Did anybody honestly expect anything else/better?



Due to the unique way in which the BBC is funded, when they're good they're very very good, but when it's RL they're worse than useless.

For those that didn't hear it (me) what happened that was so bad as to have caused such indignation or this just the usual moaning?

well right at start they said number 2 three times before someone realised you need to also name the team,then billy boston called out number 9,there was no number 9,and then bacon called workington wokington.

That it, really? let it go, it makes Bacon look amateur not us.

.....and pigs might fly

Was listening to the draw at work + it was that bad we ended up laughing.Calling out the wrong teams was bad enough but not being able to distinguish the difference between the numbered balls was unforgivable + that's putting it kindly.Once again with hundreds of thousands of listeners RL becomes a laughing stock.Would not have happened with wendy ball i bet.Well done the BBC

Typical Wigan Brigantes violence.

There was the confusion pulling the names out, he asked Boston if he had ever lifted the cup, couldn't say Workington, made a sarcastic comment along the lines of "oh I can't go and watch what a shame" and apologised to listeners for boring them- the draw was held in the middle of an interview about sewing!

www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ Complain I have, won't matter but you never know...

www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ Complain I have, won't matter but you never know...

Your right RG, one of the greats of our game & Bacon didn't know anything about him. Probably not fully Bacons fault because he has researchers to do the leg work, but I would have expected a presenter on the BBC's highest rating afternoon radio show to have taken more time to understand why Mr Boston was chosen to make the draw.

Well I don't know anything about Richard Bacon and I haven't done any research on him, but when I listened to that farce this afternoon I realised what a complete condescending toss pot he is. He also treated one of the all time sporting greats with utter contempt.

Richard Bacon is what he is, he's always like that.



Is a cup draw boring... Well i didn't tune in and i knew about it and have a team in the draw.

In context it's people saying a number and then someone telling us who the number is followed by someone else saying a number etc etc.



It is boring, why should Richard Bacon research every single person he has to talk to, he doesn't follow the game, that's his prerogative.



Seriously people are taking the time to complain? FFS get a grip, we're playing Salford at home that's all that matters.



People don't have to like our game just because we do, i'm sure if i was doing a draw for British Basketball i wouldn't have had a clue about anyone or anything, no history and to be frank wouldn't give a monkeys.

I'd find it boring and if anyone complained about me i'd just look at the complaints and think 'get a f'kin life'



All the wrongs with the world, all the injustice and the only time you put pen to paper or fingers to a keyboard to complain is when someone bumbles through a cup draw and one person doesn't know the other.