Album Rating: 4.0
"but hey American commentators are almost unanimously bad and obnoxious anyway"
for golf and cricket and other sports that don't matter sure but we have some good ones when it comes to real sports
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Album Rating: 4.5
Oh studio analysis, Well, here in Australia its damn near impossible watching a good quality version of the Premier League because the rights aren't even bought by Foxtel (equiv. Sky). So instead you either have to rely on hearsay or shitty online variants which otherwise lag and buffer in anything which isn't potato quality (the internet here is literally ranked around 60th in the world by way of average connection speed). So I never had much experience in the studio analysis per se, but I did watch something I think was called "Match of the Day", that show which compiles all the games or whatever, with the bloke who went into the studio in just his underpants because he had lost the bet about Leicester the season before, oh and then alan gardiner whatever the fuck his name was, sayin "eurh well IErt wuers poauer de-fendin" seemingly for every game. I thought that was quite alright ahah
Honestly you can tune into ESPN or an equivalent at any given time, it doesn't matter if it's Basketball, Baseball, Golf, NFL, Poker or what, the type of commentator the American accent allows is nearly always obnoxious. It's the type of drawl which grates and grates until your ears are fucking bleeding. I'd honestly say similar things about Australian commentators- they're all fuckwits with ridiculous bloke-y accents. The English on the other hand...
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Album Rating: 4.0
if you can't appreciate vin scully then i don't know what to tell you
and listening to a limey talk for hours on end is fucking torture
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Album Rating: 3.5
This must be the first known occurrence of an Australian lavishing praise on us Englishmen & claiming that our version of something is actually superior!
I will remember this day Piglet, thank you.
(I'm presuming you're Australian unless you just moved there...)
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Album Rating: 3.5
MOTD is alright but they just point out the blindingly obvious virtually all the time, it's an affliction which seems to be universal when it comes to football commentary unfortunately.
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Album Rating: 4.5
lmao yeah gotta give credit where its due
Yeah, full aussie, surely a traitor to my own kin by now
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Album Rating: 5.0
Dafuq is going on in this thread?! :O
Michael Holding >
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Album Rating: 4.5
oh yeah holding is also another great addition to the sky coverage, a solid, fruity jamaican twang is hard to turn down.
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Album Rating: 5.0
His voice is as mellifluous as his run up, and his analysis as sharp as his bouncer.
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Album Rating: 4.5
i particularly enjoy when he's just railing into bad bowling ahah
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Album Rating: 3.5
Baying of the Hounds kills it.
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Album Rating: 5.0
I think Holding and Gavaskar are probably the commentators most willing to be openly critical rather than diplomatic in their critiques, but Gavaskar swings from being incredibly insightful and incisive to completely banal (though not Ravi Shastri levels of bad), while Holding is never incoherent.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Tell ya what, I couldn't bear Sanjay through the AUS vs IND test series that just went by, but I can't exactly say why. Not like Michael Clarke was much better ("the bouWLahr desehrves a lourta credit ien paHtiKulaHrly, thersnodoubtaboutit").
Why isn't Harsha Bougle commentating in those stints anyway?
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Album Rating: 5.0
Don't know tbh. I rarely watch India's home series'. Crumbling pitches and nothing but spin for 30 overs on the trot. That ain't my kind of cricket.
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Album Rating: 4.5
How the fuck do you go from talking about ghost reveries to talking about cricket
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Album Rating: 5.0
Curtly Ambrose is the Mikael Akerfeldt of fast bowling.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Never heard of fast bowling or curtly ambrose
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Album Rating: 5.0
Then you should go watch Curtly's 7 for 1 demolition of Australia on youtube. It's the Ghost Reveries of cricket performances.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Piglet's profile picture is of a (legendary) ex-cricketer, that's how you go from Ghost Reveries to cricket
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Album Rating: 4.5
there used to be a cricket thread for the ashes and what not that was fun shit, should probably do that again
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