Wakefield Trinity • Great competition but amateurishly presented

The tournament has some great looking rugby ahead but the tournament has so much of Ralph Rimmer and so little of NRL razzmattazz.

So far, we've had:
- a broken PA system, with people stood on the pitch holding trophies to silence
- a delay to the start because of that
- the Kaiser Chiefs doing comedy runs to amuse the crowd
- the interviews held with the Scotland and Italy coaches done by cameras seemingly mounted on the end of springs they were moving about that much
- the sound not working when the Scots and Italians coming out
- the game not starting as they have to play a poem on the big screen first, which is spoken over by the commentator and would have more impact if played before the players came out
- a 25 second gap between the video ref symbol being given and any footage actually appearing because of the guff that the video ref has to say to the match director
- the video ref decisions taking an age because the match director has no idea what they are looking for, even though there was a delay so the video ref could tell them

It's as if it's Ralph's first tournament, and as if the BBC have never televised it before. If they're looking for some fizz for the neutrals, they need to get their acts together a bit more.