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'BT' and Darcy: The Worst Commentary Team in History?
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A commentary box full of caged monkeys with mics up their butts would be less excrutiating to live through than the coterie of ****-knockers Ch7 have foisted upon us.
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I love the entertainment value of saturday night crew. I only take issue with BT harping on umpires bouncing. Though at the same time, umpires should be flawless at bouncing a football being that it's one of their only physical skills in their repertoire. (and should be well executed..)
Don't blame the bounce, blame the execution..
When they call fremantle games, fremantle is so often the winner it makes them my favourite callers for dockers games.
Don't blame the bounce, blame the execution..
When they call fremantle games, fremantle is so often the winner it makes them my favourite callers for dockers games.
Isn't the football entertainment enough?
If the football is so crap (which it often is of late) that you need non-stop rah-rah from BT to enjoy the game, it might be time to change the channel, or even turn off the TV.
He must be rooting someone at 7 and MMM to be in those positions
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I didn't mind Luke Darcy as a player and I have agreed with some of his comments in the past (re: Jason Akermanis), but I've had a gutful of his commentary. I'm sick of him continually elevating someone to the best ever or declaring that the team (such as the Swans on Thursday v Geelong) will win the flag because they happen to be winning well on the night in question. He slams his opinion down the viewer's throat treating us as cretins with no knowledge of the game.
Taylor I find 'less offensive' but still annoying due to the comments already discussed at length on this thread.
What brought home the fact that Darcy is a dud and such a poor commentator was that on on the way home on Thursday I had been listening to the ABC radio broadcast and was impressed with the knowledge and understanding of the game and the attention to detaill offered by the callers. I then got home and had watched the Ch Seven telecast and 'suffered' Darcy & Taylor. The ego of Darcy seeps through and in my view he treats the audience as second class citizens.
If I had to put it in a nutshell - the ABC radio crew describe what is happening as if they are privelged to be offering the opportunity to call to to the audience. Darcy offers an opinion on what is happening as if that opinion is the only the thing that matters. He makes himself the most important aspect of the call. Very frustrating.
Taylor I find 'less offensive' but still annoying due to the comments already discussed at length on this thread.
What brought home the fact that Darcy is a dud and such a poor commentator was that on on the way home on Thursday I had been listening to the ABC radio broadcast and was impressed with the knowledge and understanding of the game and the attention to detaill offered by the callers. I then got home and had watched the Ch Seven telecast and 'suffered' Darcy & Taylor. The ego of Darcy seeps through and in my view he treats the audience as second class citizens.
If I had to put it in a nutshell - the ABC radio crew describe what is happening as if they are privelged to be offering the opportunity to call to to the audience. Darcy offers an opinion on what is happening as if that opinion is the only the thing that matters. He makes himself the most important aspect of the call. Very frustrating.
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Not really,Seven are known to hire nuffies
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3 [very short lived]
Press red for silence?
My mute button is green.
It's nice to hear the crowd noise, most would choose that option if available on a Saturday night.
On the "old" Fox Footy, during the late Sunday game, among a host of other features, you used to be able to block out the commentary and just listen to crowd noise. Anyone else remember this?
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I would pay an extra $10 a month to have that option now.
Dwayne Russell is worse.
BT is not suited to channel 7 or 3AW.
He needs to go back to Triple M and FoxFooty.
His commentary persona only works with the likes of JB, Wolf and co on Triple M
BT is not suited to channel 7 or 3AW.
He needs to go back to Triple M and FoxFooty.
His commentary persona only works with the likes of JB, Wolf and co on Triple M
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Your opinion. If the game + commentary = entertainment for me, then I won't be at all changing the channel. Commentary is one part of the enjoyment of a broadcast.
When I can't see a game, my fancy is hearing Tim Lane commentate, no one else holds a candle to TL. IMO he is the only radio caller who injects real excitement on a visceral level. On TV he was margianalised to the point he sounded like Huddo (fox edition) and often butchered when paired with 'quarters'.
I might add that from the general tone of this thread (a makeshift study at psychology of hatred) the popular belief that these guys (BT, darce) are egotistical half-wits making the call about them?
I don't know.... Are you guys maybe a bit jealous? Envious? Hate stems from a fear. Which stems from an introspective analysis. Perhaps what we are really seeing is a wave of pseudo-intellects who are ego types (in denial), enduring a veritable personality clash with their TV likenesses, hating to see themselves represented to the mass. "GET off TV, you make *me* look bad", the take-home message of the thread, for mine.
Yeh.. Nah... They are just dicks
What an absolute bunch of twaddle.
I don't know, I just hear things like BOY OH BOY WOWEE or BIG BOY and think surely there is someone out there better than this clown.
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I'd love to be as well paid as these guys are to be terrible at my job
BT's ill-timed inanities have forever handicapped my recording of one of my club's greatest wins.
Like, we take the ball from the centre and after a few passes, K-Jack literally rams a[nother] goal home and BT has to interrupt his waxing on about the bounce to note that a goal has also been scored.
Typical.
Like, we take the ball from the centre and after a few passes, K-Jack literally rams a[nother] goal home and BT has to interrupt his waxing on about the bounce to note that a goal has also been scored.
Typical.
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1 minute 15 seconds into the game and BT comes up with the old "Devon Smith, a boy out of the Geelong Falcons footy factory, under Micky Turner" for heck sake leave it alone you flog.
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DRINK!
Playing some Brian Taylor Bingo tonight. Covered 10 squares already.
Waiting on a BOY OH BOY WOWEE!
Waiting on a BOY OH BOY WOWEE!
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I've sure learnt a fair bit about security guards tonight, thanks to the one and only "Commentate-On-Anything-Except-The-Footy" BT...
