Channel 9 commentary

[MEATWAD]

Fair dinkum I am getting sick of all the cross-promo and coming soon and great series rubbish that they stick in the commentary.

OK the Anzac day special is related to the game at hand (but I bet the cross wasn't live at all) but every week poor Rabs or someone has to stick a plug for some crap series in the middle of the game. I wish they would stop it.

 

[Southernsaint]

It doesn't help that Rabs is rapidly descending into advanced senility...

 

[MEATWAD]

Yes, there is that too. If you just took a raw transscript of what he says, half of it would make no sense at all.

 

[Southernsaint]

He's like a Beat Poet...it's just stream-of-conscious rambling...

 

[Johns Magic]

What about Fatty today:

"Steve Price is one of the best chargerer-downerers in the game"

:roll:

 

[KFC]

Yeah they just had a 5 minute chat about CSI Miami and what a great show it is and not to miss it on Sunday.

 

[Southernsaint]

Yeah they just had a 5 minute chat about CSI Miami and what a great show it is and not to miss it on Sunday.

"A 300 ft wave is bearing down on Miami"

How could you NOT be excited??

 

[MEATWAD]

"Yeah it's in the contract" - Fatty

 

[OVP]

Yeah they just had a 5 minute chat about CSI Miami and what a great show it is and not to miss it on Sunday.

"A 300 ft wave is bearing down on Miami"

How could you NOT be excited??

If only it were true ...

 

[MEATWAD]

Yeah they just had a 5 minute chat about CSI Miami and what a great show it is and not to miss it on Sunday.

"A 300 ft wave is bearing down on Miami"

How could you NOT be excited??

If only it were true ...

... During their equivalent of schoolie's week (July) ...

 

[TiTTieS_[CNTDN]]

"Yeah it's in the contract" - Fatty

Did he really say that? If so, that's like an executive on the board of KFC saying there is only 3 herbs and spices in KFC chicken :lol:

 

[PARRA_FAN]

What about Fatty today:

"Steve Price is one of the best chargerer-downerers in the game"

:roll:

:lol:

Is that even a word?

 

[rugged]

Yeah they just had a 5 minute chat about CSI Miami and what a great show it is and not to miss it on Sunday.

"A 300 ft wave is bearing down on Miami"

How could you NOT be excited??

If only it were true ...

The equivalent would be America's "spring break".

... During their equivalent of schoolie's week (July) ...

 

[PARRA_FAN]

The thing I hated about the coverage was that they would talk about the shows during the game, cricket do it as well, its becoming annoying now I dont think anyone would care, they just wanna watch the game.

Add to that the 50,000 add breaks. Thats why I said the test should be live, instead of putting some crap Tv show on with that Scott Scum bloke.

 

[curry]

have anyone ver considered scrapping commentators and having players doing it themselves? as they play


i got the idea when rugby union did it on a tv ad, with wendell sailor and them playing and talking at the same time and i thought 'if it can work for rugby, it can also work for league'

 

[hrundi99]

Rabs doesn't know what Wiki looks like.

He's only the captain of the Kiwis and has played 1st grade for 13 years, but hey...

I bet Rabs thinks all those Islanders look the same...

:roll:

Talking up the 9 shows during the cricket isn't so bad as it's an all day broadcast. Doing it in a 2 hour broadcast is just taking the piss.

 

[Matt M]

I think some people should just stop complaining for the sake of it. It rarely takes away from the game at all, and quite frankly I don't care if they do it or not.

As for Fatty's comments
"Charger downerer" - if you couldn't see he was joking then you are a goose
"Its in the contract" - he was joking that Ch9 make him watch CSI all the time, after Sterling was saying how he always watches it.

 

[MEATWAD]

No, because the channel 9 commentary is pure crap. I refuse to accept it.

 

[hrundi99]

I think some people should just stop complaining for the sake of it. It rarely takes away from the game at all, and quite frankly I don't care if they do it or not.

It does take away from the game as far as I'm concerned.

These guys are paid megabucks to commentate 1 or 2 footy games a week. Is it too much to ask that they watch all 7 games every week so they know who all of the players are?

I don't think so.

 

[Matt M]

I think some people should just stop complaining for the sake of it. It rarely takes away from the game at all, and quite frankly I don't care if they do it or not.

It does take away from the game as far as I'm concerned.

These guys are paid megabucks to commentate 1 or 2 footy games a week. Is it too much to ask that they watch all 7 games every week so they know who all of the players are?

I don't think so.

I'm pretty sure they know who they are, but sometimes it is hard to tell who is who. When I watch the game I often look at a player and think it is someone else for a while, and I'm sure everyone else does too. Its just natural, no matter how many games a week you watch it will always happen.