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Can't say I'm terribly enthused for Seb Hutchison to (most likely) commentate on a quarter-final next weekend. Both him and Pien Meulensteen certainly have potential, so you can see why ITV have put their stock in two young commentators, but wouldn't say either of them are a #2 commentator on a major broadcaster yet.

After a couple of hours of Matterface and Dixon Seb Hutchison was an improvement, but absolutely nowhere near the level of Clive Tyldesley who should at least have got one more round. Feels like ITV just dug the boot in a bit more by sending him home a round earlier than they needed too, although at least he got a farewell rather than being axed afterwards.

I just don't get making the call that early on 2026 considering ITV will probably have an extra 20 matches, and they'll be spread across three countries including the USA so it's not as straight forward to move commentators from match to match is it would have been in Germany. You'd assume they need a couple of comms team in Canada, a couple in Mexico and possibly four in the US alone just to cover half the games unless the BBC/ITV agree to a more geographical split to limit traveling.