I agree with this thread. Mentioned it in the post game thread. They must think only tigers supporters were watching. 

Drove me mad.

yesterday the HS had an article rating the captains. Labelled Chunk a captain courageous. Then Ling gave him 6/10. Cotchin......7/10?!?! Joke.

 

PS That score on Chunk was the lowest of any of the captains.

AFL commentary, especially on TV right now, is really low quality I reckon.

Cometti is good, always has been. Bruce is pretty poor, lots of superfluous OTT remarks (and an enormous bias towards Hawthorn/Rioli, West Coast/Naitanui and Geelong/Selwood/Dangerfield). BT's awful, Luke Darcy's learning but not good. Dwayne Russell's terrible and Sandy Roberts is appalling (genuinely does not know most of the players on the ground and repeatedly confuses players and gets their names wrong). David Schwarz and Kevin Bartlett are hopeless.

Hamish McLachlan's trying to be too much like Bruce with statistics and general statements as opposed to actually calling the game. Basil Zempilas is OK but nothing special.

I like Cometti, Huddo and Matt Granland. Not a lot else out there. There's a new guy on Foxtel though who gets given the dud Saturday twilight/night game and he sounds pretty good so far though.

Just now, titan_uranus said:

AFL commentary, especially on TV right now, is really low quality I reckon.

Cometti is good, always has been. Bruce is pretty poor, lots of superfluous OTT remarks (and an enormous bias towards Hawthorn/Rioli, West Coast/Naitanui and Geelong/Selwood/Dangerfield). BT's awful, Luke Darcy's learning but not good. Dwayne Russell's terrible and Sandy Roberts is appalling (genuinely does not know most of the players on the ground and repeatedly confuses players and gets their names wrong). David Schwarz and Kevin Bartlett are hopeless.

Hamish McLachlan's trying to be too much like Bruce with statistics and general statements as opposed to actually calling the game. Basil Zempilas is OK but nothing special.

I like Cometti, Huddo and Matt Granland. Not a lot else out there. There's a new guy on Foxtel though who gets given the dud Saturday twilight/night game and he sounds pretty good so far though.

Agree to all of the above. I'm a big fan of Gerard Whateley's calling. If I hear Bruce say "he's got a long leg on him" one more time I'll smash the TV!

11 minutes ago, Rafiki said:

Sandy isn't up to it anymore unfortunately because I liked him but he gets about 20 players names wrong every game now. Huddo is probably my favourite with Cometti coming in at a close second. Carey is a fairly good special comments man and I feel like most of the others just talk about how good the players are especially Ling. The new bloke who's commentating this season isn't bad at all, not sure what his name is

I'm with you Rafiki, Huddo is my favourite and I like Gerard Healey on special comments. Carey annoys me but his one redeeming features is that he pulls no punches when it comes to criticising some of the umpiring decisions. Seems like he's the only commentator that isn't towing the company line on this score (umpires being above criticism I mean). I actually don't mind Dermott Brereton, although he comes across as a bit too Auskick-coachey (for lack of a better description) and patronising sometimes. I guess if you've won as many flags as he has, the ego allows you to be this way

15 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

PS That score on Chunk was the lowest of any of the captains.

That is how our club is viewed in the AFL. We are now changing that perception. We need to become a tough, ruthless winning club. 

On 4/25/2016 at 1:27 PM, Redleg said:

That is how our club is viewed in the AFL. We are now changing that perception. We need to become a tough, ruthless winning club. 

It's just a shame that guys like Cotchin and Mark Murphy who have never been even good leaders and their teams have always been well below par are talked up so much.

Apparently Bernie was miked up for the game and Channel 7 showed the highlights of it. I got in from the game too late to see it, but does anyone know where I could find it? Apparently, well worth a look.

I guess it shows how little new twice I take of 7, but is that guy who looks like Gil the dill really his brother?   How bloody incestuous has the AFL become??  How shallow has 7's talent pool become?  Where did they dig him up from?  Has he played footy post Auskick?

Edited April 25, 20169 yr by monoccular

So after 7's new low with cutting to ads in the last post they show they have learnt their lesson and are a lot more respectful. They open the coverage with the commentators trying to make it all about themselves, introducing us to their family members who fought.

I would be happy if they kept under rating us and kept pumping the tyres of the Saints and The Bulldogs.

We need to be desperate every match

Finally we have a team where there is competition just to get a spot in the 22 to join in the fairytale ride.

This is semi-related, but did anyone watch Bounce after the game on Fox Footy? I have noticed this year that Fox Footy in particular are being so over the top in their praise for the umps and rule changes, and I saw something a bit odd last night.

Chief does a segment called "beef of the week" or something like that, and he had a go at Tom Hawkins for looking bewildered when a free was paid against him for holding the ball and "not making a genuine attempt" even though he never took possession and the opponent just held the ball against him. If that was paid against a Melbourne player, I would have been ropable. Did anyone else see this? Am I wrong in thinking the Tomahawk was stiff to have the free paid against him, and then even stiffer for those idiots to take the [censored] out of him about it?

Edited April 25, 20169 yr by Forest Demon

19 minutes ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

So after 7's new low with cutting to ads in the last post they show they have learnt their lesson and are a lot more respectful. They open the coverage with the commentators trying to make it all about themselves, introducing us to their family members who fought.

What you fail to understand is that it's important that we establish who the villains are in My Kitchen Rules.

Truly unbelievable how often Channel 7 were talking up Cotchin in the last quarter. 

Called him inspirational and a leader about 5 times, only mentioned Viney once. Viney had about 12 touches in the last and was crucial to us getting over the line. 

4 hours ago, Soidee said:

Two things stood out for me watching replay on 7.  The commentary team were cheering and willing on Richmond, and the same people went out of their way to highlight how great Cotchin was and what a superb leader blah blah blah!!!!!

Normally do not give a toss, however it was so obvious it pizzed me off when Melbourne was playing so well.

Actually Carey, Zemplis and the brother of Gill showed very bad bias with their commentary.  

In the end we won the game, won the fight, and that's all that matters, but still annoying to see such bias commentary.

How does Gills brother get a gig calling games? He is terrible.

Call on Fox was similar - hardly named Melbourne players who contested and beat Rance - kept signing this scums praises. Did acknowledge Viney and Gawn's games. 

The longer we are under the radar the better.

2 hours ago, Forest Demon said:

This is semi-related, but did anyone watch Bounce after the game on Fox Footy? I have noticed this year that Fox Footy in particular are being so over the top in their praise for the umps and rule changes, and I saw something a bit odd last night.

Chief does a segment called "beef of the week" or something like that, and he had a go at Tom Hawkins for looking bewildered when a free was paid against him for holding the ball and "not making a genuine attempt" even though he never took possession and the opponent just held the ball against him. If that was paid against a Melbourne player, I would have been ropable. Did anyone else see this? Am I wrong in thinking the Tomahawk was stiff to have the free paid against him, and then even stiffer for those idiots to take the [censored] out of him about it?

Yeah saw that, one of the worst free kicks ever paid. At no time did he have possession, in fact it should have been holding the ball the other way if anything. However, Hawkins did look bloody ridiculous, regardless how shocked he must've been. Perhaps they're all being trained by Scott on facial expressions.

I just watched the replay online. There was very little of value in the commentary, but they sounded reasonably balanced to me.

The best way to watch channel 7 footy is with the volume DOWN. 

 

Commentators play to the majority.  We win more, we get more praise.  Just look at the odds we are still well under the radar and long may it last

So I'm confused, I watched the replay and I heard plenty of good things about the dees, and heard praise for viney and vince and gushing over gawn.

 

edit: the comments about Mc Donald were very positive as well

Edited April 25, 20169 yr by Ingeniokinetikey

The commentary was fine. It's always more exciting when a team comes back into the match. Ducking at shadows here

HAve to agree about the "apparent" by the Channel 7  "commentary "team. THey kept on telling us how well Richmond were playing, almost as if they were 5 goals up ????

I was more annoyed with Channel 7's chase of the almighty $$$$$ by cutting into the Last Post for an Ad.

Just proves they have turned Anzac Day into a Marketing exercise,. rather than a day of reflection. Shame Channel 7 !!!!!!

The biased commentary was exacerbated by the commentators talking up the Tigers to give the impression that they were still in the game to stop the viewers switching off,a typical media brainwashing technique.

Agree... bias comments, love for Cotchin and even said Rance was silly and probably just a week. 

Rance's act was gutless and cowardly.