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43 minutes ago, old dee said:

Yes your last point is a good one. But seriously do prefer Bruce and Brian to the sweet sound of silence? I wonder if anyone has done a trial of a telecast sports game without commentary but sounds of the crowd etc?

Don't know about anyone else, but we make so much crowd noise from our lounge room, especially when the umpires are making suspect decisions or non-decisions, the whole neighbourhood can probably hear us! The commentary is the background noise.

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    2 hours ago, old dee said:

    When I have to watch 7 I either watch it with no sound or have a radio station for sound. There is a lot to be said for no sound. It is like watching a game live, you don't get commentary at the ground why do we need it at home?

    Why not just take the hearing aid out, old dee?

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    1 hour ago, old dee said:

    Yes your last point is a good one. But seriously do prefer Bruce and Brian to the sweet sound of silence? I wonder if anyone has done a trial of a telecast sports game without commentary but sounds of the crowd etc?

    Foxtel did it for a few AFL games in the early 2000s. 

    I recall being at a friends place watching an AFL game and pressing the red button on the remote to turn the commentary off and change camera angles. It was a bit clunky but definitely could have been refined into something quite good. 

    Below is an example of how it looked with the rugby. The audio could be changed to commentators off  but still with crowd noise on and I think their was an option to have the umpires audio feed as well.

    Cannot believe with today’s technology that this is not possible, as always, it’s about the money.

     

     

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    1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    I got a laugh out of Brian, at least he knew who everybody was...

    Strange comment for a fella who has worked in tv. He us clueless about who most people are. He has a producer piping directions and instructions direct into his ear

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    2 minutes ago, binman said:

    Strange comment for a fella who has worked in tv. He us clueless about who most people are. He has a producer piping directions and instructions direct into his ear

    Yes and he pulls it off quite well actually. Many people don’t function at all well when the camera is rolling live to air

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    2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Yes and he pulls it off quite well actually. Many people don’t function at all well when the camera is rolling live to air

    I beg your pardon?

     

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    9 hours ago, Nasher said:

    To be honest I prefer Roaming Brian, where he is intentionally being a tool for a bit of light hearted entertainment, to Commentary Brian, where his toolery interferes with the actual call. 

    Intentional?

    Or

    Natural?

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    8 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    What gets right up my goat is when Brian & Co get totally side tracked when calling the game and start drivaling on about completely irrelevant rubbish - just shut the f#@* up already.

    Me too.  And most of it is name dropping or showing off in some other way.

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    1 hour ago, sue said:

    Me too.  And most of it is name dropping or showing off in some other way.

    His multiple endless rants during the game about the Melbourne players having dinner at Lever's place during the game the other night.  BT "I've got conections" - wooooo, for real, give me a break FFS.

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    13 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    What gets right up my goat is when Brian & Co get totally side tracked when calling the game and start drivaling on about completely irrelevant rubbish - just shut the f#@* up already.

    Like that time they spent a quarter prattling on about Leigh Montana's (?) Mexican themed birthday party and how they had uploaded it to Instagram. 

    Genuinely cringe worthy stuff.

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    I didn't mind roaming Brian the other night. I mean if he is doing it that means your team has won, which is good. Plus it's the first time I really got to hear anything from Gary Pert. 

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    On 4/12/2019 at 12:31 PM, Jaded said:

    Roman Brian should be renamed [censored] Brian

    Bath-house Brian ! ?

    Edited by DV8

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    Welcome to 2019.  Married at First Sight, Kitchen Rules, Fattest Loser etc and now this carp. TV has just morphed to appeal to the lowest common denominator and it is a blight on our country really. 

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    2 minutes ago, phuket demon said:

    Welcome to 2019.  Married at First Sight, Kitchen Rules, Fattest Loser etc and now this carp. TV has just morphed to appeal to the lowest common denominator and it is a blight on our country really. 

    What we've learnt from (Brian) Ch 7 and others is that Jake Lever is a cook maybe  suitable   MKR ?  Demonland posters Poor maligned Trac for Fattest Losers and Married  at First Sight any of our young eligible players (bachelors) in the off season to keep their fitness levels in check. Give Stephen  May the producers ph. no please.

    Sorry for this trivia !!!

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    28 minutes ago, phuket demon said:

    Welcome to 2019.  Married at First Sight, Kitchen Rules, Fattest Loser etc and now this carp. TV has just morphed to appeal to the lowest common denominator and it is a blight on our country really. 

    The generation that like this stuff are bored and cynical.  looking for more.... maybe because of all the rubbish told to them on the media.   Almost force-fed rubbish.. is all they've seen.

    This plastic society.

     

    Maybe going back to ore organic honest commentary...  and honest appraisal without any bling comment attached,  is the antidote to all this feed-lot mentality.

     

    Maybe its the media-bosses and the Advertising executives,  doing the very same things the Former AFL stars and their EGO's spread on our daily bread for us, from our waking moment to our time of shut-eye.

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    The only opportunity we get to see the engine room after a game and see  the happiness on the faces of players, family and Staff, loved it...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    34 minutes ago, phuket demon said:

    I understand the "engine room" access, but why does it need to in such a moronic, juvenile and dense way. I just dont get it..

    Their viewers are all age groups, and surely the AFL would want this inside access to appeal to the kids...  as well as the adults.   Lets not over sophisticate it.

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    7 hours ago, phuket demon said:

    Welcome to 2019.  Married at First Sight, Kitchen Rules, Fattest Loser etc and now this carp. TV has just morphed to appeal to the lowest common denominator and it is a blight on our country really. 

    Mafs is awesome train wreck telly

     

    i can think of many things that blight our country ahead of mafs

    gas cartel 

    captured regulators 

    adani

    the list goes on amigo

    telly is a distant distant issue (unless you take the view it’s a deliberate ploy to distract the mssses)

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    On 4/12/2019 at 1:42 PM, Redleg said:

    He just walked past me in an Elsternwick car park. Has lost a fair bit of weight.

    Don't worry, I've found it.

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    On 4/12/2019 at 6:56 PM, old dee said:

    Yes your last point is a good one. But seriously do prefer Bruce and Brian to the sweet sound of silence? I wonder if anyone has done a trial of a telecast sports game without commentary but sounds of the crowd etc?

    Not AFL, but I have a version of the last few minutes of the 2003 Rugby World Cup. All you hear is the referees directives and the crowd. It’s brilliant.

    Shame about the result.

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    1 hour ago, TRIGON said:

    Not AFL, but I have a version of the last few minutes of the 2003 Rugby World Cup. All you hear is the referees directives and the crowd. It’s brilliant.

    Shame about the result.

    Think of the money 7 could save, I would love to see an AFL game.

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