BBL commentators and f**king AFL

[El Diablo]

Plug your ears if you are planning to watch the Australian Open tennis from Melbourne. The gushing McAviney goes to water when the 7 cameras pan to a North Melbourne, Hawthorne or Collingwood...etc player in the crowd. 7 probably pays the players to be there so they can promote the up coming season.

at least they have rights

10 and 9 don't but constantly promote it

10 through commentary and 9 through their cricket show which usually has a a story about some AFL homo

 

[undertaker]

Plug your ears if you are planning to watch the Australian Open tennis from Melbourne. The gushing McAviney goes to water when the 7 cameras pan to a North Melbourne, Hawthorne or Collingwood...etc player in the crowd. 7 probably pays the players to be there so they can promote the up coming season.

Doesn't bother me, I haven't watched professional tennis for many years.

All the grunting, spoilt brats, powerful racquets, ethnic disputes in the crowd, 'quiet please!" nonsense turned me off a long time ago.

 

[no name]

f**king Gilly.
How does a catch by a women's sevens player turn into AFL?

 

[Brutus]

Gilly is one of the worst.

f**king knobhead.

 

[no name]

It has to be a contractual thing.
They were showing a catch by the women's sevens team in the rain, they mention that they have footage from the men's too and then out of the blue:
"You know who else will have some footage for us in the coming weeks? The AFL teams as they return to pre season training. They love their cricket."
I can't see how it isn't a paid product placement, it's too obvious.

 

[tomdl]

Gilly said something about a forward spilling a mark through the goals the other day when someone dropped a catch over the rope for 6. Nearly threw up

 

[chigurh]

It has to be a contractual thing.
They were showing a catch by the women's sevens team in the rain, they mention that they have footage from the men's too and then out of the blue:
"You know who else will have some footage for us in the coming weeks? The AFL teams as they return to pre season training. They love their cricket."
I can't see how it isn't a paid product placement, it's too obvious.

I agree. Up until last night it had been annoying, but that comment seemed so forced it has to be a contractual thing.

They were advertising the upcoming ODI series last night so it's not as if 10 has a problem with giving a rival network a leg up

 

[jargan83]

Isn't channel 10 part or majority owned by Uncle Rupert these days? Wouldn't surprise as the reason for all the fumbleball references, at times it does seem rather forced.

 

[El Diablo]

nope

only 15% which is really 7 1/2% seeing it's Foxtel that owns that and he only owns half of Foxtel

 

[madunit]

I agree. Up until last night it had been annoying, but that comment seemed so forced it has to be a contractual thing.

They were advertising the upcoming ODI series last night so it's not as if 10 has a problem with giving a rival network a leg up

See, I can kind of understand Ch 10 mentioning the ODI series and trying to get a piggy back from Ch9's cricket coverage.

But what I hate and do not understand at all, is the NRL FTA broadcaster spending so much time talking about AFL on a rival network.

 

[Timbo]

Barely out of the team lineups and already banging on about it.

 

[Lynoman]

FFS! Stop with the androtropball talk!

 

[undertaker]

Here we go again with the AFL talk about between the commentators. Far out! Seriously, surely this has gotta be contrived (i.e. executives telling them to give some random nuffie from Hawthorn or North Melbourne a spruik in the commentary)

 

[no name]

An 'absolute speccy' that ended up being a 6 anyway.
1 point.

 

[Brutus]

Tonight has been the worst of all. Now they have some fumbleball flog on at half-time. Fleming is creaming himself.

When discussing which rugby league player may enter the Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here House someone mentioned Gordon Tallis which was met with a deathly silence. Then they started talking about some fumbling bellend.

 

[chigurh]

Fleming is a f-wit

 

[Timbo]

Successfully managed to time it so my pizza would be ready for collection while Fleming was jizzing all over the place during the break.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Freddie just confessed he is a RL man when asked about RU and some Wallaby in the Sixers crowd.

 

[El Diablo]

Howie is lost with no AFL mates in the box

 

[the_flight_of_the_magpie]

Fleming is the worst bloke on there