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AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Adam Papalia
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Agree totally.
Arguably one of the best callers going around and Fox persist in giving Derwayne Russell more commentating gigs.
Yeah all you hear about commentary on here is negative, people usually overlook the good and he is excellent!
tugga
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He is terrific. Just calls the game without trying to promote himself.
He sucks
Doesn’t know irrelevant details about a players grandmas cousins sister (Hamish)
Doesn’t say aye after every sentence (Bruce)
Doesn’t have a terrible voice (Darcy)
Doesn’t have moronic catchphrases (Dwayne)
Doesn’t call players names like a moron (BT)
Doesn’t orgasm over every good piece of play (Brayshaw)
Doesn’t know irrelevant details about a players grandmas cousins sister (Hamish)
Doesn’t say aye after every sentence (Bruce)
Doesn’t have a terrible voice (Darcy)
Doesn’t have moronic catchphrases (Dwayne)
Doesn’t call players names like a moron (BT)
Doesn’t orgasm over every good piece of play (Brayshaw)
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He's been terrific since he started. Also does a rock solid job calling A-League games too. I don't detect any WA bias when he does a game featuring Fremantle or West Coast either.
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Does A League and has done NBL in the past.
I like him but some of his lines get really repetitive, I don’t really want to hear “strikes it pure” again
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Amazing isn't it.
It's amazing watching games without getting mad at the commentary
He's actually professional and just does his job, doesn't try and make himself a celebrity or be part of the boys club
He's actually professional and just does his job, doesn't try and make himself a celebrity or be part of the boys club
cactuscall
michaelangelo is a party dude
These 2 are commentating together right now
Adam has to be in the top 5 most listenable commentators going around.
I know ths will sound odd but I always thought that was the way game should be called, paint an accurate but simple picture with less words.
People can see the TV screen so there is no need for all that histrionics & utter unecessary palava.
Rex Hunt carried on like a complete raving lunatic when calling a game on radio and people jumped on his wagon, I reckon the TV execs were scared of losing viewers so they encouraged their callers to go down that path and it has spiralled out of control since.
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I feel Rex was different tho. I loved listening to Rex but not a fan of BT
I think Hunt was like quite a few commentators - he actually was ok for a fair while - at least on radio, because it was genuine. After a while he played to the persona and then got worse and worse. Hudson when he started was ok, but he's drunk his own piss too many times and now tries to manufacture phrases.
Cleavy
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as an avid 3AW listener during these times, this is 100% correct
It's amazing that both on TV and radio, no one ever - EVER - learns the lesson that commentators being themselves, being natural, is so much easier to listen to than a forced persona.
Have said it before, if you toned down Brian Taylor and asked him just about the importance of key forwards taking their chances, or Luke Darcy about the challenges of being an undersized ruckman, they would be really good. But no, we get the clown show.
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Thought Rex and the late Clinton Grubas were a brilliant combo
