The Channel NINE Curse

[novice chook]

I hope that Vossy is doing the commentary on our game on Sat night. Unless our blokes really step it up, his take on the game may be the highlight for me!

Please do not let us all have to listen to 80 minutes of the bloody biased Kiwi commentators. Mind you, they are still better than what 9 dish up.

[theGman]

Yes. I even took to Twitter to say how much I enjoyed Vossy and our Jimmy Smith (as well as Braith) together as a team in the Dogs v Saints game. Vossy and Jimmy both have a great feel for the history of the game and are about the only ones that actually do some research. I absolutely loved that coverage.

It will be interesting to see how high Jimmy gets in the pecking order because Ricky Stuart would be whiteanting him any chance he gets.

JT, I wasn't aware of any bad blood btw the pair. Why does Ricky dislike Jimmy Smith?

[Johnny Tobin]

Jimmy has said a couple of things that could almost come close to criticising his teams. And Ricky is a psychopath.

On NRL 360 last week they listed five reasons why Ricky may have walked out of the press conference. Number 3 was because Jimmy was the sideline eye. Paul Kent straight out said that Ricky doesn't like him.

Such is the nepotism in the media (and the power that Ricky through his chums at the Tele and Fulton likes to think he wields) I am surprised that Jimmy has done as well as he has. And I really hope his star keeps rising - while hopefully Ricky's becomes a black hole sooner rather than later.

[novice chook]

Watching the ultra conservative toe-the-line Ben Ikin's reactions to some of the comments made by Paul Kent makes watching NRL 360 worth watching on a regular basis.

Jimmy has become a regular part of the Fox team, and is always good value, especially when he's down in the midst of it on the sideline. And I doubt Sticky's power base is what it once was - he didn't handle his departure from parra well.

[Johnny Tobin]

Watching the ultra conservative toe-the-line Ben Ikin's reactions to some of the comments made by Paul Kent makes watching NRL 360 worth watching on a regular basis.

Jimmy has become a regular part of the Fox team, and is always good value, especially when he's down in the midst of it on the sideline. And I doubt Sticky's power base is what it once was - he didn't handle his departure from parra well.

Softcock yes man Ikin is one of the most unbearable of them.

If he wasn't Wayne's son-in-law he would be on the scrapheap.

His gullable idiotic attempt to back DCE's claim that he didn't know about the negotiations until the contract was put before him put him on a new level of sheer stupidity. Even on his own show Toovey said he had discussed it with him. And even I knew well before the contract was given to him that the deal was done.

What about how he said he stopped watching the Parra v Cows game and put on The Office? Wouldn't you expect someone who is in the RL media for a living to actually watch the games?

I shudder at his facial expressions and feel physically sick when he says "Stop It" like some teenage mall rat.

Yes, I can't stand him.