The most significant comment on the Super League ever? Eddie Hemmings ” West Western! ‘| Rugby league news
He played a lot of influence in the super league, but with 5000. The game on the horizon, none had a very iconic comment as “wide to the west.”
Imagine the scene: St. Helens takes over Bradford Bulls in the Play-offs on September 22, 2000. Saints champions have entered the elimination part of the season second.
Wigan was first, with Bradford right behind them in third place. It was a three -horse race that was crowned with the Super League champions.
The introductory play-off match reached the fever, and Bradford led 11-10, from just a second left on the clock when a immortal moment happened then.
Sean Long, Kevin Iro, Sean Hoppe, Steve Hall and Tim Jonkers, Dwayne West, then Chris Joynt compiled a show that would set up Sky Sports Rugby League Commentator Eddie Hemmings words in history books.
“It’s been imagining for a long time … it’s widely west … Dwayne West, inside to Joynt … Joynt … Joynt!”
St Helens stole the match without staying on the hour, Bulls head coach Matthew Elliott crashed to the floor in his coaching box as Knowsley Road entered Pandemonium. St Helens eventually won the grand finale against Arch Rivals Wigan.
For Hemmings, this is a piece of comment that could only come from the heart and he is more than proud that it is his legacy.
“He felt like a very special attempt. It was the last game of the match, the last siren sounded, St Helens passed from left to right as we watched,” he said.
“I think, honestly, I didn’t think the comment would be as remembered as it was obviously. But I knew it was a very special moment.
“And as all the commentators do, we all have our own ladder and we all have our biographies. And I have to thank Ian Proctor for that, a man who is a glue together that holds a rugby league on Sky Sports. He is a fantastic statistician.
“In any case, he gave me all the facts and figures about former matches, great players, current players, heights, weights, measurements inside my feet. But at that moment, when that attempt began to develop in front of me, I just put that piece of cards and just spoke from my heart.
“And as she built and built and built, she was just fantastic. The audience obviously helped because they were on their way with them.
“A fantastic, magical moment. They say it’s the equivalent of the Rugby League Kenneth Wolstenholme” they think it’s all over, that’s now. “And if that’s the case, it’s my legacy and I will die a happy man.”
Burrow, Paris and that Good Friday
Although ‘Wide to West’ is Hemmings Crown Slary, over the thousands of matches of the Super League he covered, he has more than a few prominent.
“The first night of the Super League in Paris, it was an amazing start,” he said.
“The first final finals, people said it would not work.
“” What, do you want to start at 6:00 pm on Saturday night? Under the lights, you laugh. It will never take off. “And that was.
“That night, Jason Robinson under the wand. It’s a very proud moment.
“Kevin Sinfield, the great chevin Sinfield who sent. You know, the altar boy who had sent. I think he Glavio Luke Dorn. He barely touched him to be fair. And the judge expressed a red card.
“Others, of course, were Andy Farrell and Paul Sculthorpe, a blowing of a big Friday derby on Knowley Road. It seems that Knowley Road produced some magical moments in the history of the Super League.
“That would never happen now because, of course, you are not allowed to throw a blow. But that was an amazing moment.
“In 2017, Luke Gale fell goal for Castleford Tigers.
“And of course, Rob Burrow. Burrow is also trying to do against St. Helens in the grand finale at Old Trafford. No doubt, one of the best attempts you will ever see.”
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