on the Blues-Sharks game? Not a regular commentator I assume - at least hopefully not.
There were three funny incidents during that game - at least funny from a commentators assessment point of view. Those were the following:-
* The attacking Blues player is tackled meters from the tryline by Pietersen.. Oosthuizen is on his feet and immediately laid his hands on the ball and the Blues player hangs onto the ball and the referee penalized the Blues player for hanging onto the ball. The commentator goes dilly saying that is a huge problem - there is a ruck and the Sharks player is in contravention of the rules with hands in the ruck. Wonder what he would have said if McCaw did exactly the same thing - matter of fact this always was one of McCaw's strong points?
* Steyn tackled a player and stood up trying to win the ball from the tackled player and the commentator said he is off-side, which effectively he was not. Reinach ended up scoring a try for the Sharks and on replay it looked like Steyn fumbled the ball forwards and there should have been a scrum fed by the Blues. However, the initial comments of the commentator was way off the mark.
* Jordaan got the ball and passed it. After the ball was gone the commentator said it was a hard tackle - the coo=commentator came in and said there is a lot of arm-waving going on and Bismarck and Steyn spoke to the referee. The play is reshown and it is clear there was a shoulder charge by Nonu. So the co-commentator asked the commentator - what do you think about the issue now- and a dead silence on the part of the commentator ensued.
What anybody needs from a commentator is unbiased and knowledgeable comments - not seriously biased stuff. The way the commentator handled that game showed anything but knowledge of the game laws. Whomsoever the commentator was - he was seriously defective and very poor.
