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Needs to be said.
Stuck at home today and watched on TV.
Commentary can make or break a game on TV, and it generally does the latter when it comes to the current bunch of reprehensible animals who call themselves AFL commentators.
It's actually highly damaging to the game and its growth and I cannot believe the AFL doesn't fix it.
They spend hundreds of millions promoting the game and then allow it to be hijacked and destroyed by this group of criminals. So much time, effort and money spent on bringing the game to as many lounge rooms as possible, only for it to be shouted over by a pack of attention seeking pigs who force you to switch off.
So in this spirit... what an absolute ****ing joy and pleasure to have Sandford calling our game today.
I barely even noticed Derrrwayne next to him. He was THAT good.
An incredibly inoffensive voice. Not high, not dry, not deep, not crackly, not faked, not exaggerated... just pure, untrying vocal normality.
Speed, volume and tempo in perfect rhythm with the game. It goes up in exact sync when something exciting - actually exciting - happens. To the required point, not beyond it. Then shifts back naturally with it.
And most importantly... incredibly importantly... glorious SILENCE! When nothing is happening! Silence! It only lasts a few seconds, like when the players are unstacking themselves prior to a ball up... but it's so noticeable. He just doesn't talk, at all... then drifts back in smoothly with the "Bellchambers, down to Zaharakis..."
No "what do you think [moron ex player sitting behind him]?"
Sandy is a pro, a boss, he rules the shop, he doesn't give a **** what this simpleton (who is on HIS turf) thinks, and he knows his people out in TV land don't either. Their drivel is not sort out, they're left to jump in on the rare occasion when Sandy lets (not asks) them... and then he's back, the meaningless stupid "observation" of the dullard former player disappearing, as it should, like a silent fart in the wind.
I'm even happy to forgive his single indulgence, "Hi Ho, Orazio!". The rest of his work is so good, he's more than entitled to it. And guess what? He does it when it fits. When Fantasia has kicked his fourth goal and his team is well in front.
Not when five other players are contesting the ball and Raz happens to sneak into frame 20 metres away. Sandy wouldn't abandon his actual job to try to hijack the game with his attempted tagline then. The game is too important. Are you listening BT, you motherless campaigner?
AFL, I implore you, in the name of all that is good and proper, establish "The Sandy Roberts Centre For Idiots Who Can't Commentate Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too". Post haste.
Stuck at home today and watched on TV.
Commentary can make or break a game on TV, and it generally does the latter when it comes to the current bunch of reprehensible animals who call themselves AFL commentators.
It's actually highly damaging to the game and its growth and I cannot believe the AFL doesn't fix it.
They spend hundreds of millions promoting the game and then allow it to be hijacked and destroyed by this group of criminals. So much time, effort and money spent on bringing the game to as many lounge rooms as possible, only for it to be shouted over by a pack of attention seeking pigs who force you to switch off.
So in this spirit... what an absolute ****ing joy and pleasure to have Sandford calling our game today.
I barely even noticed Derrrwayne next to him. He was THAT good.
An incredibly inoffensive voice. Not high, not dry, not deep, not crackly, not faked, not exaggerated... just pure, untrying vocal normality.
Speed, volume and tempo in perfect rhythm with the game. It goes up in exact sync when something exciting - actually exciting - happens. To the required point, not beyond it. Then shifts back naturally with it.
And most importantly... incredibly importantly... glorious SILENCE! When nothing is happening! Silence! It only lasts a few seconds, like when the players are unstacking themselves prior to a ball up... but it's so noticeable. He just doesn't talk, at all... then drifts back in smoothly with the "Bellchambers, down to Zaharakis..."
No "what do you think [moron ex player sitting behind him]?"
Sandy is a pro, a boss, he rules the shop, he doesn't give a **** what this simpleton (who is on HIS turf) thinks, and he knows his people out in TV land don't either. Their drivel is not sort out, they're left to jump in on the rare occasion when Sandy lets (not asks) them... and then he's back, the meaningless stupid "observation" of the dullard former player disappearing, as it should, like a silent fart in the wind.
I'm even happy to forgive his single indulgence, "Hi Ho, Orazio!". The rest of his work is so good, he's more than entitled to it. And guess what? He does it when it fits. When Fantasia has kicked his fourth goal and his team is well in front.
Not when five other players are contesting the ball and Raz happens to sneak into frame 20 metres away. Sandy wouldn't abandon his actual job to try to hijack the game with his attempted tagline then. The game is too important. Are you listening BT, you motherless campaigner?
AFL, I implore you, in the name of all that is good and proper, establish "The Sandy Roberts Centre For Idiots Who Can't Commentate Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too". Post haste.
