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Old 23-02-2013, 15:37
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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.
Huw Llewellyn Davies is doing the second half
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Old 23-02-2013, 15:38
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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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Old 23-02-2013, 15:42
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BBC 5 Live just said that Cotter has a severe bout of food poisoning. Ouch.

Damn horse meat!!
Which translates as the "two bob bits"
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Old 23-02-2013, 16:29
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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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Old 23-02-2013, 16:29
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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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Old 23-02-2013, 16:51
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Whatever happened to Chris Rea( rugger not the singer) and Nigel Starmer Smith?
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Old 23-02-2013, 17:00
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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
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Old 23-02-2013, 17:04
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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

Whatever happened to Chris Rea( rugger not the singer) and Nigel Starmer Smith?
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

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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Old 23-02-2013, 17:32
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Whatever happened to Chris Rea( rugger not the singer) and Nigel Starmer Smith?
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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Old 23-02-2013, 17:34
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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

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
N S-S also was ESPN's commentator when it had the rights for the French Top 14 championship.
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Old 23-02-2013, 18:21
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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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Old 23-02-2013, 18:56
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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
I think Andrew cotter's disappearance showed how easy the professional lead commentators make it look. Jonathan davies's attempt, though a good effort considering the circumstances, at being a commentator was pretty poor viewing. Failed to identify basically any of the players or describe the drama.

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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Old 23-02-2013, 20:37
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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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Old 24-02-2013, 00:39
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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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Old 24-02-2013, 00:52
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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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Old 24-02-2013, 10:46
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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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Old 24-02-2013, 14:00
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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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Old 24-02-2013, 17:08
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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
Cheers, NSS also worked as a quiz host on Radio 2 in the eighties.
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Old 24-02-2013, 20:55
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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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Old 24-02-2013, 20:57
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Cheers, NSS also worked as a quiz host on Radio 2 in the eighties.
Yes you're right, was it Trebble Chance? He also occasionally did the sports news on Breakfast Time during the summer months
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Old 24-02-2013, 21:05
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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.
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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Old 24-02-2013, 21:40
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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
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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Old 25-02-2013, 06:17
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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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Old 25-02-2013, 09:23
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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?
I'm not sure as I wasn't listening, but I read it was just as the race was about to start. People thought that the BBC motor boat had broken down. Shame, as he was still the number one football commentator at the time, though was on the wind down towards retirement
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Old 25-02-2013, 10:41
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Watching the snooker on ITV4

Looks like Jill Douglas and Neil Foulds are hosting from a back room at ITV
With Clive Everton and Peter Drury as lead commentators.
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