Wallabies finally get some quality coverage on Ten

Marginally off side interesting comment by commentator

Why can't we also see the Bokke, All Blacks and Puma games? A least they win! The Dreadful l Dingoes let down the entire Southern Hemisphere. Mind you France is good enough to be in the SH. I watched all of the other matches on the Internet and they were all great except the ordinary All Black effort against the Cavemen. How can they call this a great MIB team when they only win the important games.

Watched Ten for about 5 minutes but the English commentary was too dry for me. I like the Fox team as IMO it is a good mix of game knowledge, stats, enthusiasm and humour. Commentary bias is a non-issue with me as surely a commentator is permitted to get excited, or otherwise, about his team.

"Coverage was quite poor – vital pieces of play missed so they can run ads about betting." Commercial network, bills to be paid, wages and so on... at times irritating, but it was exactly the same with Nine’s coverage, and Seven’s before that. Vital the game stays free-to-air. Twickenham, should be a beauty. If we turn up.

Johnno, actually Matt Burke’s analysis was really good, as was the young gun fronting the desk (missed his name, Scott somebody) and – as to be expected from an ex-player, meaning MB – really insightful. Initially Burkey believed Kurts is our answer at flyhalf, but by game’s end he was suggesting, as I’m sure you heard, that Barnsie is back in the starting line-up, though presumably at inside centre with Kurts remaining at 10? Stay tuned, don’t go ’way as all will be revealed next weekend, at some, umm, ungodly hour… 1:00am. I’ll have to miss church. Actually quite enjoy the anthems, and even including the Haka… And the feed was BBC commentary? That was good too, enjoyed it. (You Kiwis need Mex back in the commentary mix, to liven things up, ;)

Hahaha! I gave Ten a go for ten minutes . they butchered the Aussie anthem, put a Waterhouse add at the first break hence missed the restart. Was back on fox and stayed there. You can't trust nine, ten or seven can you. Good luck!

Coverage was quite poor - vital pieces of play missed so they can run ads about betting. I suppose it was important that any kids watching the game learn all about what Waterhouse can do for them... ;)

The channel 9 coverage was appalling, hopefully channel 10 will do a better job!

Well, Channel 10 missed kick-offs and a few vital moves because of the importance of seeing an oft-repeated ad about betting -- but they didn't seem to control time like previous commercial broadcaster, where the average game seemed to take about 2 hours -- and they still missed kick-offs, too.

If you are a ex rugby player do not make you a good commentator. Naas and Stransky do what Marshall do at NZ side and get half their laws wrong when they question the referee. I still love the NZ commentary and its the best for me. They give credit where its due and and appreciate fine play. No matter which team or who done it. Australia commentary Kearns is a real joy but the rest are the cream of the crap alongside Bladen and MR. Coconut

I wonder how many got excited on here thinking this was about Aussie flyhalf

That works out well to be honest. I am one who is not a fan of endless pre-game stuff. Heck I now try to avoid the national anthems, I have worked out that with national anthems you lose about minutes so when it is says kick off at 8pm the teams come out at about 7.52pm. But pre-game should be made available if fans want a long pregame chat it is made available on fox fit hey want it. I used to feel sorry for the commnetoatrs on fox having a long pre-game chat but now I don't coz, then i thought. Hang on they are getting paid to do this, if there was no pre game they would get less money so they actually want a long pre game chat.

"Ten plans to run a 30 minute pre-game show ahead of each Test, starring Matt Burke. English speaking commentary from the international feed will be used for the games." According to my maths if the telecast begins at 6.45am and the game proper kicks off at 7.00am AEDT, erm, that's 15 mins of pre-match analysis. Btw, thought Greegs & Slackie and Ealesie did a great job during Nine's coverage, and including Sherro and Kenny, but alas, many will disagree. And personally have zero issues with the Fox commentary team, meaning Clarkie & the lads. Should be a good match.

Outside league, I actually prefer non-Aussie commentators. That's why I will give ten a go tomorrow. IMO, when an Aussie channel knows they don't have someone of quality to comment, they should use the international feed, often better. ten does that with F1 and it's more than fine. Nine stuck with Ray Hadley in the Olympics and it was a disaster. I don't mind a bit of bias, like most am also biased too, but what fox has been doing recently during games and the rugby club was just too much. Poms commentating on French and Aussies having a go at each other can't be bad anyway!!

I agree a dedicated rugby channel is exactly what is needed. Everyone complaining the game is boring. I used to be a fan. I am a really big fan, but can't stand it anymore.... pffft. What happened to getting up in the early hour of the morning with your dad when you are really young to watch the Springbok and Lions tours. It was just two massive forward packs smashing each other, maybe a try and a few kicks. Then oh no we want more running. No more rucking, our boys are getting hurt. Their mums won't let them play. And you know who supported and pushed for these law changes, so they wouldn't mess up their hair or get there clothes dirty. Bloody Aussies. And why, because of rubbish coverage of this great sport. Onwards and upwards channel 10 :-). Sorry was that a bit parochial kiwi... Sorry. I had to say something :-). I agree about the league commentators. In Australia they have ex rugby players, but they are not so good on the mike, but that is probably due to their mums :-). NZ really has no excuse. We have Ian Smith FFS, a great cricketer, but he has never touched a rugby ball... boring and pedestrian. Bring back the fun... French you say? Can't be worse :-)

Wasn't questioning how one eyed he was compared to London Olympic commentators.... How did we get onto the Olympics? Anyway that aside, he can't interpret the game and what is worse he just makes it up to make up for the knowledge gap. Hopefully he goes with CH 9. Maybe he can try his hand at League commentating (it's a bit simpler) or the Olympics :-)

Will be watching tens coverage as well. Don't mind if it's the english commentary team. They can't be as bad as as their idiot countrymen who commentate on the league tests, now that is what i call bad commentary. If only the southern rugby nations could find commentators in the same class as the aussie league ones, especially stirlo.

Good news! Finally getting away from CH9 rubbish coverage. The only down side is being forced to listen to English commentary when the Wallabies play England; their commentators are worse than Fox's.

If the Wallabies can win the Bledisloe next year with this new coverage it would be huge for the game here.

Nine were ridiculous. Too obsessed with league and obviously only bought rugby so no one else had it. Great work ten!!!