He was a studio 'guest' alongside Dewi Morris and Paul Wallace up until the Gloucester game.

Yesterday's Rugby on Gaelic service 'BBC Alba':-

Boroughmuir V Heriot's RFC (Scottish Hydro Electric Premiership)

Evelyn Coull as presenter, with Hugh Maclllinnein* and Ailean Domhnallach as Commentator(s).

*I hope I've spelled that right

Toulouse vs. Bath

Commentators: Mark Robson & Stuart Barnes

Yesterday's Heineken Cup Rugby on Sky Sports / S4C then:-

1.35pm KOs
Edinburgh V Leinster - Scott Hastings and Tyrone Howe (Sky Sports 2)
Rugby Calvisano V Cardiff Blues - Martin Gillingham and Phil Davies* (Interactive via SS2) (4:3) (Alun Jenkins for S4C)
Clermont Auvergne V Sale Sharks (Interactive via SS2) - Will Chignell and Dick Best* (Keith Davies reporting for S4C)

2.30pm KO
(Newport-Gwent) Dragons V Glasgow Warriors - Russell Isaac for S4C

3.30pm KOs
(Llanelli) Scarlets V Harlequins - Johnnie Hammond and Ieuan Evans (Sky Sports 2)(Wyn Gruffydd and Derwyn Jones for S4C)
Ulster V Stade Francais (Interactive via SS2) - Bob Symonds and Reggie Corrigan (Keith Davies reporting for S4C)

5.30pm KO
Gloucester V Biarritz Olympique - Miles Harrison and Will Greenwood (Bethan Clement reporting for S4C)

*They were definatly at the game, as about 6 minutes in, the video feeds was lost, but they were still describing the action.

Commentators/reporters I've missed:-

Newport-Gwent Dragons V Glasgow Warriors (Saturday) - Bob Symonds (report on the European Heineken cup review on SS1)
London Wasps V Castres Olympique (Sunday) - Simon Ward on SS1
Leicester Tigers V (Neath-Swansea) Ospreys (Sunday) - Wyn Gruffydd and Derwyn Jones for S4C
Stade Toulouse(-ain) V Bath - Alun Wyn Bevan for S4C
Perpignan V Benetton Treviso - Simon Ward for Sky Sports



Also, was that Michael Tucker (BBC's Olympic Equestrian Commentator) on Sky Sports' coverage of the Horse of the Year Show currently on at the NEC?

Yep, think he covered Hicksted for Sky as well

Brive V Newcastle Falcons (Sky Sports 1)

Johnnie Hammond with Dewi Morris

Anyone with any idea who will be commentating on SuperLeague Formula this weekend on the webstream?

This will be my first weekend with Setanta, I am looking forward to the Kelly Pavlik v Bernard Hopkins fight. Do they use the U.S commentary for this or do they have their own guys there?

Usually they have their own commentators.

Last week for the Klitschko V Samuel fight they used Eurosport's Dave Farrar ( off tube ) so it could be him tonight.......or Steve Holdsworth who is much better. Setanta did use the excellent John Rawling but he has other commitments with ITV now. They are to trial David Croft but he will be on F1 duty for 5 live this weekend.

The Weekends Rugby (union) action:-

Sky Sports

Glasgow V Toulouse (Friday) - Will Chignell and Tyrone Howe
Stade Francais V Scarlets (Saturday) - Johnnie Hammond and Scott Quinell
Benetton Treviso V Leicester Tigers - (Saturday) (Interactive) - Simon Ward and Reggie Corrigan
Ospreys V Perpignan (Saturday) - Miles Harrison and Stuart Barnes
Leinster V London Wasps (Saturday) - Mark Robson and Will Greenwood
Castres V Edinburgh (Saturday) (Interactive) - Bob Symonds and Dick Best
Northampton Saints V Montpellier (Challenge Cup) (Saturday) - Martin Gillingham and Phil Davies
Sale Sharks V Munster (Sunday) - Miles Harrison and Stuart Barnes
Bath V Dragons (Sunday) (Interactive) - Will Chignell and Dewi Morris
Cardiff Blues V Gloucester (Sunday) - Mark Robson and Ieuan Evans

Reporters:- Simon Ward for Harlequins V Ulster (Saturday) and Montauban V Clermont Auvergne (Sunday) , Martin Gillingham for Biarritz V Calvisano

S4C

Stade Francais V Scarlets (Saturday) - Alun Jenkins
Benetton Treviso V Leicester - Alun Wyn Bevan
Ospreys V Perpignan (Saturday) - Wyn Gruffydd and Derwyn Jones
Leinster V London Wasps (Saturday) - Russell Isaac
Bath V Dragons (Sunday) - Lyn Davies and Huw Harries
Cardiff Blues V Gloucester - Wyn Gruffydd and Derwyn Jones

Reporters:- Keith Davies for Treviso V Leicester Tigers and Castres V Edinburgh on the Saturday, with Montauban V Clermont Auvergne (shown in 4:3 for some reason) on the Sunday. Russell Isaac for Sale Sharks V Munster on Sunday.

Ireland V Scotland (Shinty Hurling) on BBC 2 Scotland on Saturday:- Iain Anderson and Hugh dan Maclennan

Giles Simon V Andy Murray (ATP Tennis Masters Final, Madrid) - Peter Fleming and Mark Petchey on SS3
Last edited by Ian Cleverly : 20-10-2008 at 02:56

Hi Darren

I see ITV has a fair few darts tournaments coming up, I take it JR will be used on these. Also in the dim and distant past he did work on football for Five Live, I wonder whether they'll use him as one of their FA Cup commentators. No doubt CT and PD will do the ITV live games but I am guessing they'll have a Match of the Day type show on 3rd round Saturday etc

yep and no doubt tony jones will be used too

But on/t what other darts tournaments do ITV have?

They plugged the Grand Slam and there were 2 others mentioned. This was on Sunday after The Championship

The new European championship is at the end of the month, I think I read on one of the other threads that Peter Drury will be involved in commentating on it

There will be a MOTD style show from the first round Saturday - however JR won't be involved in that as there is boxing on the same night.


I'm not a betting man... (well actually I am)


Correct.
The third darts tournament this year is the Pro-Celeb challenge. But there will be more darts in January too.

Are ITV intrested in buying the rights of the PDC of which SKY hold? When do those rights come up for renewel and how much do they cost?

Having noticed that he is on the jolly up to the Stanford Series, surely the terminally bland Ian Ward hasn't now pushed the excellent Charles Colvile down to third place in the pecking order of Sky cricket presenters?

Radio Times mentions John Rawling and Stuart Pyke as commentators on the darts this weekend.

ariusuk- you have let the cat out of the bag with news about jan- the pdc have not confirmed it was itv. itv will be showing the euro champs from ger, celebrity darts (1 night), grand slam of darts. Great news for darts that the jan event is on itv, most thought it would be on nuts

Sky still have the crown jewels (matchplay and world champ) plus prem lge, las vegas, uk open, world grand prix. Maybe itv could try for highlights of the world champs?

Would darts highlights really be a ratings winner?

I haven't said what the tournament is or who is sanctioning it.

It may be entirely coincidental that the PDC has a tournament in January too.

I agree, I know he's not everyone favourite, but I'm a big fan of Colvile and have been since the early days of him and Bumble broadcasting from the car-park cabin that they had for a studio.

The problem is he seems to have been give the No.2 role which leaves him doing all the England summer highlight shows, winter internationals and some county games. Ward seems to be the main county presenter and ironically gets more on screen time at live games.

Tennis comes to ITV (4) with John Lloyd heading up the commentary team:-

ITV Press Release