The 'JIFFY' award for totally biased commentary goes to.....

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

ScarletsSpiderman - you are coming across as extremely bitter towards Ulster/Ireland these days. Quite a change in character, I must say. I hope you can get over it, you are a good poster usually.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:To be fair there were a few dubious decisions that went against Ulster in that game, and I don't think Neilly was too impressed with them.

ScarletsSpiderman - you are coming across as extremely bitter towards Ulster/Ireland these days. Quite a change in character, I must say. I hope you can get over it, you are a good poster usually.

ScarletSpiderman wrote:Rory, not sure what I said wrong.  I defended the commentary team, and even explained that if anything they should be bias.  I expect a bit of bias towards the target audience, hence I expect BBCNI to be bias towards Ulster as I wxpect S4C to be bias to the Welsh.

I'm not sure what I said wrong, but hey-ho if you wish take it as a slur then feel free.

PenfroPete wrote:The lack of understanding of the laws was incredible. Yess, the Nick Williams 'clear out' has not been penalised a lot, but by laws it was illegal. Credit to the IRFU assistant and to Ben Whitehouse for reviewing  

ScarletSpiderman wrote:Keeping the Worst theme going, BBC write up on the game said Kevin Phillips scored the final try of the game.

ScarletSpiderman wrote:Keeping the Worst theme going, BBC write up on the game said Kevin Phillips scored the final try of the game.

Notch wrote:BBC NI are biased. But I like Jim Neilly- it's that eejit Ryan Constable who is the worst of it. Neilly may be biased towards Ulster a bit but he's fair in that he will criticise bad play from Ulster and applaud good play from the opposition. He's a gentleman.

Constable though, he's ridiculous. He's the agent of half the Ulster players for goodness sake. Impartial observer? No chance. Never criticises Ulster even when they are at their most wretched. Doesn't even mention the opposition. Just uses the 80 mins to talk up the players he represents. Complete BS the BBC pay him to commentate when there is such a big conflict of interest.

The Great Aukster wrote:All local tv broadcasters are naturally biased - Gusher is one of the lesser biased ones. I often watch a game live on one channel and record it on another to watch later to get both sets of commentaries. My litmus test for biased commentary is how many times they question the referee, which is mostly done by the pundit rather than the main commentator. Gusher normally tries to praise the ref if he can.

The Scots esp. John Beattie is probably top of the one-eyed poll, but Stuart Davies and Gwyn Jones aren't far behind. Jiffy is well down the list and is less biased covering Tests than the regions. I agree with Notch about Constable, but I'd still rather have him than McWhirter or Field.