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332docker said:
11 min to go Johnson and Healy finally point out the obvious to BT who up until then still had the roos as a chance

BT is a biased victorian commentator!!!!

Wake up Jacko and start putting BT in his place!!
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Reveler said:
whats with commentators assuming we'll lose no matter how far ahead we are?
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The commentators are enouraged to pump up the team that's losing because the neutral supporters stay interested if they think it's still a contest.
 
creamygoodness said:
It baffles me that Tony Shaw got an AFL coaching job, what doesn't surprise me, however, is that he only lasted three years.
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He's been around since 2000. Just like Walls. They were offered jobs by Fox and 10 respectively because of their prominence in the commentary box during games covered by 7 in 2000 and 2001. While they are duds theres still hordes of turkeys out there that think they are amongst the best in commentary, hence while they have been around for some time.
 

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healy and BT best commentary duo i recon. it staggers me that anyone could not like BT :confused:

the goal umpire was over ruled. BY THE BOUNDARY UMPIRE!!! OH NO!!!
 
tacopavlich said:
healy and BT best commentary duo i recon. it staggers me that anyone could not like BT :confused:

the goal umpire was over ruled. BY THE BOUNDARY UMPIRE!!! OH NO!!!
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It's just the last year or two that he's developed a soft spot for Fremantle and has been good value. Until then he was crap and barely knew any of our players.
 
leungtl said:
"KEPLER BRADLEY GETS THEM OUT OF THEIR SEATS SO THEY CAN GO BUY A HOT DOG!"
(Kep's goal after the siren)

How can anyone not like BT, especially his Barlow antics last year :D
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Hahahah, I heard that too. :D
He's a legend
 
leungtl said:
"KEPLER BRADLEY GETS THEM OUT OF THEIR SEATS SO THEY CAN GO BUY A HOT DOG!"
(Kep's goal after the siren)

How can anyone not like BT, especially his Barlow antics last year :D
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Ha-zeel-bee quick hands to San-dee-lands , OH NO, out of bounds, Wow-wee.

Tossa :thumbsu:
 
I think it is great when a former player can draw on their experience and provide insight that the casual viewer would not pick up on. What fascinates me, though, is when a guy plays a sport at the highest level, gets in the commentary box and then can't say anything other than the blindingly obvious. I call it "Ian Healy Syndrome."

The problem at the moment is that too few network executives understand the boundary between celebrity and ability. They want to put guys in there because they are popular and famous but they are forgetting that commentating is a profession and to be a commentator you have to master the associated skills first and foremost. If you have a background as a player then Great! - that can be another angle. But it is not and never will be the foundation of a capable commentator. If we get to the point where the talent pool for future commentators is restricted only to former players, and only to former players with a media profile.... well, you might as well just watch the game with the sound down and a CD on.
 
I often wonder if the "modern" commentators have forgotten the value of the moments of silence in a telecast. Sometimes, especially when the crowd is up and pumping, the most effective way of conveying a game's flavour is to sit there and say nothing, and let the (ultra high def multi camera multi angle slow-mo Jedi-sensi mega zoom) pictures and crowd noise tell the story.

One of the reasons why ABC radio and BBC TV commentary on the Olympics is consistently chosen for the historical highlight films instead of the forced tripe that Bruce and others turn out. Almost seems as if they feel the need to keep talking, and talking at every higher pitches, just to fill the space.

Prime AFL example of verbal diarrhea being today's Port-Suns game - as a neutral fan, the game's great atmosphere and building tension in the last quarter was largely ruined by a stream of non stop dribbling that simply seemed designed to promote the commentators, rather than improve the game experience.

FFS, at the very least, the test should be that if you say anything as a commentator, what you say should improve the fan's understanding of the game and the current passage of play. Oh, and god forbid you also let us experience some of the game's atmosphere...

We are interested in the game, the players and the drama on the field. Not your voices or stories from 35 years ago. So STFU, all of you media hacks, and let the game and our wonderful athletes speak for itself.
 
PurpleGreenRed said:
I used to like Wayne Carey on FOX before he got the boot. Gave me a different perspective on the game. Unbiased too.
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Agree about Carey. You'd think twice about giving him a character reference, but the most knowledgeable ex-champion I've heard. Extremely incisive and almost coldly unbiased. Sort of commented the way he played - as if he had everyone covered. Would have made a good coach if he had had a modicum of people skills.
 

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PurpleGreenRed said:
I used to like Wayne Carey on FOX before he got the boot. Gave me a different perspective on the game. Unbiased too.
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Agreed. Grybas and Carey worked together. Can't remember if Healy was part of the team as well, but with those two you knew that they knew about Freo, and they gave us credit where credit was due.

These friggin' Vic centric dunces drive me up the wall.

McAvaney is a tool. Russell is a SA centric kn0b juggler. Walls is a complete and utter tosser. Commetti doesn't care about the game, but only cares about uttering another couple of "classic Commetti lines", so he's generally not worth listening to either.

Will try the radio-audio option when I next get the chance to avoid listening to the TV commentary clowns.
 
we can complain all we want, but in my book, as long as i dont have to listen to kelly underwood, im happy. Brian Taylor is by far my favourite now, i guess mainly because he seems to have fallen in love with some of our players recently (ballantyne, barlow, sandilands), plus he brings genuine humour to the game, unlike denis who used to be good at it, and now seems to be a full time standup comedian (and a bad one at that), part time commentator
 
the trouble with recruiting former players for commentary is that the majority of them are artless, illiterate neanderthals whose vocabulary doesn't expand much beyond the style guide of People magazine. cliquey parochialism masquerading as opinion which is usually just about big-noting their has-been selves. good commentary is impersonal and has a sprinkle of showbizz about it. what we get are monotonous, monosyllabic, partially ******ed ranters void of subtlety or insight beyond what is already apparent to everyone.
 
Michael Christian isn't bad for a Busselton boy. I actually remember him playing for Busselton in 1980. Wikipedia reckons he must have been 16 then but I thought he was older than that. Maybe it's just me that's older.
 

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Mockcockpit said:
Michael Christian isn't bad for a Busselton boy. I actually remember him playing for Busselton in 1980. Wikipedia reckons he must have been 16 then but I thought he was older than that. Maybe it's just me that's older.
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Christian is a 1963 boy.
 
Was Danny Frawley giving anyone else the shits today?

His commentary seemed to consist of either barracking for the Dogs or barking orders to them when they had the ball as if he was out there with them.

This must be how eastern staters felt when they used to listen to Jako commentate eagles games (not that I've got anything against Jako - I'm actually starting to warm to the big lug).
 

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