Rugby Commentators/Presenters
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@bovidae said in Rugby Commentators:
@barbarian The main Aust Stan commentators are fine, but some of the colour commentators (read: ex-players) are as bad as ours. Harrison seemed to think we were back in the 1990s by saying Waikato Chiefs all the time. I can just imagine the reactions from the CM and BOP TSFers when he continually said that.
I was laughing because along with the Waikato part he correctly identified the likelihood of hillbillies with chainsaws and cowbells. Only thing he missed out was fountains. And syphilis.
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@crucial said in Rugby Commentators:
I was having a chuckle last night at the Aussie comms guys all sounding like they had been sent on a course to pronounce PI names properly. All these years of not giving a shit and it looks like their employers have forced their hand.
First time I have ever heard of Matt Tow-oh-moo-ah.
About time they tried though
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Rugby Commentators:
I’d still go gay for him though
I'd love to meet your dad he sounds great
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@bones said in Rugby Commentators:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Rugby Commentators:
I’d still go gay for him though
I'd love to meet your dad he sounds great
I would never subject him to that.
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Can't remember which game it was, but listening to TJ this weekend made me realise he's actually a pretty damn good commentator. Plenty of colour in his commentary with just the right amount of detail.
Seems to work well with his comments oppo as well.
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@victor-meldrew said in Rugby Commentators:
Can't remember which game it was, but listening to TJ this weekend made me realise he's actually a pretty damn good commentator. Plenty of colour in his commentary with just the right amount of detail.
Seems to work well with his comments oppo as well.
Maybe it just seems that way compared to Nisbo
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@hooroo said in Rugby Commentators:
Otherwise I like the Aussies in the comms box. They add an extra level of faux excitement and I enjoy it.
That style of 'faux excitement' is a reason I could never get into watching league.
It just comes across as false. They don't need to be deadpan (a certain level of excitement sometimes wakes you up) but when they start spouting rubbish like praising Julian Savea as if he is the second coming of Lomu when he jogs in an overlap try it's just taking the piss.
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@bovidae said in Rugby Commentators:
Sky NZ used to offer this option (refs mic, so on-field audio plus crowd noise) but that wasn't available when I last checked.
I used it on most Blues/Auckland games because of TJ's bullshit. The extra audio option is usually taken by the terrible alternative commentary now.
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@duluth Yeah, I have previously referred to the yellow button on the Sky remote as the TJ-proof option. I quite enjoyed this audio feed although maybe Sky have removed it because you had unfiltered comments from players and someone complained about the language.
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@mn5 said in Rugby Commentators:
Maybe it just seems that way compared to Nisbo
Maybe. Or I was comparing him to the Oz commentators. My gold standard is the BBC's Andrew Cotter and I think Rikki Swannell gets the closest to that level.
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@crucial said in Rugby Commentators:
@hooroo said in Rugby Commentators:
Otherwise I like the Aussies in the comms box. They add an extra level of faux excitement and I enjoy it.
That style of 'faux excitement' is a reason I could never get into watching league.
It just comes across as false. They don't need to be deadpan (a certain level of excitement sometimes wakes you up) but when they start spouting rubbish like praising Julian Savea as if he is the second coming of Lomu when he jogs in an overlap try it's just taking the piss.
Well I wouldn't mind getting old Roy and HG over to do some rugby commentary
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@nostrildamus said in Rugby Commentators:
@crucial said in Rugby Commentators:
@hooroo said in Rugby Commentators:
Otherwise I like the Aussies in the comms box. They add an extra level of faux excitement and I enjoy it.
That style of 'faux excitement' is a reason I could never get into watching league.
It just comes across as false. They don't need to be deadpan (a certain level of excitement sometimes wakes you up) but when they start spouting rubbish like praising Julian Savea as if he is the second coming of Lomu when he jogs in an overlap try it's just taking the piss.
Well I wouldn't mind getting old Roy and HG over to do some rugby commentary
3 minutes in on the French...not hard to move that back to the commentary box..Roy and HG are abysmal. Hard pass.
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@victor-meldrew said in Rugby Commentators:
Can't remember which game it was, but listening to TJ this weekend made me realise he's actually a pretty damn good commentator. Plenty of colour in his commentary with just the right amount of detail.
Seems to work well with his comments oppo as well.
Heresy!
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Watching the Breakdown on YouTube. Andrew Mehrtens really has become a fat fluffybunny in retirement. He needs to spend less time in the pie shop or at the cheese counter, more time on the treadmill or on the rowing machine. It's sad to see a former pro-athlete let himself go like that.
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@sparky said in Rugby Commentators:
Watching the Breakdown on YouTube. Andrew Mehrtens really has become a fat fluffybunny in retirement. He needs to spend less time in the pie shop or at the cheese counter, more time on the treadmill or on the rowing machine. It's sad to see a former pro-athlete let himself go like that.
He's in training for when Smithy retires.
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@crucial said in Rugby Commentators:
@sparky said in Rugby Commentators:
Watching the Breakdown on YouTube. Andrew Mehrtens really has become a fat fluffybunny in retirement. He needs to spend less time in the pie shop or at the cheese counter, more time on the treadmill or on the rowing machine. It's sad to see a former pro-athlete let himself go like that.
He's in training for when Smithy retires.
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As long as kane hames isn't the commentator it doesn't matter.
A commentator is supposed to make you excited - he just makes me bored
