ABC Commentary Team

[sainter27]

Personally, I think the ABC commentary team are far superior than that of Channel 9 (I know they are two different forms of commentary TV and Radio).
Tim Lane- The best I've heard
Jim Maxwell- Very underrated
Jonathon Agnew- A joy to listen to his banter with KerryOKeefe
KerryOKeefe- That Laugh
Peter Robuck-Very Handy in the Box
Lawson- Inciteful
Stacky- Always with an opinion

 

[dr nick]

Roebuck is an awesome commentator. i agree the commentator's at the ABC know their stuff, and have very good stories to tell. they are extremely good at painting the scene in words, very professional. Kerry O'Keefe is good for a laugh but thats about it. Geoff Lawson i dont rate either, too wound up in his own halicon days at UNSW.

Tim Lane - could listen to him for hours describing how the cooch grass grows
Jim Maxwell, Keith Stackpole are also superb. i think stackpole used to be with ch9 in the late 80's??
Agnew is a riot.

 

[Darky]

Channel 9's commentary has sucked big fat balls since Max Walker and the (occasionally used) Geoff Boycott left, whereas ABC Radio's has always been strong, especially when Roebuck & Agnew are present.

Kerry O'Keeffe is great value, his story last week about socialising with Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, and hinting at a bit of wife-swapping & other debauchery, was a riot.

 

[larrikin]

Roebuck is easily my favourite, although I do like Tim Lane as well. Glenn Mitchell (who heads up sport for ABC Perth) is very good aswell, and has an incredible memorey of not only cricket but many sports.

 

[scmods]

Not to mention "special comments" man John Howard.

 

[BT]

I reckon the ABC do a great job. I'm definitely a volume down on the TV & up with the radio guy.

O'Keefe & Roebuck are the most interesting.

Ch 9 is awful.

I'm pretty sure I said all this last summer .

 

[Desredandwhite]

definitely agree that the ABC team beat the pants off anything the TV guys can offer. They need to have the ability to call the action without the luxury of the vision, and are often able to fill in the gap with interesting information too.

Unfortunately, I can't listen to the radio commentary if I'm watching TV - we have digital TV, which seems to lag behind the analog broadcast a good 3-4 seconds. It's VERY wrong to hear the action 3 seconds before you see it

 

[scmods]

Yesterday was a bummer, I knew the answer to the quiz question but I couldn't get through!

 

[wagstaff]

Originally posted by nicko18
Roebuck is an awesome commentator. i agree the commentator's at the ABC know their stuff, and have very good stories to tell. they are extremely good at painting the scene in words, very professional. Kerry O'Keefe is good for a laugh but thats about it. Geoff Lawson i dont rate either, too wound up in his own halicon days at UNSW.

Tim Lane - could listen to him for hours describing how the cooch grass grows
Jim Maxwell, Keith Stackpole are also superb. i think stackpole used to be with ch9 in the late 80's??
Agnew is a riot.

Stackpole was part of the Channel 9 commentary team, but was sacked at the end of the 1985-86 season (Frank Tyson also went around this same time)

Agree with most of your opinions on the ABC commentators. Roebuck is an excellent special comments man, for some reason he's more impressive on radio then he is in his newspaper columns. He invaribaly has something interesting to say on the match at hand and regularly makes perceptive comments.

Lane, Maxwell and Agnew are excellent commentators, always excellent listening even when the match isn't a good one.

Kerry O'Keefe is an acquired taste, but I enjoy listening to him; all the focus on his laugh makes you forget that he usually has some unpredictable and interesting things to say about the game at hand.

Geoff Lawson gets on my nerve for some reason; mainly because he's either predictable or irritating. I usually don't listen to the radio as much when he's on.

Keith Stackpole can be fairly repetitve in what he has to say but he's better then Lawson because he has a more likable personality and makes better use of his experiences as a cricketer, often has plenty of funny anecdotes to tell.

 

[scmods]

Did you hear Kerry's Eminem impersonation?

 

[BT]

Originally posted by scmods
Did you hear Kerry's Eminem impersonation?

Yep, classic!

And him describing Stuart McGill's batting form

Prefer others

Not this track

etc .

 

[dr nick]

please elaborate on the eminem impersonation... im kicking myself that i missed it

 

[scmods]

He was rapping some stuff about Steve Waugh - hilariously funny, but I can't remember exactly what he said now.

 

[JUBJUB]

Originally posted by sainter27

Jonathon Agnew- A joy to listen to his banter with KerryOKeefe
KerryOKeefe- That Laugh

These two have been very funny together.KOK met Aggers wife in Adelaide & keeps mentioning to Aggers that she's a 9.8 out 10 for looks.

Aggers was going to take KOK to meet the Barmy Army after the tea break today.

 

[BT]

Re: Re: ABC Commentary Team

Originally posted by JUBJUB
These two have been very funny together.KOK met Aggers wife in Adelaide & keeps mentioning to Aggers that she's a 9.8 out 10 for looks.

Aggers was going to take KOK to meet the Barmy Army after the tea break today.

Kezza did meet the Army today, think it was enjoyed by all.

Nicko the Rap refered to "The moment" "you want it" there was more but I forget the other lines .

Twas great fun.

 

[dr nick]

Re: Re: Re: ABC Commentary Team

Originally posted by BT


Nicko the Rap refered to "The moment" "you want it" there was more but I forget the other lines .

Twas great fun.

here's my version

you better lose yourself in the music, the moment, you want it, selectors almost let him go, oh..
and then with the last shot, he didnt let his last chance go, innings like that only come once in a lifetime, yo

 

[BT]

Re: Re: Re: Re: ABC Commentary Team

Originally posted by nicko18
here's my version

you better lose yourself in the music, the moment, you want it, selectors almost let him go, oh..
and then with the last shot, he didnt let his last chance go, innings like that only come once in a lifetime, yo

Excellent effort there Nicko, sure you aren't KOK?

Basically Kerry put in cricket words where needed. It was also composed before Tugga went out to bat so id didn't contain any references to the innings itself.

 

[dr nick]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ABC Commentary Team

Originally posted by BT
Excellent effort there Nicko, sure you aren't KOK?

Basically Kerry put in cricket words where needed. It was also composed before Tugga went out to bat so id didn't contain any references to the innings itself.

thanks BT, if i had more time i'd do a full rap. i'd start off something like..

his palms were sweaty, knees weak arms were heavy,
3 for 56 already, need to steady.
he's nervous but on the surface he looks calm and ready
to score runs but he keeps on forgetting
what they wrote down, the the whole crowd goes so loud,
their joking now, surely they are joking now
saying the clocks run out am i too old for it now???

snap back to reality... oh, there goes a boundary
oh, dispatches caddick, he wont give up that easy...

 

[Anton Grbac]

Yep,
I always watch with the sound down and listen to the ABC's description. Heard Aggers down amongst the Barmy Army yesterday, great fun.


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[bluechampion]

Aggers.

Agnew is the best cricket commentator outside of Tim Lane. Spectacular stuff.

 

[CarterS]

the part where Agnew went down to the barmy army was funny, listening to Agnew and O'Keefe is great.

 

[Damp Squarie]

OKeefe is brilliant; THE sickest most devoius laugh Ive ever heard of. His comments are great too

 

[Ghostwriter]

Tim Lane is way over-rated imo.

 

[GoEagles]

Really enjoyed listening to Agnew's comments this summer. I guess he's already back in the UK preparing for the World Cup with the BBC.