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Feb 2023
7:37am, 15 Feb 2023
45,573 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
It was the ITV coverage specifically flanker on Sunday. I completely agree, there have been plenty of very balanced commentators over the years.  G
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Feb 2023
7:39am, 15 Feb 2023
45,574 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Though actually - the best, inc some of the ones you mentioned, we're Scottish, Welsh...? G
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Feb 2023
9:38am, 15 Feb 2023
26,183 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
I like the multi-cultural partisan commentators you get at 6 Nations. Mostly they manage to be at least occasionally objective about the other side as well. The only one I really couldn’t abide was Jeremy Guscott because he was so parochial about England and utterly dismissive of everyone else. But I think he’s been punted now.
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Feb 2023
6:39pm, 15 Feb 2023
20,813 posts
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flanker
I'll match your Guscott, and raise you Brian Moore.
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Feb 2023
7:14pm, 15 Feb 2023
13,339 posts
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Little Nemo
I agree that in the beginning Brian Moore was very biased and only ever talked about how England were doing. But I think he got better over the years and I was impressed that he learnt to be a referee so at least he had some idea of the rules!
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Feb 2023
7:35pm, 15 Feb 2023
9,503 posts
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Eynsham Red
I find that Brian Moore was more openly critical about England than any opposition side.
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Feb 2023
7:49pm, 15 Feb 2023
8,657 posts
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Fields
Laws not rules
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Feb 2023
8:10pm, 15 Feb 2023
13,342 posts
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Little Nemo
It wasn't that he wasn't critical of England, ER. But in his first couple of years he would hardly mention the opposition at all, even when they were playing well. Everything was in relation to what England were doing, good or bad.
Laws not rules? I've learned something today
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Feb 2023
8:25pm, 15 Feb 2023
20,967 posts
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richmac
Think that just talk England was of its time, when audiences were expected to expect it just to be about England.
Thank chuff it's changed.
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Feb 2023
8:40pm, 15 Feb 2023
8,661 posts
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Fields
BBC also don’t have rights to England home games which might impact too
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