Football Commentators

[jeemak]

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Thanks. Amazing they could find someone to out bogan Mark Ricciuto.

[The Adelaide Connection]

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Mark Soderstram?? Never heard of him... was he a former local SANFL player or something??

Yeah he played 100+ in the SANFL for Sturt and North Adelaide I think. Has been involved in local news and sport for a long time (including SANFL broadcasts). He’s measured, knowledgeable, and unbiased. They could do a hell of a lot worse than pick him up for the AFL full time.

[azabob]

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Mark Soderstram?? Never heard of him... was he a former local SANFL player or something??

And I half reckon that is why Wanganeen was on the coverage last night as Victorians would know his face.

Channel 7 probably thought it was actually a good idea to have more than just one person at the actual ground - normally it would add to the viewer experience, but as per normal it did not.

Last nights converge was probably the worst it has been all year. Taylor and McAvaney going tit for tat all night on how many shots at goal Tom Hawkins had.

I seriously didn't see Dangerfield in the second quarter, yet Bruce thought he was huge...

"Sodas" was probably the best performed of them all.

[Topdog]

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Last nights converge was probably the worst it has been all year. Taylor and McAvaney going tit for tat all night on how many shots at goal Tom Hawkins had.

I seriously didn't see Dangerfield in the second quarter, yet Bruce thought he was huge...
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It really was absolutely terrible.

Danger did 1 thing in the 2nd quarter - tried to break through a player and got pinged for holding the ball. Bruce and BT celebrated how good it was by Danger.....

[ledge]

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They kept saying soders and i was thinking who is Soders ?
Didn’t big Rex get turfed partly due to nicknames ?
Bruce drives me insane with his “Duck “ and “BT” all the time, how do the AFL expand to other countries using nicknames no one would understand ?

[Twodogs]

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That's him. Didn't realise he was charged with assault, I thought he got the knife from C7 because he was so bad at his job.

It probably was him being bad at his job because he would be the first bloke taken off air by C7 for assaulting a woman.

Didn’t big Rex get turfed partly due to nicknames ?

I thought it was because he made up that BS story about being attacked by a "bunch of youths" in Byron Bay when it turned out that Rex and his sons started the trouble themselves. Or his career might have been on the ropes (because in reality he wasn't very good. He didn't actually call the game, just shouted a lot and used indecipherable nicknames) and the Byron thing was the KO blow.

[Twodogs]

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At 3/4 time they showed some vision of Vlastian zoning off his direct opponent to make a 2 on 1 contest with a Richmond player and Rayner (?). Only problem was that Cameron who Vlastian had zoned off ended up with the ball and waltzed into an open goal. There's a glorious moment where Carey after waxing lyrical about how defensive units have to work as a team adds something like "of course the danger is you can leave your direct opponent to do that"

[SquirrelGrip]

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At 3/4 time they showed some vision of Vlastian zoning off his direct opponent to make a 2 on 1 contest with a Richmond player and Rayner (?). Only problem was that Cameron who Vlastian had zoned off ended up with the ball and waltzed into an open goal. There's a glorious moment where Carey after waxing lyrical about how defensive units have to work as a team adds something like "of course the danger is you can leave your direct opponent to do that"

It was Grimes they were showing. Left Cameron all alone and Wooshka!

[jeemak]

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It probably was him being bad at his job because he would be the first bloke taken off air by C7 for assaulting a woman.



I thought it was because he made up that BS story about being attacked by a "bunch of youths" in Byron Bay when it turned out that Rex and his sons started the trouble themselves. Or his career might have been on the ropes (because in reality he wasn't very good. He didn't actually call the game, just shouted a lot and used indecipherable nicknames) and the Byron thing was the KO blow.

I implore everyone to take in this piece of Australiana.

[Twodogs]

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Were the bits that were cut out referring to Bali? Stay classy Rex.

[EasternWest]

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Yeah he feels very much like they pulled someone from the crowd.

Jobe Watson is also not very good, and showed it last night. Also did a weird big explanation at halftime about why the umpire should be bouncing the ball in the middle of the ruck circle and not off to the side which was worth commenting on I guess but I doubt the audience required the lecture on how the idea was for it to be fair for both rucks (I mean it's pretty self explantory).

Jobe Watson sucks. He's the suckiest suck that ever did suck.

His evidence manifest of the channel 7 nepotist boys club.

[ledge]

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The great man Dennis Cometti as a bulldog!

[azabob]

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The great man Dennis Cometti as a bulldog!

I remember as a kid (under 12) that I couldn't stand him, and I asked my Nan who he played for and she mentioned for the bulldogs but not very long - this did not make me happy at all.

Funnily in my late teens and early 20's I started to appreciate Dennis Committi commentary and wore it as a badge of honor he played for the dogs!

[ledge]

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I remember as a kid (under 12) that I couldn't stand him, and I asked my Nan who he played for and she mentioned for the bulldogs but not very long - this did not make me happy at all.

Funnily in my late teens and early 20's I started to appreciate Dennis Committi commentary and wore it as a badge of honor he played for the dogs!

Great commentator and treated the game as it should have been, enjoyed with quirky little statements that made you smile at least.
Those days are gone now with commentators too busy complimenting each other, putting up their past achievements every time they come on as a claim to being an expert which doesn’t actually mean you can commentate !

[ledge]

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Not a commentator but our very own Stevo who had borrowed a pair of my freinds glasses to walk around the crowd at Whitten Oval , not sure if it was leading up to the preliminary final or grand final.