Commentators and Player Perception

[FootyFan33]

Macavaney got it so WRONG tonight when JOSEPH handballed the
ball over the heads of two Cats and AWAY from ARMFIELD

He did so intentionally so that Armfield was running towards the ball AWAY
from the Cats players and all BA could do was call it as a BAD HANDBALL
when in fact it was a brilliant piece of play

Had it been Judd or Selwood I could just imagine BA telling us
how special it was!

How many times do they call the average by these guys special!

Of course we all love it when they are and Juddy sure was tonight!

FF

 

[big_bad_blue]

I will give you a reply

 

[Murph_The_Smurf]

Roflmfao

 

[Elseya]

Real simple answer to fix that.

see the area on your tv remote that says VOL?

Now there should be an up and down button. Hit the one that looks like this \/ Keep holding it until you don't hear anything other than the flies buzzing inside of your head

Problem solved

 

[Sublime]

Wow, you really gripped onto that for about 4-5 hours didn't you. Must have been eating you up inside. I'm glad you finally couldn't hack the pressure and gave in by creating this extremely insightful thread.

I think i'm in love.

 

[krayfesh]

I've noticed it too.

Always annoyed me.

I commentate my own matches now. You'd be surprised how many brilliant pieces of play we have

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

Hmm...I don't want a card, but I'm jumping to your defense anyway FF33.

I agree most wholeheartily.

The likes of Ablett, SJ, Chapman, Judd, Dal Santo, Kirk, etc... can basically trip over their own feet, shinning the ball into space and it's called great play.

Others (like Joseph) can show actual creativity - and it's either ignored or even derided as an error.

Perfect example, 2nd quarter (I think) - Judd gets the ball in the contest, handballs clear towards the boundary and a team-mate. Ball rolls out of bounds 2m behind the team-mate - commentary calls it a "poor pick up by x".

2 minutes later, Simpson does almost exactly the same thing, except this time it was Judd running past. The handball was almost perfect, but Judd hesitated to 'step' an oncoming opponent, and the ball bounced out. Commentary "poor handball, needed to find a team-mate there".

For mine the first piece of play was a skill error, the 2nd a decision-making error (both from Judd), however on both occassions he was 'exonerated' by the commentators, and his team-mates were called out on their 'errors'.

Not picking on Judd, just these two pieces of play happened almost consecutively, and reminded me of this thoughtline. There's a very strong correlation between how a player is portrayed in the media, and how his game is called.

Some great players are villians though (Fevola, Franklin, etc) - and whilst their great solo play is celebrated, and errors in attempts of teamwork are often shouted down, and mistakes ridiculued.

 

[Gezza125]

Hmm...I don't want a card, but I'm jumping to your defense anyway FF33.

I agree most wholeheartily.

The likes of Ablett, SJ, Chapman, Judd, Dal Santo, Kirk, etc... can basically trip over their own feet, shinning the ball into space and it's called great play.

Others (like Joseph) can show actual creativity - and it's either ignored or even derided as an error.

Perfect example, 2nd quarter (I think) - Judd gets the ball in the contest, handballs clear towards the boundary and a team-mate. Ball rolls out of bounds 2m behind the team-mate - commentary calls it a "poor pick up by x".

2 minutes later, Simpson does almost exactly the same thing, except this time it was Judd running past. The handball was almost perfect, but Judd hesitated to 'step' an oncoming opponent, and the ball bounced out. Commentary "poor handball, needed to find a team-mate there".

For mine the first piece of play was a skill error, the 2nd a decision-making error (both from Judd), however on both occassions he was 'exonerated' by the commentators, and his team-mates were called out on their 'errors'.

Not picking on Judd, just these two pieces of play happened almost consecutively, and reminded me of this thoughtline. There's a very strong correlation between how a player is portrayed in the media, and how his game is called.

Some great players are villians though (Fevola, Franklin, etc) - and whilst their great solo play is celebrated, and errors in attempts of teamwork are often shouted down, and mistakes ridiculued.

Agree and I'll add, perception is 9/10ths of reality.

Worse, it take seconds to creat a perception and it takes a player half a career to eradicate - despite hard evidence to the contrary.

We magnify evidence our perceptual pre-dispositions to justify them.

 

[zeeCFC]

Bay 13 Anti Nicole Kidman Effect Board?

 

[djudd]

Did i miss something or was Murphys kick off the ground at full steam under pressure to a loose Nick Stevons in the goal sq our play of the year?
Stevo didnt even have to stop he just kept running onto the ball which ended up in front of him.
That was 40 metre kick(maybe arse)but the dipshits in the box didnt even give it credit.


Imagine if that was juddy/Rioli/selwood/ablett etc bruce would of creamed his pants

I no internally that players like Murph get huge reconition fron the mc a bit like L hayes at stkilda

 

[jd2006]

Did i miss something or was Murphys kick off the ground at full steam under pressure to a loose Nick Stevons in the goal sq our play of the year?
Stevo didnt even have to stop he just kept running onto the ball which ended up in front of him.
That was 40 metre kick(maybe arse)but the dipshits in the box didnt even give it credit.


Imagine if that was juddy/Rioli/selwood/ablett etc bruce would of creamed his pants

I no internally that players like Murph get huge reconition fron the mc a bit like L hayes at stkilda

Marc Murphy to South Africa next year just got off the phone to Pim Verbeek. What a pass!!