We need more diversity in the commentary box

[Scotland]

We need more diversity in the commentary box, the percentage of former players who can't string two sentences together is too high.

 

[Cmarsh]

Didnt hear the call so .... but Dunstall has lived in Melb for the last 30 years, Reiwoldt 20 years & Moons about the same - is that 100% of their working life, inside the Melbourne bubble?

Most AFL media jobs will be in Melbourne.

 

[Papa G]

Most AFL media jobs will be in Melbourne.

Do they become Malbun dickhead sycophants because they live in the bubble or are they forced to become Malbun dickhead sycophants to live in the bubble?

 

[00Stinger]

Whilst this is not the point of thus thread, I do often wonder why there is not one Aboriginal person in the mainstream AFL media.


No commentary, no Crocmedia media, no print media.


Why?




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Gilbert McAdam?

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[RUNVS]

NRL commentary is far better; don't feel some need to try to get the underdogs up, and they tend to play down minor on-field 'controversies' rather than hype them up into a 'story'. Far less hysterical and more clear-eyed.

NRL commentators are way more biased though. I mean you think the AFL is bad, the NRL is considerably worse in that regard.

 

[Dez!]

The commentary in that game was fine, the commentators can't pump up the Eagles when they s**t the bed in the second half.

 

[Power Raid]

the boys club needs to be swept aside

 

[juss]

This STK-WCE game is insufferable. The Victorian bias is incredible. We need to breakup the Victorian monopoly on AFL media.

Thoughts?

No we need competent broadcasters who know what they're doing. It doesn't really matter where they come from.

 

[juss]

Whilst this is not the point of thus thread, I do often wonder why there is not one Aboriginal person in the mainstream AFL media.


No commentary, no Crocmedia media, no print media.


Why?




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All for it but who would you suggest?
Gill McAdam has been tried before but he is noticeably terrible at it.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Let's face it, McAvaney even in decline has left a vacuum in the ranks. There is no statesmanlike presence in footy media.

 

[Topkent]

Didnt hear the call so .... but Dunstall has lived in Melb for the last 30 years, Reiwoldt 20 years & Moons about the same - is that 100% of their working life, inside the Melbourne bubble?

What the * does that even mean haha what a weird sook after losing a game

 

[Cursed Cat]

NRL commentators are way more biased though. I mean you think the AFL is bad, the NRL is considerably worse in that regard.

really? I haven't picked up on that so far (moved up North a 3 or so years ago now and have been watching more NRL that I had previously).

favourite bit of NRL commentary for 2021 so far (upon being puzzled over a penalty): ''he was well within his rights to rag-doll him..."

 

[Topkent]

really? I haven't picked up on that so far (moved up North a 3 or so years ago now and have been watching more NRL that I had previously).

favourite bit of NRL commentary for 2021 so far (upon being puzzled over a penalty): ''he was well within his rights to rag-doll him..."

That's because NRL aren't ashamed to do commentary that men like, the AFLs more concerned with what Mums who glance at the screen twice a game think

 

[billyboutsis]

Do they become Malbun dickhead sycophants because they live in the bubble or are they forced to become Malbun dickhead sycophants to live in the bubble?

Hmmm, if i was to guess, you’d be the type who would get homesick on a day trip to the Barossa Valley.

 

[Cursed Cat]

That's because NRL aren't ashamed to do commentary that men like, the AFLs more concerned with what Mums who glance at the screen twice a game think

I dunno, it's not even really as hyper-blokey as I thought it might be; it's actually just really well-drilled, they're informative without getting bogged down and as I've already said I just prefer their judgement in saving the hype for when it matters.

 

[adogsfan5]

Ch7 is currently awful. Brayshaw does north games, Darcy does our games and BT is a moron. Way too much focus on stupid crap. They spent 5 mins the other night with the camera on a pigeon.

Ch7 should be throwing everything at Hudson and Papalia. Nathan brown

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is good on triple M as well - maybe time to join tv commentary?

 

[Doctor Feel]

OP bias aside, the quality of commentating in the AFL at the moment is beyond awful. Dumb ex players with poor vocabulary skills and poor analysis.

I've liked Jordan Lewis

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and Nick Riewoldt, but you could probably put a broom through the rest of them. Even the older guys are trash like Dwayne and Gerard Healy.

It's been a big problem for a long time. I miss Dennis

Way too many cases of ex-players/current board members etc commentating their old/own sides or arch rivals.

 

[Mat Mann]

NRL commentary is far better; don't feel some need to try to get the underdogs up, and they tend to play down minor on-field 'controversies' rather than hype them up into a 'story'. Far less hysterical and more clear-eyed.

did you watch the 2020 GF

Footy fans blast Phil Gould’s ‘biased’ commentary in NRL Grand Final

Diehard rugby league fans and casual observers alike united in their dislike of Phil Gould on Sunday night.

www.news.com.au

 

[WillHayward]

It’s an absolute whitewash too.

Indigenous or non Anglo people never allowed in the main box with white 'heros' like Carey Lingy Darce etc etc

The White aspirational social climbing blokey crap is just embarrassing.

 

[Dawggin It]

OP bias aside, the quality of commentating in the AFL at the moment is beyond awful. Dumb ex players with poor vocabulary skills and poor analysis.

I've liked Jordan Lewis and Nick Riewoldt, but you could probably put a broom through the rest of them. Even the older guys are trash like Dwayne and Gerard Healy.

It's been a big problem for a long time. I miss Dennis

Way too many cases of ex-players/current board members etc commentating their old/own sides or arch rivals.

Agreed. Surprised we are 2 pages in and no one has specifically mentioned Jobe Watson. Fair bit of hubris in that appointment, has no right being in a commentary box.

CV essentially reads as: (in order of importance)

1. Tim Watson's son
2. Former Essendon captain
3. Above average footballer
4. Real Estate agent
5. Barista
6. (convicted drug cheat)

 

[Dockeroo]

Hamish has to be the worst. Beyond awful. Happy clapping every single team no matter how s**t they are. Brother of the AFL ceo - you actually couldn’t make it up. Struggles to get through a broadcast without a reference to Isak Rankine. Obviously a directive from big bro to pump up the GCS at every opportunity.

 

[Kangapirate]

I watched 20 minutes of A league soccer yestetday, Mark Bosnich on commentary was basically coaching Melbourne Victory, would say it was the most embarassing broadcast i've ever seen.

 

[Chuckie357]

Is someone sooking about the pro-Saints commentary in the second half because their team went to water?

Why is it always a "Victorian" thing? Don't these Eagles fans realise the commentators do the exact same thing when they're in Perth, Adelaide, Sydney or Brisbane and the home team gets on the roll with their home crowd roaring?

Cry me a river...

The are very quick to forget about flogs like Lachie Reid aren’t that. Compete sooks when the umps ain’t helping them to the finish line. I wonder how many of them complained about their toast being burnt this morning?

 

[Engimal v3]

I was hoping the diversity being referred to meant less ex-players in the box.

I'm down with that.

It's a funny thing that ex-players keep being recruited as commentators, and yet the commentators throughout history that are most respected weren't ex-players.

 

[HPKS]

This STK-WCE game is insufferable. The Victorian bias is incredible. We need to breakup the Victorian monopoly on AFL media.

Thoughts?

it’s not so much the Victorian bias that does my head in it’s that they don’t research anything outside of the Melbourne cbd. Just wilfully ignorant.