Just an FYI, It's Greg Clark. There's no E on the end.
Worst Commentator Pole Action
- Thread starter Dismal Pillock
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tigerland12
John Thornett (49)
Who voted Marshall! I actually love listening to his commentary.
Scoey
Tony Shaw (54)
Probably a Kiwi. I understand he is not well liked over there although I don't know why. He would be one of my favourites (with the exception of those awkward pieces to camera he does, bantering with Kearns or someone before a Bled game or whatever to try and generate interest).
EatSleepDrinkRuck
Larry Dwyer (12)
Some poor bastards don't have Kiwi mates to banter with.
boyo
Mark Ella (57)
terry j
Ron Walden (29)
double fixed
Bullrush
John Hipwell (52)
Re: Justin Marshall - Sometimes it's hard to seperate the ex-player from the commentator. I always thought he was a bit over-rated as a player not to mention his whining when he went overseas and kept talking about picking overseas-based players for the ABs. Like he would have been selected anyway?!
Plus he was a Crusader....LOL
Plus he was a Crusader....LOL
The Red Baron
Chilla Wilson (44)
This made me think of Darryl Eastlake. No matter what he was commentating, he was always over the top.
Kudos to him for tricking people into believing that Olympic swimming is exciting to watch on tv though.
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No4918
John Hipwell (52)
Had voted Kearns but have changed my mind after last nights game. Definitely not the worst out there when not calling the Tahs.
Maloney is hard to listen to, there is little to no flow to his calls. They need to keep him and Marto separated and things might be better. The call they both did of the Force and Rebels game was one of the worst I have heard. Hopefully he improves.
Maloney is hard to listen to, there is little to no flow to his calls. They need to keep him and Marto separated and things might be better. The call they both did of the Force and Rebels game was one of the worst I have heard. Hopefully he improves.
Dismal Pillock
Simon Poidevin (60)
Andrew Mehrtens coming to grips with comm box very quickly. Although a bit embarrassing his level of abject creeping terror regarding any physical contact. "Oh God, look away, oh no, I'm not looking at that".
Maybe he needs Josh Kronfeld up there to chaperone him around the commentary box as well. "You can look now Mehrts."
Maybe he needs Josh Kronfeld up there to chaperone him around the commentary box as well. "You can look now Mehrts."
Tomikin
Simon Poidevin (60)
Gregan in the Brumbies v Reds games had a shocker he said Jack Tomane followed by skipping Robbie Coleman and then called Andrew Smith, Aaron Smith... then to top it off he wished Larkham and Horwill good luck against the bye ... like they could lose.. I love George but jesus he was off Friday
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wamberal
Phil Kearns (64)
I don't mind a few mistakes. What I do mind is the almost total lack of any insight or analysis by Australian commentators. Clarke is, allegedly, the senior commentator. He is probably the worst of the bunch, all he does is describe in simple terms what we can see with our own eyes. Player A runs into contact, no way through there, gets tackled, player B passes the ball, no way through there, and on and on and bloody on.
The only bit of depth that he brings is to talk about records. This will be the Force's 5th win in a row, if they make it, blah blah blah, and other trivia like that.
We watched the Cheetahs Crusaders game, I know that some do not like the Saffer commentators, but at least they give the viewer some actual information, and make a bit of analytical comment that adds to the value of the vision which we can all see perfectly well, thanks very much Clarkey for your never-ending, boring, childish, simplistic, descriptions of the bleeding obvious.
I always resort to turning the volume right down. When the tests come around, we will watch the TEN telecast, even with the commercials. The commentary quality, not great, but better, makes up for that.
The only bit of depth that he brings is to talk about records. This will be the Force's 5th win in a row, if they make it, blah blah blah, and other trivia like that.
We watched the Cheetahs Crusaders game, I know that some do not like the Saffer commentators, but at least they give the viewer some actual information, and make a bit of analytical comment that adds to the value of the vision which we can all see perfectly well, thanks very much Clarkey for your never-ending, boring, childish, simplistic, descriptions of the bleeding obvious.
I always resort to turning the volume right down. When the tests come around, we will watch the TEN telecast, even with the commercials. The commentary quality, not great, but better, makes up for that.
That was bizarre. After he got Tomane's name wrong, he was a basket case for the next 30 seconds. It was like he had some sort of conniption.
Tomikin
Simon Poidevin (60)
I think Kafes a good un, his very insightful with what he says and is a bias towards the brumbies but always corrects with a joke about the bias. He stays out of the forward stuff as he was a back. I would really like Kearns to explain a bit more about scrums and how they work. Heard Benny A on the podcast and read some Dan Palmer articles and they explained a bit of information around the forces and the tactics and why stuff happens and it showed me just how wrong some of the comments are a scrum time..
If Kearns stopped playing a fool and gave some insight even briefly itd go a long way.. even a session like Kafa runs on defence plays..
Not the.. oh dont know what the ref called there. Gis turning in.. he went straight up ...
Im sure we'd all love him in front of a monitor showing how and why the reds got a TH push over try
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If Kearns stopped playing a fool and gave some insight even briefly itd go a long way.. even a session like Kafa runs on defence plays..
Not the.. oh dont know what the ref called there. Gis turning in.. he went straight up ...
Im sure we'd all love him in front of a monitor showing how and why the reds got a TH push over try
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wamberal
Phil Kearns (64)
When I first started watching the Soup, I was flabbergasted at how little of substance Kearns had to say about anything at all, but particularly about scrums. He never, ever, had anything analytical to say, at all. Ever. All he went on about was how wonderful scrums are, the highlight of the game, and other juvenile nonsense like that. He has improved slightly over the years, but still says virtually nothing of substance.
This is a former world cup winning hooker and Australian captain. I suppose all we can say is, the game has changed a lot since he played (and it has, particularly in the tight), and he really does know nothing about today's scrums. But the appalling thing is, to me, he shows absolutely no sign of wanting to learn more, and share with us, his patient viewers.
At least the Martin/Kearns schoolboy hollering has been removed.