Ed robinson, who often is a reporter.

I was slightly surprised Adam Smith didnt present.

Changing sports I didn't recognise sky presenter on championship rugby union on monday

I do agree with your sentiments regarding Dallaglio, i find that he makes an excellent pundit but isnt so suited to commentary.

I know where you are coming from with regards to Healey's accent, sadly Michael Owen's voice may have made me slightly prejudiced with the accent.

Would it be fair to say that Rugby fans are less likely to complain about things such as the smashometer, as there is little competition with regards to a rugby "magazine" programme that football has plenty of.

Absolutely.

ITV in the last couple of weeks have illustrated the difference in formality between rugby and football broadcasting quite nicely. Mark Pougatch and his team, tieless, present the Six Nations, but the ties come straight back on when they are presenting the national football team.

The Masters Golf on the BBC- Hazel Irvine presents. Commentary comes from Peter Alliss, Ken Brown, Andrew Cotter and Paul Azinger.

If you mean the third pundit with the regulars in Jim McGrath and Graham Cunningham, I'm pretty sure it was Richard Hoiles - who earlier was commentating on the Haydock Park races.

The whole wearing a tie for an England football match seems a bit strange in a way. The England Germany match was only a friendly. It makes sense for more important matches but not friendly's .

He was Sky's main boxing commentator for six months or so once Darke left for ESPN, and for a while was commentating for both them and Frank Warren's BoxNation. Once BN started a few regular domestic fights, he was pretty quickly phased out and replaced by Nick Halling, who left all his freelance gigs to take on the role. Smith, Robinson and Andy Clarke have done the occasional fights as lead commentator since.


Thankfully, the horrendous experiment of Nelson presenting seems to have come to an end, as Ed Robinson has presented all of the Fight Nights this year so far. However, the bits I caught of the last PPV they had (Quigg v Frampton), it appeared that Nelson bizarrely presented that. Not sure whether they think he is more appealing to the more casual fans who watch the big PPV fights, but goodness me, he is dreadful at it. Much better in the punditry role.

Smith seems to have scaled back his on-screen role at the live fights since taking over as head of boxing at Sky.

Thanks for that. I have never seen Hoiles on screen before, only heard him so thanks for clearing that up, i just couldn't figure out who it was!

Do we know who is on interviewing duty?

I know Ed Robinson has been hosting the studio based international Fight Nights, but I'm sure Johnny Nelson has still been presenting some of the domestic Fight Nights this year.

I'm pretty sure nelson did tyson fury fight too.

That's right, I listed their coverage details at the time.

IPC Swimming European Open Championships- Paul Noble, Giles Long and Liz Johnson

when's that? I got my answer it's next month

Elite League Playoff Final Ice Hockey Premier Sports
Coventry Blaze Vs Nottingham Panthers
Aaron Murphy with Paul Adey and Riley Emmerson

Aviva Premiership Rugby – Friday 1 April (BT Sport 1)

Round 19 – Bath v Saracens

Martin Bayfield at The Rec with Ugo Monye, Lawrence Dallaglio and Ross Batty.

Commentators: Nick Mullins, Lawrence Dallaglio & Ugo Monye

Reporter: Sarra Elgan


Aviva Premiership Rugby – Saturday 2 April (BT Sport 1)

Round 19 – Leicester Tigers v Gloucester

Sarra Elgan at Welford Road with Ben Kay and James Simpson-Daniel.

Commentators: Nick Mullins, Ben Kay & Austin Healey

Reporter: David Flatman


Aviva Premiership Rugby – Sunday 3 April (BT Sport 1)

Round 19 – Wasps v Northampton Saints

Martin Bayfield in the studio with Lawrence Dallaglio and Bryan Redpath.

Commentators: Nick Mullins, Ben Kay & Austin Healey

Reporter: Chris Hollins


Aviva Premiership Rugby – Sunday 3 April (ITV)

Round 19 Highlights

Mark Durden-Smith at the Ricoh Arena with David Flatman.

BTH v SAR: Nick Mullins, Lawrence Dallaglio & Ugo Monye (as BT Sport)

EXE v WOR: Martin Gillingham
HAR v NEW: Richard Henwood (reporting)

LEIC v GLO: Nick Mullins, Ben Kay & Austin Healey (as BT Sport)
LIR v SAL: Richard Henwood (reporting)

WAS v NOR: Nick Mullins, Ben Kay & Austin Healey (as BT Sport)

Other full-match commentaries on premiershiprugby.tv:
EXE v WOR: Jonathan Harris-Bass
HAR v NEW: Nick Heath
LIR v SAL: Richard Henwood

Usually Rishi Persad is on Golf Interview duties, he hasnt said anything on Twitter about either going to Augusta or not. But i would assume it is him as he has done the interviewing for the last few years. As long as there is no return of Michael Vaughan interviewing the golfers i think we are safe!

It is the Grand National on Saturday so he could be on that

Nice bit of role reversal this weekend with Mullins doing all 3 games for the reverse round of fixtures from the round Eykyn did all 3 games in January

Rishi isn't listed in the Channel 4 release

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/n...grand-national

Unless Eykyn was elsewhere, you do have to wonder if it's contractual that they do equal numbers of games in the regular season.

Two more rounds of 4 games coming, where they are both likely to do two games each, then the final round where they are each likely to go one of the games they show concurrently.

They do have one more regular season game they need to pick though to bring it up to the 66 they have promised, and I'm not sure whether that will be the rearranged Bath-Sale game a week on Wednesday (with Mullins commentating, who has so far done one game fewer than Eykyn) or a third game on a third channel in the last round (with obviously a third commentator needing to be used).

Mullins was on holiday the weekend Eykyn did 3 games so I presume it's similar this time round

Ah right, with the extra 6N work they've done I think they probably deserve it.

Yep, been on the go non stop since late August/September!

Yes I know Rishi Persad has done it the last few years. I was hoping that this year it would be either Russell Fuller or Cara Robinson, not sure if she would be available but she was a good addition at the Open last year.