SA Footy

all commentators try & do add the own color, humour & style to their commentating, so what comments do you hear bemuse you ?

THIS IS NOT TO PUT COMMENTATORS DOWN IT IS TO SEE SOME OF THE QUIRKY COMMENTS WE ALL HEAR

i'll start with this one & will add more later

" a nice looking kick but it just fades across the face of goal for a point & they lead ONE STRAIGHT POINT to yet to score"

I was watching the Hawthorn/Fitzroy game from North Hobart Oval in 1991.
Hawthorn won the game 36.15 to 11.8.
Fitzroy had just kicked a goal when the worst football caller EVER!, Peter McKenna,
delivered this gem, 'Baaaaadly needed goal from the Lions'. Hawks lead by 120+ points at the time.
Twit.

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grant j wrote:Bemusing sayings from commentators-of course everything from KG

Strike me pink!

Gerard Healy doing a Murray Walker by saying "It's the last brilliant game I've seen, since the last brilliant game I've seen"

grant j wrote:When Crows went into AFL a Victorian commentator say David Marshall and commented some thing like "that young Crows player David Marshall has got a lot of years ahead of him in the AFL"
At the time Marshall had already played over 300 games for Glenelg and I think was about 30 years old. commentator thought he was about 19



Bemusing sayings from commentators-of course everything from KG

...Bruce Lindsay,Rodney Maynard,Chris McDermott,Scott Hodges etc.....

I always laughed my arse off @ the first 1/2 dozen or so Crows games as my
fellow Vics got to grips with established SA stars.

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Peter Landy

Would never ever ever ever say 'Scores tied at 6.2' or 'Scores locked away at 6.2' etc

but would always say

'Scores now, 4.5, each of two.' what the hell was 'each of two'????

Also, as a shockingly obsessed Hawthorn supporter, I think for the entire first three years of Darren Jarman at the crows he always referred to him as 'Former Hawk best and fairest winner', and seemed to ignore the fact he'd won two flags for the Crows just about by himself.

Don't know if I've mentioned this one before somewhere, but I think it was Robbo on a TV telecast of a Glenelg v Port Final in 1990 which went something like..

" OH MURPHY! WHAT A MARK! at fingertips level, and you can liken that to a slips catch!"

A major golf championship here in Aust a few years back, Jack Newton describing a players putt, "Oh yes great putt, that was never going in until it went in"!

most commentators saying "he threw it out of the pack to a team mate" obviously meaning he got a handball out

I am bemused every time a commentator makes reference to an "underground" handball. Excuse me for being ignorant, but how can a handball be labelled as underground?

clive baby clive

rogernumber10 wrote:Peter Landy

Would never ever ever ever say 'Scores tied at 6.2' or 'Scores locked away at 6.2' etc

but would always say

'Scores now, 4.5, each of two.' what the hell was 'each of two'????

Also, as a shockingly obsessed Hawthorn supporter, I think for the entire first three years of Darren Jarman at the crows he always referred to him as 'Former Hawk best and fairest winner', and seemed to ignore the fact he'd won two flags for the Crows just about by himself.

Pretty much everything Peter Landy said during his commentary was bemsuing as he really had no idea.

Just about anything said during a 5RPH commentary.

Wild man of Borneo
Love Chocolate
Mars Bars
High Diddle Diddle

The list is endless.

johntheclaret wrote:Just about anything said during a 5RPH commentary.

Wild man of Borneo
Love Chocolate
Mars Bars
High Diddle Diddle

The list is endless.

Agreed. Sometimes they get so carried away with their in-house nicknames it's hard to figure out who the hell they're actually talking about. It seems that they try to out-do each other with these nicknames, but what about us listeners, we just want to hear a good un-biased call without putting up with all that crap.

GWW wrote:

rogernumber10 wrote:Peter Landy

Would never ever ever ever say 'Scores tied at 6.2' or 'Scores locked away at 6.2' etc

but would always say

'Scores now, 4.5, each of two.' what the hell was 'each of two'????

Also, as a shockingly obsessed Hawthorn supporter, I think for the entire first three years of Darren Jarman at the crows he always referred to him as 'Former Hawk best and fairest winner', and seemed to ignore the fact he'd won two flags for the Crows just about by himself.

Pretty much everything Peter Landy said during his commentary was bemsuing as he really had no idea.

seeing he's a victorian i'll comment because i was after bemusing comments more than paying out the commentators but didn't landy get his job because of the girl he married

Two minute mark and it has been all centrals at this stage.

Glenelg went on to kick 49.23

Can't kick, Can't play Wally May


or

from Ian Aitken

Comment Wally May

total silence

kingrooster wrote:I am bemused every time a commentator makes reference to an "underground" handball. Excuse me for being ignorant, but how can a handball be labelled as underground?

a handball that goes along the ground deliberately, to evade a defender.

i once said it during lunch in year 7 and everyone had a go at me as they had never heard it before...that was coz they were all dead shits and still are hahaha