Sky Sports and Rugby is crap!!!!!

Hogzy

Does anyone actually like watching sky sports for Rugby? apart from HD i think sky sports is crap! The commentary was completely dead in yesterdays Munster and Leinster match specifically in the last 10-15mins, They are absolutly crap at rugby tv! I miss RTE

Anyone agree or would like to point out some of the other good points about sky sports, please keep it rugby focused ONLY! No soccer or ill call shananigans

roryok

I think sky's rugby coverage is quite good. The analysis is often a bit biased towards english prem teams, but other than that i think it's pretty good. I like the build-up and the camera work is always very good. always make sure to sky+ the games i'm at so i can see what i missed. As for RTE i think they've lost it a bit really. Ryle nugents commentary can make me ill at times ans when they have george hamilton on it's even worse (he should stick to soccer IMO)

SomeFool

I think the beeb do the best job actually....

anonymous_joe

SomeFool wrote: »

I think the beeb do the best job actually....

Much prefer Sky to the Beeb. BBC's is patronising and clichéd.

Sky's analysis is the best, but a bit dull.

The most fun if not the best to watch is definitely RTÉ's.

445279.ie

I hate Stuart Barnes :mad:

omerin

i don't mind barnes but i don't like when after each point is made by a guest the other 2 nod their heads in agreement, must be part of the contract.
but wallace made a complete t*t of himself mentioning the sinking of the Belgrano. it was a shocking thing to say and very like the rodney marsh tsunami joke.

anonymous_joe

He said what...?

Jackz

:O

Crow71

Ya, what was that about? Barnes apologised for the comment straight after and wallace did not look happy

Beau

I really like Stuart Barnes to be honest. I don't think he is biased, makes very good points.

delaad

Agreed, Barnes is basically sound. Harrison, though, is pretty wooden and Robson, who appears to be obsessed with animal analogies, particularly when commenting on Munster, is a mite over the top.

chupacabra

Wallace said something like "if Fillipe has a poor start today he will go into a nose dive and go down quicker than the Belgrano". The Belgrano was an argentinian vessel sunk by the brits during the falkland war resulting in hundreds of deaths, a sensitive topic in the british psyche due to the way it was glorified by the press.

delaad

chupacabra wrote: »

Wallace said something like "if Fillipe has a poor start today he will go into a nose dive and go down quicker than the Belgrano". The Belgrano was an argentinian vessel sunk by the brits during the falkland war resulting in hundreds of deaths, a sensitive topic in the british psyche due to the way it was glorified by the press.

A "sensitive topic in the British psyche" as , I would suggest, the Belgrano, a remnant of the 2nd World War, was "steaming away" from the Falklands when torpedoed at the cost of 900 Argentinian lives. If anyone was hurt by this crass comment of Wallace's, it should have been Contepomi and his fellow countrymen: Wallace's hosts would have been merely piqued by this reminder of a shameful episode in their naval history.

anonymous_joe

chupacabra wrote: »

Wallace said something like "if Fillipe has a poor start today he will go into a nose dive and go down quicker than the Belgrano". The Belgrano was an argentinian vessel sunk by the brits during the falkland war resulting in hundreds of deaths, a sensitive topic in the british psyche due to the way it was glorified by the press.

Well it's pretty tasteless. Like mentioning the holocaust to German football pundits or something. No need for it.

Stealdo

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Well it's pretty tasteless. Like mentioning the holocaust to German football pundits or something. No need for it.

Agreed it's completely tasteless and there's no need for it but the holocaust is pushing it a little. It was Simon Lazenby who apologised for it immediately afterwards, Wallace oddly looked like he wasn't sure what he was apologising for, it was a very surreal moment. What I didn't really like was that it was said before the game, and Wallace had all of half time and after the game to actually apologise himself but didn't.

A horribly crass thing to say, even if he wasn't aware of the full story, which is quite possible considering it's a phrase you'd hear from time to time in England.