Channel 9 commentary whinge thread 2013

[Registered User]

Ha, Bill! Are we still allowed to describe a left-arm leggy bowler as a "Chinaman"?

 

[Borry]

I like many couldn't give a flying two hoots what Candice or Kyly say on twitter.

 

[Registered User]

flicked to AW today to hear eva practically screaming down the mic.

Yeah nah, Bruce Eva is starting to shit me a bit. His contrived urgency often reaches the level of someone reporting from the Middle East in front of a volcano and the detonation of a nuclear bomb, telling us that WW3 has broken out, and that a 500km-wide comet is gunna hit the Earth

 

[Smoooothy]

Sounds like this test might be a one off for bill

 

[GreekLunatic]

Bill and bumble should be signed to 9 for good it reminds me of bill and tony grieg

 

[peternorth]

maybe some more learned, or those who have watched more coverage than I can comment.

turned on this morning and for some reason knobface slater was showing highlights of a team of yesteryear singing true blue after a win. what was the point of that? and are ch 9 commentators showing more and more highlights of themselves this year?

 

[Aussie Assault]

I already miss the days where replays of wickets would be shown in full and uninterrupted, stop ******* around with that shitty technology you're so proud of yet don't seem to realise it's a massive wank and looks cartoonish on SD anyway.

It adds absolutely no insight or interesting perspectives whatsoever.

Yep. This, this & this. Surely the bloke that is in charge of this area has no idea about cricket. You'd learn through having no footage instead of watching that rubbish.

 

[Aussie Assault]

maybe some more learned, or those who have watched more coverage than I can comment.

turned on this morning and for some reason knobface slater was showing highlights of a team of yesteryear singing true blue after a win. what was the point of that? and are ch 9 commentators showing more and more highlights of themselves this year?

Slater was singing Bon Jovi moments ago. He is a self obsessed w@nker.

 

[Yidaki]

Slater was singing Bon Jovi moments ago. He is a self obsessed w@nker.

Agreed. He is an egotistical flogbucket.

 

[Smoooothy]

maybe some more learned, or those who have watched more coverage than I can comment.

turned on this morning and for some reason knobface slater was showing highlights of a team of yesteryear singing true blue after a win. what was the point of that? and are ch 9 commentators showing more and more highlights of themselves this year?

And yet when they talked to Bill at tea yesterday, you couldn't listen to someone more humble.

The contrast between old and new is terrible

 

[masai]

Bill is a breath of fresh air, so enjoyable to listen to.

Billy Birmingham is totally right, the modern commentary team is a bunch of boring people.

 

[peternorth]

i guess slater will become even more intolerable at the sydney test. nsw nsw sydney sydney bankstown uni of nsw sydney uni rugby league!!11!!!

 

[Father Jack]

I heard that for the next test Nine will be having an extra commentary team to commentate on the antics of the existing commentary team

 

[Righteo]

i guess slater will become even more intolerable at the sydney test. nsw nsw sydney sydney bankstown uni of nsw sydney uni rugby league!!11!!!

NSW Uni cricket factory? He actually does have a lot of similarities to BT.

 

[vicpride99]

Warne can't even talk hungover on the job nice shane.

 

[chunkylover]

classic chapelli a couple of days ago regarding k okeefe. Slater telling the story that kok tells at sportsmans nights about opening the batting in the 2nd innings of the centenary test. basically took them 3 hours to decide between kok and mccosker with a broken jaw. chapelli: well ahh i think kerry may be ahhh embellishing the ahhh truth there as my brother greg would have been in charge of the batting order. really ian no shit. its called having a personality and actually telling a funny story not some boring ****ing anecdote about tiger o reilly. why kok is pulling up stumps and not this bore puzzles me

 

[Caesar]

In cricket there's a lot of time where bowlers are walking back to the mark, etc, and commentators have to fill in the time with something.

Why?

The sounds of the ground are infinitely preferable to the continuous drone of useless crap. They know this on Sky, as a result it's much nicer to listen to them when they do have something to say.

 

[Gough]

Why?

The sounds of the ground are infinitely preferable to the continuous drone of useless crap. They know this on Sky, as a result it's much nicer to listen to them when they do have something to say.

Yep, I'd really hoped the Australian commentators had learnt from that after we had the Sky feed in the winter. Apparently not.

 

[JP Sauce]

Why?

The sounds of the ground are infinitely preferable to the continuous drone of useless crap. They know this on Sky, as a result it's much nicer to listen to them when they do have something to say.

Exactly. The TV coverage provides vision which is exactly why we don't need non-stop talk. It's almost like 9 pay them by the word instead of by the hour.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

In cricket there's a lot of time where bowlers are walking back to the mark, etc, and commentators have to fill in the time with something.

For radio, this is true. For TV, it is unnecessary.

 

[Father Jack]

Watching overseas telecasts you sometimes get one or two deliveries played back to the bowler without a word

 

[Damon_3388]

And yet when they talked to Bill at tea yesterday, you couldn't listen to someone more humble.

The contrast between old and new is terrible

I don't understand why Bill Lawry isn't held in higher esteem among the Australian public, and isn't a part of the Australian National Living Treasures list. He's an icon. A great Victorian, and a great Australian

 

[Caesar]

It is funny reading some of the nostalgia for the older commentators. Fifteen years ago, Bill Lawry was regarded as the same parochial dickhead Healy is now.

 

[peternorth]

slater - no such thing as a dead rubber.

im sure dead rubbers were mentioned many a time when s waugh was playing (that era) when we would lose such tests.

 

[ManWithNoName]

slater - no such thing as a dead rubber.

im sure dead rubbers were mentioned many a time when s waugh was playing (that era) when we would lose such tests.

The last test Slater played was a dead rubber that we lost. He should know all about them.