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Crazy Horse

@tim said in Rugby Commentators:

The relentless negativity of Jeff Wilson. He needs to go.

Someone should invite him to post on the Fern - he sounds like he'd fit in, with massive scope to choose from...

The commentators suck
The players suck
The players brains definitely suck
The coaches suck
The referees suck
The Laws suck
The jerseys suck
The stadia suck
The stadia food and drinks suck
The music sucks
Modern rugby sucks!!!

Things have been really negative around here for a while now when it comes to rugby. Seems worse than normal. Are we getting older and grumpier, or does rugby actually suck at the moment?

Snowy

@crazy-horse said in Rugby Commentators:

@chris-b said in Rugby Commentators:

@tim said in Rugby Commentators:

The relentless negativity of Jeff Wilson. He needs to go.

Someone should invite him to post on the Fern - he sounds like he'd fit in, with massive scope to choose from...

The commentators suck
The players suck
The players brains definitely suck
The coaches suck
The referees suck
The Laws suck
The jerseys suck
The stadia suck
The stadia food and drinks suck
The music sucks
Modern rugby sucks!!!

Things have been really negative around here for a while now when it comes to rugby. Seems worse than normal. Are we getting older and grumpier, or does rugby actually suck at the moment?

Probably all that you mention is correct but we have a contest, that isn't a contest, doesn't help. The whole point of top level sport is a match up. Depending on how you define match. I like this one:
a person or thing that is equal to another in quality or strength.

Tim

@crazy-horse said in Rugby Commentators:

Things have been really negative around here for a while now when it comes to rugby. Seems worse than normal. Are we getting older and grumpier, or does rugby actually suck at the moment?

AB's have underwhelmed for several years, lots of top players have left and most squads are a bit thin, and the Crusaders have dominated for years. Not a lot to be enthusiastic about for most posters.

rotated

@chris-b said in Rugby Commentators:

@tim said in Rugby Commentators:

The relentless negativity of Jeff Wilson. He needs to go.

Someone should invite him to post on the Fern - he sounds like he'd fit in, with massive scope to choose from...

The commentators suck
The players suck
The players brains definitely suck
The coaches suck
The referees suck
The Laws suck
The jerseys suck
The stadia suck
The stadia food and drinks suck
The music sucks
Modern rugby sucks!!!

However, the Blacks Caps don't suck.

The fern has changed a bit. Possibly become accurate?

Bovidae

@bones said in Rugby Commentators:

Fucken hell I am so fucking sick of kiwi commentators not knowing the laws and then moaning about the ref playing to the laws.

You were an AB tight forward Kane, how do you not understand must stay connected?

Especially as Hames is a ref himself. He seems happy to criticise other refs in commentary though.

Mackerzzzz

@siam said in Rugby Commentators:

Swannell is the new bench mark for the game calling role. Clear, accurate and comprehensive with names and adds apt adjectives to what we can see for ourselves. Good at her job.

Yeah the only one who is not painfull to listen to

raznomore

I like Swannell I thinks she's great. I like Laban as well even though he's a Wainui man...but that fact he is Polynesian and knows how to pronounce the names added to this, his call is accurate, he's not an excitable fan boy and doesn't try to insert "boomfa" or "I take Umbrage with that call", he's the voice for me.

*Fixed lol

Crucial

@raznomore said in Rugby Commentators:

I like Swannell I thinks she's great. I like Laban as well even though he's a Wainui man...but that fact he is Polynesian and knows how to pronounce the names added to the fact his call is accurate, not an excitable fan boy and doesn't try to insert "boomfa" or "I take Umbridge with that call" are major pluses for me.

The only umbrage I take with Laban is that he mixes his league and union language.

Bones

@crucial like?

Mackerzzzz

I'll tell you a real good way of fixing nz commentators. Sack every one we have at the moment and bring in acc and leigh hart

Crucial

@mackerzzzz said in Rugby Commentators:

I'll tell you a real good way of fixing nz commentators. Sack every one we have at the moment and bring in acc and leigh hart

Shirley, you are taking the piss.

Crucial

@bones said in Rugby Commentators:

@crucial like?

I know a lot of the language used by coaches etc has become the same between codes (eg 'second man play') but until Laban started on TV I had never heard it used commonly. Union used 'skip', 'miss', 'cut out', 'on the cut' etc) Laban is the only one that uses 'second man'all the time.
I also assume (and may be wrong) that 'short blind' is a league term. If not it still annoys me. It's the short side or the blind side. I could understand if he only said it when there was a narrow blindside to work but he says 'short blind' for any blind side move.

Kruse

@mackerzzzz said in Rugby Commentators:

I'll tell you a real good way of fixing nz commentators. Sack every one we have at the moment and bring in acc and leigh hart

Fuck. Off.
Ever tried running backwards through a field of dicks?
Or chowing down on a bowl of cold flaccid dicks?
Fuck.
Leigh Hart couldn't commentate an order at the pub. Christ, he can hardly speak.
And the ACC - are typically of mild amusement for approximately 5 minutes. After that... well, it's just the first 5 minutes on a repeat loop anyway, with rapidly diminishing returns with each re-hashed lame joke.
Fuck. Leigh Hart and the ACC. Off.

mariner4life

@kruse said in Rugby Commentators:

@mackerzzzz said in Rugby Commentators:

I'll tell you a real good way of fixing nz commentators. Sack every one we have at the moment and bring in acc and leigh hart

Fuck. Off.
Ever tried running backwards through a field of dicks?
Or chowing down on a bowl of cold flaccid dicks?
Fuck.
Leigh Hart couldn't commentate an order at the pub. Christ, he can hardly speak.
And the ACC - are typically of mild amusement for approximately 5 minutes. After that... well, it's just the first 5 minutes on a repeat loop, with rapidly diminishing returns with each re-hashed lame joke.
Fuck. Leigh Hart and the ACC. Off.

i really like you

Kruse

@mariner4life said in Rugby Commentators:

@kruse said in Rugby Commentators:

@mackerzzzz said in Rugby Commentators:

I'll tell you a real good way of fixing nz commentators. Sack every one we have at the moment and bring in acc and leigh hart

Fuck. Off.
Ever tried running backwards through a field of dicks?
Or chowing down on a bowl of cold flaccid dicks?
Fuck.
Leigh Hart couldn't commentate an order at the pub. Christ, he can hardly speak.
And the ACC - are typically of mild amusement for approximately 5 minutes. After that... well, it's just the first 5 minutes on a repeat loop, with rapidly diminishing returns with each re-hashed lame joke.
Fuck. Leigh Hart and the ACC. Off.

i really like you

Awww, shucks.

Crucial

Stuff like the ACC is an extended version of morning radio jocks that have to host a show in groups so that someone is there to provide laughter.
Flashes of humour but mostly circle jerking.

MN5

@kruse said in Rugby Commentators:

@mackerzzzz said in Rugby Commentators:

I'll tell you a real good way of fixing nz commentators. Sack every one we have at the moment and bring in acc and leigh hart

Fuck. Off.
Ever tried running backwards through a field of dicks?
Or chowing down on a bowl of cold flaccid dicks?
Fuck.
Leigh Hart couldn't commentate an order at the pub. Christ, he can hardly speak.
And the ACC - are typically of mild amusement for approximately 5 minutes. After that... well, it's just the first 5 minutes on a repeat loop anyway, with rapidly diminishing returns with each re-hashed lame joke.
Fuck. Leigh Hart and the ACC. Off.

I must say I was expecting this rant and it didn’t disappoint.

KiwiMurph

Another vote for Swannell - reminds me of a good ref in that you don't really notice her - just calls the game without an agenda or without a grating voice.

Siam

@crucial thanks, for years I didn't know what second man play meant. I just thought it was 2nd receiver dying with the ball to set up a pod or cut back in.
So it literally just means skip pass?
What a waste of syllables.

Gotta go, I've got so much work to do today that I think I'll "second man play" lunch. Madness

booboo

@crucial said in Rugby Commentators:

@bones said in Rugby Commentators:

@crucial like?

I know a lot of the language used by coaches etc has become the same between codes (eg 'second man play') but until Laban started on TV I had never heard it used commonly. Union used 'skip', 'miss', 'cut out', 'on the cut' etc) Laban is the only one that uses 'second man'all the time.
I also assume (and may be wrong) that 'short blind' is a league term. If not it still annoys me. It's the short side or the blind side. I could understand if he only said it when there was a narrow blindside to work but he says 'short blind' for any blind side move.

Edges
Francis Douglas Memorial College
Insert other school name here
Mis-pronunciation of non Polynesian names

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