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I had to take a squeezie myself after a few tacos.He referred to a squeezie today
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Can anything be done about Bruce?
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doug85
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Brian Taylor is super ****en fat.
The best bit was when the hawks hit the front in the last and Brrrruuuuucccceeeee was getting very excited. He asked all his fellow commentators who would win. They all said Hawthorn. That was my cue to chuck money on the cats to win.
Boxhead_31
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Seriously haven't listened to him in years.
Always just mute the broadcast pick a radio call that I like pause the game till they sync and enjoy the game
HBF
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Different callers, but both of them equally frustrate the audience. But you're right, channel 7 do need a clean out at years end.
They should throw as much money they can at Huddo. Far and away the best AFL caller right now.
Huddo and Dennis Friday night would be actually watchable.
Maybe they could go after Mat Granland off SEN also, don't mind him calling the footy. Not sure how he'd present on TV though.
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Yep, Channel 7 are ruining footy with the commentary teams they have. Just call the game. I don't need nicknames, I don't need comments on players hair, or listening to Bruce fawn over a players legs, I just want the footy called properly, accurately and with enough life and enthusiasm to enhance the game, not detract.
To be honest, the TV commentary at the moment is shockingly bad. There isn't a team on Foxtel or Seven that I like at the moment.
All the money that is wasted by C7 on bloated commentary teams could be ploughed into providing HD coverage.
Shatterpoint
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I love Bruce, whats wrong with him?
Dynamics
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Squeezie!?
Give me strength.
The man also has no awareness of what's actually going on, it's like watching a movie with an elderly grandparent constantly asking who is who. Today a shot at goal was quite clearly touched on the way through and the goal umpire signalled as such. Bruce, sounding bewildered, starts asking his carers if the ball hit the post.
I don't watch footy so I can be frustrated at the lack of awareness and calling ability of the commentators. It distracts from the game.
Thankfully the AFL app lets me find a more enjoyable radio team to listen to.
Give me strength.
The man also has no awareness of what's actually going on, it's like watching a movie with an elderly grandparent constantly asking who is who. Today a shot at goal was quite clearly touched on the way through and the goal umpire signalled as such. Bruce, sounding bewildered, starts asking his carers if the ball hit the post.
I don't watch footy so I can be frustrated at the lack of awareness and calling ability of the commentators. It distracts from the game.
Thankfully the AFL app lets me find a more enjoyable radio team to listen to.
The Prosecutor
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Huddo and Sandy are fantastic.
What timeslot does Huddo call on tv? I thought he was just calling for SEN.
Meanwhile Dermott "Geelong are playing at their limit and Hawthorn will find another gear as the game goes on" Brereton and Leigh "Let's ignore the footage of Roughead hitting someone in the head off the ball" Matthews are allowed to call Hawthorn games.
No-one with a club affiliation should commentate on their club's games. It's utterly unprofessional.
As for Bruce, he's a disgrace and getting into Brian Taylor territory in terms of how unappealing it is to watch footy when he's commentating.
I seriously do question how Channel 7 can think that he and Taylor have the necessary appeal, intelligence and liguistic skills to be the frontline commentators for a sport with media rights worth a billion f***ing dollars.
My theory is that they are trying to ruin the network for tax reasons.
He literally commentates what he wants to happen, not what is actually happening. How many times do we have to hear him orgasmically scream about something (goal, Rioli doing some crap, take your pick) only to realise too late that this thing only happened in his fantasy world and not the real world.
ohhhhhhh boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
DARCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
DARCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
This - they need to pay good money to lure some actual commentators away from radio or Foxtel.
Basically people who are able to watch a game of football and describe what is happening in a calm, interesting way without making more than one error every 5 minutes. Surely this is not too much to ask.
Don't forget "Poppy" for Puopolo
Smeg Head
Just take a bite
Problem is he often comes with a Tony Shaw... Urgh
Rex Hunt would quite seriously be better than either Taylor or McAvaney.
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They need to stop the "Roughy" and "Chappy" crap, they aint their mates
bruce blowing his load over cyril from a couple weeks ago, says some overtly homosexual shit pretty much every game and what makes it bad is that he isn't even the worst commentator on ch.7 bt, darcy, basil and hamish are all worse than bruce.
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Can we get Rex Hunt back?
Was about to mention this - does anyone else wonder whether this was actually intended to be a sort of 'joke' call? Like, he's aware of the jokes about his Cyril love and pre-scripted something this ridiculous?
Either way, surely a low point of Australian sport commentary.
You just get the feeling that Bruce is past it, don't you?
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Football commentary seems to be directed towards tourists and casual observers these days rather than entrenched football fans, and Bruce is sort of leading the charge. I guess eventually references to MKR will be segued in as cross-promotion.
