Commentator likes and hates

Just for a discussion, I'll start with a few thoughts on football commentary.

Why is it compulsory to say 'on the other side of the break'?

What happened to just 'after the break'? .



When two brothers play together, please just use their names, not, for example, 'of the Travis variety'.

I hasten to add that I think we're very lucky on the SANFL Digital Pass to have some excellent callers who love the SANFL and are steeped in it.

Next season we'll add to this with some of the calls and phrases you really like.

Luckily you don't hear it as much now but my pet hate was commentators who talked of players in the plural e.g. the Rokhars, the Partingtons, the Beeches, the Youngs, the Boyds, the Harveys and so on.
I used to almost scream at the TV that there was only one of these players, why use the plural.

100% agree, rr.

It was even worse, they;d use the plural and then say something like this -

"The Partingtons, the Beeches, the Boyds, the Harveys and Barrie and Rodney Robran!"

OTOH, I always enjoyed CK, when something goes wrong with a player and the ball, saying 'physics is not his friend'.

Brayshaw annoys me when he screams into the microphone. It is too regular and repetitive.

My favourite was Denis Cometti who was very clever with his quips and phrases.

One the local front, some funny ones from years ago were the Hall, May, Aitken team. They used to bounce off each other. with some funny banter and comments from May like "Bad kicking is bad football" and from Aitken, "Comment Wally May?....No comment?....good comment!" or something like that.

And Ian Day with his "what a ball tearer" comment. That used to make me laugh.

peter marker is the best commentator we have had, he had no peer, was a great foil for the excitable ian day who was also very good

" He's kicked a sausage roll."

Scrappy wrote:
 " He's kicked a sausage roll."

Through the high diddle diddle, after the Barry Crocker of a decision from the umpire for the push in the hammer and tack"

Classic Cometti

Cometti on team selection:
In for the Cats today, David and Steve Johnson. Who better to patch up a line-up than Johnson & Johnson.

On a coaching legend:
There is something magnetic about his aura. Paul Roos should be covered in fridge magnets.

On his early career calling cricket:
1974, Australia v England at the Waca. The good old days. Literally – England all-rounder Chris Old finished with 3 wickets and 50 runs.

On Essendon’s Courtney Johns:
I remember when he debuted he had the haircut of a 400-game veteran. Unfortunately his game didn’t gel as well as his hair.

On Carlton’s struggles:
Four Blues had a chance to clear that ball. It’s what the French call esprit de goof.

On the ‘Shinboner of the Century’:
Getting past Glenn Archer is still like trying to tiptoe past Mayfair and Park Lane with hotels.

On North Melbourne’s pint-sized Brent Harvey:
He might be the only guy in the competition whose feet appear in his driver licence photo.

On Harvey again:
Three Collingwood players on top of Harvey, pleading to the umpire. I’m not sure he had prior opportunity but he’s been pinged anyway! That may have been the ultimate kangaroo court.

On a former Brisbane ruckman:
Matthew Clarke is a dinosaur thriving on climate change.

On his first meeting with Eddie McGuire:
Ed had an aura. I remember he asked his personal assistant, “Have you seen the letter opener?” and she replied, “It’s his day off.” I was impressed.

On Heath and Rhys Shaw’s tackling efforts:
Mitch Hahn found himself girt by Shaws.

On Jude Bolton’s endurance:
They’ve finally got Jude Bolton off the ground and he’s heaving like a crazed tuba player.

On Paul Hasleby’s courage:
Just wonderful courage from Paul Hasleby. He bounced off one guy and into the path of another. If you watch that replay backwards I bet it says, ‘Paul is dead’.

On Adelaide defender Nathan Bassett:
Bassett’s my man. He never takes a breather. If he was a postman I reckon he’d finish his round in 20 minutes, stopping only to bite a few dogs.

On the weather:
Plenty of cloud about. And for anyone who’s ever called a plumber that’s a rare sight – the moon is completely covered

Yes, a class above. Now we get BT and Brayshaw..

Big Phil wrote:

Scrappy wrote:
 " He's kicked a sausage roll."

Through the high diddle diddle, after the Barry Crocker of a decision from the umpire for the push in the hammer and tack"

I work hard on consciously not using phrases from other commentators in calling, but for the match this year at Noarlunga when I was privileged to have the legendary Dennis "DB" Browne alongside me, the winning goal for Norwood deserved some recognition of a caller that so many of us have called alongside and many, many more have listened to since 1969. First goal in this package below:

fatty wrote:peter marker is the best commentator we have had, he had no peer, was a great foil for the excitable ian day who was also very good

Yep good shout. That pairing was the best in my time.

Peter Marker was a good no fuss commentator that knew the game well.

It was interesting that at the height of his TV career (remembering that he used to read the news too) he walked away from it to go back to Lawyering.

Scrappy wrote:
 " He's kicked a sausage roll."

DB = Legend

And a great bloke

The commentary of the West v Centrals game was like commentary of the Queen's funeral. Except that they would have identified more people they knew at her funeral. Hilariously, Adrian Pickles incorrectly called Beech as having kicked a goal that Steele kicked, and then later called Harvey Bock as Beech saying 'I've got Beech right this time', or words to that effect. Not only did the commentary not bring anything to the game, it drained it of energy. Not good enough.

At the 1 :30 mark of this David Essex classic, he mentions the name of the best commentator Ive heard in the SANFL, he was also a star footballer

https://youtu.be/1jQmok3BcHs

Flag No.10 wrote:The commentary of the West v Centrals game was like commentary of the Queen's funeral. Except that they would have identified more people they knew at her funeral. Hilariously, Adrian Pickles incorrectly called Beech as having kicked a goal that Steele kicked, and then later called Harvey Bock as Beech saying 'I've got Beech right this time', or words to that effect. Not only did the commentary not bring anything to the game, it drained it of energy. Not good enough.

poor fella got himself in a pickle!!!