Channel 10, hang your head in shame

[bus24]

Re: Must be a night for inept commentating performances

Walls also called Welsh....... Scott West.

try getting your tongue around that one.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Did anyone else have the screen go blank for periods of time during the game? I was watching it through foxtel but they were shocking and then at one stage the director was obviously having fun resizing the picture.

I did like the deadly silence from the commentary box in the last quarter because they didn't have anything else to talk about the kangaroos....

I thought the work experience kid must have been in charge...

 

[beck*]

I was out for the first half, so only saw pictures... Boy, was I thankful for that. Just the last quarter was frustrating enough.

 

[macca23]

Did anyone else have the screen go blank for periods of time during the game? I was watching it through foxtel but they were shocking and then at one stage the director was obviously having fun resizing the picture.

I did like the deadly silence from the commentary box in the last quarter because they didn't have anything else to talk about the kangaroos....

Woeful telecast from a technical aspect too. Picture crapped out in the first quarter and dolby 5.1 sound was lost for about 5 minutes. Then later on some arseclown was messing around with transitions while the play was still going on. Unbelievably amateur.

That telecast was a cross between a comedy in bad taste and amateur hour.

Possibly the worst telecast I have seen technically.

Add to that the obvious bias by the commentators for the good old shinboners and the fiasco was complete.

 

[ams4crows]

The bias was so very bad!! that intro was the lamest thing i've ever come across! Walls is a tosser If he doesn't know they are shouting Roo hell his IQ must boarder on mental ******ation! FFS!

 

[crows4life]

I've been saying it for some time now, but Clinton Grybas is just about the only truly good commentator going around right now.

just a shame he takes most of the money fox have coz all the rest of fox's team are really shit and how they dont have any SA based commontators

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Oh my god, I watched the game at the pub with some mates, watching it again and I can hear the commentary this time, I am only at the end of the first quarter and how biased are these pricks? Archer's smash on Griff wasn't a fifty. Are you ****ing serious? If that was a Crow they would have been calling for a three match ban. Absolute morons. Footy coverage in this country is crap. Go watch the EPL coverage and learn a lesson. Or watch Simon Hill excellent commentator, maybe someone should get him to do it, better than John "coast to coast" Casey.

 

[Kid A]

I thought Archer's attempted spoil on Griffin was worthy of a free kick. If it had been Pickett spoiling Judd they'd have been calling for a three-week suspension.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

I thought Archer's attempted spoil on Griffin was worthy of a free kick. If it had been Pickett spoiling Judd they'd have been calling for a three-week suspension.

One slight problem there, Griffin had already taken the mark, then gets taken out with a cheap head shot = 50 meter penalty. Archer needs to learn this is not the late 90's anymore and that tactic doesn't work anymore.

 

[macca23]

Who does Clinton support anyway? I can't pick it, he's very unbiased in his commentary.

He's the best going around.

I thiink I heard on the radio that he is a Collingwood supporter - never would have picked it though.

 

[NikkiNoo]

Yep he is a Collingwood supporter but if they need to be questioned or negative comments made about them he doesn't back away from it. Fabulous commentator and used to love him, gerard and wayne on a sunday afternoon I really miss WLF too.

 

[DarwinRoo]

One slight problem there, Griffin had already taken the mark, then gets taken out with a cheap head shot = 50 meter penalty. Archer needs to learn this is not the late 90's anymore and that tactic doesn't work anymore.

What tactic? Going hard at the ball and the man? Surely you should be at least be able to make a contest. Free kick? Yes. 50 metre? No.

 

[kimirocks]

What tactic? Going hard at the ball and the man? Surely you should be at least be able to make a contest. Free kick? Yes. 50 metre? No.

Mate a late contest to a marking contest is 50, doesn't matter if it's Glenn Archer or if its little Danyle Pearce, it's 50. It's not about making a contest, because clearly he didn't make the contest, he was late and high.

 

[Kickin_Goals]

Constantly lost the broadcast always right in the middle of the commentator saying something to explain the stupid thing they just said.
Flip in flip out camera work made it hard to tell what went on often then they showed replays of 2 minutes back when you're wondering just exactly how someone touched that kick from Ricciuto to Welsh.
I'd liked to of been certain whether Welsh was robbed a 6th goal or not.
With more performances like that it's not like he couldn't be up for the coleman.

 

[cruel_world00]

I'm sorry there is no excuse for the tripe they served us at the start...regardless of whether or not they do it every week...no team should be favoured...specifically not in the appalling manner that was shown to the crows tonight....plus the telecast on a whole was horrendous!!

But to be fair...does it matter that it was on the gold coast??? surely that shouldn't be a factor in this day and age?

 

[jenny61_99]

I noticed the black outs too....but surely the intro was the most shameful display of bias towards the roos...I wasn't listening to the commentary after that, but from the bit I heard they seemed to be fairly spot on when decisions went the wrong way...

Don't the intro's normally favour the "home" team?

 

[- PC -]

While we are kicking media people, Daisy Day and most of the music side of the Triple MMM team struggle when it comes to announcing the ''big match''

Yesterday Daisy informed me to stay tunesd for the big game between the Power and the Kangaroos.

Last week another radio head said it was Port v Geelong

 

[Punchy Bassett]

Well just watched the last quarter and what a joke that was. They were more interested in talking about where the Roos might finish than to even bother commentating on the game. Disgraceful.

 

[SkinFeeling]

Watched the delayed telecast and it was horrible by channel 10. The commentating was just as bad as the camera work. At one stage they were talking about the "ball boys" behind the goals (at first I thought they said ball bags )... talk about the game FFS!

 

[Macca19]

Its always been this way though hasnt it? It seems every commentator is in love with the 'shinboner spirit' and verbally masturbates accordingly whenever they play.

Dont even get me started about the Port v Kangaroos final in 2005. The most ridiculous thing ive ever seen.

 

[Adam BK]

Don't the intro's normally favour the "home" team?

I have seen plenty of intros were they have a bit on each team, they showed one shot of crows players for about 2 seconds. But shot after shot after shot of kangaroos players. The intro ends with comments of if the kangaroos lose it wont be through lack of trying.

 

[-CG-]

What annoyed me was the amount of time hey spent talking about themselves. 'Oh yes, 20 years since Robert Walls was last up here (roll the footage) Oh look there's Micahel Voss as a youngster' do we care? No.

 

[cruel_world00]

You've got to wonder, do we really need some uninspiring old douche bags commentating a game we probably know more about anyway!


I don't mind bias that is being shown into a specific state...aka when ten builds up a game with ads into SA which are generally pro-crows/port...but it happens in the other states the other way round etc....but I was in shock at how horrible the intro was and especially that last line "if they go down, it won't be for a lack of trying".....and the other line "they should pass this test"....and look at the result hehe

 

[jenny61_99]

But then doesn't it make it all the more sweet?

 

[cruel_world00]

oh definitely it does, but not when you are already feeling nervous and then get served that crap