The way things worked out this weekend I ended up watching this game at home on my own sitting on the sofa with an old bottle of sparkling wine!
This was my first opportunity to study the BBC NI coverage in detail and I must say I was somewhat disappointed with what we were presented with. To be honest when you listen to old Gushers commentary by numbers and Constables platitudes about all the signed up players I’m afraid what comes across is a pretty tepid and sanitised version of events giving little insight into the vagaries of the game.
There is little criticism of the Ulster players, and in their attempt to come across as balanced the commentary team go overboard eulogising about basic moves carried out by the opposition. I lost count of the number of times we were told that Keatley has pace, invariably as he crabbed sideways across the field making little headway, and how powerful and forceful various Connacht players . . .
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