You may well receive a PM from a newbie ripping shreds off you shortly if McNamara still has that google alert set up to notify him when his name is mentioned on the internet as was reported a few years back....
Yeah, well who cares about paranoid burgers McNamara. He can go and enjoy the burgers....at Hungry Jacks.
http://decidertv.com/page/2016/10/2...s-summer-of-cricket-channel9-wwos-triplemmelb
Another piece of good news from this article is Brad "flipping burgers" McNamara is no longer the producer of Ch9's cricket coverage, leaving to go to Triple M.
Maybe this might see a change in the direction of commentary
Looks like my initial reaction was heading in the right direction
The first thing they need to do is go back to two commentators in the box. That will cut out a lot of the matesy Bullshit and one upmanship that goes on.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...-bloody-cricket-20161027-gsbty8.html#comments
Instead of having three commentators holding the mikes at one time, it will revert to two.
Amen to that.
Somewhere along the line, probably around the time Healy, Taylor and Slater all came along, the commentary box went from being a exactly that - A "Commentary Box" designed to offer some insight to go along with the pictures we were seeing, to some kind of quasi-comedy club/backyard bbq get together where the people talking seem to be focusing on ribbing each other and making the others crack up laughing.... It's like when me and my mates back in high school, if someone we knew was getting in trouble and being lectured to by a teacher, we'd go up behind the teacher's back and make faces etc trying to make the dude getting in trouble laugh and get in even more trouble.... It was only ever funny to the people making stupid faces, for everyone else it was just bone-headed nonsense. Same thing with the channel 9 guys. You can hear them all laughing at each other in the background all the time. They're the only ones laughing.
If my memory serves me correctly, it was the 2006/07 Ashes summer that Ch9 expanded from 2 to 3 commentators/30 min session. This was around the time McNamara took over as producer/director of Ch9's cricket coverage. Slater was a commentator in the inaugural T20 international in Australia and the opening ODI vs South Africa (both in Brisbane) the previous summer (2005/06) before being allocated a permanent commentary role from 2006/07 onwards. In that period in between, he was a co-host of some Ch9 health show "What's Good for You" (my sister was a guest in one of the episodes and was interviewed by him).
I said this earlier and I will say this again: it's no surprise that the decline in the standard of Ch9 cricket commentary began when Brad McNamara took over as director/producer of the coverage. I will never know how he ever became a director/producer after Packer died. In the last few years (since the end of 2011/12 season), the decline has become much more pronounced for all cricket fans to see.
I miss Richie so much. He was always the voice of reason amongst a sea of dribble.
Oh, how we take things for granted. At least our generations, we didn't have to put up with banal on-air discussions about favourite pizzas, best songs in the '80s, constant AFL references etc.
Feel sorry for those born in the 2000s, who have grown up listening to the likes of Brayshaw/Warne/Slater etc.
