Round 20 - Are 7 Listening?

[rjay 24,916]

Great game down at Geelong tonight and for a change it was good to watch the 7 coverage. It seems they have had a moved to a more football oriented coverage, maybe they have finally been listening to the fans.

When watching on TV you miss a lot of what is going on around the ground and why a player will take a particular option. This to me is a major reason for having special comments guys, to fill in the blanks. Whilst I think Darcy is a little too much Captain Obvious it was good to hear more detailed comments from Ling and also hear Richo talk without stupid interruptions & p..takes from Taylor.

They're not going to be my favourite commentary team but at least now it is watchable, I hope they stay with this new approach and we get no more of the wowweee.

Geelong were lucky to win in the end and still rely a lot on their experienced champions to get them through. Rivers has been good and has shown me what he could have been with us if he had a bit more support. A lot of his old brain fades don't seem to be happening at Geelong. He's taking good options and hitting up targets.

[Guest]

As much as I dislike the Hun, they should be thanked for releasing that poll showing that BT was the most annoying football commentator out there. If what you said happened last night was true, that poll may have been the catalyst to move us away from Bas, Hame and BT and their focus group approved crap to a more intelligent coverage.

[KingSlayer33 170]

Not sure about any improvements to their commentary but I wish they would listen to the public and start broadcasting in HD.

It is 2014 not bloody 1994!

[dazzledavey36 54,840]

Dknt really have a huge problem with Saturday night team.

Triple M the saturday rub is definitely my pick of the bunch but. Wish they would [censored] Barrett off but..

[Lucifers Hero 39,732]

Great game down at Geelong tonight and for a change it was good to watch the 7 coverage. It seems they have had a moved to a more football oriented coverage, maybe they have finally been listening to the fans.

When watching on TV you miss a lot of what is going on around the ground and why a player will take a particular option. This to me is a major reason for having special comments guys, to fill in the blanks. Whilst I think Darcy is a little too much Captain Obvious it was good to hear more detailed comments from Ling and also hear Richo talk without stupid interruptions & p..takes from Taylor.

They're not going to be my favourite commentary team but at least now it is watchable, I hope they stay with this new approach and we get no more of the wowweee.

Geelong were lucky to win in the end and still rely a lot on their experienced champions to get them through. Rivers has been good and has shown me what he could have been with us if he had a bit more support. A lot of his old brain fades don't seem to be happening at Geelong. He's taking good options and hitting up targets.

...and the umpires! 31 frees to Freemantle's 14! 26 to Geelong in the first half!! As bad an umpiring effort as our game vs Collingwood where we had 5 and they had 19 (I think).

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

British and American sports commentators act like true professionals, Australian sports commentators act like amateur entertainers.

[Grint 30]

Thanks to foxtel I rarely have to spend a Saturday night with BT and his crew of mates but I do make the exception if it's going to be a good game or if it's melbourne obviously. Unless it's the dees though I usually just wander in and out of the room because I just can't stand BTs commentary. Last night was a big improvement - guessing channel 7 are finally realising they might pick up,a few thousand more in the ratings if they can tone him down - he just doesn't come across as professional - which would prob make him a great NRL commentator

[titan_uranus 24,992]

Hope the AFL was watching too.

Carlton v Gold Coast at 2.10pm drew 28,000-odd.

Hawthorn v Melbourne at 4.40pm drew 37,000-odd.

[DeeSpencer 25,671]

I tweeted 7 at half time a few weeks ago asking for them to please get BT get to stop saying 'real' as an adverb. He kept saying what a real nice piece of play or he's real fast etc. Darcy does it as well. Anyway, second half of that game and BT started saying 'really' nice and 'really' fast and using a proper adverb not an adjective.

Maybe it was a coincidence. But I thought it was a victory for the proper use of English. Call me old fashioned but I think TV commentators have a responsibility to at least not completely butcher the English language.

BT has definitely toned down the over the top commentary and inane chat in the last 6 or so weeks. He's probably copping it now on reputation more than anything. Darcy is my least favourite of the Saturday night crew. Rumours are that next year 7 will convert Darcy to calling the games alongside BT. And as all he does is state the obvious poorly he should be doing it already. As a combination they might actually improve each others calling. Then Richo, Lingo etc can get some usual special comments in.

[rjay 24,916]

Good game Brisbane v Adelaide but has been marred by the injury to Tom Lynch who ducked his head into an oncoming tackle.

I really cringe when I see this happening and I believe the umpire got it wrong by awarding the free kick to Lynch who unfortunately couldn't take it. The AFL must stamp this out of the game, players are still putting themselves in dangerous positions.

The other thing is they are not learning to protect themselves in these positions, they seem more interested in getting the free kick.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,235]

Dermie and Eddie Everywhere nearly had me throwing a decent glass of shiraz at TV yesterday. Dermie ..... FMD!

[Macca 16,958]

Hope the AFL was watching too.

Carlton v Gold Coast at 2.10pm drew 28,000-odd.

Hawthorn v Melbourne at 4.40pm drew 37,000-odd.

I'm not sure they will. I've come around to your way of thinking.

There's no real level of fairness and to hope that the fixture suddenly becomes a lot fairer is a false hope. I reckon next year we'll get another 7-9 home games against the lowest drawing clubs (this season we were given 7 home games against interstate clubs plus 2 other home games against North & the Bulldogs)

Our only real hope lies with Jackson and he might just be able to swing things otherwise. However, 4 wins is 4 wins in the eyes of the AFL and if we remain on 4 wins and win the spoon, PJ's fixture requests will possibly fall on deaf ears. Lets all hope we finish the season off well hey?

The way the AFL produces the fixture is not right and it's not fair but that's how the AFL does things. All these measures for equalisation isn't going to go close to evening things up. The big clubs will find a way to use their millions and maintain an advantage.

The Pies made a tax free profit of over 16 million last year to almost double their bottom line (they're over 31 million in the black and that figure is almost certainly going to increase substantially after this season)

Meanwhile, we're falling further behind (in real terms) We need and deserve a good crack at things but what are the chances of that happening? The fixture remains one of our biggest issues.

[chook fowler 19,458]

Dermie and Eddie Everywhere nearly had me throwing a decent glass of shiraz at TV yesterday. Dermie ..... FMD!

Wouldn't be worth a glass of Porphyry Pearl let alone a decent Shiraz.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,235]

Wouldn't be worth a glass of Porphyry Pearl let alone a decent Shiraz.

You are correct about that Chook but what really stopped me was the fact that I was drinking from a Riedel glass which is worth more than a very decent red.

Porphyry Pearl. A 1970's "legopner".

[chook fowler 19,458]

Oh no not the Riedel use a jam jar.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,235]

God what an uncouth suggestion!

[chook fowler 19,458]

I meant for throwing.

[chook fowler 19,458]

Had a wine maker give me a tasting of the same wine from 2 glasses of differing quality to demonstrate the difference it makes.

Amazing.

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,742]

I listened to our game on SEN yesterday. Brett Phillips and David Schwarz called the game with special comments from Scott Lucas. I was surprised at how good Lucas was explaining what players did or should have done, not just where the ball was but in the lead up to a passage of play. Very insightful.

But the Ox has a long way to go. Too often he'd call a player's name but not what he was doing. He could have been the one with the ball, or the one tackling someone else with the ball or perhaps the one leading in the race for the ball or even one just sitting on the interchange bench. David, if you're reading this, find yourself a book of verbs and use them, please.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

I listened to our game on SEN yesterday. Brett Phillips and David Schwarz called the game with special comments from Scott Lucas. I was surprised at how good Lucas was explaining what players did or should have done, not just where the ball was but in the lead up to a passage of play. Very insightful.

Scott Lucas is very good on the radio, I like listening to him a lot.

[rjay 24,916]

Scott Lucas is very good on the radio, I like listening to him a lot.

Me too 'Clint'.