Looking ahead to the next few weeks, I see that Stan Collymore is scheduled to be back alongside Sam Matterface for both of talkSPORT's live Premier League commentaries this weekend - Everton v Chelsea on Saturday at teatime and then Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool on Sunday at 1.30pm (with Aston Villa v Hull City, Sunday's other 1.30pm kick-off, due to be a Radio 5 Live commentary game to be joined in-progress after their coverage on MotoGP's British Grand Prix). Stan is also listed to join Mark Saggers for Monday night Kick Off on transfer deadline day.
Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore are scheduled to be talkSPORT's commentary team at the England v Norway friendly next Wednesday, with Jim also listed to commentate on the Switzerland v England Euro 2016 qualifier (presumably with Stan) on Monday 8th September. Over that weekend, Richard Keys and Andy Gray are down to present between 6-9pm on Saturday 6th in the absence of any live Premier League football, while on Sunday 7th rugby union show Full Contact is scheduled to return between 8-10pm - with it due to be presented by Brian Moore rather than Andrew McKenna. It looks as if Ray Stubbs has taken over the presenting duties of the show preceding it, The Press Pass between 6-8pm, with original host Des Kelly having left it due to his BT Sport commitments.
A few thoughts on Paul Walker's appearance on talkSPORT last night. I don't suppose that many people can say that they've covered a Sunday afternoon game for BBC Radio 5 Live and then reported on a match for talkSPORT two days later as Walker can now. Those of you who are familiar with my posts in the Football Commentators threads in the Broadcasting section of Digital Spy may know I'm not a massive fan of Walker's work on The Football League Show to say the least, but despite that I can see the logic in talkSPORT bringing him in to their reporting team now that he has gone freelance after leaving BBC Radio Sheffield in the summer (should last night's showing not prove to be a complete one-off). Their reporting team has lacked a dedicated Yorkshire-based correspondent since Tim White stopped freelancing for them to concentrate on his eponymous media consultancy (responsible for the Russian Premier League's world feed among other things) around five years ago now. During the intermittent period, reporting duty on home games involving clubs from the county has mostly been shared between Graham Courtney, John Temple and Grahame Lloyd, all of whom primarily cover either the North-East or Humberside, with Manchester-based Dom McGuinness having to cross the Pennines on a fair few occasions, so this was an area of the country where they weren't as well represented as they could have been. However this season they seem to have more than made up for this gap in their network of correspondents, having called upon Radio Yorkshire's Michael Weadock and now Walker (albeit neither have actually covered a game played in their home county yet!).