binman

Any award for worst commentators would surely be called the BTs

I think you answered your own question

It wasn't that one, though you're right thst was a good example of his smarts. The one I was thinking of was around the wing. I'm.about to watch the replay and will make a note of when it happened

Imagine one of those peanuts calling a horse race. Jockeys have the same build, all wear silks (that often look similar eg the Godolfin blue) and all are riding horses that with the odd exception look much the same. And jockeys don't have big bloody numbers on their back!

For mine, i'd have Sparrow in ahead of Harmes. And once jones is fit, i'd have him in ahead of both based on his game the weekend before last. Harmes was average last night. To be fair he had an improved second half but he made some potentially costly errors in the first half. And that makes three average games in a row I take your point about his defensive work, but he often undoes that work with poor decision making. And a big knock i have on him in terms of his decision making is that he takes too many low percentage options, eg taking on the tackler on when the percentage play is to give it off or attempting marginal handballs or kicks outside his skill range. And it is poor decisions that can really hurt in finals. He is at his best when he is given a specific job on a gun opposition mid, who can take him to the ball. His role should be a negator, not a creator. And when he does that job well, his possessions become more valuable. Viney was the perfect player to go to Wines, but it left Harmes without an obvious tagging role. All that said goody has placed a huge value on consistency of selection and rewarding players, so Harmes is unlikely to be dropped. Which is fine by me. I have a lot of respect for that approach. Give Harmes a job on O'Meara and free up Viney a bit. Sparrow will remain as a sub, unless they want him to get some game time, as goody no doubt wants to reinforce he is an important part of the team. By the by, can Sparrow play for casey this weekend?

Jordon was essentially playing as a winger/half back in the first 6 weeks or so. He took Viney's defensive mid role when he went out of the side. And now jack is back JJ has slotted back in to his winger/half back. Which is perfect for him - and us. He gets a lot more outside ball, which is great for us as he hits targets and makes excellent decisions (there was one last night where he delayed the release and chose a really good option, where so many players would have given to a teammate under pressure. I can't remember exactly when though). But he balances that outside role with fantastic tackling and pressure Good role for JJ too, in terms of being less physically taxing than a pure inside defensive mid. I reckon the biggest impact of Viney being out was robbing us of JJ n that role as there is not an obvious replacement, except for perhaps Bowey, who i assume they want to have more VFL time. JJ has become a super important cog in the machine. And reliable one at that. Such a pure footballer.

What? How on earth could you come to that conclusion??? Kossie marked it. Jonas assumed, incorrectly, that it would not be awarded. He then threw him to the ground preventing him from immediately playing on or giving it off. Which is exactly what the 50 was brought in to penalize. Sure Jonas was unlucky, but it doesn't matter a jot that he thought it was play on. Didn't for Friiter - and nor should it have.

Totally agree. An excellent kick, who importantly actually does not attempt many high risk kicks - which is line with our low risk, high percentage philosophy). Another element of our philosophy is predictably. A big factor in how often Salem hits a target when under pressure is that he knows his teammates will be in the right spots, which is almost always a short lead up pass or near the boundary line. There was good example near the end of the game where under pressure he turned to the boundary and hit a short bail out to Gus.

Eddie loves name drop. Assuming of course said person is filthy rich

From supermercado's twitter feed: "Jackson hasn't watched videos of McKenzie because that's what he does" Next thing "McKenzie hasn't kicked a goal since 2015"

Totally agree on Leppitsch. But please remember this thread is for football commentators THAT DO YOUR HEAD IN (besides give JL time. He'll catch the moron bug if he satys in the media long enough)

Random lowlight from the Channel 7 coverage of the Port game last night THAT DID MY HEAD IN #1: Fritter thinks he has touched a ball, because he did, that Alir is paid a mark for. So assuming it is play on Fritter tackles Alir. Much to fritters dismay, the umpire gives a 50. Which was fair enough as a mark was called. The commentators say as much. Play on. Nothing to see here. Later, Kossie takes a nice mark. It may have been touched. Jonas certainly thought so and tackled Kossie. Much to Jonas' dismay, the umpire gives a 50. Which was fair enough as a mark was called. The commentators express amazement and surprise. Watching THE REPLAY, which provided crystal clear evidence the 50 was there every day of the week, 'Hamish" opines Jonas was hard done by. WTF DOES MY HEAD IN!!!!

Football commentary does my head in. I can't stand it any longer. So I've decided to start a thread so I have somewhere to vent my frustration about the standard of football commentary each week. The alternative is going crazy. Please feel free to use this as your football commentary does my head in safe space

Grapeviney has aged pretty well hasn't he

Agree.

Can't wait for Friday night footy tommorow night. Watching the dees play port. Again.

Agree. But even more importantly, he does the simple things well.

Bollocks. 33 posessions? Do you really think goody cares about those posessions when barely one hurt, bar his goal. Every touch he had was under viney pressure and that resulted in us getting our intercepts. Port totally rely on wines for their clearances. The game was won in the first half. Wines had one clearance to half time. One. And only four in the second half. I don't know how many of them were in tbe ladt, but the game was over at 3 quarter time

Apparently that was the lowest number of inside 50s we have had all year. And we won by 5 goals. 19 inside 50 tackles a big factor in our efficiency

Would you seriously have expected him to say anything else (ie it wasn't a factor). Explains the pressure drop you highlighted does it not?

We're never going to beat any of the top teams kicking 4 goals 10 in the second half of a game. (Just in case dr d and osilik can't bring himself to post after a win like that)

I stand to be corrected, but not at the the first bounce i don't think

He hasn't been in the last 3-4 games

I reckon it time to to use Harmes as a tagger again. Sit him on Wines or Boak. A straightforward job for a straightforward fella

I'll give you that one.