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All rather unfortunate and whilst I am not a fan of Andrew Cotter's commentary I wish him a speedy recovery.
It also means that we have two Welshman commentating on this game and unfortunately you would think that Wales are 50-0 up rather than 9-6! Shame. |
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BBC 5 Live just said that Cotter has a severe bout of food poisoning. Ouch.
Damn horse meat!! |
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BBC 5 Live just said that Cotter has a severe bout of food poisoning. Ouch.
Damn horse meat!! |
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Fair play to Davies, He jockeyed the show to half time, but it was a Welsh cheer on for 35 minutes.
Huw Llewellyn Davies had some normality. Was he on BBC Radio Wales or something? Unless it's a quick recovery surely someone of Eykyn, McNamara or Butler will do it. I'd think Eykyn or McNamara will be on Five Live. EDIT: Seen below S4C! |
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Italy V Wales (RBS 6 Nations RU)
S4C - Gareth Roberts hosting pitchside from the Stadio Olimpico (and doing that 'dancing' every now and then youd do when you are busting for a pee!) with Derwyn Jones, Dafydd Jones and Gareth Edwards. Dot Davies is pitchside reporter, with Brynmor Williams on tactical analysis. Commentary of the first half came from Huw Llewellyn Davies and Dr. Gwyn Jones, with Dr. Gwyn Jones and Dafydd Jones doing second half commentary. Huw's 'disappearance' was expained simply as hm joining 'the other side'. |
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Whatever happened to Chris Rea( rugger not the singer) and Nigel Starmer Smith?
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6 Nations Live - BBC One & BBC One HD
Italy v Wales
Presenter: Gabby Logan With: Marco Bortolami & Shane Williams Pitchside: Jason Mohammad Commentators: Andrew Cotter & Jonathan Davies (start to 5 minutes) Jonathan Davies & Shane Williams (Rest of First Half) Huw Llywelyn Davies & Jonathan Davies (2nd Half) England v France Presenter: John Inverdale With: Jeremy Guscott, Lawrence Dallaglio & Thomas Castaignede Commentators: Eddie Butler, Brian Moore & Sir Clive Woodward Analyst: Andy Nicol Pitchside: Sonja McLaughlan |
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6 Nations Live - RTE Two & RTE Two HD
Presenter: Tom McGurk With: George Hook, Shane Horgan & Conor O'Shea Commentators: Italy v Wales - George Hamilton & Frankie Sheahan England v France - Ryle Nugent & Ralph Keyes Quote:
Whatever happened to Chris Rea( rugger not the singer) and Nigel Starmer Smith?
He also worked on BBC NI in 2007 for the Under 19 World Championship Rugby which had 3 or 4 matches in one day and was held in Northern Ireland with most matches held at Ravenhill |
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Whatever happened to Chris Rea( rugger not the singer) and Nigel Starmer Smith?
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Nigel Starmer Smith worked for ITV at the 2003 World Cup but at he still does world feed for Rugby Tournaments, he still does Rugby 7s and featured the odd time on the BBC when they covered the Rugby 7 tour competition around 2008-2009 N S-S also was ESPN's commentator when it had the rights for the French Top 14 championship.
He also worked on BBC NI in 2007 for the Under 19 World Championship Rugby which had 3 or 4 matches in one day and was held in Northern Ireland with most matches held at Ravenhill |
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Cotter has just tweeted
Good timing, winter vomiting bug. Goooood timing..... I'll be brief as you're all watching Twickenham. 10 mins before kick-off started to feel unwell, thought once game going would be fine. Describing a Kris Burton kick for touch I thought 'Nope, this isn't going to work' and made a run for it. That is all. The following two hours were just great. Really quite super. |
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Italy v Wales
Presenter: Gabby Logan With: Marco Bortolami & Shane Williams Pitchside: Jason Mohammad Commentators: Andrew Cotter & Jonathan Davies (start to 5 minutes) Jonathan Davies & Shane Williams (Rest of First Half) Huw Llywelyn Davies & Jonathan Davies (2nd Half) England v France Presenter: John Inverdale With: Jeremy Guscott, Lawrence Dallaglio & Thomas Castaignede Commentators: Eddie Butler, Brian Moore & Sir Clive Woodward Analyst: Andy Nicol Pitchside: Sonja McLaughlan Want to make it clear I don't blame him and Shane williams, they decided to do more of a discussion around the match than a classic commentary, but it does show how good someone like Cotter is IMHO. Huw L-D did well considering they parachuted him in, but it did feel like a Wales love in (I am not welsh). |
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England V France (RBS Women's 6 Nations)
BBC Red Button - Sara Orchard and Non Evans, with Sonja McLaughlin pitchside interviewer |
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Saturday 2 March on RTE Two
European Indoor Athletics Championship- Peter Collins is joined by Jerry Kiernan, David Matthews and Tom Chamney to present. Commentary by George Hamilton and Greg Allen. Munster v Ospreys- Daire O'Brien is joined by Brent Pope, George Hook and Mark McDermott to present. Commentary by Hugh Cahill and Donal Lenihan Friday 8 March on BBC 2 NI Ulster v Treviso- Stephen Watson presents. Commentary by Jim Neilly and Ryan Constable. |
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Just to ask if this happened again if a commentator took ill or another unforseen event happened do you think it would be better for the BBC to take commentators from 5 Live or RTE to half time rather than have an uncertain period with no commentary which happened before Shane Williams joined the box.
I will add the BBC have taken RTE commentary during an Autumn International in 2010 when the BBC were on strike. There was also an incident this year in the Pro12 the RTE Commentary team were delayed in Belfast before an Ulster match due to a flag protest and they took BBC NI commentary for about 25 minutes until they got to the ground and you also had the Euro 2008 Semi Final between Germany and Turkey when Vienna had a huge thunderstorm and everyone lost sound and pictures and when the BBC continued with pictures and 5 Live commentary for a long period until they sorted it out. |
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Declan Quigley did stages 2 and 3 of Tour de Langkawi for Eurosport 2.
Rob Hatch, who did stage 1, covered Omloop for cycling,tv |
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6 Nations Live - BBC One & RTE Two Coverage
Scotland v Ireland - BBC One & BBC One HD
Presenter: John Inverdale With: Keith Wood, Andy Nicol & Jeremy Guscott Commentators: Andrew Cotter, Phillip Matthews & Chris Paterson Pitchside: Sonja McLaughlan Scotland v Ireland - RTE Two & RTE Two HD Presenter: Tom McGurk With: George Hook, Brent Pope, Conor O'Shea (in Dublin) & Scott Hastings (at Murrayfield) Commentators: Hugh Cahill & Tony Ward Reporter: Clare McNamara |
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Last time I saw Chris Rea, he was working for BBC Scotland. Nigel still pops up from time to time, does work on 7's but I think he's basically retired
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Saturday 9 March on BBC One
Scotland v Wales- Gabby Logan presents. Commentary by Andrew Cotter and Jonathan Davies. Ireland v France- John Inverdale presents. With analysis from Keith Wood and Jeremy Guscott, and commentary by Eddie Butler and Brian Moore. |
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Cheers, NSS also worked as a quiz host on Radio 2 in the eighties.
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Just to ask if this happened again if a commentator took ill or another unforseen event happened do you think it would be better for the BBC to take commentators from 5 Live or RTE to half time rather than have an uncertain period with no commentary which happened before Shane Williams joined the box.
I will add the BBC have taken RTE commentary during an Autumn International in 2010 when the BBC were on strike. There was also an incident this year in the Pro12 the RTE Commentary team were delayed in Belfast before an Ulster match due to a flag protest and they took BBC NI commentary for about 25 minutes until they got to the ground and you also had the Euro 2008 Semi Final between Germany and Turkey when Vienna had a huge thunderstorm and everyone lost sound and pictures and when the BBC continued with pictures and 5 Live commentary for a long period until they sorted it out. |
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The only one I can think of was tragic, Peter Jones, BBC Radio commentator since the 60's had a stroke during the boat race in the early 90's. He died a few days later, but someone else had to commentate from a tv monitor
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Watching the snooker on ITV4
Looks like Jill Douglas and Neil Foulds are hosting from a back room at ITV |
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Never heard of this until Steve Williams and yourself mentioned it as it was before I was born. Did he take ill live on air or was it before he was due to commentate?
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Watching the snooker on ITV4
Looks like Jill Douglas and Neil Foulds are hosting from a back room at ITV |
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