Why do people hate Bruce?

[Leeda]

Bruce McAvaney is a legend. By far he is the best commentator. There is nothing wrong with him.

flianing delusion and dry [ers[ectove///

 

[Power Raid]

Over excitable but without being genuine
Embarrassing sexualisation of certain players in the workplace
Becoming fragile mentally

10 years past his prime

 

[Lip Gallagher]

I've always liked Bruce, superb operator and brings genuine excitement whether it be football/horse racing or atheltics, knows his stuff too.

 

[Obzerva]

just reminded me of the when Fyfe won the Brownlow the first time around, my god that interview went a step beyond admiration, it looked like a date on the Bachelor. If there wasn’t a Brownlow medal around his neck I was sure he being presented with a rose.

 

[Leeda]

wholly dully,, we are London to a brick.. stand by my marchioness.. and carry it to something like a warp speed...

 

[S_Saed17]

I don't hate him, I'm tired of him. You know exactly what he's going to say before he says it.

He's patronising to Indigenous players. It's not all 'special skills, oh he's a special player, you've got to admire those skills.' There's room for Byron Pickett too.

Speaking of bumps, good one, well done on using the search feature. 21 years old, that must be a record.

Didn't even search it, just scrolling through some of the early posts of bigfooty's infancy and stumbled across it lol

Edit: FWIW i'm grateful for Bruce as he was a big part of my childhood watching footy, but it's just interesting that people had the same thoughts back almost 20 years ago as now.

 

[Catsnlakers]

I've always liked Bruce, superb operator and brings genuine excitement whether it be football/horse racing or atheltics, knows his stuff too.

Agree, he’s certainly much better at footy & racing than tennis or cricket....Sometimes blokes just try to take on too many sports.

 

[yyou]

i blame him for bringing that mullet-headed term, checkside, into the vernacular.
It's a bloody banana you clown!
was never a fan of him.
should have stuck to rhythmic gymnastics or the like.

 

[Do the Dew]

Pretty obvious why Bruce is awful to listen to.

****ing rhetorical questions.

This article explains current commentating pretty well:

Bruce asked 55 rhetorical questions in one game

Before I begin, can I preface this by saying that I adore Bruce McAvaney’s passion for the game. And I’m not trying to ether him out of existence here.

www.news.com.au

 

[Chuckie357]

What is the phrase you are looking for??


KB - legend, best in the business??

“Toss back in”

 

[queensberryrules]

Hate is a strong word.

Abhor is a stronger one.

Adds nothing to commentary these days apart from effervescent dribble.

 

[Off Tap]

I like listening to him when he's not commentating the action and on say a panel of commentators as his knowledge for any sport is 1st class.

He grates me when he uses that deeper growl in the back of his throat when commentating.

Unfortunately, it's nearly every time there's some sort of increase in the excitement in the game he's calling.

Can't watch anything he calls nowadays and will turn the TV over to something else.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

I like Bruce but he's well past it now. He's lost his feel for commentary.

 

[kid_a]

He used to be good, but now he is just ridiculous.

Often he can't even think of a proper sentence to say during play so he just repeats the same word over and over eg: "tapping tapping tapping...goal!"

 

[Sprout]

He’ll always be a legend of sports commentary and rightly so, but it’s time, and has been for a while now.

He won’t quit until he’s either forced out or incapacitated. He loves it too much to give it away.

 

[CrowInFiji]

When you look at Bruce as a whole package he is undeniably good.

But my main gripe with him has always been his fanboy tendencies. It doesn't do him, or the player he is fawning over, any favours as it often incites the listener to not like that player just because.

When a person Bruce loves does the simplest thing it's just "so clever" but when a nobody does literally the same thing (keep in mind we are talking about a simple kick to a target) he just calls the play.

Once or twicea game this would be okay but it's once or twice a minute.

 

[aussierulesrules]

Agree, he’s certainly much better at footy & racing than tennis or cricket....Sometimes blokes just try to take on too many sports.

The McEvaneys are good family friends with my brother and his family and I was told he didn't want to do the cricket at all, but was told he had to do it, or whatever.

 

[sprockets]

Pretty obvious why Bruce is awful to listen to.

******* rhetorical questions.

This article explains current commentating pretty well:

Bruce asked 55 rhetorical questions in one game

Before I begin, can I preface this by saying that I adore Bruce McAvaney’s passion for the game. And I’m not trying to ether him out of existence here.

www.news.com.au

To be honest, I don't want him making non-fence-sitting calls or any calls other than what's happening on the field. He's not an 'expert' commentator, and God knows there's more than enough of those on every broadcast, he's just a commentator. Just call the action Bruce, we don't want to know what you feel. Or retire.

You know I'm right, don't you.

 

[Lip Gallagher]

I would love to hear BF wannabe's call a game, that would be interesting, you vastly underestimate the skill required.

 

[Wonderdog]

i blame him for bringing that mullet-headed term, checkside, into the vernacular.
It's a bloody banana you clown!
was never a fan of him.
should have stuck to rhythmic gymnastics or the like.

Bruce is a South Aussie & it has always been a checkside in SA.

 

[Papa G]

When you look at Bruce as a whole package he is undeniably good.

But my main gripe with him has always been his fanboy tendencies. It doesn't do him, or the player he is fawning over, any favours as it often incites the listener to not like that player just because.

When a person Bruce loves does the simplest thing it's just "so clever" but when a nobody does literally the same thing (keep in mind we are talking about a simple kick to a target) he just calls the play.

Once or twicea game this would be okay but it's once or twice a minute.

Solely responsible for Cyril Rioli becoming the most over rated player of all time.

 

[Trav 20]

He's unbearable these days and does what's shown in this short video every time he commentates. He's an irrelevancy that just doesn't go away. Nice guy, but finished as a serious commentator.

Isn't he ?

 

[Power Raid]

i blame him for bringing that mullet-headed term, checkside, into the vernacular.
It's a bloody banana you clown!
was never a fan of him.
should have stuck to rhythmic gymnastics or the like.

I appreciate a banana was used to describe a checkside in certain states but in reality it really describing how a ball moves through the air rather than what side of the boot. Where a checkside is the outside of the boot.

This is one of the few things in life SA got right

 

[Triniboy]

He’s a total try hard...likes the sound of his own voice.

 

[Off Tap]

He’s a total try hard...likes the sound of his own voice.

Don't ya think?