Re: 21-man squad to face Castleford
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2020 1:32 am
I'd settle for just making sure the vast majority of their talk is about what's actually going on on the pitch.
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What NRL games have you been watching? If there's an incident of foul play then the commentators give their opinions on it and discuss it and they give it further coverage at half time or after the game. That's what they have to do as part of their jobs. If they didn't mention it then people would be asking why they weren't paying any attention to it. Just look at the Proctor/Johnson incident. That blew up more than any incident ever would over here.wall_of_voodoo wrote: βSun Aug 30, 2020 6:13 pm No it us not!!!
I'm sure you must have seen some of the NRL games this year. Do there commentators constantly refer to errors/mistakes/foul play either clear or not? No they do not
They call the game as they see it and highlight the positives and good things. If a try is scored is is because of skill not shit defence - that is the problem with the SKY team. Over lockdown seen loads of old games on the Rugby Leagues Cares page on Facebook and it comes to something when Ray French and Alex Murphy are better commentators than the biased clowns currently offering verbal diarrhea for SKY
Highlighted my point exactly yet you seem unable or unwilling to grasp.EagleEyePie wrote: βMon Aug 31, 2020 2:09 pmWhat NRL games have you been watching? If there's an incident of foul play then the commentators give their opinions on it and discuss it and they give it further coverage at half time or after the game. That's what they have to do as part of their jobs. If they didn't mention it then people would be asking why they weren't paying any attention to it. Just look at the Proctor/Johnson incident. That blew up more than any incident ever would over here.wall_of_voodoo wrote: βSun Aug 30, 2020 6:13 pm No it us not!!!
I'm sure you must have seen some of the NRL games this year. Do there commentators constantly refer to errors/mistakes/foul play either clear or not? No they do not
They call the game as they see it and highlight the positives and good things. If a try is scored is is because of skill not shit defence - that is the problem with the SKY team. Over lockdown seen loads of old games on the Rugby Leagues Cares page on Facebook and it comes to something when Ray French and Alex Murphy are better commentators than the biased clowns currently offering verbal diarrhea for SKY
The Sky commentary team is far from perfect. It's debatable whether it's even good, but they are supposed to comment on foul play or anything that might be contentious and give it some focus.
If anything like that happened against us fans would be complaining if the commentators weren't mentioning it and discussing it at half time. There's plenty of reasons to criticise the Sky coverage but actually talking about foul play is hardly one of them.
wall_of_voodoo wrote: βMon Aug 31, 2020 3:30 pm
Was the Clare incident foul play??????? I will make it easy for you - yes or no
I'm not unable or willing to grasp anything. God knows what you're going on about mentioning the Flower incident and hounding Smithies out of the team? Relax.wall_of_voodoo wrote: βMon Aug 31, 2020 3:30 pm Highlighted my point exactly yet you seem unable or unwilling to grasp.
Was the Clare incident foul play??????? I will make it easy for you - yes or no
SKY had decided - no matter what the camera showed - that the only way Clare went down and was stretchered off was due to foul play, Did you see it (foul play)? Did the Castleford players react to it? Did it become a flashpoint? Are you willing to castigate Smithies and demand his removal from the team permanently like those that hounded Flower after the Grand Final? If not why not? One punched an unconscious player - the other SKY had already decided attempted to cause deliberate serious injury by Smithies
I would surmise that was trial by commentators and that Daryl Powell was then "led" by the post match questioning into "foul play caused the incident" without even asking his players or medical staff. So what we now have all over media platforms is Smithies "guilty" before the end of the match credits have finished
BTW did I ever say that if a player made a particular bad foul that the Aussies wouldn't mention or debate it? They just wouldn't spend the entire remaining time droning on about the merits or not of the referees decision and the disciplinary committee. They let the judiciary decide if there are cases to answer