Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:38 pm  

Ref doing his own thing again

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:40 pm  

Penalty for the Bulls. Go for the kick. Aston misses. Still 22-16.

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:46 pm  

Try. James Bentley receives the pass from Moore at dummy half to dive over the line for his second try! Aston converts.

St Helens are going to have a very good player

Bulls 28
Lions 16

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Sun Aug 20, 2017 4:08 pm  

An Aston penalty sees the Bulls win 30-16. The first back to back victories since late March.

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:20 pm  

Smack him Jimmy wrote:

I'm trying to work out which is worse, us struggling to beat Swinton, or Pete struggling to talk louder than the fans.

Go on then, I'm interested.

How exactly could he have done ANYTHING about that?

I was listening today and he was shouting to the microphone and still couldn't be heard above the fans. Bearing in mind that he had his voice at full volume, the equipment is owned and provided by BCB (out of his control), and the position he has to commentate from is decided by the club (out of his control), what could hae possibly have done about the noise around him?

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:16 pm  

DILLIGAF wrote:

Go on then, I'm interested.

How exactly could he have done ANYTHING about that?

I was listening today and he was shouting to the microphone and still couldn't be heard above the fans. Bearing in mind that he had his voice at full volume, the equipment is owned and provided by BCB (out of his control), and the position he has to commentate from is decided by the club (out of his control), what could hae possibly have done about the noise around him?

He could have asked the crowd to be quiet because we are the RFL's favourites and he was broadcasting to the faithful.

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:41 am  

DILLIGAF wrote:

Go on then, I'm interested.

How exactly could he have done ANYTHING about that?

I was listening today and he was shouting to the microphone and still couldn't be heard above the fans. Bearing in mind that he had his voice at full volume, the equipment is owned and provided by BCB (out of his control), and the position he has to commentate from is decided by the club (out of his control), what could hae possibly have done about the noise around him?

We could hear Hobbo very clearly.
In fact we had to rely on Hobbo telling us the score most of the time.

So go on then - if all the above things are equal - how come we could hear Hobbo clearly?

I could give you a clue - but why the feck should I.

[Bulliac]

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:39 am  

Smack him Jimmy wrote:

We could hear Hobbo very clearly.
In fact we had to rely on Hobbo telling us the score most of the time.

So go on then - if all the above things are equal - how come we could hear Hobbo clearly?

I could give you a clue - but why the feck should I.

I think it was largely to do with the fact that Pete was commentating when the major incidents causing the extra crowd noise occurred but it had subsided somewhat by the time Hobbo came in with his opinion.

[Bulliac]

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:44 am  

Bulls Boy 2011 wrote:

Yeah Halafihi's been at centre for the past 3 games. And yes if Rickett has been dropped it will be very annoying but if he's injured it's a different story.

Vila isn't exactly my favourite player and he's struggled to offer much in attack at times but I've developed a fair bit of respect for the guy due to his defence. For a little guy he's got a lot of bump.

Re: vs. Swinton Lions (Away) : Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:36 am  

when the BCB feed dropped at the start of the second half, I downloaded Mixlr and listened to Mick Gledhills commentary - a lot clearer and more descriptive than BCB - Hobbo just whines and whinges every week, the man doesn't have a positive bone in his body.