Biggest commentary bugbears?

[north_lad]

writing their own narrative rather than just calling the game.

"You just feel like..."

Like what, bored witless?

 

[one eyedtiger]

You can guarantee if/when the margin gets out to 4-5 goals in 2nd half you'll hear Cameron Ling say "Gotta take some risks now, be brave play through the corridor, risk losing it by 7 or 8 goals to give yourself a chance of winning"

The other one is you can tell Hamish has a little script prepared for when player x gets the ball and he'll go through with his whole speech no matter how long it takes or how much the play has unfolded in the mean time. Case in point last weekend Gawn took a mark in his defensive 50, Hammer started going on about "I was speaking to a life long Demons fan during the week, who thinks Max is the best Melbourne captain since player x, y, z" In the mean time Gawn has turned over a 15m kick and Higgins is kicking a goal.

 

[1989]

All broadcasters do this, but when they say how accurate someone is in front of goal, then they miss, and they think it's height of hilarity joking about 'commentators curse'. Hear that gag about a zillion times a year.

...and generally they have no real idea about which players are accurate. A lot of commentators will believe that superstar players like Dangerfield and Fyfe are likely to go back and kick the goal, while a lesser known player with an unorthodox run up / kicking action is likely to be a poor set shot, or somebody who plays ruck or in defence. 'Dangerfield misses from 25 metres out - he'd kick that one 99 times out of 100'.

 

[MJG14]

'Like the way he goes about it'.

 

[Diamond Jim]

Richo and Darcy putting me to sleep b4 8.30pm....

 

[Diamond Jim]

Hamish’s existence....

 

[Diamond Jim]

The sexualisation of players by Bruce.

Never has so much insight been displayed in BF, in so few words.

I take the knee b4 you Mr Cork.

 

[1989]

James Brayshaw (who is better than most) saying 'footy' / 'footy club' about 2000 times a game.

 

[WindyHillZephyr]

James Brayshaw (who is better than most) saying 'footy' / 'footy club' about 2000 times a game.

Just want put it out there. He is the best for calling it as he sees it. He called out several frees Essendon should have got/ didn't deserve against tonight.

 

[Costanza_]

Just want put it out there. He is the best for calling it as he sees it. He called out several frees Essendon should have got/ didn't deserve against tonight.

Not a massive fan of him, especially when he was calling the cricket, but credit where it's due - for a guy so deeply entrenched in a club he is pretty objective when calling North games. If anything when they play the Swans he seems to felate the "Swannies" more than North.

 

[1989]

Just want put it out there. He is the best for calling it as he sees it. He called out several frees Essendon should have got/ didn't deserve against tonight.

I respect commentators who are prepared to provide an honest assessment of the umpiring. It's an important part of their job.

I really like JB, and have always watched his shows and listened to his radio programs (and will continue to), but in recent times I've found him too wordy and repetitive. Whether it's for the cricket or the football, sometimes there's not a lot of substance there, but lots of words. Too much of this sort of stuff - "This bloke just keeps getting the job done for his footy club", "Finchy is an unbelievable talent who has an enormous ability to hit the cricket ball an extraordinarily long way".

 

[Cleavy]

I can't take anything Brayshaw does seriously any more because of those horrendous SportsBet ads with the slide and Silly 7 or whatever.

 

[Leon]

“3 minutes and change”

Hamish, who I actually don’t mind as a caller these days, is a repeat offender with this.

BT repeating any given phrase or question three times or more

Every single one of the following from Dwayne Russell:

“From the paint”

“Tightropes the boundary”

“Delightful”

“Gold class”

“Rolls it...goals

Plenty of others from Russell that I can’t remember at the moment,

 

[hawkman]

Any time a player is having a shot for goal a commentator says its a good looking kick. Once they say that, it is probably a 40% chance of a goal, 30% chance of a behind and the other 30% will be either on the full or not make the distance

 

[Chuckie357]

Hamish’s existence....

Have you ever seen the tv show prison break?

 

[caveman72]

I can't take anything Brayshaw does seriously any more because of those horrendous SportsBet ads with the slide and Silly 7 or whatever.

The SportsBet ads are all rubbish but i like the Wheelie Bin one

 

[Dragz]

be carful what you wish for. How bad would it be if they let the commentary team loose with the pen or whatever it is the use to mark fielding position's on the cricket telecast

Luckily they’d need actual analysts.
Although they’d probably give us David King


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[Diamond Jim]

Gerard Whately - I appreciate he is a ‘fan’...like Macavaney, and he’s eloquent...and he’s very professional...

But thanking footballers for the ‘way they play’ is borderline rent-boy behaviour.

 

[Diamond Jim]

Jordan Lewis just dropped one...

‘InerprETATed........’

Err...almost interpreted it right....

 

[Cleavy]

Jordan Lewis just dropped one...

‘InerprETATed........’

Err...almost interpreted it right....

is it a Hawthorn thing? Dan Harford said it the other day too, although he was stumbling over his words.

 

[010203]

This is by no means exclusive to AFL but I wish commentators would stop using 'of course' when delivering some information about a player/coach, team, rule or anything historical.

 

[hawkman]

The fact that there are no commentators watching games from the ground. Surely there would be some that would have been some willing to go up and watch games live to broadcast it.

Compare that to the NBA, a game that would be much easier to commentate off a screen than AFL, where all the commentators are at the games to call it

 

[peternorth]

handball receive.

He got the handball receive

 

[Mentallo]

Player X dumps a player after disposing of the ball commentators talk about dangerous tackles etc.
Shane Mumford does the same thing commentators laugh and joke about it.
“That’s Mummy”

 

[1989]

JB repeating the words 'footy club' 200 times a game is getting to me lately.