One Test doesn't make a summer, but I found Seven's coverage of the actual game to be mostly watchable - which is streets ahead of expectations.
Very easily lost interest in their pre/post session chatter though, unless it involved certain former players talking amongst themselves. Outside that, it was Seven's usual cringe-a-minute sports production, VFL glorification and other Victorian-centric nonsense.
But the game coverage itself was pretty standard, nothing really out of the ordinary. As expected, Flem was at times annoying and Brayshaw was exclusively annoying. And, of course, there's Slats. Pidge is still a bit crap as a comm, but much improved on his brief stints in the Nine box over the years. Dizz is at a similar level, but plenty of room for improvement and, importantly, he's not a massive wanker. I thought Punter was good - was able to engage in some good talking points where he couldn't in the Big Bash. Chopra pretty good as well. On the fence about Lane - he's OK when he sticks to the Cricket. I thought Mitchell was pretty good as a lead voice, offers more than Guha IMO.
As for Fox, Warne is dragging their team down like the Marsh family - and he's on too much. Not a fan of Howie. Harsha good value as always. The rest vary between bearable and decent enough.
Pick the best 4 or so out of each and there's a pretty good commentary team to be had. Unfortunately, they're split kind of evenly, hence the channel flicking.
