How long has it been.....

[BeeEmmAre]

Terrible timeslot Bee, same time as Before the Bounce.

I'd be happy to watch it otherwise, but the 1hr leadin to Friday nights live game in Sydney with Dunstall and Frawley is one of the better shows and sets up friday nights very nicely.

I thought the same, but mainly because I usually have a few beers on my way home from work and get home to watch the opening bounce.

I very rarely get a chance to watch Before the Bounce anyway.

However, it's a great lead-in to Friday night footy, even though I think 10.30pm, straight after the AFL finishes, might be better (or 7.30 with an 8.30 delayed start for AFL as I got used to while growing up in country NSW watching Melbourne TV - argghhh, I'm about to get shot for this one!)

[top40]

I think that Tim Lane is the most boring commentator ever. I was at the game and then went home and watched it (sad I know) and if I had not been at the game and witnessed a pretty good game and was not a diehard Swans fan then I would have thought it was boring. Tim Lane could make the most exciting game a yawn fest! Until Sydney games get decent commentators then the promotion into Sydney is a lost cause.

Without being ageist, I think Tim is sounding over the hill. He really mucked up the commentary surrounding Keiran Jack's winning goal against the Eagles, calling him initially "Maree" or did he mean "Meredith"? The goal was so important for the next few days of review TV coverage, that the Lane mistake had to be cleverly edited so the name "Jack" could be used at the instant of the goal. Sad.

[connolly]

Can't help thinking the Ch 10 team has been read the riot act by senior management. Lots of people (me included) have noted that constantly having the 10 team bagging the Swans as being boring, ugly, only ever mentioning flooding when the ball is in our defensive area, etc wasn't going to encourage the locals into watching the coverage and with Foxtel often providing a simulcast there has been a drop in ratings for 10. Methinks they've been told to be a bit less critical this year and that's what we've seen recently.

The fact that we are no longer the competition's power team is probably the reason. Normal programming of football, according to the suburban Melbourne media mentality has been resumed, ie dominant Melbourne clubs. The VFL centric media on 10 basically provides a type of verbal musak background noise for the game (superficial analysists, spout stats - which for the truely ignorant passes for conceptualising about the game and basically just churn out a boorish bar room babble) In this regard Hudson has be the worst commentator of all time. He constantly mixes bias, gratutious opinions and basically commentates for the blind. Jeez Huddo its the tele FFS! He provides nothing of the colour, context and particularly fails to commentate the off the ball movement. AFL being such an expansive game is really artificially confined by the small screen. So it is important for commentators to describe not just the immediate on ball contest (name of player, the action, mistakes etc) but the flow of the game. For example who is standing off the packs, where is the movement up field, what strategies are being used by the teams. Because the Bloods play a high pressure one on one style which does lead to fierce on ball contests and many stoppages, it becomes a really really repitative boring commentary to just describe the on ball contest. His commentary lacks imagination, insight and real vision of the game. He and most of 10 commentators commentate a kick behind the game. Good commentators are anticipatory and appreciative of the subtleties of the thinking in the sport. But not Hudson who just shrieks like a mattress actress in a porn flick. He fails totally to communicate what can't be seen on the screen. His bitch slapped squealing when the little champ Davis (Nick Davis, Nick Davis, Nick Davis! - sounded like an old 45 with a stuck needle) sunk his favourite team in 2005 was hardly inspirational commentary. He could for instance gone with " one small snap for Davis but one big step for the Bloods - into history!") His "? see it but i don't believe it" is a classic of stating the bleeding obvious. We all saw it because its television Huddo. What he really meant was ? see it but I can't communicate the drama, soaring climax of a heart stopping moment, so I'll just scream". Good commentators can analyse and deconstruct climaxes not just have them. He is an adolescent Dayrrrrl Eastlake. At least Big Dazza boomed it out. Hudson shouts and squeaks. The mouse that shreiks.

[reigning premier]

Terrible timeslot Bee, same time as Before the Bounce.

I'd be happy to watch it otherwise, but the 1hr leadin to Friday nights live game in Sydney with Dunstall and Frawley is one of the better shows and sets up friday nights very nicely.

I thought the same, but mainly because I usually have a few beers on my way home from work and get home to watch the opening bounce.

I very rarely get a chance to watch Before the Bounce anyway.

However, it's a great lead-in to Friday night footy, even though I think 10.30pm, straight after the AFL finishes, might be better (or 7.30 with an 8.30 delayed start for AFL as I got used to while growing up in country NSW watching Melbourne TV - argghhh, I'm about to get shot for this one!)

Go the IQ box!

[Triple B]

Go the IQ box!

I've got 2 Foxtel boxes so that's not the issue, but I'm not so desperate to watch BMR's show that I'd record it and watch it later.

If it had no opposition as a lead-in to a game (Saturday night at 6 or Sunday at Midday for instance) I'd watch it, but I enjoy Before the Game and I won't bother recording the local game to watch later.

Just pointing out that for Nthn viewers who get Friday nights game live at 7:30 every Friday night, the head to head clash with Before the Game does BMR's game no favours.

[satchmopugdog]

Bless. For me they are the "&^%$*#@ blind" maggot, the ""&^%$*#@ idiot" maggot and the ""&^%$*#@ useless" maggot.

I just call them ex-husbands...that covers all those words.