BBC as I'd like Craig Doyle or Mark Durden-Smith to present regular big 6N games - they are both a lot better than Inverdale IMO.

Aviva Premiership Rugby - Sunday 25 October (ITV 4)

Round 2 Highlights

Mark Durden-Smith at Kingsholm with David Flatman.

GLO v SAR: Nick Mullins, Ben Kay & Austin Healey (as BT Sport)
SAL v WOR: Tom Skippings (reporting)

Once again Durden-Smith and Flatman relocated to Twickenham, this was explained as being due to Flatman's appearance on Australia-Argentina earlier.

WAS v BAT: Jonathan Harris-Bass
NOR v NEW: Tom Skippings (reporting)

EXE v LIR: Martin Gillingham

LEIC v HAR: Andrew McKenna, Nick Kennedy & Austin Healey (as BT Sport)


Full-match commentaries on premiershiprugby.tv:
SAL v WOR: Nick Heath
NOR v NEW: Sam Roberts
EXE v LIR: Charlie Brougham

he certainly is

Pleasing to hear that Andrew McKenna was called upon by BT Sport as one of their commentators during Rugby World Cup Semi-Final weekend, as a longstanding talkSPORT listener he's a broadcaster who I've rated for a long time, who I've long thought would be suited to a jump to television to commentate on club matches when channels are stretched due to concurrent internationals.

For those not familiar with McKenna, his career is steeped in rugby union coverage - he regularly reports on the Six Nations and Autumn Internationals for talkSPORT and was the station's secondary commentator (to John Taylor) on their coverage of the 2011 Rugby World Cup, where he also worked as their reporter in the England camp. He was then promoted to their lead commentator on all ten matches of the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia. Macca also presented talkSPORT's Sunday night rugby union show Full Contact, which airs weekly during the season, for a few years before Brian Moore arrived at the station and assumed that job. So, he's well qualified for this gig.

McKenna is primarily talkSPORT's afternoon and early evening sports newsreader, he's been reading their half-hourly bulletins between 12.30-7pm for close to 15 years now, as well as being a football and rugby union reporter and commentator for the station (as well as his rugby union commentaries, he was one of their commentators on last year's FIFA World Cup), so I guess he knows which side his bread's buttered and won't be turning up on TV on a permanent basis any time soon. But he's a great choice of freelancers to work on a game when a TV broadcaster is a bit stretched for commentators. Hopefully we'll hear him again when the European Rugby Champions Cup gets under way.

It would be a bit worrying for the BBC to lose Inverdale. Both Logan and Mohammed are good deputies but they need someone who is a rugby person to be the main presenter, if Inverdale does go to ITV then I would like to see Scrum V's Ross Harries as the main presenter but I think it would be unlikely the BBC would use him in that role.

Rugby Union World Cup

South Africa v Argentina on ITV- Craig Doyle is joined by Jason Robinson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Gareth Thomas, with commentary from Martin Gillingham, Scott Hastings and David Flatman.

The Final: New Zealand v Australia

ITV: Jonny Wilkinson, Michael Lynagh and Sean Fitzpatrick join John Inverdale in the studio with pitchside analysis from Francois Pienaar, Clive Woodward and Brian O'Driscoll. Commentary from Nick Mullins, Ben Kay and Lawrence Dallaglio.

TV3: Matt Cooper presents, with analysis from Keith Wood, Matt Williams and Shane Jennings, and commentary by Stuart Barnes, Liam Toland and Conor McNamara.

I have to say as the Tournament has gone on the biggest surprise for the has been the rise of David Flatman, he's deservedly got some big games which ordinarily I'd expect "bigger names" to get by default. I've been really impressed by his commentaries in the past few weeks and I was hoping for an outside chance of him getting the final. Alas not to be, but for me he's the one pundit who's stock has risen in the past 2 months. Hoping to hear more of him on BT as the season progresses.

Ryle Nugent drives too fast! http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime...ding-1.2408867
Mitch Fenner does dodgy Chinese accent! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/...nt-on-air.html

Gymnastics: World Championships on BBC Two- Matt Baker is joined by Beth Tweddle, Mitch Fenner and Christine Still to present.

Darts: European Championship on ITV4- Jacqui Oatley introduces. With analysis from Chris Mason and Alan Warriner-Little, and commentary by Stuart Pyke and Dan Dawson.

Rugby Union: Leinster v Scarlets on BBC Two Wales- Ross Harries presents. With analysis from Shane Williams and Jonathan Davies, and commentary by Gareth Charles and Shane Byrne.

Bowls: Scottish International on BBC Two Scotland- Dougie Vipond presents. With commentary by David Corkill and Paul Mitchell.

Snooker: Champion of Champions on ITV4- Jill Douglas presents, with analysis from Alan McManus and Neal Foulds, and commentary by Clive Everton.

Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals on BBC Two- Sue Barker hosts. Commentary comes from Andrew Castle and Tim Henman.

Or as I like to call them "switch channel to Sky"

In fact, Miles Harrison was lead commentator.

I'll add in David Flatman praise. Superb.

And he was very good