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[Coopers]

The commentary wasn't too bad - I only noticed the one VanB/Vince/Mackay miscall.

 

[Chris Crouch]

The commentary wasn't too bad - I only noticed the one VanB/Vince/Mackay miscall.

You obviously missed the call of "Great mark by Porplyzia" in the fourth quarter. I was yelling at the TV "It was Tippet you ignorant idiots! He's only 1 foot taller than Porpoise!".

My theory is that they identify players purely by hair style & colour. Small details like height and number on the jersey are lost on them.

 

[Coopers]

You obviously missed the call of "Great mark by Porplyzia" in the fourth quarter. I was yelling at the TV "It was Tippet you ignorant idiots! He's only 1 foot taller than Porpoise!".

My theory is that they identify players purely by hair style & colour. Small details like height and number on the jersey are lost on them.

That's odd, cos they look exactly like Otten to me.

 

[arrowman]

That's odd, cos they look exactly like Ottens to me.

Corrected.

 

[Niximus]

It was one time when watching it on TV was actually better than being at the ground.

That time is most definitely gone.

I've noticed it mostly this year, I will go to the game and it will be great to watch, we win and I'm all pumped up. I go home and put the recording on to re-live it all and am more often than not dissappointed.

We get the shittest, least interested commentators in the country.

We'll smash through the middle and slam a goal from 60 and it will be an almost monotone "That was great work". Get into it you tools, soooo damn boring to listen to.

 

[frednerk33]

We'll smash through the middle and slam a goal from 60 and it will be an almost monotone "That was great work". Get into it you tools, soooo damn boring to listen to.

Yes ! If only I could find a way to tape 5aa radio and synch it to the telly and auto-edit out the bits where rowey gets his whining up and going. And the bits where the bone puts the moccas on us every time he calls a goal or the game as "game over" too early.

There's a few people in the crowd that are stuck in the same timewarp.

Saturday night, we're slicing through the middle with running, attacking handball, and the dimwits in the crowd are shouting "KICK IT!!!"* and muttering things like "I'm sick of Craig's handball crap".

They can't tell the difference between the bad habits of defensive handball circles that we used to see, and the use of handball as an attacking weapon.

Absolute classic comment and dead-set red-d*mn-hot spot on. Many of those w*nkers boo and whatnot when the team goes back and sideways to try to switch/create. There should be a rule that bum supporters, who boo our team like that, get stripped of 19th man/woman status and turfed from the ground onto their ear on the cold wet bitumen immediately.

 

[arrowman]

That time is most definitely gone.

I've noticed it mostly this year, I will go to the game and it will be great to watch, we win and I'm all pumped up. I go home and put the recording on to re-live it all and am more often than not dissappointed.

Yeah, I agree - although I'm probably not as teed off with the commentators as you are.

That's why I made that post - it was weird on Saturday night, for some reason and don't ask me why, it just happened - although being at the game was very enjoyable, I just didn't get "pumped" by it. By the end of the game I was just sitting back and laughing when we sliced through and Porp and Tip were taking marks and kicking goals. Not my usual on the feet and fist pumping And I didn't realise how well we had played (as opposed to just cruising past weak opposition) until I watched the replay.

Remember a couple of years ago when we put 30 past Essendon? That was party time, and the crowd was really up. I remember we were screaming for "30! 30!" in the dying seconds, and Kenny McGregor, who didn't know the score, couldn't work out why his closing goal got such a roar from the crowd

Wasn't like that on Saturday night - not for me anyway. Don't ask me why, just one of those things, I guess.

 

[seababoon]

i dont mind pickering as a commentator.. id rather listen to him than brian taylor yell into the microphone all the time..

wish clinton grybas (if thats how you spell it) was still around to commentate, he was good.. i also liked dermie and gary lyon.. they knew what they were talking about

 

[Niximus]

Yeah, I agree - although I'm probably not as teed off with the commentators as you are.

That's why I made that post - it was weird on Saturday night, for some reason and don't ask me why, it just happened - although being at the game was very enjoyable, I just didn't get "pumped" by it. By the end of the game I was just sitting back and laughing when we sliced through and Porp and Tip were taking marks and kicking goals. Not my usual on the feet and fist pumping And I didn't realise how well we had played (as opposed to just cruising past weak opposition) until I watched the replay.

Remember a couple of years ago when we put 30 past Essendon? That was party time, and the crowd was really up. I remember we were screaming for "30! 30!" in the dying seconds, and Kenny McGregor, who didn't know the score, couldn't work out why his closing goal got such a roar from the crowd

Wasn't like that on Saturday night - not for me anyway. Don't ask me why, just one of those things, I guess .

Yeah I remember that game but I think the ending might have altered your memory of it a little.

I remember the most of the game as really subdued just like the Freo game - I can't really complain about it as it was hard to get really into the game when it feels like you're cheering on someone beating up a disabled child.

The Essendon game was much the same for the most of the night and it was only in the last 2 minutes when 30 goals looked possible that people had something to get pumped about.

IIRC we had 27 with 2 mins on the clock, I remember sitting back and looking at the scoreboard and feeling very pleased and thinking how great it would have been to hit 30 goals.

Then we slotted one and there was 1 min left and we had 28 goals. We took the next out of the centre kicked it around a bit, the clock was reaching 30 secs to go (I was hearing from people listening to the radio) and we still only had 28 but then we managed to slot the 29th and with less than 30secs to go people started thinking it could happen.

Straight out of the centre with K Mac on the lead the pass is heading to him and everyone is getting ready to cheer his mark.......he pretty much runs underneath the ball as it slips through his fingers, the crowd let out a sigh at how close but how far we were to 30 goals.

Then a miracle happens and Kenny's defender over runs the ball aswell and Ken is actually quicker in turning around, the ball bounces, sits up perfectly. The big K grabs it and throws it on his boot, the ball is sailing through the air as the siren sounds it passes through the goals for the 30th time and the crowd go apeshit!

I did feel a similar atmosphere when it looked like we might reach 20 goals but in a flogging like that you'll never get the best interaction, it just feels like you're cheering a practice match or training.

 

[arrowman]

Yeah I remember that game but I think the ending might have altered your memory of it a little.

Possibly, that's the great thing about memories Also it's probably influenced by where you are in the crowd and who's sitting around you - I'm sure there's a lot of variation across the ground.

Also, maybe (in terms of crowd passion) the Essendon game built up as we kept on racking up the goals and started pushing at 30 goals: the Feo game just petered out.

 

[King Elvis]

i dont mind pickering as a commentator.. id rather listen to him than brian taylor yell into the microphone all the time..

wish clinton grybas (if thats how you spell it) was still around to commentate, he was good.. i also liked dermie and gary lyon.. they knew what they were talking about

I love The International Cool Breeze and the boys!!

Least they get fired up and passionate about the footy; their calls are actually good entertainment

Vale Clinton

 

[KUNG FU]

I feel bad for posting this, but it made me laugh

 

[WALL-e]

I feel so sorry for him.

Why we took Carey over him is beyoond me.

Garry Ayres should coach Freo.

 

[RoosterLad]

Don't feel sorry. He could leave Freo if he wanted to.