Rugby Commentators/Presenters
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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
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Even the aussie commentators are better at the moment. If you can buff past them talking up aussie teams...
Can we get the honey badger in?...
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@mackerzzzz said in Rugby Commentators:
Even the aussie commentators are better at the moment. If you can buff past them talking up aussie teams...
Can we get the honey badger in?...
He might teach some people how to be funny
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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.
fucken Joe Wicks over here
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The TJ/Meg combo hit one of it's low points over the weekend. The continual whinging and criticising of ref decisions made the commentary sound more like the reading of a TSF match thread or putting a mic in front of a couple of idiots at the pub.
At one point Marshall had the gall to say 'I don't want to be calling out the referees but....'
If the ref really was shocking then maybe call it out but this is them having a crack at things they just disagree with. FFS Sky tell them to pull their heads in.
BTW the clamping down on players advancing ahead of a kick is a good thing. It may look like it isn't affecting play but it helps the defence get their line set and organised more quickly against counter attacks (especially on the second phase).
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@crucial is the guy on the right Derpus?
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@taniwharugby said in Rugby Commentators:
@crucial is the guy on the right Derpus?
I'm no lip-reader, but he does seem to be ranting "Super Rugby Trans Ta$man is shit, let's take our ball and go home and just play with ourselves".
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@crucial fucken eh, it was appalling. The amount of times Meg whinges at the ref and is completely wrong anyway is astounding. I had to laugh at how many times he called a set piece move and they did almost the opposite, that was funny. I was actually wondering if he was on the piss.
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@crucial said in Rugby Commentators:
BTW the clamping down on players advancing ahead of a kick is a good thing. It may look like it isn't affecting play
Dead right it does. I remember Ted talking about it years ago and trying to get refs to enforce it to open up games. He even went on to make the point that a touch finder was the same. I.E. ball is out but players that were in front of the kicker rushed up to form a lineout to prevent a quick throw in.
As I understand it, it doesn't matter if the ball has gone out, you still can't advance until put onside?
One other thought on that law is that kickers always seem to think that they need to chase the ball. I was taught to just run straight up field if you have done an angled kick, cover the shortest distance to get in front of your team mates, particularly from behind the forwards in a ruck or maul. Don't seem to see that much now or maybe watching on TB means that it isn't visible.
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@snowy said in Rugby Commentators:
@crucial said in Rugby Commentators:
BTW the clamping down on players advancing ahead of a kick is a good thing. It may look like it isn't affecting play
Dead right it does. I remember Ted talking about it years ago and trying to get refs to enforce it to open up games. He even went on to make the point that a touch finder was the same. I.E. ball is out but players that were in front of the kicker rushed up to form a lineout to prevent a quick throw in.
As I understand it, it doesn't matter if the ball has gone out, you still can't advance until put onside?
One other thought on that law is that kickers always seem to think that they need to chase the ball. I was taught to just run straight up field if you have done an angled kick, cover the shortest distance to get in front of your team mates, particularly from behind the forwards in a ruck or maul. Don't seem to see that much now or maybe watching on TB means that it isn't visible.
Yeah, it just shows how stupid these so called experts commenting on the game are. Having a forward turn and start advancing ahead of the kicker usually results in that forward covering a channel that impacts on the running lines and options of the team bringing the ball back. Just like an offside defender that shuts down a 10s options in sending the ball wide.
