Brian Taylor

[Beetle 4,314]

Brian Taylor's a spud. Nuff said!

Thank you for this intellectual response...topped off with the good old 'nuff said.

He may be critical in his comments and stereotypical in his delivery re the MFC but tellme why he's wrong?

Don't let your bias get in the way of comments that are TRUE.

We have done nothing this season to prove his comments wrong.

The crowd yesterday also reinforced the cringeworthy "snow" theory.

Right now we are down hill skiers on the field so harden the F up and accept it until we break through that barrier!!

I look forward to the time we put in effort week after week!

Edited June 20, 2011 by Beetle

[H_T 2,941]

I just can't wait until we can absorb pressure from a top Vic team at the G and pull out a win.

Agree. We need to be challenged and meet a team head on. Would be nice if it was a VIC team too. This week is the perfect challenge, a similar side on the rise, saturday afternoon at the G in front of 50,000 +.

Tbh I reckon BT is totally right looking at this season. That all can change if we win Friday night and then start to string a few against the grain performances together.

That would be Saturday. We play the Bulldogs the following Friday at Etihad.

[Kento80 83]

Thank you for this intellectual response...topped off with the good old 'nuff said.

He may be critical in his comments and stereotypical in his delivery re the MFC but tellme why he's wrong?

Don't let your bias get in the way of comments that are TRUE.

We have done nothing this season to prove his comments wrong.

The crowd yesterday also reinforced the cringeworthy "snow" theory.

Right now we are down hill skiers on the field so harden the F up and accept it until we break through that barrier!!

I look forward to the time we put in effort week after week!

Touch a nerve there did I beetle? Ease up tiger. I apologise that you can't deal with my distaste for BT, but unfortunately there is nothing I can do about it. I didn't say he was wrong, I just think that he is a spud who doesn't deserve to be agonised over by us, that is all. To quote your good self "He may be critical in his comments (which I don't mind) and stereotypical in his delivery re the MFC (which I do mind)". I believe that a journo in any fashion should present facts, not bias. In this instance he is not wrong, but overall he is, therefore I say he is a spud and that is enough said from me, I'd rather leave it at that. Is that ok for you?

[Demon17 4,593]

Could not sound any less enthusiastic calling Melbourne games and loves to take little snipes at our players (Last quarter when Nicholson kicks the goal to put us 50 points up, he says 'The Dees just love it when a game is like this', .

Anyone else agree?

There is some truth in this when you remeber back to the John Northey days - if you can.

That was the toughest Melbourne team I remember and the game was never over till the bell. We haven't been like that for some time.

Examples-Round 22 Western Oval 1987, making the 88 GF after the 87 heartbreak, etc.

[Webber 10,099]

McLure is a very good commentator. He doesn't talk in modern speak. just Straight & down to earth, tell it straight.

No room for pretences. Just honesty. No frills or sugar coating.

Very true what you say about McClure, but he has a woeful lack of complexity in his assessments, and inability to account for context. He frequently holds onto his 'no shades of grey' opinions like a dog with a bone, whereupon the game will play out in a way that contradicts his absolutism, and he flips like a dying fish. Week to week he is the most self-contradicting commentator out there. There's a strange attraction in listening to this though, kind of a nice balance to Stan Alves sycophantic hyperbole.

[P-man 13,220]

BT as Howe goes up for the mark: "MacDonald!!"

His best effort was during the post-match celebrations after we beat Essendon. Something along the lines of "they might want to be careful here...don't want to overdo it.." haha..what a clown.

Hey, he's still better than Dwayne. Now there's a prized turnip.

[dee-luded 2,958]

Very true what you say about McClure, but he has a woeful lack of complexity in his assessments, and inability to account for context. He frequently holds onto his 'no shades of grey' opinions like a dog with a bone, whereupon the game will play out in a way that contradicts his absolutism, and he flips like a dying fish. Week to week he is the most self-contradicting commentator out there. There's a strange attraction in listening to this though, kind of a nice balance to Stan Alves sycophantic hyperbole.

I think if anyone wants to learn anything, theirs a lot to learn from every commentator who was a half devcent AFL/VFL player.

But I guess it's up to the listener to be able to decipher what the Real Bits are & what just doesn't make sense. But the commentary is much more than just the technacalities.

Its also entertainment and I can't stand the biases of the likes of Tim Lane, who tries to not show too much his loves of Carlton, but to my astonishment, he has a deviant love of collingwood. A real admiration???

[Disco Demons 92]

We are currently the laughing stock of all Melbourne teams...No Joke.

Since bailey has been coach we've only beaten Tigers and Bombers (Four years)...The rest are inter-state...i'm not trying to coach bash here...just trying to put a perspective on it.

BT is only stating the facts...and I'm sure your mates who aren't melbourne supporters are just being nice to your face...otherwise they'd be telling you how rubbish melb are.

Edited June 21, 2011 by disco_demon

[davey_magik 1]

FWIW - I phrased the OP poorly. I do think we are currently downhill skiiers (Though I don't think the crowd was really that bad tbh, nearly 20k on a wierd timeslot on a Sunday and the weather looked like it could rain, and we were playing the second lowest drawing team in the league) but I've noticed BT loves to stick the boot in. Also makes numerous remarks about the crowds, even when we've been doing OK.

I was just curious as to why he dislikes us. Maclure and Alves don't hate us at all, they are just good commentators who tell it like it is.

Maclure used to tear into Carlton back when they were garbage on a weekly basis, he has never been bias. Walls and Lane on the other hand...

[DeeSpencer 23,179]

BT also loves Freo, they are his darlings. I'd still rather him commentate us than Dwayne Russell.

[Supermercado 2,617]

Wish he would go back to the nightshift on 927

Classic era when people used to prank him and he'd go absolutely ape.