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    replied to MN5 on last edited by booboo
    #1652

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @jegga said in Aussie Cricket:

    Gold

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12190094

    As I touched on in the other thread. I hate Nicholas for trying to be one of the boys with the Aussies he commentates with who ranged from legendary to very good at test cricket back in the day.

    You were an average county cricketer, you never played a test. Fucken know your place fluffybunny.

    Yeah. Don't comment on cricket unless you've played tests.

    Stuffs up Fernage in summer huh?

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  • KiwiMurphK Offline
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    wrote on last edited by KiwiMurph
    #1653

    Nicholas' problem isn't that he didn't play test cricket. It is that he is a massive bellend.

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  • MN5M Online
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    replied to booboo on last edited by MN5
    #1654

    @booboo said in Aussie Cricket:

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @jegga said in Aussie Cricket:

    Gold

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12190094

    As I touched on in the other thread. I hate Nicholas for trying to be one of the boys with the Aussies he commentates with who ranged from legendary to very good at test cricket back in the day.

    You were an average county cricketer, you never played a test. Fucken know your place fluffybunny.

    Yeah. Don't comment on cricket unless you've played tests.

    Stuffs up Fernage in summer huh?

    There's a difference between talking shit to equally pathetic cricketers on a forum to being paid lots of money as one of the experts.

    Warnie, Tubby Slats, Gilly, Junior.....all varying degrees of Aussie cricket royalty.

    ...joined by some jumped up fuck from England who again, never played internationally.

    Just doesn't sit right with me in terms of credibility.

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  • nzzpN Offline
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    replied to MN5 on last edited by
    #1655

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @booboo said in Aussie Cricket:

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @jegga said in Aussie Cricket:

    Gold

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12190094

    As I touched on in the other thread. I hate Nicholas for trying to be one of the boys with the Aussies he commentates with who ranged from legendary to very good at test cricket back in the day.

    You were an average county cricketer, you never played a test. Fucken know your place fluffybunny.

    Yeah. Don't comment on cricket unless you've played tests.

    Stuffs up Fernage in summer huh?

    There's a difference between talking shit to equally pathetic cricketers on a forum to being paid lots of money as one of the experts.

    Warnie, Tubby Slats, Gilly, Junior.....all varying degrees of Aussie cricket royalty.

    ...joined by some jumped up fuck from England who again, never played internationally.

    Just doesn't sit right with me in terms of credibility.

    What do yo uthink of Bryan Waddle? Serious question - I don't think commentators need to have top level experience to be great. Also, Jim Maxwell and Jonathan Agnew ... top quality commentators who weren't legends of the game.

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  • MN5M Online
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    MN5
    replied to nzzp on last edited by
    #1656

    @nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @booboo said in Aussie Cricket:

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @jegga said in Aussie Cricket:

    Gold

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12190094

    As I touched on in the other thread. I hate Nicholas for trying to be one of the boys with the Aussies he commentates with who ranged from legendary to very good at test cricket back in the day.

    You were an average county cricketer, you never played a test. Fucken know your place fluffybunny.

    Yeah. Don't comment on cricket unless you've played tests.

    Stuffs up Fernage in summer huh?

    There's a difference between talking shit to equally pathetic cricketers on a forum to being paid lots of money as one of the experts.

    Warnie, Tubby Slats, Gilly, Junior.....all varying degrees of Aussie cricket royalty.

    ...joined by some jumped up fuck from England who again, never played internationally.

    Just doesn't sit right with me in terms of credibility.

    What do yo uthink of Bryan Waddle? Serious question - I don't think commentators need to have top level experience to be great. Also, Jim Maxwell and Jonathan Agnew ... top quality commentators who weren't legends of the game.

    Having met him I can confirm he is cantankerous old bugger but fair call....he is good on the wireless.

    Perhaps I'm using my own argument to reinforce the point purely cos Nicholas is such a complete wankstain.

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  • NTAN Offline
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    NTA
    wrote on last edited by
    #1657

    Ha. Goat smacks 4 & 6 in the last over to get us to 298.

    These retro outfits are working perfectly at keeping the score under 300.

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  • SynicBastS Offline
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    wrote on last edited by
    #1658

    The difference between Waddle,Maxwell, Agnew versus Nicholas is that the former are radio ball by ball comms where word pictures are everything for the audience. Nicholas is supposedly in the role of comms for TV where nobody has seemed to heed the words of Richie Benaud - let the picture do the talking - the former players are there for analysis and colour based on the their experience - Benaud had the gravitas of being a great of the game who not only was a student of the game but had a fine grasp of the English language and media techniques. Nicholas is neither of those things despite having being placed in the central role of Benaud.

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  • MajorRageM Offline
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    replied to KiwiMurph on last edited by
    #1659

    @KiwiMurph said in Aussie Cricket:

    Nicholas' problem isn't that he didn't play test cricket. It is that he is a massive bellend.

    I think it's more that he's nothing more a cheerleader. For Australia.

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    Siam
    replied to MajorRage on last edited by
    #1660

    @MajorRage South Africa now 😕

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  • SiamS Offline
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    replied to MN5 on last edited by Siam
    #1661

    @MN5 377 first class matches, 351 list A

    That might be more top level cricket than anyone in NZ

    Get stuck into his commentary by all means but the facts of his cricket experiences fucks all over your feelings 😀

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  • CatograndeC Online
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    Catogrande
    replied to Siam on last edited by
    #1662

    @Siam said in Aussie Cricket:

    @MN5 377 first class matches, 351 list A

    That might be more top level cricket than anyone in NZ

    Get stuck into his commentary by all means but the facts of his cricket experiences fucks all over your feelings 😀

    He was also much admired for his captaincy - a bit like Mike Brearley, a better skipper than player. Suggests he knows his stuff though.

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  • sharkS Offline
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    replied to barbarian on last edited by
    #1663

    @barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:

    @shark I think you need to differentiate Fox from Channel 7.

    I found the Channel 7 test match commentary to be pretty good. A nice departure from the blokey bloke Channel 9 coverage, with a few foreign voices and good analysis from Trent Copeland. In the breaks they bought in journos like Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor for some high-brow cricket chat, which I very much enjoyed.

    Whereas the Fox guys went down the blokey route, with Waaarrrney leading the way.

    Hang on, who's got which coverage? Do Foxtel and 7 both cover international cricket? And Foxtel additionally has the BBL, is that how it works? If so, we don't get the 7 coverage so theres zero differentiation to be made.

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  • No QuarterN Offline
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    No Quarter
    wrote on last edited by
    #1664

    Kohli's stats in every form of the game are absolutely phenomenal. He's put a bit of daylight between himself and the next best.

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  • boobooB Offline
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    replied to MN5 on last edited by booboo
    #1665

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @booboo said in Aussie Cricket:

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @jegga said in Aussie Cricket:

    Gold

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12190094

    As I touched on in the other thread. I hate Nicholas for trying to be one of the boys with the Aussies he commentates with who ranged from legendary to very good at test cricket back in the day.

    You were an average county cricketer, you never played a test. Fucken know your place fluffybunny.

    Yeah. Don't comment on cricket unless you've played tests.

    Stuffs up Fernage in summer huh?

    There's a difference between talking shit to equally pathetic cricketers on a forum to being paid lots of money as one of the experts.

    Warnie, Tubby Slats, Gilly, Junior.....all varying degrees of Aussie cricket royalty.

    ...joined by some jumped up fuck from England who again, never played internationally.

    Just doesn't sit right with me in terms of credibility.

    Jim Maxwell
    Christopher Martin Jenkins
    Harsha Bhohle
    Gerald de Kock
    Brian Waddle
    John Arlott
    Tony Cozier
    Brian Johnston
    Neil Manthorpe
    Alan McGilvray
    Ian Galloway
    Glen Mitchell
    Drew Morphett
    Peter Roebuck
    Alan Wilkins

    No credibility at ALL among that lot

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  • NTAN Offline
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    NTA
    wrote on last edited by
    #1666

    Is Brian Waddle the guy who thinks he's a warrior poet?

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  • SiamS Offline
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    Siam
    replied to NTA on last edited by
    #1667

    @NTA he's our Jim Maxwell, same reverence too

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  • NTAN Offline
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    replied to Siam on last edited by
    #1668

    @Siam I think I've heard him commentate during a Kiwi tour here and, while his in-play commentary is good, the waxing lyrical at breaks in play I could live without.

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    wrote on last edited by
    #1669

    If they get Kohli here, Aussies edge in front.

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  • MN5M Online
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    MN5
    replied to booboo on last edited by
    #1670

    @booboo said in Aussie Cricket:

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @booboo said in Aussie Cricket:

    @MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:

    @jegga said in Aussie Cricket:

    Gold

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12190094

    As I touched on in the other thread. I hate Nicholas for trying to be one of the boys with the Aussies he commentates with who ranged from legendary to very good at test cricket back in the day.

    You were an average county cricketer, you never played a test. Fucken know your place fluffybunny.

    Yeah. Don't comment on cricket unless you've played tests.

    Stuffs up Fernage in summer huh?

    There's a difference between talking shit to equally pathetic cricketers on a forum to being paid lots of money as one of the experts.

    Warnie, Tubby Slats, Gilly, Junior.....all varying degrees of Aussie cricket royalty.

    ...joined by some jumped up fuck from England who again, never played internationally.

    Just doesn't sit right with me in terms of credibility.

    Jim Maxwell
    Christopher Martin Jenkins
    Harsha Bhohle
    Gerald de Lock
    Brian Waddle
    John Arlott
    Tony Cozier
    Brian Johnston
    Neil Mantorpe
    Akan McGilvray
    Ian Galloway
    Glen Mitchell
    Drew Morphett
    Peter Roebuck
    Alan Wilkins

    No credibility at ALL among that lot

    Hand on heart I have no idea whatsoever who half of those guys are.

    ....and even still the other half just wouldn't hold the gravitas of a Richie Benaud or a Bill Lawry and maybe not even one of today's guys.

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  • MN5M Online
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    MN5
    replied to No Quarter on last edited by MN5
    #1671

    @No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:

    Kohli's stats in every form of the game are absolutely phenomenal. He's put a bit of daylight between himself and the next best.

    Steve Smith being banned does help somewhat but can't argue Kohlis stats being ridiculously good especially in ODIs

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