Fleming used to be good but has turned into a try hard, he's about half as funny as what he thinks in his own mind. Still better than most of the knobs on 9 though.
Certified Legendary Thread The absolute brilliance that is the C9 commentary team. CC: Brad McNamara
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Chappell has his weird moments but really unfair to compare him to Warne. Warne, Slater, and KP are the 3 that come to mind that would watch their own performances. In that classic catch with Ricky Ponting, Warne talked about how he bowled it more than the catch itself. Come to think of it we don't see many Heals and Tubbs highlights (positive ones at least).
I don't agree that much with the article.
Everyone is aware of Chappell's pedigree and what he did for Australian cricket. No one is begrudging him of that. Just that his stories are just out of sync with what's happening or his style of thinking in terms of cricket is kind of outdated. A lot of things have changed from the 1970's to now in terms how sport is approached (thanks to him and the rest for starting the movement), types of players and tactics.
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If I was Taylor, I'd be pushing to have this moment entered into every classic catch segment.
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2 overs in: Mark Nicholas "Australia wouldn't want the middle order coming in at 3-50"
10 overs in: Michael Clarke "Australia's middle order has been their strength in the short form"
10 overs in: Michael Clarke "Australia's middle order has been their strength in the short form"
Those two statements aren't necessarily incompatible.
But I want to hear more stories about Les, the groundsman at the Adelaide Oval.
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Kerry O'Keeffe is trying his hand at Youtube
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the ol' commentary rant disguised as an article pops up again: http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...an-tv-cricket-commentary-20161205-gt454g.html
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It really is becoming quite pathetic from the media
Every Journo wants to try and replicate the Geoff Lemon article from the Guardian and most are failing miserably.
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It feels like we all try (including myself) to poke holes on C9 because of some bad moments (Pizza poll) and then ride with it. Other countries have it bad. Simon Doull + Ian Smith for NZ, India is just a cluster**** where Ravi Shastri even has his own Tracer Bullet competition, South Africa have a few people who are dull and have their own weird banter moments, England have Vaughan and Botham who I swear the latter doesn't even like cricket and there is Agnew who goes on about the spirit of the game, West Indies don't even have Holding for their own matches, Pakistan has Rameez Raja and Wasim Akram. Sri Lanka and B'Desh don't get enough coverage.
Every country has its flaws. We just love to poke holes on ours like Chappeli's old stories which I have bagged out, or Healy just mismashing words or stupid polls or Slats going fanboy or Clarke sounding like he is reciting lines for a video game.
So yeah kind of over the articles. Geoff Lemon did a great piece. These are just horribad.
The comments on the article are x100 worse than here in BF.
We just be grateful than the C9 commentators at least will call out Australian players. Indians can't. Where is Harsha Bhogle anyway?
Every country has its flaws. We just love to poke holes on ours like Chappeli's old stories which I have bagged out, or Healy just mismashing words or stupid polls or Slats going fanboy or Clarke sounding like he is reciting lines for a video game.
So yeah kind of over the articles. Geoff Lemon did a great piece. These are just horribad.
The comments on the article are x100 worse than here in BF.
We just be grateful than the C9 commentators at least will call out Australian players. Indians can't. Where is Harsha Bhogle anyway?
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It's less about how we compare to other countries than how they compare to their predecessors. It's irrelevant how bad South African commentators are, what matters is those of us old enough to remember know we can do better.
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Having lived in the UK for a couple of years I'd take their broadcasters (Sky and BBC) over the Channel 9 mob any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Whilst it is getting repetitive, it's utter dogshit that in this day and age people who are paid professionals for their knowledge fail to put the effort in to pronounce a player who has been around for the best part of a decade (how else can you say Guptill anyway, really?) and be that ignorant to mistake Matt (a reasonable successful test and ODI bowler) for Scott (domestic shield specialist journeyman opening batsman) Henry.
Would be nice if they were creative enough to come up with a new way to make their point, but the point needs to be hammered home as it's pretty pathetic we're still being subjected to this.
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Very rich coming from an NZ journo — Ian Smith is hands down the most biased commentator I have ever had the displeasure of hearing.
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Smith might be biased but he is still far less boyish and more bearable than our yobbos.
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Yeah but has anyone ever heard Ian smith commentate over in a NZ home series? One particular series when Zimbabwe had just been reinstated as a test nation and NZ started hammering them and he was going off and carrying on like they were the greatest cricket team that ever lived, poor old Zimbabwe, I think my local club could've had them 4/12 at that point too
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I think our commentators acted the same when Hayden scored 380 against them.
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As oppose to the c9 commentators and he Australian team
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Yes, 'our yobbos'.
"Smithy"?
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Benaud, lawry, Greig and Chappell were there for years, probably commentated most possible scenarios in a match, just go get rid of all the current flogs and get the blokes in the production van to play commentary from the past that matches what's happening on the field
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Ian 'Helmets' Healy. Give it away son
