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NON MFC: Round 02

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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

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

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      On 11/06/2020 at 09:47, 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.

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    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.

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      On 11/06/2020 at 10:02, 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

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      On 11/06/2020 at 10:06, 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. 

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      On 11/06/2020 at 10:05, 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.

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      On 11/06/2020 at 10:06, 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. 

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    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.

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    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.

     

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      On 11/06/2020 at 10:19, 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. 

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      On 11/06/2020 at 10:19, 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.

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      On 11/06/2020 at 10:21, 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.

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      On 11/06/2020 at 10:19, 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.  

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