BBC online commentary

[Plechazunga]

Used to be fantastic - good knowledge of the game and the odd splash of wit

Whoever's doing it, it's gone to his head. Gags the entire time are no longer funny, it was the context of dry commentary that made the funny bits funny. Things like this...

"Lee, as Jack Lemmon once said of Marilyn Monroe, is like jello on springs as he bounces towards the crease. He also has a similar thatch to Monroe, but far smaller breasts." - feck off, if I wanted a fecking pantomime I'd go to one.

It also sounds incredibly plummy, which is irritating.

And what's with the pro-English chauvinism? This is the fecking BBC, leave that no-mark shit to the Aussies, I know who I support, I want a neutral commentary and a bit of analysis, with a muted subtext of stoical despair the only hint that it's the BBC.

And that includes player nicknames...bit too much "Cooky" and "Straussy" stuff going on...John Arlott would be turning in his grave. Time was, he'd've been called "Mr. Cook" in the papers.

The only thing I really like are the quotations from proper commentators, especially Boycott:

"If I were Strauss now, I'd be stood in front of the mirror in the dressing room saying 'you stupid idiot'."
Geoffrey Boycott on TMS




cnuts

 

[ManUinOz]

abc.net.au/cricket

Great commentary IMO, although the site seems to be offline at the moment.

 

[londonredmaniac]

i love boycott, no mincing around the point, just says it like it is

 

[Sultan]

i love boycott, no mincing around the point, just says it like it is

I have a lot of time for the guy, hated his batting style though...he's a big United fan, you'll regularly find him at OT.

 

[londonredmaniac]

I have a lot of time for the guy, hated his batting style though...he's a big United fan, you'll regularly find him at OT.

never knew he was a united fan, i know what you mean about his batting style but his attitude is second to none

 

[Plechazunga]

What's happened to his mouth?

Has he had some sort of stroke?

 

[Sultan]

What's happened to his mouth?

Has he had some sort of stroke?

He had throat cancer

 

[Plechazunga]

Kinell...I never knew that

He's hardly ever wrong, Boycott

 

[Sultan]

Kinell...I never knew that

He's hardly ever wrong, Boycott

Aye, I love his pull-no-punches style to the let's-try-not-to-offend style of most of his fellow commentators.

 

[londonredmaniac]

i think thats what we all respect in a commentator, the ability to just say it how it is and not dance around that issues. He calls it as it is, if ** shite, he will tell everyone you have been shite

 

[Plechazunga]

Big Ron had something of that about him. Despite being a ludicrous individual, and having some daft expressions, he was rarely wrong about football.

Calling someone a "fecking thick lazy nigger" is taking the "speaks his mind" thing a tad far mind

 

[londonredmaniac]

Big Ron had something of that about him. Despite being a ludicrous individual, and having some daft expressions, he was rarely wrong about football.

Calling someone a "fecking thick lazy nigger" is taking the "speaks his mind" thing a tad far mind

well there is free honest speech and there is downright racism...

 

[Melbourne Red]

I have a lot of time for the guy, hated his batting style though...he's a big United fan, you'll regularly find him at OT.

Yorkshire legend is Geoffrey.

 

[Sultan]

Yorkshire legend is Geoffrey.

I only value his frank and honest opinions.

Couldn't stand watching him play.

 

[Melbourne Red]

You only value his * * * * *?

 

[Donaldo]

*****

 

[Donaldo]

Or is that Colon

 

[Sultan]

You only value his * * * * *?

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