Top 10 "Gusisms"

[The Lucky State]

Here is my list of the top 10 “Gusisms” we hear on a regular basis.


10. “Big backs win Origin Matches – This was his catch cry of 2005, when NSW had Cooper, Gasnier and King and were winning. I think he just loved that Qld had a small backline. Later in the season I think he tried to use it to say that big backs win finals matches too but it didn’t have the same effect. Don’t be surprised if it comes back this year around Origin time though, especially if Matt King or Grothe score a try.

9. “The dogs thrive on a challenge. They sense another team getting some momentum and they feel the need to put them in their place. It was part of their culture when I coached there”. - You can count on this coming out at least once, usually twice a season.

8. “After we’d just won the first origin match I sat the boys down and played them the end of the game. I said look at Queensland, there beaten but they don’t ever give up. Its ingrained into them to never give up.” - An origin favorite.

7. “We’ve got a game here baby” or “noooooo nooooooo noooooooooo nooooooooo” He really seems to like calling on these in Sunday afternoon football. The nooo noo noo thing is one that’s been building up for a while now. I like that it normally takes him about 30 seconds to say.

6. “Why do we need to slow things down to 200 frames a second? If it looks like a try award it a try” – Welcome to the Sunday Roast.

5. “That’s a try , we keep looking for excuses not to give tries” Welcome to the second segment of the Sunday Roast.

4. “If that happened in the field of play, the ref would let it go, yet when we go to the video suddenly we have to have a look at it……” You know what I’m going to say.

3. “Referees look at things differently than players and just want to constantly apply the law without considering the spirit of the game. Ask a group of ex players if that’s a penalty and they’ll all tell you it isn’t”

2. “That’s a ridiculous penalty. That’s not high, whats the game coming to when we penalize that”? You can pretty much count on this reaction with any controversial high shot.

1. “I said it….” followed by basically any prediction he made eg “I said at halftime the panthers forwards were tiring”, I said it before origin that big backs win matches”, “I said earlier in the game the dragons would win if they held the ball”. Expect to hear him validate his own predictions at a rapid fire pace.

Just on the Sunday Roast, does anyone think it would be more interesting if there was more actual disagreement between the four of them. About 75% of the show centres around referees, video refs and rules and they all have the same outlook on them. Referees are essentially idiots, they are anti video ref in most instances , wanting a return to the old days and new rules are always too complicated or soft in their eyes. I want someone on the roast to constantly disagree with Gould and give it right to him.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

I think Gus is right most of the time and even when I didagree with him I can understand his point of view. The only time I don't like what he says is when it's agenda driven.

 

[brissyleaguedude]

k champ

gus is a mad cI_Int, y 4 b a haterrrrrrr

 

[The Lucky State]

I'm not hating on Gus. Poor read on my post. I'm pointing out what he says most. Not passing judgement on him like you have done on me. Back down homie.

 

[fourplay]

hahahahah :lol:

Great list.. and spot on too !!!! LOL

 

[mark123]

Gus is really good. I like him.

But sometimes - in the past now mostly - he started to "preach" and that i dont like.

Becuase its tv. Or its a newspaper collumn. Keep it simple, keep it short is what i like to get from him....and i dont mean cut it right down to a sentence, but dont rant and please dont bag the game so much.

In the public eye (and nearly always in private apart from one or two rare occasions perhaps) i do believe its always a good idea to promote the positive in things....and Gus became very negative toward league for a while....

for instance..... in the 10th minute "The dogs are having a bad game - they arent playing well; they are going to lose this...mark my words" becomes...."hasnt been a great start for the dogs has it, but there is a while to go yet."


(In that example....it really doesnt matter if the dogs win or lose or how great or bad they are playing.....its not good commentary to come out and say your opinion on how the dogs are going IF your opinion is only going to get you offside with 100% of the dogs supporters JUST BECAUSE you want to let people know how perceptive you are in pointing out that the dogs were playing badly.....guess what einstien....people already knew....and if they didnt when they realise shortly after you speak that you are "pedling" your view to them....they will see you in a different light....so unless you are flashing "gus's Opinion only" across the screen while you say things like that....then dont say them....its poor commentary...so instead of telling the viewer what to think so much, you should describe to them what you are seeing truly, not what you think you are seeing....commentate on fact and leave opinion out of it...people just want to hear comments about facts and reality, not perceptions or opinion. People really want to see a contest or believe its a contest and anything thats detracting from that when there is no need is totally going to have them lose interest quickly or even curtail their positive opinion on a game.... At the very least, if the scores a 20 points apart, dont continue to kick a team while they are down.....everyone KNOWS that they are going to have to train the house down and have a lot of work to do for the next week, or maybe its a bad game for them, but people want to at least believe they are not pathetic....it was just a bad game.....always a contest - if not this week - then perhaps next and at the very least a "they have a LOT of work to do" comment for when a team is truly 'pathetic'. Promote the positives and promote the contest. Negatives and uncontested games is what hurts a sport. If a commentator is positive about something, the person listening is more inclined to be positive.)


As bad as gus was.....Paul Vautin was the worse....as good a guy fatty is, i lament the infliction he had upon football commentary....it was not uncommon as many of us remember to hear fatty tell us shortly after kickoff or even during the pre game show that a certain team could not possibly win. Happened all the time....and gus is guilty of it too....

commentary should not be about opinion or promoting negatives upon people - it should be commentary on fact and only fact...keep matters of opinion private.....and when you prmote the negative of a situation, all you do is bring down a fans enthusiasm (if they believe you and i would think many young kids would)

one favourite of mine was a time when fatty and gus were commentating and saying for minutes on end how a team during a game had done its dash and was out on a limb and they were now just hanging on and they were not going to win....and they kept going on and on, as if it made them greater the more they said it.....BUT THEN....WOAAAAHHH....that team scored out of nowhere, and started to dominate (really the match had been fairly even prior) so Fatty and Gus did this HUGE turnaround and began to praise those players, whereas before they had bagged them and critisesez everything about them, even all their privious games to date!

It was so obvious and to me the viewer, it was so pathetic and poor commentary.

I wondered, and still wonder, just what channel 9 thinks of its football audience, and i am glad when people stand up and say (and tell ch 9) that "hey, guys, that just isnt good enough....you're kind of insulting a lot of people and their intelligence a lot of the time".

Gusisms.....they make me laugh, but also bring up bitter memories of having to turn the volume down....

 

[ShadesOfTheSun]

Gus isn't hired by 9 just to describe the action - he's hired to give the viewer nuances into the more technical aspects of the game they might be unfamiliar with and to _analyse_ what's going on. Unfortunately, judgement calls are a part of his job description.

 

[gregstar]

i hope he & nathan brown swap jobs.

 

[Kid]

i hope he & nathan brown swap jobs.

Yeah you could certainly do a lot worse.

 

[mark123]

then we are doomed forever to be inflicted by his crap?

OH NO.....

 

[Mr Saab]

Gus isn't hired by 9 just to describe the action - he's hired to give the viewer nuances into the more technical aspects of the game they might be unfamiliar with and to _analyse_ what's going on. Unfortunately, judgement calls are a part of his job description.

Fair enough, but to go on and on and on about "big backs" in 2005 was just laughable.
The cowboys pulled his pants down with the likes of Bowen, Sing, and Williams.
His "fancies" like the Dragons and Eels with the "big backs" left him with egg all over his face.