marklaspalmas Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 This match report https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57928500 remarks on how there was no Television Match Official at Headingley. I don't know about you, but I've always called him/her the video ref https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barley Mow Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 1 minute ago, marklaspalmas said: This match report https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57928500 remarks on how there was no Television Match Official at Headingley. I don't know about you, but I've always called him/her the video ref I believe TMO is the union term for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 1 minute ago, marklaspalmas said: This match report https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/57928500 remarks on how there was no Television Match Official at Headingley. I don't know about you, but I've always called him/her the video ref TMO is what they call it in Rugby Union, once they "invented" the idea fairly recently. And this is a BBC report. 1 "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklaspalmas Posted July 24 Author Report Share Posted July 24 1 minute ago, Barley Mow said: I believe TMO is the union term for it. Possibly, I wouldn't know. Seems odd then that a BBC rugby league journalist would use the term. 2 https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 3 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said: Possibly, I wouldn't know. Seems odd then that a BBC rugby league journalist would use the term. There's no byline on that report. Probably some freelancer filling in. "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stotty Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 4 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said: Seems odd then that a BBC rugby league journalist would use the term. It might have been changed by a sub-editor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklaspalmas Posted July 24 Author Report Share Posted July 24 4 minutes ago, Stotty said: It might have been changed by a sub-editor. 5 minutes ago, Futtocks said: There's no byline on that report. Probably some freelancer filling in. Neither of these seem particularly good excuses. Perhaps a fly-half won a line out too? 1 https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 (edited) 9 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said: Neither of these seem particularly good excuses. Perhaps a fly-half won a line out too? They may not be good excuses, but they may be reasons. Edited July 24 by Futtocks 1 "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklaspalmas Posted July 24 Author Report Share Posted July 24 Awful, isn't it? 1 https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 Just now, marklaspalmas said: Awful, isn't it? Probably some general sports reporter, who thought he was cleverly using the correct terminology for "Rugby". 1 "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiganermike Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 8 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said: Neither of these seem particularly good excuses. Perhaps a fly-half won a line out too? They may not seem like good excuses but one of them is probably correct. It is similar to the old SL intro on sky with the animated players on it which ended with a player wearing number 10 putting up a bomb. We know as RL fans that the number 10, a prop, is not going to be doing that job but those intro graphics were obviously put together by someone familiar with union, not league where the fly half wears 10 and so would be expected to kick the ball up-field. They created images fitting what they were familiar with and whoever wrote or edited this match report used terminology with which they are familiar thinking it to be correct. It only becomes an issue if incorrect terms continue to be used on a regular basis at which point they should be corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklaspalmas Posted July 24 Author Report Share Posted July 24 2 hours ago, wiganermike said: They may not seem like good excuses but one of them is probably correct. It is similar to the old SL intro on sky with the animated players on it which ended with a player wearing number 10 putting up a bomb. We know as RL fans that the number 10, a prop, is not going to be doing that job but those intro graphics were obviously put together by someone familiar with union, not league where the fly half wears 10 and so would be expected to kick the ball up-field. They created images fitting what they were familiar with and whoever wrote or edited this match report used terminology with which they are familiar thinking it to be correct. It only becomes an issue if incorrect terms continue to be used on a regular basis at which point they should be corrected. When "mistakes" become regular, it's too late. Is it too much to ask that someone who writes a 400/500 rugby league match report for the BBC knows the game of rugby league? 2 https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CmonTheBorough Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 2 hours ago, wiganermike said: They may not seem like good excuses but one of them is probably correct. It is similar to the old SL intro on sky with the animated players on it which ended with a player wearing number 10 putting up a bomb. We know as RL fans that the number 10, a prop, is not going to be doing that job but those intro graphics were obviously put together by someone familiar with union, not league where the fly half wears 10 and so would be expected to kick the ball up-field. They created images fitting what they were familiar with and whoever wrote or edited this match report used terminology with which they are familiar thinking it to be correct. It only becomes an issue if incorrect terms continue to be used on a regular basis at which point they should be corrected. Everything you say about the old Sky SL intro is correct but even more worrying is that all the players are offside in front of the prop putting up the bomb, the scorer doesn’t ground the ball properly, and when the frame freezes at the end, all the players are wearing black suspenders. Why didn’t the TMO, sorry video ref, have a word in the ref’s earpiece?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 42 minutes ago, marklaspalmas said: Is it too much to ask that someone who writes a 400/500 rugby league match report for the BBC knows the game of rugby league? Do you want the idealistic answer or the depressing real one? "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklaspalmas Posted July 24 Author Report Share Posted July 24 1 minute ago, Futtocks said: Do you want the idealistic answer or the depressing real one? Neither mate. It was rhetorical really. #saturdaynightrants If we let union have "Rugby World Cup" without a whimper, then here we are. https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiganermike Posted July 24 Report Share Posted July 24 41 minutes ago, CmonTheBorough said: Everything you say about the old Sky SL intro is correct but even more worrying is that all the players are offside in front of the prop putting up the bomb, the scorer doesn’t ground the ball properly, and when the frame freezes at the end, all the players are wearing black suspenders. Why didn’t the TMO, sorry video ref, have a word in the ref’s earpiece?! The sock-suspenders were certainly a strange addition. Who knows what inspired that choice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RigbyLuger Posted July 25 Report Share Posted July 25 Poor journalism. A real basic error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuff Smith Posted July 25 Report Share Posted July 25 More surprisingly, The Guardian's "as it happens" commentary on the final State of Origin game—presumably done by an Australian—used the term "garryowen". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklaspalmas Posted July 25 Author Report Share Posted July 25 4 minutes ago, Stuff Smith said: More surprisingly, The Guardian's "as it happens" commentary on the final State of Origin game—presumably done by an Australian—used the term "garryowen". Uncle Eddie will be turning in his grave. Oopanunder. Always has been, always will be. 1 https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklaspalmas Posted August 6 Author Report Share Posted August 6 Tonight's team line ups.... https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/match/EVP3543414 In traditional style, 1 to 15, props first, then the rest of the pack, then the backs from scrum half backwards to full back. Its how we've always done it in rugby...... https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frying Scotsman Posted August 6 Report Share Posted August 6 1 hour ago, marklaspalmas said: Tonight's team line ups.... https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/match/EVP3543414 In traditional style, 1 to 15, props first, then the rest of the pack, then the backs from scrum half backwards to full back. Its how we've always done it in rugby...... Horrendous. (There isn't an emoji/reaction for that, so I had to quote you....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hela Wigmen Posted August 7 Report Share Posted August 7 I’m pretty sure BBC now use the Press Association to write many of their articles, so the quality overall on BBC Sport dropped dramatically when they brought this in and sloppy mistakes like this are the rule, not the exception now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire Warrior Dragon Posted August 7 Report Share Posted August 7 10 hours ago, marklaspalmas said: Tonight's team line ups.... https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/match/EVP3543414 In traditional style, 1 to 15, props first, then the rest of the pack, then the backs from scrum half backwards to full back. Its how we've always done it in rugby...... ....except the clubs that used letters, not numbers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Chopra Posted August 7 Report Share Posted August 7 10 hours ago, marklaspalmas said: Tonight's team line ups.... https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/match/EVP3543414 In traditional style, 1 to 15, props first, then the rest of the pack, then the backs from scrum half backwards to full back. Its how we've always done it in rugby...... The really bizarre thing is someone would have had to actually spend some time on this to reorder it, given what the issued line up would have looked like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklaspalmas Posted August 7 Author Report Share Posted August 7 Glad it's not just me on a #thewholeworldsgoingdownthepan rant. Ta. https://www.fevarchive.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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