Bruce McAvaney... I think its time

[david addison]

Something occurred to me last night while listening to Bruce & 'Hame'. On November 4th it's channel 7's 60th birthday, and in tribute, I'm going to unplug my television, and place it on the nature strip.

Here's the highlights of last night's commentary: Bruce used the word 'salivate' repeatedly, while 'Hame' compared Luke Hodge to Willem Dafoe in Platoon. No joke. Bruce, stick to the olympics. And 'Hame', well, I guess it's not easy being the s**t sibling. The Frank Stallone of AFL. I'm sure in time you'll find something you're good at.

Now it's time for family fued. Please welcome the Jack family! We surveyed 100 people to find an answer to this question, 'name something less aggravating than Bruce McAvaney'. Let's go to the board.

Number 5 - eating glass (6)
Number 4 - speed cameras (12)
Number 3 - brussels sprouts (16)
Number 2 - hello, I'm frank walker from national tiles (31)
Number 1 - war on terror (35)

 

[Tulip]

I'll keep saying it, Dennis and Bruce should be replaced by Jason Bennett.

Replace them with Tony Bennett. I'd tune in just for the sound of his voice.

 

[GreekLunatic]

Replace Bruce with the Icelandic commentator

 

[Big Cox 88]

Adam Papalia and BT on Friday nights would work if BT was told to tone it down a bit and be more professional like he is on radio.

 

[psychobrown]

So Bruce McAvaney, eh? He gets very excited about certain players I reckon. If he were here he'd have pictures of other men as his avatar, continually gush over them because they play for a team he follows and throw fits when someone talks smack about their footy skills - I think he'd fit right in, wouldn't you?

 

[tugga]

I don't mean this in a disrespectful way, if we could get Melissandre to raise Clinton Grybas from the dead, that would be pretty cool. Best footy commentator the game has ever seen despite his youth.

 

[Pessimistic]

Something occurred to me last night while listening to Bruce & 'Hame'. On November 4th it's channel 7's 60th birthday, and in tribute, I'm going to unplug my television, and place it on the nature strip.

Here's the highlights of last night's commentary: Bruce used the word 'salivate' repeatedly, while 'Hame' compared Luke Hodge to Willem Dafoe in Platoon. No joke. Bruce, stick to the olympics. And 'Hame', well, I guess it's not easy being the s**t sibling. The Frank Stallone of AFL. I'm sure in time you'll find something you're good at.

Now it's time for family fued. Please welcome the Jack family! We surveyed 100 people to find an answer to this question, 'name something less aggravating than Bruce McAvaney'. Let's go to the board.

Number 5 - eating glass (6)
Number 4 - speed cameras (12)
Number 3 - brussels sprouts (16)
Number 2 - hello, I'm frank walker from national tiles (31)
Number 1 - war on terror (35)

No 2 i turn off the radio faithfully when frank walker cones on, and i avoid the road going past his premises

 

[maddog37]

Bruce is much much better when the Hawks are not involved.

 

[Gasometer]

Comics parodied him.

Then he started paroding himself.

Now its just sad...self indugent listening.

Saw him late last night interviewing Cadel Evans...but it was 50/50 about Bruce's thoughts.

And whilst at it...piss off Brian Taylor and Luke Capt Obvious Darcy.

 

[Gasometer]

Worse thing about modern day commentators is how they barrack for the team that is in front throughout.

 

[TheInjuryFactory]

Hame just uttered the most sensible comment he's ever publicly said on tv, towards Ling. You're very biased, but who's gunna win?

Ling is ****ing terrible. Spent the whole night shouting at the top of his lungs into the mic for some reason, (Isn't there a producer in his ear?!) unbearable blatant barracking and then channeling Bruce at his shittest with his "you feel" crap. Get rid of him, bloke owns pubs, he doesn't need the charity pay cheque. Bruce has lost it, but we surely don't need a poor man's shit Bruce left behind.

 

[parano1a]

Would like to see Ray Warren call just one AFL game just for shits and giggles.

 

[Swansujelly]

Ted Richards will better than Broos.

 

[Bombermania]

I don't think Bruce ever go over Channel 7 losing the rights, ever since, his style of commentary has appeared less about the actual game and more about his favorites.

 

[Crankyhawk]

There once was an NFL game broadcast without commentary. Would be a great experiment here, if only to teach the commentators the value of letting the game do the talking.

You would think that would appeal to TV executives to pay less $ without really affecting product. They could still talk analysis during the breaks (and maybe better quality as they consider whole quarters)

 

[GoalSneak38]

Tell us what is happening during the game rather than a blow by blow description of your best wank


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[Crankyhawk]

Would like to see Ray Warren call just one AFL game just for shits and giggles.

He would certainly call it out for being boring or crap...

 

[Bombermania]

Tell us what is happening during the game rather than a blow by blow description of your best wank


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LOL

If you go back to the matches before they lost the rights, he use to be very good at describing the match, but pretty much since regaining the rights its been a flop

 

[William Wonka]

Should absolutely not be doing Hawthorn games. It's beyond a joke. I always feel bad for Puopolo
Is Poppy even his nickname? Poor bloke's going to have to mute his own highlight reels when he retires.
.

Yeah hes Poppy.

 

[Shane Hird]

Something occurred to me last night while listening to Bruce & 'Hame'. On November 4th it's channel 7's 60th birthday, and in tribute, I'm going to unplug my television, and place it on the nature strip.

Here's the highlights of last night's commentary: Bruce used the word 'salivate' repeatedly, while 'Hame' compared Luke Hodge to Willem Dafoe in Platoon. No joke. Bruce, stick to the olympics. And 'Hame', well, I guess it's not easy being the s**t sibling. The Frank Stallone of AFL. I'm sure in time you'll find something you're good at.

Now it's time for family fued. Please welcome the Jack family! We surveyed 100 people to find an answer to this question, 'name something less aggravating than Bruce McAvaney'. Let's go to the board.

Number 5 - eating glass (6)
Number 4 - speed cameras (12)
Number 3 - brussels sprouts (16)
Number 2 - hello, I'm frank walker from national tiles (31)
Number 1 - war on terror (35)

Frank Stallone haha

Excellent post. Sums up the Bruce problem.

 

[William Wonka]

The undeniable thing about Bruce is he does know what hes talking about.
His overly flowery bullshit can be annoying but who really cares? At least hes competent.
Give Dermie a listen if you want ridiculous commentary style combined with a mix of being downright wrong and having no idea whatsoever.

 

[Stopher]

Something occurred to me last night while listening to Bruce & 'Hame'. On November 4th it's channel 7's 60th birthday, and in tribute, I'm going to unplug my television, and place it on the nature strip.

Here's the highlights of last night's commentary: Bruce used the word 'salivate' repeatedly, while 'Hame' compared Luke Hodge to Willem Dafoe in Platoon. No joke. Bruce, stick to the olympics. And 'Hame', well, I guess it's not easy being the s**t sibling. The Frank Stallone of AFL. I'm sure in time you'll find something you're good at.

Now it's time for family fued. Please welcome the Jack family! We surveyed 100 people to find an answer to this question, 'name something less aggravating than Bruce McAvaney'. Let's go to the board.

Number 5 - eating glass (6)
Number 4 - speed cameras (12)
Number 3 - brussels sprouts (16)
Number 2 - hello, I'm frank walker from national tiles (31)
Number 1 - war on terror (35)

Number 2 used to make me laugh quite a bit, probably because one of my mates could do a mean impression of it!

 

[crazywildhorse]

I wish there was a way that ordinary people like us could tell Channel 7 to stick Basil and Hamish up their ass, lose the Woman's Day approach to commentary and give Bruce the tap. The best hope we have is if Channel 9 win the rights again somehow.

There would be dozens of trained journalists out there that would do a great job commentating given a chance.

 

[kickazz]

Not refering to last night's game but so many great games, big finals, grand finals and historic moments over the years, the footage of all of them are ruined by having the low quality of Australian commentary as their soundtrack.

As much as it would have been nice to get back to back, I'm always glad that the cats' recent three premierships were the last three done by channel ten.

 

[Thats Wright]

He does tend to focus on the physical status and appearance of players a lot.

Is he a pirate? Has this been confirmed?

Seems to troll his fellow commentators with awkward sexual innuendo too often. Plenty of hor d'oeurves suffer the same affliction.

Obviously gets no feedback in his regular life. Has a bit of gay Ned Flanders about him but seems more Bruce Jenner these days.

Probably heading down the path of token female and ethnic commentators to appease social media, so is Bruce bearable in the meantime?

No.