Crappy commentary, Clubs agree.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Tuco
Was it just my lack of comprehension skills, or was there in fact not a single quote from someone related to the Swans in that article.?

Just assertions that we're whingers. Oh Well.

I'll say this, however. We kicked 180pts against Richmond earlier this year and Tim Lane still called us "dour". So even when we fire on all throttles the story becomes "oh well Sydney usually are boring".

Personally I'd given up on a lot of the commentators years ago.

We are the Premiers. We are now the Hunted.

It is a quinticentially Australian thing to go for the underdog, especially if you are unbiased and are not that fussed as to which teams are playing. Commentators are obviously wanting to keep the unbiased casual viewers interested by demonising the Swans & their style of play (a stereotype, as often opposition teams are playing worse more ineffective football than us, ie Port & Essendon resorting to painful short-chipping gameplans.).

The question I have to ask is, are they doing this subconsciously? Or are they being instructed by their producers to do that to get people wanting the Swans' opponents will come back and make a game of it (ie so that they stay watching in the last quarter, so that they see the advertising after goals.)

JF

[Destructive]

This thread has reminded me that I have to turn down the sound for tomorrow's game.

[satchmopugdog]

Originally posted by Sanecow
I think you'll find that the TFL was around before the late 1980's incarnation.

I'm so old I can remember The NTFA playing The NWFU and The TFL. This is in the 60's and early 70's. They were definitely called the TFL on that funny old scoreboard on the railway wing at York Park.

One game sticks in my mind as a 17ish year old Peter Hudson was playing for the snobby TFL. Bloody southerners.

[Damien]

My father played for Glenorchy in the 1970's and 80's and in the 5 scrapbooks my grandmother kept, each Footy Record is for the TANFL. (Glenorchy won the last TANFL premiership in '85 and the first TFL Premiership in '86)

I was born in 77, so I can't comment from memory, but everything from Dad's intrastate games to his Pies games were most certainly TANFL.

Anyway, the inbred Northern teams ruined everything by abandoning Glenorchy, Clarence and North Hobart a few years ago so they wouldn't have to dare travel into the only progressive part of the state Tasmanian football is a rabble, the sport is more popular than ever, but Tasmanian football as I know it there will never be the same.

On topic however - Sydney needs a totally seperate commentary team, I think it would really help ratings. It needs to be bias and actually excite the casual viewers of the game that still (and in the most, rightly so) believe the game is way too Melbourne centric).

[Big Al]

Commentary stuff ups are not restricted to the AFL. Some years ago I saw coverage of 2 US sports commentators talking about a new rookie pitcher for the yankees. From memory this is how it went

Commentator 1: They say this guy has a hell of a fast ball. Some would say that if he pitched the ball into a car wash that it would get to the other side without getting wet

Commentator 2: Yep he would probably have the cleanest balls in the Major leagues

Suffice to say after a pause that both gentlemen could not stop giggling.

[i'm-uninformed2]

Get over yourselves you windbags

Blight is on the mark. Take, eg, the infamous Brisbane game in 05. He bagged us for kicking two goals in the firstt half and cheered us on for playing attacking footy in the second half.

In the final against Geelong, he said it would take something extraordinary for us to win.It did.

Just because someoone says we are occasionally playing poorly. . . gee, not like anyone on here ever does!!!!!!

[Gary]

Just give me Commetti, Healy & KB for every game...wit, savvy & passion...the rest are not worth "2 bob".