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Flat caps and whippets at the ready.

34 years later and we still have Ray French . Has the BBC learn't anything about the portrayal of our game ?

sky's short term replacement for eddie hemmings

Reading the full press release, it seems like it will be a balanced and thought through piece... should be a good programme

Eddie was great. "Up and under."

Agreed. Looks like it'll be a good watch.

RLW this month seemed to suggest this might be part of an RL night on BBC Four?

Don't worry...it won't be on until 4am anyway.....It's league

Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.

Quote ="Bilko"Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.'" BBC Four is excellent. It's what BBC2 is supposed to be. It's a "Northern Season", not a Rugby League Night though, AFAIK, though they might slip in a screening of "This Sporting Life" or something. www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressr ... ture.shtml

Quote ="Bilko"Makes sense. They do special nights quite often. In fact I think BBC Four is the best BBC channel. Ok not in terms of ratings perhaps but they have some excellent documentaries on there. Good public service broadcasting in my view.'" BBC Four is excellent. It's what BBC2 is supposed to be. It's a "Northern Season", not a Rugby League Night though, AFAIK, though they might slip in a screening of "This Sporting Life" or something. www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressr ... ture.shtml

Quote ="craigizzard"BBC Four is excellent. It's what BBC2 is supposed to be. It's a "Northern Season", not a Rugby League Night though, AFAIK, though they might slip in a screening of "This Sporting Life" or something. www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressr ... ture.shtml'" The Road To Wigan Pie Shop.

Quote ="craigizzard"BBC Four is excellent. It's what BBC2 is supposed to be. It's a "Northern Season", not a Rugby League Night though, AFAIK, though they might slip in a screening of "This Sporting Life" or something. www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressr ... ture.shtml'" The Road To Wigan Pie Shop.

Be patient cock, rumour has it that you will be getting Sky in Wigin very soon.

Electicity would help first.

They should have renamed the JJB as The Pie Dome!

The problem is that when Norweb lay the cables during the day, the local night shift come and dig them up

Eddie Waring will of course be remembered for his catchphrases and jokey style, but he was by no means a bad commentator, and had a great love for the game. He and the BBC brought RL up into the national consciousness, and to blame the whole 'cloth cap and whippet' image thing on Waring is frankly nuts. Having got a golden opportunity of national terrestrial (and very popular in terms of viewers) coverage, it was up to the RFL to capitalise on it.

In a similar era, the Beeb also popularised an obscure sport called wrestling. Somebody picked up that opportunity and ran with it. Can't stand it myself but with a lot of spadework it became huge on both sides of the pond.

When I hear some of the whingeing on here about how Red Hall are contriving to get our sport ignored, it's obvious they had no experience of, or received education in, "How Rugby League Was Run Under Bill Fallowfield"

Sadly most people remember Eddie Waring as a senile caricature of himself. He was much more than that and in his younger days was quite an innovator and asset to RL. Will this come out in the program? His commentary on Don Fox's miss at Wembley is still a classic piece.

Yeah, if you watch some of the Waring stuff from the late 60s / early 70s (about the time when most homes finally got a telly of some sort) he was streets ahead of the garbage the Ray French churned out for years.

More chance of that than finding Virgin in Wigin

I was 18 years ahead when I got it then in 1992 then. I must be special!

Dewsbury Black Knights anyone? Still the best name for an RL team that I've come across.

I've always said you ought to be a twin, cos you have too many brains for one

Got to agree there pal, virgin is not a name associated with Wigin