Bruce. Maybe not his last couple of years but he was the master. Had to admire his passion.
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ant555
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Rex is an interesting case. Did not like him as a TV caller. Could not listen to him if he was calling an Essendon game and I wanted to know what was going on but I loved listening to him call a neutral game that I had no real stake in the result.
Albertross
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Not all if his material either, bit of plagiarism involved. I know of at least one phrase he used that wasn't original, made me question the rest.
jmoo wan
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he had some classic one liners though!
The girls happy, I got my rocks off, she got paid. How good is this!
Rex was good until he got famous and it went to his head.
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You got a LOL from me there
jmoo wan
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hehe - yes it did...
His research was impeccable whatever sport he was calling. Yeah was good early.
You get the feeling Bruce turned everything in to a question don’t you?
Denis freestyle was always great when the game was electric.
Bruce and denis still the best combo in last 30 odd years.
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Will never understand the Bruce love. He was hot garbage.
I like Riewoldt. At least he makes sense to me. Also Richo and Hodge. The rest of that list are awful.
I kind of don't care if the commentator has played the game, deep knowledge + skill as a caller should be the baseline. It feels like all we have these days is some knowledge but not a lot of skilled callers.
Someone needs to clone Commetti.
I reckon Rex made good radio.
Dwayne commentates like he's calling Rugby League. "Parker, Mills, gives it off to Heeney, back to Mills, to Papley..." That combined with his monotone delivery makes for boring as batshit call.
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Bruce Taylor is the classic great on radio but shitehouse on tv.
eth-dog
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Early 2000's Bruce was good. The best play by play currently on TV , for me are:
Anthony Hudson, Brenton Speed, Jason Bennett, Adam Pappalia (sp?), Kelli Underwood
I know Kelli isn't popular but I think she's pretty solid
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Anthony Hudson is the Gold standard, Bennett the rising star for mine.
Agree Underwood is too heavily scrutinised. Calls what she sees and doesn't try and oversell a narrative or be a special comments person either, which is the job of a play by play caller.
The cadence of a commentators voice doesn't worry me, the gimmicky phrases and fake arousal they come up with to try and emulate Cometti and Roberts do.
Those two (Cometti and Roberts) were the best of both worlds.
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Clinton Grybus was a big loss to the footy commentary world. He was making enormous strides at the time of his death, if he were still around he'd be the best there is.
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The last page and a half says everything you need to know about the game. Zero comments on the game, all comments on commentating preferences.
It sure wasn't one for the time capsule, that's for sure.
It sure wasn't one for the time capsule, that's for sure.
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I'm especially annoyed with Dwayne Russell's pre-fab calling of what could be Sam Draper's goal of the year. Clearly something he'd prepared earlier and wanted to insert into the call, made no sense and didn't fit the play at all. 'He enticed 'em, he sliced 'em, he diced 'em!'. What is an amazing highlight of football for dons fans is forever tainted with that crap.
Even the triple m boys distorted screaming was better
100 times this. He was absolute trash and utterly unbearable. Solely responsible for some of the cringiest s**t ever produced. I still shudder when I think about him calling Hodge "Hodgey", or caressing yet another platitude down Cyril's throat
Albertross
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Not enough love for Basil in this convo.
Surprised Huddo hasn't received more love in here.
Was one of my favourites for a long period of time.
His commentary of the Nick Davis 4th quarter vs Geelong I also think goes to the next level when you factor in that he's a Geelong fan.
Was one of my favourites for a long period of time.
His commentary of the Nick Davis 4th quarter vs Geelong I also think goes to the next level when you factor in that he's a Geelong fan.
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Not to mention Poppy.
I think he was alright up to the mid/late 90s but then gradually became annoying through to unbearable.
