Yep Fox will call all games including 7’s next year, can’t wait.
SEN Sync is a godsend too, Hutchy is an irresponsible businessman and burns money on 50 million stations no one listens to, but that feature is the best thing from SEN in recent times
Opinion Radio/TV Commentary, (Is Luke Hodge The Worst?)
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SEN Sync is a godsend too, Hutchy is an irresponsible businessman and burns money on 50 million stations no one listens to, but that feature is the best thing from SEN in recent times
The death of Clinton Grybas IMO changed the direction of footy commentary forever, back when he was calling, all the major play by play callers were rarely former players. If he was still with us he’d be leading either Fox or Seven today, and we would have more like him and Huddo and not BT
And the insane thing with BT is that before he went to Seven, he was pretty good on Fox and Nine. Maybe that was down to him calling once a week
Old Fox Footy had that feature over 20 years ago. Remember Footy Active? It was awesome. You could turn off commentary and just hear the crowds and umps. Yet with better tech nowadays we can’t do that with Kayo
Yeah that was fantastic hey!! Showing my age hah.
Id love to be able to crank it up with better sound system nowadays and have no commentary.
Heck i even loved press red for ed in those few biased pie games that were done. Maybe we should be the first club to have our own broadcast team, like the NBA does
Clinton , that was bloody sad. Loved his work , knew his stuff!
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Agree about BT, he was a good caller. Makes it even more frustrating knowing he can do it if he wants to.
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Luke Hodge should never be allowed to commentate another Collingwood match.
He cannot hide his hatred for us. It’s a visceral hatred I haven’t seen from other commentators in the past.
He cannot hide his hatred for us. It’s a visceral hatred I haven’t seen from other commentators in the past.
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I don’t remember what play it was maybe the Sullivan play but Hodge made a comment like, well if they paid the running too far last week we (pies supporters) should put up with that last call against us.very bitter and twisted human.
I really hope next year Huddo leads Fox in Thursday and Friday nights with Howie. Matt Hill (rookie of the year) and Dwayne can do the big Saturday games. Bucks can sit in the studio and not go near a game he’s terrible. Jack is very good for a noob and Derm as usual is Derm love him or hate him, personally I love his special comments.
As for Sen the quicker they sack Corn the better the station will be.
Let’s hope the new broadcast agreement also lets Fox call finals otherwise it’s years of BT spoiling the GF and Fox left to twiddle their fingers during the actual game. I always hoped they’d do the game live with their team not broadcast it because they can’t but all replays of the GF are their team.
I really hope next year Huddo leads Fox in Thursday and Friday nights with Howie. Matt Hill (rookie of the year) and Dwayne can do the big Saturday games. Bucks can sit in the studio and not go near a game he’s terrible. Jack is very good for a noob and Derm as usual is Derm love him or hate him, personally I love his special comments.
As for Sen the quicker they sack Corn the better the station will be.
Let’s hope the new broadcast agreement also lets Fox call finals otherwise it’s years of BT spoiling the GF and Fox left to twiddle their fingers during the actual game. I always hoped they’d do the game live with their team not broadcast it because they can’t but all replays of the GF are their team.
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Apart from his obvious bias, he has the customary terrible voice that Channel 7 must have as its major criterion in selecting " experts". There are probably only two worse voices in the football media and that is saying something when we have the likes of Shaun Burgoyne and Nathan Jones. Kelli "raucous" Underwood and Garry " mumbles" Lyon.
He was ****ing disgraceful. Having to listen to that shit is like when you go to the footy and some loud opposition nuffie is sitting directly behind you shouting out absolute bullshit every 5 seconds and you have to put up with it cause there is nowhere else to go. Please footy media give us somewhere else to go.
TradeDraft
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Just want to Punch Him and his Anti-Collingwood Commentating
This thread is giving me ideas, I should market a Luke hodge pinata
I’d rather whack the real thing
Yes I detected that too. As I recall, after "the decision" (free against Schultz for not handing the ball back), the commentary team was collectively quiet for a moment or 2, before Hodge said something like "I have no words" in a disbelieving voice.
It was no secret that Peter Landy was an avid Hawthorn man. He tried to remain neutral when calling their games, but didn't always succeed. I noticed he would either adopt a patronising tone towards the opposing team when the Hawks were dominating (which they often did in the 70s and 80s), or when the Hawks weren't playing well and looked like losing, he would make sarcastic comments about the Hawk players - rather like a supporter in the outer commentating the game.
For all that, he wasn't too bad a commentator and certainly light years ahead of Hodge.
Time to ditch hodge and bring back the soothing vocal tones of Terry Wallace
Should stick to the commercials, oh hang on, he’s sh&t at them as well.
I agree with most of the posts on this thread.
He’s a “special comments” guy.
Problem is, all his special comments are always criticising a player or team that should’ve done this, or should’ve done that.
Only things that come out of his mouth are negative. Rarely applauds a player for good play, just critiques their direct opponent who was unfortunate to lose the contest.
Needs to be a shake up of the commentary team on ch 7. This gerbil Hodge has to go.
He’s a “special comments” guy.
Problem is, all his special comments are always criticising a player or team that should’ve done this, or should’ve done that.
Only things that come out of his mouth are negative. Rarely applauds a player for good play, just critiques their direct opponent who was unfortunate to lose the contest.
Needs to be a shake up of the commentary team on ch 7. This gerbil Hodge has to go.
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He’s terrible. Impossible to listen too and adds nothing.
