Henry_s_Angry_Pills:
I actually think the biggest problem isnât the commentators but the producers/directors
The VFL (and ABC for that matter) get the (and there is only one) commentator to call the game and the special comments person to offer insights into tactics or matchups or stuff like that.
All the commercial prime time networks have 823 commentators and 734 special comments people and also 91 hosts and all they do is talk to each other about each other.
The sideshow becomes the main attraction.
Iâd almost guarantee if you put Leonard or jason bennett onto the main channel 7 or MMM broadcasts theyâd get â â â â â â â up within a year. Same thing happens with most of the ex players, they do a couple of guest spots fresh out of the game and offer useful insights, then eventually they get into the swing of wanking each other off and become as useless as anyone else.
post of the thread, early contender for post of the year.
i have never really though about it until you posted that. But you are bang on the money.
Cameron Ling was the first ex player to come to mind when i read the bold bit.
Every commentator seems to have some kind of gimmick or have to be larger than life.
If there was a way to mute the commentary and just play the crowd noise in the background i dare say 80% of people would take that option
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Or you could just go to the game.
Then all you have to contend with is ââ â â â â â stantonâ and âjust â â â â â â kick itâ types.
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Sit next to me and you can get all of that in one
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colour commentator is a real thing
A color commentator or expert commentator is a sports commentator who assists the main commentator, often by filling in any time when play is not in progress. The phrase "color commentator" is primarily used in American English; the concept may also be referred to as a summariser (outside North America) or analyst (a term used throughout the English-speaking world). The color analyst and main commentator will often exchange comments freely throughout the broadcast, when the play-by-play ann The t...
Thought Iâd listen to SEN on the way home from work tonight. It went something like this.
Jumped in car and turned on radio
Heard the last 15 seconds of Terry Wallace talking about something
An advert
An advert
An advert
A 2 minute promo wank fest promo about Waheteleyâs NFL call
An advert
Traffic report
An advert
a rushed 20-30 seconds of Wallace talking about Hawthorn.
News bulletin starts
15 seconds later I pulled up in my driveway
45 seconds of sports talk. 14 minutes 15 seconds of crap
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Itâs not all bad, at least Terry Wallaceâs voice is easy on the ears
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Fairybread:
Thought Iâd listen to SEN on the way home from work tonight. It went something like this.
Jumped in car and turned on radio
45 seconds of sports talk. 14 minutes 15 seconds of crap
Yup.
Has even gotten worse with the new management.
David Schwarz and Mark Allen suing SEN.
Schwarz about $500,000
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dougkpga
February 10, 2018, 12:54pm
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Listen to the podcasts. Find a show you like. Press play. One ad at the start. No more ads. Or do the same on ran and listen to Daniel Harford with no ads.
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Riolio
February 10, 2018, 8:19pm
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Wrighty05:
David Schwarz and Mark Allen suing SEN.
Schwarz about $500,000
Gee I never picked them as sore losers
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At least the second time Hutchyâs been sued by employees. Heâs a grub, wouldnât surprise me if heâd tried to stiff people.
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Hawcazzo
February 10, 2018, 10:04pm
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Loving it ! This is Karma to me for that Faarcking radio station and bunch of AFL coksukers that towed the AFL company line during the Saga. The Shithouse Entertainment Network deserves all the Sshit it gets, - I hope it goes under.
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Hawcazzo:
Loving it ! This is Karma to me for that Faarcking radio station and bunch of AFL coksukers that towed the AFL company line during the Saga. The Shithouse Entertainment Network deserves all the Sshit it gets, - I hope it goes under.Alas it was not to be 4 years of pain and misery listening to the tripe has made me sour and bitter . I will never forgive and I will never forget FAARK them all hope they go under, hope the doughnut eating new CEO wastes a sshitload of money.
Donât beat yourself up about it, I am sour and bitter too re the saga, and I have never listened to that station.
SoâŚroughly $210,000 for 21 hours work a week.
Of course heâs a grub. Have a look at the company he keeps (Pickering, Kelly et al) - shady operators one and all.
Anyone even loosely at the executive level of the AFL and its myriad adjuncts- including a fringe-dweller like Hutchison - is as crooked as a Bali wristwatchâŚ
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jonovdp
February 13, 2018, 5:18am
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Wait⌠how does Kevin Bartlett still have a job?
Consistently has the lowest ratings.
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I donât know Doc. What do you think Doc?
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Rom
February 13, 2018, 12:32pm
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My first reaction when I heard the âWhateley wankfest Nfl Promoâ was that the woman that called in was either a relative or a paid actorâŚmaybe even a staff member.
Reeks of being scripted by Hutchy himself.
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way to ensure you never get another job boys.