Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 12:27 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Don,t know what other people think, but I thought the BBC did a very good job promoting and presenting the game with excellent input from past and present players. Makes a welcome change from some of the Sky guff we get at times.

Two things annoy me with the BBC coverage.
1. Jon Wilkin and Robbie Paul running around interviewing players in the warm up. Let them get on with their match preparation.
2. The camera going from a distance view to zooming in when the impact occurs, so you end up missing half the impact.

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 1:00 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Don,t know what other people think, but I thought the BBC did a very good job promoting and presenting the game with excellent input from past and present players. Makes a welcome change from some of the Sky guff we get at times.

No idea mate, I was at the game with 50,000 other Yorkshiremen.

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 1:26 pm  

SecondRowSaint wrote:

Two things annoy me with the BBC coverage.
1. Jon Wilkin and Robbie Paul running around interviewing players in the warm up. Let them get on with their match preparation.
2. The camera going from a distance view to zooming in when the impact occurs, so you end up missing half the impact.

Add to that cutting to the crowd and/or coaches during play, even between the tackle on Sandow after his interception and the resulting try. What were they thinking?

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 4:21 pm  

Judder Man wrote:

Don,t know what other people think, but I thought the BBC did a very good job promoting and presenting the game with excellent input from past and present players. Makes a welcome change from some of the Sky guff we get at times.

Apart from the awful piece with Robbie hunter Paul or whatever he's called these days fannying around on the pitch trying to get interviews and getting in the way, what's that about? why do we need this silly feature? or the Sky-like obsession with showing the coaches hidden away behind glass windows while the game goes on in the background.
BBC coverage is a lot better than Sky usually, but they are starting to get as gimmicky now, just cut it out, show the game and leave the other stuff out.

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 7:24 pm  

Never a big fan of gimmicks myself and agree that BBC have slowly introduced them. Having said I still prefer their coverage over Sky's.

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:42 pm  

Fantastic day for me yesterday for obvious reasons! But the declining crowd for the final is a concern, i dont even think a final between our best supported clubs Wigan & Leeds would sell the ground out now, and the RFL need to urgently look in to why, is it the price, the marketing, the scheduling...because something isnt quite right.

Personally i think playing the game on one of the biggest weekends of the year for sporting and music events doesnt help with neutral crowd numbers or media coverage and a move to June or July would be a much clearer date in the diary. It also gets away from disrupting the middle8s as i doubt either Hull or Warrington will put on much of a show next weekend because the players are knackered.

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:52 pm  

Aren't ticket prices cheap enough without being practically free?

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 9:14 pm  

For me, the Wembley final has been on a downward spiral since the grand final was introduced and it was shunted to a bank holiday weekend in the school holidays, whereas previously it was THE showpiece event in the RL calendar, that has now been destroyed by Sky and super league, pubs, clubs, workplaces etc used to run coach trips to the final from almost every town, now i bet there are very few.
Also as well consider that RL fans, now have the Magic weekend, Grand final and cup final as big events, some will possibly pick one over the other, whereas the cup final was the big event, no question.

It's a shame,as with the FA cup final i grew up with it and all the euphoria around it, now it seems they are just another game.

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 9:52 pm  

Wembley lost its magic when it stopped being Wembley. Now, it's just another new stadium, albeit a very big one. Personally, I'd take it back to Cardiff.

Re: CC Final views and predictions. : Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:01 pm  

Hasn't lost the magic for me and if your club got there and won I'm sure you would think the same.

I think lots come down to the financial state of the country, 10 years ago I'm sure there were miles more trips and neutrals attending, I reckon lots of people now can't afford it, so the neutrals are down massively.