Lay of Setanta

[robpalmer135]

I know that the coverage is crap but people should lay off them. think of the fights we would no be seeing for the rest of 07, Cotto vs Mosley, Barrerra vs Pacquiou 2, Vargas vs Mayorga, Diaz vs Diaz.

[GazOC]

They have Cotto-SSM?

[Dunky McCafferty]

I know that the coverage is crap but people should lay off them. think of the fights we would no be seeing for the rest of 07, Cotto vs Mosley, Barrerra vs Pacquiou 2, Vargas vs Mayorga, Diaz vs Diaz.

The coverage is pretty poor, but they need time to 'bed in' as they say, as boxing is such a subjective sport. They need time to get to know us. get rid of Woodhall though, hes a nice guy but hes too biased in favour of his own.

You cannot argue with setantas schedule though, they are putting their money where their mouth is, & any competition for SKY must be a good thing.

[kerrminator]

Good shout Dunky, with the cost of Sky I hope the competition makes them drop some prices but I reckon its wishful thinking :(

36 quid for Sky sports is scandalous imo and its 90% cricket, rugby and golf which are imo as entertaining as watching paint dry.

[hitman_hatton1]

The coverage is pretty poor, but they need time to 'bed in' as they say, as boxing is such a subjective sport. They need time to get to know us. get rid of Woodhall though, hes a nice guy but hes too biased in favour of his own.

You cannot argue with setantas schedule though, they are putting their money where their mouth is, & any competition for SKY must be a good thing.

yeah but he's better than jacobs right. :yep

[achillesthegreat]

I think they went into it much better than BBC did. They are retaining the best of BBC and ITV. They just need to refine it a bit.

[China_hand_Joe]

The Woods broadcast was watchable.

I'm not really a fan of boxing, but I managed to watch Setanta for 2.5 hours last week when that fight was on.

[cmason]

i've got virgin media and setanta is free on it. who gives a toss who's commentating, at least we get to see some top fights. i'm gonna set my alarm for mab v pac and last weeks woods/gonzalez fight was a *******.

[Danny Ocean]

i hate that il have 2 pay for all of them 2 watch individually bcoz i aint allowed to have the channel

[rooq]

the presentation isn't great but i'm only really interested in the fights anyway.

and as someone has already said, they are showing loads more international fights than sky sports, who annoyed me by showing taylor - pavlik on SS2 when all their other boxing is on SS1 (I've just got the SS1 and SS3 package)

and anyway, there is already a noticeable difference in the presentation since the cotto fight

[Claypole]

I paid £140 for a chipped cable box so I'm laughing!!! The only channel I'm missing is Sky One, bring on the boxing!!!Unless they zap your moody box.

[Dunky McCafferty]

yeah but he's better than jacobs right. :yep

thats a difficult question to answer.

Jacobs was poor, but Woods is also poor. For different reasons.

You fancy a discussion about it?:yep

[The taff]

The Woods broadcast was watchable.

I'm not really a fan of boxing, but I managed to watch Setanta for 2.5 hours last week when that fight was on.

You're not really a fan of boxing? :huh You seem to be on here all the time.

[buddynabuick]

You're not really a fan of boxing? :huh You seem to be on here all the time.


I was going 2 question that:good

[GazOC]

I was going 2 question that:good

me too!

[gutto]

AT LEAST THERE TRYING SKY IS CRAP FOR BOXING AT LEAST THEY SHOW THE FIGHTS WE WANT TO SEE ON A MORE REGULAR BASIS
LIKE THE SOUND OF THE CHIPED BOX THOUGH:yep THE COMENTATORS
DO MY HEAD IN FULL STOP IAN DARKE WHAT A TWAT AS HE EVER HAD FIGHT? JUST WINDS ME UP END UP WATCHING IT WITH THE SOUND OFF

[griff]

Hi Guys, I don't mind this channel but I do worry about their american coverage. Cotto/Judah and Hatton/Castillo fights were in normal presentation but the Morales/Diaz fight was in a bloody small box and if you changed the ratio it was the same...this better not happen again with the Barrera/Pacman fight.

[GazOC]

Can't you change the aspect ratio and then zoom?

[achillesthegreat]

Hi Guys, I don't mind this channel but I do worry about their american coverage. Cotto/Judah and Hatton/Castillo fights were in normal presentation but the Morales/Diaz fight was in a bloody small box and if you changed the ratio it was the same...this better not happen again with the Barrera/Pacman fight.
I believe that may be cos its not their cameras on site. The first two are HBO but I think Morales/Diaz was a TopRank PPV.

[NOrth]

I believe that may be cos its not their cameras on site. The first two are HBO but I think Morales/Diaz was a TopRank PPV.

yep, its because they just buy the pictures from the US, hence the US commentery too.

Barrera Pac this weekend... bo!

[dalek]

the diaz-morales fight wasn't live either.about 20 mins delayed,so avoid using forums if watching it in the early hours.

[TIGEREDGE]

Good shout Dunky, with the cost of Sky I hope the competition makes them drop some prices but I reckon its wishful thinking :(

36 quid for Sky sports is scandalous imo and its 90% cricket, rugby and golf which are imo as entertaining as watching paint dry.

WHAT A MARVELOUS POINT. Remember the time when it was all sky. no bbc. no itv (well its back to them days) and no setatnta. one time, sky weren't even showing oscar de la hoya fights. how scandolous is that

setanta are giving us fights thaT we would never see. i don't watch boxing for the commentary. i watch it for the fights. i wouldn' care if it was 3 foul mouth yobs doing the commenting. as long as its entertaining

[TIGEREDGE]

AT LEAST THERE TRYING SKY IS CRAP FOR BOXING AT LEAST THEY SHOW THE FIGHTS WE WANT TO SEE ON A MORE REGULAR BASIS
LIKE THE SOUND OF THE CHIPED BOX THOUGH:yep THE COMENTATORS
DO MY HEAD IN FULL STOP IAN DARKE WHAT A TWAT AS HE EVER HAD FIGHT? JUST WINDS ME UP END UP WATCHING IT WITH THE SOUND OFF

another good point.