morley pie eater wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:40 pmAndy Greg was a top, top player, but does that make him, y'know, a good commentator, y'know, or analyst, y'know?blindsideprop wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:42 pmDoes he really know his stuff?,he was a third rate winger with Cas and London,I get sick of ex players explaining where others that are a class above are going wrong and what they should have done.I do agree that the game is overthought and and defences have improved making RL less attractive to watch.PJC wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:33 pm Tv analysis. Wells has a lot of knowledge. He knows his stuff. However I get bored with such detail. I think that today’s game is overthought, over prepared.
I would prefer the discussion to be showing clips of long distanced tries. A centre feeding his winger . A move long gone a stand off breaking from the scrum.
Emphasis on defence, which I happily admit has very much improved, prevents the above.
What Jon Wells did as a player, and what he wears are irrelevant to how he does his job. For me he's the best on Sky: Phil Clarke is intelligent but boring, Carney thinks he's good, Tez and Baz are mildly entertaining but the banter wears thin over time.
The surprise for me is Bill Arthur, in that you don't notice him, which is good compared to Eddie, Stevo etc, who became the show.
And how many top coaches were top players? There's as many that weren't as were. I think analysis and coaching are different skills to playing and to one another. You *can* be a great player and coach, but you don't have to have been a great player to be a great analyst.