Brian Taylor and Luke Darcy are you for real ?

[ledge]

So I need to get this off my chest ..
Taylor after telling us Gia is subbed on for Dickson, two seconds later tells us Williams is subbed off for Gia.
At halftime both claiming Williams has torn his hamstring real bad and after halftime Williams is in the back line then goes forward and kicks a goal where Taylor claims he has been told to sit in the square .
The bias of Melbourne and how good they are even though we lead 99% of the game.
The prosecution of jones, hung, drawn and quartered even telling us how many games he will miss due to it .
The bias of Viney being held all the time and good to see the umpires not letting it go when Jones was held everytime he approached the ball.
Darcy I was the last I would have expected to be as bias as Taylor.
Both are as bad as Macavaney who jumps on whoever is winning at the time ...
Please bring in the ABC VFL commentators and stop with the bias loves for clubs of the moment and just commentate.

[ledge]

Re: Brian Taylor and Luke Darcy are you for real ?

Forgot to add Taylor calling johannison Morris and Macrae and others the wrong names and they don't even look like the players he was confusing them with !

[Scorlibo]

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Totally agree ledge, it felt like the whole game they were looking at things from the Melbourne perspective. The calls on the Jones hit really irritated me, especially whilst seeing Viney running around out there.

Please bring in the ABC VFL commentators and stop with the bias loves for clubs of the moment and just commentate.

Can't agree with this though! They'd need to learn the players' names first. Gerald Fitzgerald still has a serious man crush on Brett Goodes from his North Ballarat days and the other bloke couldn't stop talking about Bontempelli.

[westbulldog]

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Also the biased telecast on 7Mate exclusively cut to shots of Melbourne supporters only. Did anyone hear Matthew Richardson's derogatory comment about Crameri in the last quarter ?

[Dogmatic]

Re: Brian Taylor and Luke Darcy are you for real ?

Forgot to add Taylor calling johannison Morris and Macrae and others the wrong names and they don't even look like the players he was confusing them with !

^so true

[AndrewP6]

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I muted the tv and put the radio on, far less annoying.

[bulldogtragic]

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I was getting frustrated with the whole reporting the percentages of what voters thought rather than them having an opinion.

[always right]

Re: Brian Taylor and Luke Darcy are you for real ?

Also the biased telecast on 7Mate exclusively cut to shots of Melbourne supporters only.

To be fair they were probably struggling to find a group of bulldogs supporters last night.

[always right]

Re: Brian Taylor and Luke Darcy are you for real ?

Forgot to add Taylor calling johannison Morris and Macrae and others the wrong names and they don't even look like the players he was confusing them with !

Taylor was even worse last week in the bombers game. In one passage of play in the centre he claimed the umpires missed four consecutive frees and they were all in our favour. Watching the match back, it was obvious that none of them were free kicks. He is a tool of the highest order.

[jeemak]

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I have absolutely no doubt the commentators are provided with a narrative to follow, which they do to earn their pay cheques.

Last night's narrative was about Paul Roos' good work in improving Melbourne's structure, and the quality emerging at the MFC. The AFL needs MFC to return on their significant investment and people getting behind them. I'm not so sure they need or want the same thing from the Bulldogs, and I think it's reflected within the narrative of the game.

[GVGjr]

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I muted the tv and put the radio on, far less annoying.

I went to the game but will often do that as well if I don't like the TV commentators.

[SonofScray]

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I have absolutely no doubt the commentators are provided with a narrative to follow, which they do to earn their pay cheques.

Last night's narrative was about Paul Roos' good work in improving Melbourne's structure, and the quality emerging at the MFC. The AFL needs MFC to return on their significant investment and people getting behind them. I'm not so sure they need or want the same thing from the Bulldogs, and I think it's reflected within the narrative of the game.

Absolutely they do. It is an integral part of sports as entertainment. What they fail to realise is that sport is entertaining in its own right and is worse off for all this clap trap. Interestingly, Plough was on SEN yesterday around lunch and touched on the idea of narrative and influence from stakeholders over entertainment value, he was adamant that we were treated poorly in the media and by the League for being an unsociable team in that 97 era. I hate sounding paranoid, but they are out to make money and we do not factor into their thinking around generating big dollars. We're the filler.

I didn't rate Darcy's potting of Crameri on the replay, questioned his toughness a few times and then really took him to task for an act of frustration (which was reasonable but over analysed). I don't enjoy his media work at all.

[soupman]

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I didn't rate Darcy's potting of Crameri on the replay, questioned his toughness a few times and then really took him to task for an act of frustration (which was reasonable but over analysed). I don't enjoy his media work at all.

It's a shame that Darcy as a club legend has to be such a tool as a commentator. He makes stupid statements just generally all the time but on top of this I have rarely if ever heard him say something positive about us. I guess he contrasts well with Johnno.

[LostDoggy]

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Johnno was a bulldogs supporter before he was a player, club hero, club legend and then my idol. The man breathes, sweats and pees red, white and blue. That's why I love him as a commentator. He's the Odin of the dogs

[Danny the snakeman]

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Darcy is just an embarrassment, he's worse on Talking footy.