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why i think ray hadley is a gimp:

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dr nick

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1. totally in david moffet's corner for the 14 team comp, including getting rid of souths in that totally "fair" criteria set up, then backing the NRL all the way during souths' stuggles in court, then changing to being on the souths bandwagon when they return (same for fatty vautin too)

2. Totally backing the Northern Eagles merge, as well as playing a majority of games at north power. only started to change his tune this year when he realised it was inevitable that the northern eagles would dissolve as a merged entity

3. Formerly broadcasting on 2UE with John Gibbs, then critisising him to high heaven when Gibbs changed stations to 2GB, saying we was a disloyal scumbag for deserting 2UE and league would be better off without him. Then changing to 2GB himself, taking Gibbs' spot, Gibbs forced back to 2UE

4. Being the most ardent critic of RU and AFL, making such idiotic remarks why league is better like "oh, union cant takle, AFL is just aerial ping pong" please.... intelligent critisism of codes i can take, but i dont like such baseless critisism as this (im not a union fan, but id at least like to hear valid reasons whe he thinks league is better, i know i have my own, and at least mine are valid). But then, he goes and calls some swans games and some union games, pretending now that he is actually a fan of all codes.. PLEASE!! i actually listened to one of his union calls, or at least part of it. he didnt have a clue about the rules, always had to ask david campese about penalties, it would have to be the worst sports broadcast ive ever heard

5. When talkback callers ring in opposing something he says, he just cuts them off when he is backed into a corner. i wish he'd hear some people out sometimes, he might escape from that insulated bubble that is his world.

if i actually continued to listen to ray hadley these days im sure id have by now many more reasons. i just find the games are called on the ABC a lot better, and also i reckon the game comes across as more exciting when listening to the 2BL coverage over the 2GB coverage. i'd encourage all league fans to at least try listening to the ABC's call of a game, i think you'll quite like it.
 

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He's a journalist in the end these days and as we have seen with Caro in the Age all journos care about is getting stories that will sell papers. Hadley is one bloke who is just trying to say the popular thing - he has done it for years. He has never had anything intelligent or interesting to say IMO. Plus, he has a tendancy to create 'facts' to support his arguments.
 
What do you expect from a former Garbage collector?

I hate Ray Hadley and I have never in my entire life heard him say anything intelligent or relevant. He cut off the broadcast of the Roosters-Cowboys game after 50mins because 'we all know the Roosters will win'. That's true, but some people still want to know about the score!

He is an absolute moron and I suggest we restart the 'send Ray Hadley a peanut' campaign.

In this week's Big League there's a letter advertising a website for the 'I love to hate Ray Hadley Club'. Should be worth joining.
 
He is, however, by far the best league radio (or tv however correct me if I'm wrong) commentator we have.

It is a pity he has gone down the same road as the Footy show, which uses toddler humour to boost ratings in between match calls rather than League discussion which I much prefer.

Still, you cant argue with ratings can you.
 
Originally posted by Dr Zaius
He is, however, by far the best league radio (or tv however correct me if I'm wrong) commentator we have.

It is a pity he has gone down the same road as the Footy show, which uses toddler humour to boost ratings in between match calls rather than League discussion which I much prefer.

Still, you cant argue with ratings can you.

you obviously havent listened to the ABC's league calls. they are streets ahead of ray, plus they get all emotionally involved and revved up, not to mention their comments are 100 x more insightful.

if you can pick up 2BL, i suggest give it a try, and rather than send ray a peanut, just everyone dont listen to him. (by the way, they other reason why u might think ray is the best caller is because he is really the only commercial station caller. john gibbs is was actually quite good when he used to call)
 
We listened to the "Continuous Call" team's last hour on the way home from teh game yesterday and I have never heard so much crap in all my life. I will give it a miss in future. In 1 hour I heard absolutely NO chat about the game we had just seen, quite amazing....
 

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