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Footy media , love’m or hate’ m ?
- Thread starter Mr Brightside
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I'm have Brian Taylor out of there first, with Jimmy a close second. I find myself watching games on mute these days.
BT. What a relic. A dumb, unprofessional hack. Get rid of him. And quite frankly they can get rid of Richo too. Offers nothing. Soft. Just sits on the fence with everything. Hodge can barely string two words together either. He can go as well.
Too many dumb ex footballers. Just get the most professional callers you can and then add one, articulate ex player to compliment them.
Peter Landy was a bit of a goose but he was miles better than the likes of BT and Brayshaw. Lou Richards was stratospheres above.
I heard Phil Davis being interviewed yesterday. Pretty good. Get him in the booth more regularly for an ex player’s perspective. Articulate, no corny cliche footy reflections or descriptions of standard 101 footy tactics eg “get to the fall of the ball” etc. Instead, insightful modern day approach mixed in with his own thoughts on what works and why, and what doesn’t. No extremism or blokey bloke rubbish. Just calm, well thought out comments that are current and well explained. Can be a bit quirky so that might be annoying after a while, but geez he couldn’t be any worse than most other ex footballers in the media.
I cant stand BT as a commentator. Awful. But i am sure i have heard him speak out of the commentary box and be quite articulate and insightful. Why he has been set up to be the attempted Rex Hunt clone I have no idea.
I wish Kayo had the red mute button - only crowd noise, no umpires and no commentary
yep. different generation.
opens up the idea of a younger, smarter crew in the commentary box instead of throwbacks
Top caller
They just need to be unbias
Call the game as they see it.
Bad decision, call it
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If only we could find the AFL equivalent of John Madden and Pat Summerall. The greatest.
They and others must be costing broadcasters an absolute mint.
Imagine how much better off the broadcast and us as viewers/listeners would be with professional commentators who actually are professionals. Instead of the half wits, dim wits and *smile* wits, pooncey boys, *smile* heads and dills we have to put up
You’d think businessmen ran these broadcasters. But it seems like fanboys do
Absolutely Tompers. Even now, guys like Al Michaels are how you do it. Polished. Understated. Let the game do the talking.
My drinking game is to have a sip everytime I hear any cliche variation of "forward just needs to compete and bring ball to ground for his crumbers."
Always sh**faced by 1/2 time. Which is good to get me through the second 1/2.
I didn’t mind Peter Donegan, either. The likes of BT and Brayshaw need to be gone. They add nothing to the game and don’t even call it for large amounts of the time.
Peter Donegan top commentator.
The blokes that called VFL games
Stand out to me as quality commentators.
Do you remember that night the umpires gave Adelaide 3 free kicks in the last 2 minutes to get them over the line against Fitzroy?
Peter McKenna 'This is murder,'
He called it as he saw it.
A real commentator
