2012/13 Nine Commentary team bagging thread

[cynical]

The problem with the commentary team is that they are all the same minus lawry and chappel.

They should have at least 2 foreign commentators and more part time guys who come in and an ex bowler or 2.

At the moment it's just so boring and gets embarrassing when they start trying to make new names for things.

Only real quality commentators should have jobs for 5+ years not guys like Healy, Slater and Taylor.

 

[peternorth]

Langer has about the most irritating style of speech that I've ever heard.

They need to get Gilchrist back up there somehow.

langers accent is confusing.

gilly wouldnt associate himself with the flogs at ch 9 atm....i hope

 

[Father Jack]

It used to be good back when the game was bigger than the commentators.

 

[peternorth]

It used to be good back when the game was bigger than the commentators.

firmly agree. with the advent of twitter, facebook etc its every man for himself.

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

So when is Punter joining

 

[stmookeyj]

The first problem 9 have is the 3 man rotation rather than the standard 2 man rotation, if they went back to just 2 (or the Sky/Channel 4 2+1 specialist analyst) then maybe the standard would improve....or at least the existing crop would have to lift their game knowing they could hide their styles behind the 3rd guy.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Don't get too excited. I remember when Taylor joined the commentary I was excited because he was one of the smartest captains of Australia we'd ever had. I didn't realise he'd end up being so boring.

I have this horrible feeling that Hussey will be a bit like Langer, who used to constantly talk up his mates in the team and provided no insight because he was too concerned with loyalty to his mates to say anything critical.

They all go relentlessly downhill fairly soon apart from Bill Lawry who has stayed mostly at the same level in all the years I've heard him. .But then he's old school and a bit more formal which is far preferable to the inane drivel that the younger ex-players consider de rigeur.

Hussey will want to fit in and I will probably end up weeping with vexation when he starts sounding as big an idiot as Slater does these days.

When Slater has commentated in England, he's sounded a different and far more sensible man. Being on telly with Healy seems to infect him with some sort of moron virus.

I have a feeling that Punter will be one of the 'back in my day' brigade almost from the moment he steps in to a commentary box.

 

[PykeDream]

Don't get too excited. I remember when Taylor joined the commentary I was excited because he was one of the smartest captains of Australia we'd ever had. I didn't realise he'd end up being so boring.

I have this horrible feeling that Hussey will be a bit like Langer, who used to constantly talk up his mates in the team and provided no insight because he was too concerned with loyalty to his mates to say anything critical.

His column in the WA Sunday Times is usually pretty good, with a bit of humour and controversy.

He doesn't seem to be the sort of guy to kneel at the altar of Cricket Australia. I think it will be a welcome change, and hopefully Taylor is the one marginalised.

 

[PykeDream]

They all go relentlessly downhill fairly soon apart from Bill Lawry who has stayed mostly at the same level in all the years I've heard him. .But then he's old school and a bit more formal which is far preferable to the inane drivel that the younger ex-players consider de rigeur.

Hussey will want to fit in and I will probably end up weeping with vexation when he starts sounding as big an idiot as Slater does these days.

When Slater has commentated in England, he's sounded a different and far more sensible man. Being on telly with Healy seems to infect him with some sort of moron virus.

I have a feeling that Punter will be one of the 'back in my day' brigade almost from the moment he steps in to a commentary box.

I think Slater, Healy and Taylor are all too familiar with one another and just lapse into needless dribble. If you get them on their own with a couple of the others - say Slater with Lawry and Benaud it is often bearable. And while I don't mind Brayshaw, he and Nicholas also get a bit too chummy with NSW's formidable/fumbling trio.

I shudder to think of the day Ponting takes up commentary, I despise his personality.

 

[The Speaker]

They all go relentlessly downhill fairly soon apart from Bill Lawry who has stayed mostly at the same level in all the years I've heard him. .But then he's old school and a bit more formal which is far preferable to the inane drivel that the younger ex-players consider de rigeur.

Hussey will want to fit in and I will probably end up weeping with vexation when he starts sounding as big an idiot as Slater does these days.

When Slater has commentated in England, he's sounded a different and far more sensible man. Being on telly with Healy seems to infect him with some sort of moron virus.

I have a feeling that Punter will be one of the 'back in my day' brigade almost from the moment he steps in to a commentary box.

If anyone could be like Lawry, it would be Hussey.

Ponting would be Ian Chappell motormouth edition.

 

[MisterMarcus]

The first problem 9 have is the 3 man rotation rather than the standard 2 man rotation, if they went back to just 2 (or the Sky/Channel 4 2+1 specialist analyst) then maybe the standard would improve....or at least the existing crop would have to lift their game knowing they could hide their styles behind the 3rd guy.

Well this is the fundamental problem isn't it.....all of the old guard were promised jobs for life so there's no getting rid of them.

That's been the big thing, having 3 blokes crapping on about absolutely nothing. The ABC get by with 2 guys and they have to provide full description....on TV we can see what's happening so there is literally nothing for 3 blokes to talk about.

 

[peternorth]

m hussey referring to warner as davey warner.

mike hussey has been "nined"

 

[Doodlesweaver]

m hussey referring to warner as davey warner.

mike hussey has been "nined"

I can't see that he's been neined yet, in comparison to all the others, he was Benaudesque.

He was saying some insightful things about the bowlers' set-ups and the fielding depositions. And because he's still playing he knew about all the players on the field.

He should go to radio, he's going to be wasted on Nein and end up as foolish as the rest.

 

[Caesar]

Needs to stop saying 'we' and then correcting it to 'Australia' though.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Needs to stop saying 'we' and then correcting it to 'Australia' though.

Yeah, but he's only just retired and probably expected to still be playing the short forms. If he keeps doing that, it will get annoying.

 

[MisterMarcus]

I thought Hussey was great.

Absolutely schooled the other clueless muppets, who didn't seem to know anything about half the Aussies side or most of the Sri Lankans.

 

[peternorth]

I can't see that he's been neined yet, in comparison to all the others, he was Benaudesque.

He was saying some insightful things about the bowlers' set-ups and the fielding depositions. And because he's still playing he knew about all the players on the field.

He should go to radio, he's going to be wasted on Nein and end up as foolish as the rest.

valid points. all of them.

didnt like the davey warner bit that's all.

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

To be fair it was his 1st time

 

[DrVanNostrand]

To be fair it was his 1st time

 

[Bartel]

I thought David Warner was a better commentator than the whole Channel 9 team combined on Friday.

 

[ioppolo]

I don't think the 9 guys will want Hussey hanging around much if he's gonna shut them down the way he did Saturday night

 

[Ducky Tie]

One thing that I did think Huss was in the wrong for was when Warner let one escape his dive and go for for and JB commented on how Warner would normally stop that, Huss replied telling him to lay off 'Davey'.

A bit of bias and talking about the players as his mates I can let go but it's not his place to tell Brayshaw not to analyse an incident.

 

[happy_eagle]

Does the channel 9 commentary feed go overseas at all ?
Would be embarrassing if it did

 

[IrishLough]

Does the channel 9 commentary feed go overseas at all ?
Would be embarrassing if it did

Yeah I was thinking this on Saturday night. You can just imagine what folks in England or South Africa must think of the Australian cricketing public after hearing Healy and Slater the other night. They're terrible even at the best of times but seem to take their nonsense to a whole new level when a T20 is on

 

[Simple Jack]

Does the channel 9 commentary feed go overseas at all ?
Would be embarrassing if it did

Got some bad news for you. Yes.

Half the time when you look at the web streams from Pakistan/SL/India for games in Aus they take the 9 commentary.