While on Zempilas, I find him the most predictable, boring caller in the game. Does not have the slightest insight into the game...keeps telling us what we are looking at. Callers need some insight, some perceptions of trends, some vision beyond the man with the ball...oh, and, in his case, a better understanding of the rules.
Funny you should say that. I watched the game with a friend last night and we were saying the same thing. At one stage the ball was bouncing along next to the boundary line and the incredibly insightful call was "the ball is bouncing...bouncing...bouncing....". We were reminded of Ritchie Benaud's comments once when asked what the secret to good commentary was, when he replied along the lines of "dont tell the audience what they can already see" and "if there is nothing to say, then dont say anything".
I prefer Zempilas to any other commentator who talks about anything except the game that's actually going on in front of them. Some commentators seem to think they are there to entertain the viewers while a football game goes on in the background.
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No game day on 7mate this morning? The v8s are on
It's on at 1.30pm instead ...
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Listening to SEN today, which I rarely do, because I'm in Sydney, I heard one of the talking heads say (about the Swans) :
They have no injuries at the moment, just Jarred Rohan
Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong, as Wolfgang Pauli would have said.
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Go easy on the commentators guys... They did bring Jarryd McVeigh into the box to give us all insight on the game.
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