That should read Laois v. Cork! Getting my midland counties mixed up

England v France in the Six Nations - BBC

John Inverdale presented with Raphael Ibanez, Jeremy Guscott and Jonathan Davies

Commentary came from Eddie Butler and Brian Moore

Lawrence Dallaglio and Austin Healey were "analysts"

As you would expect the BBC's rugby team out in force today:

John Inverdale, Keith Wood and Jonathan Davies in Cardiff for Wales v Ireland

Dan Walker and Raphael Ibanez in Rome for Italy v France with commentary from Nick Mullins and Rob Henderson

Gabby Logan and Andy Nicol at Twickers for England v Scotland with Jill Douglas and Lawrence Dallaglio sideline and commentary from Andrew Cotter and Brian Moore.

Interested to see in this weeks TV guides that Gabby Logan is down to present the BBC's coverage of the World Cycling Championships instead of Jill Douglas. I'm presuming that she'll be doing Magners League coverage for Setanta instead.

John Hindhaugh, Johnny Mowlem, Jeremy Shaw and Graham Tyler doing the Sebring 12 hours for Motors TV.

Leigh Diffey with Justin Bell, Jamie Howe, Dorsey Shroeder, Brian Till and Calvin Fish doing the same on Speed TV.

Italy v France

RTE2 Hugh Cahill and Tony Clement (commentary)
France 2 Mathew Lonnoi and ? (commentary)


England v Scotland

RTE2 George Hamilton and Ralph Keyes (commentary)
France 2 Philippe Lafon (commentary)


Wales v Ireland

RTE2 Ryle Nugent and Tony Ward (commentary) with Tom McGurk(host), George Hook, Brent Pope and Conor O'Shea (analysts)
France 2 Laurent Bellet and Jerome Cazalbou (commentary)

Glasgow Warriors V Munster

Jim Delahunt hosting with Martin Gillingham commentating and Gregor Townsend with him. GT also used as full time analyst on Setanta Sports 1 (GB)

Gloucester vs. Ospreys

Commentators: Andrew Cotter & Brian Moore

Delahunt presenting rugby? Is that a first. I suppose he was free as there was no Bundesliga on. What was he like? I know he gets a bit of stick over on the football commentators thread but I actually quite like him.

Daire O'Brien presenting with Killian Keane & Ciaran Fitzgerald over on Setanta lreland.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Jock Brown?

I think Delahunt's decent too, didn't see him last night though

I didn't watch all of it (Aberavon V Newport for me in the SWALEC QFs) but he was good, although there was quite a bit of 'padding' going on.

Who was hosting the cycling on BBC2 tonight instead of Gabby Logan? Not a face I recognise at all, but unlike Gabby he actually knew what he was talking about. Dropping Jill Douglas was a huge mistake.

Northampton Saints vs Cardiff Blues

Commentators: Nick Mullins and Jonathan Davies


Was it Simon Brotherton? Sounded slightly like him although I'm not 100 per cent sure, I only saw a small clip of the coverage tonight as I was at the place kicking masterclass that was the EDF Energy Cup semi-finals

Yes it was, and presenting the World Cycling from Warsaw today... John Inverdale, hot-footing it from Coventry. Has something happened?

On other matters, really enjoyed the F1 coverage this morning, plus those excellent shiny new titles, and terrific to hear Barry Davies on the ice-skating...

Who needs football anyway?

Craig Doyle with Tim Foster, Wayne Pommen and James Cracknell for The Boat Race on ITV. (And Gabriel Clarke, Ned Boulting, Rob Walker and Acer Nethercott)

Peter Drury commentating.

Gabriel Clarke also appearing on the Boat Race World feed, with Tom Skippings commentating.

lol. It would appear that Gabby hasn't been too well which is why she has stepped down, just found this piece

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/...le_279589.html

No scandal then in both her disappearance and Jill Douglas appearing to be replaced.

This was the Beeb today then -

Australian F1 GP
Jake Humphrey presenting (was on Superbowl form) with David Coulthard and Eddie Jordan
Commentary from Jonathan Legard and Martin Brundle (on the top of his gridwalking form) with Ted Kravitz and Lee Mackenzie reporting

World Figure Skating Championships
Sue Barker presenting with Robin Cousins, who shared commentary duties with Barry Davies

World Track Cycling Championships
John Inverdale presenting from Pruschow (it's a suburb of Warsaw), with commentary from Hugh Porter and Rebecca Romero

Jill Douglas is expecting - so congrats in advance.

Watching a bit of it on Eurosport - there's a scrolling bar with stats and 'all that jazz'.

Guinness Premiership:
Sale v Bath - Simon Ward
Newcastle v Leicester - Martin Gillingham
Bristol v Worcester - Simon Ward
Saracens v Wasps - Martin Gillingham

World Track Cycling (British Eurosport)

Rob Curling presenting the studio analysis alongside Tony Gibb and Rob Hayles. David Harmon doing the commentary in Poland with Jamie Staff as his co-commentator.

Not had more than a passing glance at that coverage, but interesting to see Robin Cousins both in the (London) studio and commentating - so it's obvious his commentary was done from London. What about Barry Davies - you always assume the commentators are actually at the event, except on TalkSport of course!

Could have all been done from London, you know what the BBC is like, trying to cut costs and with this on the red button why flyt them to the event when you can send feed to London and commentate on that.

Barry Davies was commentating yesterday on the Boat Race for LBC (radio) in London.

I wonder if he will get the gig again when it comes back to the BBC next year ? Much better than screaming Garry Herbert.

"Grade Bridden - YES "