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He's been doing that since he started calling games.I've never known a commentator of any sport, let alone just AFL, who manages to pick the wrong adjective for the action they're describing as often as Dwayne Russell does.
Case in point: Jeremy Cameron kicked a fairly regulation snap on the weekend. The way it spun wasn't perfect off the boot but it was a normal snap. The angle wasn't that tight and the degree of difficulty wasn't that extreme.
Russell excitedly referred to it as a "crazy goal".
Wtf.
There was literally nothing "crazy" about it. What the hell are you talking about Dwayne?
I genuinely don't understand how he hasn't got better at picking the right word to match the action on screen. How many years has he been doing this now? It's incredible that he's maintained the same level of incompetence for so long.
I can vividly remember (unfortunately because of der-wayne) a game involving Adelaide during their premiership years. They were handing out a routine 8 goal home thrashing against some rubbish side (not us), when a nice bit of end to end play finished up with an unmarked Andrew Macleod putting through a easy goal from 20-25 metres out, dead in front. Der-wayne's comment was a horrible portent of things to come:
"He's a genuis!"
Really der-wayne? He very well may be, but there's nothing genius about that goal. Every single AFL listed player should kick those with their eyes closed.
Is he secretly taking the piss? Or is he really that stupid and arrogant to continually misread the appropriate description to match the play?
He's a colossal knob.
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