Commentators
Footy clubs are always changing over their lists in order to improve. They turn over the dead wood and bring fresh players from outside. If a player is blantantly not up to it, other clubs dont tend to pick them up.
Why isnt the same standard imposed for commentators? For example on saturday Tony Shaw not once, but twice, referred to a players 'second sense'. Now I dont know about Tony but I have four senses and I dont know how far I'd get as a player, or in life, if I only used one of them. Tony also mentioned that it might be time for the swans to start using tactics and this was in the third quarter! Had they just been running atround like headless chooks until then? What was John Longmire doing with the headset in the first half? Taking orders at the McDonalds drive through presumably.
I also heard a peice of play where Harbrow went to Lynch who kicked it across to Faulkner-the commentery went something like "Harbrow to the his fellow first gamer who kicks it to another one"-another what? First gamer, Aboriginal? Bulldog player? What?
David Parkin, who I've always had a lot of time for, really struggled and at one stage in the third quarter waffled on about players not even playing being involved in the play.
I dont even want to mention Dwayne Russell's commentary, except to say it was abysmal.
Why do we see the same tired, old faces-and voices-year after year
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.