It starts.... Again

Collingwood v Richmond

My main interest will be in the cardboard cut outs and what "celebrities" have snuck under the radar.

Will miss Cox as he is entertaining to watch from a contest viewpoint.

Richmond by 20 if not more

34 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

My main interest will be in the cardboard cut outs and what "celebrities" have snuck under the radar.

There are multiple Eddies.

 

The cheering crowd very suddenly going quiet after the first goal was a real mood-breaker. 

Didn’t like the kneeling.  Looked derivative and tacky to me. 

I think my highest hope in life is;

- MFC win a flag before Howe retires

- Howe does not win a flag before Howe retires.

5 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Didn’t like the kneeling.  Looked derivative and tacky to me. 

I didn’t like it.

I understand they wanted to do something in solidarity, but it looked tacky and staged; like a Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad.  They were safe and risking nothing.

Do it during the finals when the national anthem plays... then that’d be a real statement.

Sidebottom is an out and out superstar! 

Tigers haven’t turned up

Watched for about 2 minutes. Thought Howe shirked it going back with the flight of the ball. Game not too interesting yet, might wait till Saturday.

Geez we could do with Sidebottom, Collingwoods skills have been brilliant tigers have no answer 

1 minute ago, DemonWheels said:

Watched for about 2 minutes. Thought Howe shirked it going back with the flight of the ball. Game not too interesting yet, might wait till Saturday.

Bruce is trying to pump it up, but it is dead flat

I sort of like the canned crowd noise. Better than silence after a goal

Bit of a fizzer

1 minute ago, Moonshadow said:

I sort of like the canned crowd noise. Better than silence after a goal

Agreed.

I thought the problem with round one was that the commentators and producers focused too much on how unusual it all was.  

Hopefully this time around they focus on the footy and the rest will become part of the ‘new normal’.  
 

The less attention drawn to the differences, the better. 

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Bruce is trying to pump it up, but it is dead flat

Must say I had to turn it down.  Please give us some less over the top commentary.

Richmond fumbling and Pies taking their chances.

Season over Tigers.

11 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

I sort of like the canned crowd noise. Better than silence after a goal

It’s aaalmost ok. Like I said earlier, the sudden mood-shifts from post-goal jubilation into non-plussed ambience are a bit naff. Would be kinda hilarious to watch the sound effects person “mixing” this. 

Edited June 11, 20204 yr by Mel Bourne

I wish you could turn off certain commentators or pick which commentators you could listen too.  Bruce is just painful to listen to these days.

NRL tried a game with the noise then a game without it last week. So much better with the canned crowd.

Howe looks chit.

Pies look really good but still not far enough in front.

 

Just now, BrisbaneDemon said:

I wish you could turn off certain commentators or pick which commentators you could listen too.  Bruce is just painful to listen to these days.

Wouldn’t it be great having Melb centric commentators for Melb games but also all games haha. 

2 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

NRL tried a game with the noise then a game without it last week. So much better with the canned crowd.

Howe looks chit.

Pies look really good but still not far enough in front.

 

On the radio up here in Brisbane, they were saying the NRL were concerned about the body crashes with no crowd noise, they were worried it would turn parents off having their kids play the game.

As much as I've missed footy, I didn't even make it to quarter time before channel surfing.

2 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Wouldn’t it be great having Melb centric commentators for Melb games but also all games haha. 

The technology cannot be that far away, pick your anchor commentators, pick special comments and then your boundary commentators.  It would easily show who the public wanted to listen too.

2 minutes ago, BrisbaneDemon said:

I wish you could turn off certain commentators or pick which commentators you could listen too.  Bruce is just painful to listen to these days.

I wish they'd increase the volume on the fake crowd and drown out the commentators.  I've watched a lot of old matches recently and the quality of commentating was so much better.  

BT just did his load. Commentary is terrible