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Daisy wipes the floor with most blokes when it comes to special comments. 

As insightful as anyone i have heard in the last 40 years.

 

Edit..... i have to add that i think Bucks is right up there IMO

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    In case people didn't listed to Sen, 

    https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/daisy-pearce-reacts-to-rex-hunt-dermott-brereton-debate/news-story/8121d4f59c31c1b1d911d4692aad0b68

    Daisy is so classy.  About these quotas - there have always been quotas and its been 100% male.  bang!  love it.  So classy, takes the high road but gets her points in. I am so glad my daughter has women like her to look up to.

    Also - the childish comment from Bucks to Huddo asking him how many games has he played on air, was really poor.  Huddo is the best commentator in the game, you don't need to have played AFL to be respected.

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    1 minute ago, DubDee said:

    In case people didn't listed to Sen, 

    https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/daisy-pearce-reacts-to-rex-hunt-dermott-brereton-debate/news-story/8121d4f59c31c1b1d911d4692aad0b68

    Daisy is so classy.  About these quotas - there have always been quotas and its been 100% male.  bang!  love it.  So classy, takes the high road but gets her points in. I am so glad my daughter has women like her to look up to.

    Also - the childish comment from Bucks to Huddo asking him how many games has he played on air, was really poor.  Huddo is the best commentator in the game, you don't need to have played AFL to be respected.

    Buckley can be a real FIGJAM sometimes. 

     

    As something totally irrelevant I notice his sons are named Ayce and Jett.  Nice names in a way but phonetically they are words used to describe elite sports people...

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    Arrrh .... Daisy!  My great unrequited love!

    Any post making .... or even  implying .....  criticism of dear Daisy should be removed immediately by the moderators and the posters banned forthwith!

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    14 hours ago, ding said:

    Daisy wipes the floor with most blokes when it comes to special comments. 

    As insightful as anyone i have heard in the last 40 years.

     

    Edit..... i have to add that i think Bucks is right up there IMO

    Yeah I'm with you Ding, these are my two favs at the moment. 

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    12 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    Greg Baum's take on the unseemly Daisy kerfuffle.

    https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/latest-rant-over-daisy-pearce-just-a-bad-call-20220722-p5b3sh.html

    Interesting article.

    Dennis Cometti played/coached footy, albeit 'only' at WAFL level.

    Isa Gohu (sp) is an awesome cricket commentator.

    Daisy is, of course, a fantastic special comments person. Offers interesting insights and doesn't prattle on like some of her male counterparts (read Garry Lyon et al) who are just air fillers.

    Jonathan Brown is also a great special comments person. He's like Mr Ed ... only speaks when he has something (worthwhile) to say.

     

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    I remember reading Jeff Kennett's bio in my twenties, and I remember a pretty resonant anecdote told in it that sums this situation up perfectly.

    The story in the Kennett bio summed up the attitude Rex, Sam and these 'personalities' from the 1990's should be taking. It described a trip Kennett and Andrew Peacock took to Bamganie near Meredith where Sir Henry lived. It was 1989 and Queensland was deep into the Fitzgerald Inquiry. As Bolte was drinking a scotch with Kennett and Peacock, he got a call from Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen who was ringing up to rant about how the state national party and the Queensland electorate didn't want him. 

    Sir Henry was a rough and tumble conservative farmer who ruled Victoria as it's longest serving premier when it was considered the crown jewel of the Liberal Party. However, he was smart enough to see the way society was flowing into the 70's, and appointed Dick Hamer, a small l liberal, as his successor. He didn't necessarily agree with Hamer, but he accepted what the state of play was. Seeing that Sir Joh was fighting a losing battle and trying his best to placate him, he then turned to Kennett and Peacock and said 'that's the problem. They just don't know when to let go. Make sure you blokes don't do that!'

    Sam Newman and (sadly) Rex Hunt now fill that category. Watching the footy show as a teenager, I probably found their schtick funny. Now when I watch the former I cringe and feel genuinely uncomfortable. When I watch the latter, I roll my eyes and groan at how hammy he is. Their days are over alas whether you liked them back in the day or not. People want an actual analysis of the game from someone with actual tactical nous and Daisy does that magnificently.

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    2 hours ago, Mr Steve said:

    Rex Hunt in the news again today for all the wrong reason.

    Absolute madness!

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    On 7/23/2022 at 10:18 AM, Winners at last said:

    Interesting article.

    Dennis Cometti played/coached footy, albeit 'only' at WAFL level.

    Isa Gohu (sp) is an awesome cricket commentator.

    Daisy is, of course, a fantastic special comments person. Offers interesting insights and doesn't prattle on like some of her male counterparts (read Garry Lyon et al) who are just air fillers.

    Jonathan Brown is also a great special comments person. He's like Mr Ed ... only speaks when he has something (worthwhile) to say.

     

    Dennis is/was probably my favourite footy caller...effortless versus so many try hards.

    Love Isa, watch the cricket sometimes just for her commentary...great sense of humour & fun along with knowledge of the game.

    Daisy is a welcome addition but has little competition from the boys club of out of date has-beens.

    Haven't heard much of Brown's special comments work to make my own comment.

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    Rex Hunt has hardly covered himself.in glory

    I wish I could say more but I would be breaking Demonland rules.

    I will say that I had a relation working for Hutchy where Rex had a fishing segment. Somebody on the morrninton peninsula was putting messages in bottles saying they had won a prize on Rex's fishing show. The radio station was getting hammered with callers thinking they had won something

     

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    I'm no fan of Rex (not a nice man) but the road rage thing does have 2 sides & probably a longer story.

    Looks like the other person took a swing at him.

    Rex probably loves the publicity though, he's been irrelevant for quite some time now.

    As Chico Marx says "aren't irrelevant's in the circus"

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    I loved listening to Rex and the boys from 3AW days.

    Some of you posters have no sense of humour.

    3AW dominated the ratings for 20 years. As for Rex sleeping with women. They didnt knock back the money did they?

    Theyre just as grubby as him.One of them sold her story to the tabloids.

    Women always want to be involved in mens sports because thats where the money and prestige is found.

    How many Australians can name just one Australian womens test cricket or soccer player? Likely almost none.

    Most of the modern day male commentators are unbearable but women dont make it any  better.

    Dennis Cometi, Tim Lane  Mike Williamson were good.

     

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    Reaction to commentators will always vary. However, it is fair to say that Daisy's comments are measured and based on genuine knowledge of the game. A more general problem with female commentators is that when they get excited they tend to screech in a high-pitched frenzy that assaults the ears. But for analysis and comment, gender is irrelevant.

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    11 minutes ago, deebunked said:

    I loved listening to Rex and the boys from 3AW days.

    Some of you posters have no sense of humour.

    Nothing to do with humour at all.

    I really just wanted to know where the ball was, who had it and the score...he could give me none of those things.

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    1 hour ago, rjay said:

    Nothing to do with humour at all.

    I really just wanted to know where the ball was, who had it and the score...he could give me none of those things.

    All that info would be a bonus, I just wanted to know who was playing who if I tuned in when Rex was babbling about everything but the game and where every player had a nickname! 

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    By the look of that footage, Rex was hoping to do some gardening, but was unable to as he'd lost the plot.

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    3 hours ago, deebunked said:

    How many Australians can name just one Australian womens test cricket or soccer player? Likely almost none.

    I suspect you'd find that many, many Australians would quickly be able to name Alyssa Healy, Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry and Sam Kerr for example among the current players and that's just for starters.   

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    4 hours ago, deebunked said:

    Women always want to be involved in mens sports because thats where the money and prestige is found.

    What exactly are "mens sports"? 

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    4 hours ago, deebunked said:

    How many Australians can name just one Australian womens test cricket or soccer player? Likely almost none.

    I don't think I could name one mens soccer player.

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    13 minutes ago, rjay said:

    I don't think I could name one mens soccer player.

    You are not alone.

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