Certified Legendary Thread The absolute brilliance that is the C9 commentary team. CC: Brad McNamara

[Phone]

they had 3AW doing it last season without exclusive rights issues. Looks like they're doing coverage again this season.

i remember a big crybaby whinge from some on here when CA did this. good times

 

[The_Reaper]

In a wide ranging interview, Clarke addressed several controversies that erupted during his captaincy, including one with his then-vice captain Shane Watson.

“I said that there is a number of players, a group in this team at the moment, that are like a tumour and if we don’t fix it, it’s going to turn into a cancer.

“Shane was one of those players, yes.”

http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...p/news-story/1b10f0967213a1c8f5bcc0dff1275981

 

[Wolfs]

http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...p/news-story/1b10f0967213a1c8f5bcc0dff1275981

 

[Kram]

Meh.

 

[Vinnie B]

So, who's watched Clarke's interview and knows which bits are bullshit?

 

[King Elvis]

I saw a still and his wife has got a major tan. Did he speak about Watto?



Oh lordy, lordy, lordy.

Haha, classic - which one of them got shunned by all of the BBL teams because he's a selfish, disruptive prick?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

they had 3AW doing it last season without exclusive rights issues. Looks like they're doing coverage again this season.

Was that syndicated nationally, as MMM coverage would probably be? In which case, ABC was still required from CA's perspective.
Unless radio rights are free, it doesn't make sense to pay for rights and not get exclusive access. Maybe some regional areas would not get a MMM aligned station to broadcast and the ABC is therefore still required.

 

[JackOutback]

Didn't see the interview, read some of the comments; best bit was, 'I never called Watson a cancer on the team, I called him a tumour'.

 

[akkaps]

Here's the episode, it's the first segment.
https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2016/episode-36

You will have to log in, though.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Was that syndicated nationally, as MMM coverage would probably be? In which case, ABC was still required from CA's perspective.
Unless radio rights are free, it doesn't make sense to pay for rights and not get exclusive access. Maybe some regional areas would not get a MMM aligned station to broadcast and the ABC is therefore still required.

Plenty of AFL games are broadcast on multiple stations, even within the same location.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricke...r/news-story/b08e748225d06ae01655756c03e36f4c

more no Lee and Hussey. Surprised that Ch9 are actually trying to get a non-Australian POV in the commentary (KP and Waqar)

"retired greats Kevin Pietersen and Waqar Younis"

Um, when did Kevin Pietersen retire?

And Waqar lives in Sydney

Figures. Asian would normally be way too 'ethnic' for Nine's coverage but he'll know how to boganify his commentary.

 

[Kram]

No great loss, Lee was an airhead and Hussey talked like a jockey.

 

[Wolfs]

lol if anything this book just makes Clarke look worse.

Shane Watson said:

“For me I think it was more a reflection of the person he is more than what it was directed towards me,” Watson said.

“In the end it is really disappointing that things like that start to come out two or three years later on when we are all very content in retirement.”

 

[peternorth]

Was watching a round table discussion on SKY news the other night. On it were all sydneysiders. One of them remarked that it's coming across as someone who says he doesn't care about being liked, but desperately wants to be liked.

 

[peternorth]

lol if anything this book just makes Clarke look worse.

Shane Watson said:

in addition:

The release of Michael Clarke’s autobiography this week has renewed focus on the testy relationships within recent Australian teams, including Clarke’s with Watson, colourfully described. In his own case, Watson thinks that the more important relationship was one he lost when Ricky Ponting retired in December 2012. It left, he says, a huge vacuum in the Australian team, which might never be filled.

“Ricky’s just a good human being,” he says. “There were a number of times in my career where I sat down and chatted to him about important things. But when leaders change, environments change. The best environment is where a player can say those things and not feel judged, where they feel supported. But the system today is about creating good cricketers, not good human beings. The good human beings get in by chance.”

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Urrrgghh, Michael Clarke commentating the Matador Cup final now, making my ears bleed, he is terrible

 

[Cleavy]

"James Brayshaw is said to have placed a call to Seven bosses, sounding out the possibility of calling football next year, with Brayshaw having told friends he doesn’t expect to have a heavy cricket schedule this summer."
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Interesting, if true!

 

[damochandler]

"James Brayshaw is said to have placed a call to Seven bosses, sounding out the possibility of calling football next year, with Brayshaw having told friends he doesn’t expect to have a heavy cricket schedule this summer."
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Interesting, if true!

Notice that that he placed the call to them

 

[Cleavy]

Notice that that he placed the call to them

Indeed. As if anyone would seek him out.

 

[happy_eagle]

Indeed. As if anyone would seek him out.

Brayshaw is a decent enough footy caller, does well on radio. I do worry that he might become BT v2.0 on 7 though

 

[Chaisa]

Please move to AFL full-time JB. You're actually half-decent at that.

 

[Marstermind]

I decided to watch today's Matador Cup Final until I hear Alyssa Healy put two consecutive sentences together without using "Ummm". Needless to say I'm still watching.

 

[The Speaker]

No great loss, Lee was an airhead and Hussey talked like a jockey.

younger bill lawry sounded like a jockey too. so what.

 

[Kram]

younger bill lawry sounded like a jockey too. so what.

Hussey wasn't bad but he wasn't all that great either imo.

 

[Cleavy]

I decided to watch today's Matador Cup Final until I hear Alyssa Healy put two consecutive sentences together without using "Ummm". Needless to say I'm still watching.

Ah, I was wondering who that voice was.