CH 9 five more years

[Shoe1]

Nine has made some good decisions in the past though...
"Long-term leaguies in the Victorian capital recall when the film The Man with Two Brains was being screened on Nine in Melbourne at the same time the rest of eastern Australia was watching the Storm."
Lucky bastards.

Good movie.

 

[Shoe1]

I avoid the 9 coverage as much as possible now. It is merely a love in for the Donkeys and Drizzle with their ex players as commentators and side line eyes. Whenever those clubs play the game is called from their perspective and it becomes really annoying to hear them dwell on past glories.

Nine needs to get other people from different clubs involved in their commentary and time to put Rabbits out to pasture!

This year I lost count of times that the commentators were talking among themselves and not noticing what was happening in the field, eg line breaks, big tackles, knock-ons, off side play, injuries etc.

 

[HoldenV8]

FMD Lockyer, Thurston, Johns.....the 3 Stooges!

Agree. Cant put 2 words together to save themselves!

Lockyer - Can't string a coherent sentence together even if reading from a script

Thurston - On ahhhh, a personal crusade to ummmmm butcher the English language every time he ahhhhh ummmm, opens his mouth.

Johns - Monotone, deadpan voice without the funny of Elliot Goblet.

Not so much Lockyer, but the other two clowns are also completely biased against anyone, especially a forward, tackling a halfback. They scream blue murder and carry on like it should be a send off offence whenever it happens, especially if its a hard hit. Oh and don't ever let it be a late hit because one day they'll start calling for executions. "Protect the playmakers"......smh.

 

[Shoe1]

Lockyer - Can't string a coherent sentence together even if reading from a script

Thurston - On ahhhh, a personal crusade to ummmmm butcher the English language every time he ahhhhh ummmm, opens his mouth.

Johns - Monotone, deadpan voice without the funny of Elliot Goblet.

Not so much Lockyer, but the other two clowns are also completely biased against anyone, especially a forward, tackling a halfback. They scream blue murder and carry on like it should be a send off offence whenever it happens, especially if its a hard hit. Oh and don't ever let it be a late hit because one day they'll start calling for executions. "Protect the playmakers"......smh.

Haha protect the playmakers!

Every rugby league coach (all age groups): “take their playmaker down”.

 

[MadMarcus]

Johns wasn’t so interested in protecting playmakers when McDougall stomped on Toovey’s head in the 97 GF.

 

[HoldenV8]

Johns wasn’t so interested in protecting playmakers when McDougall stomped on Toovey’s head in the 97 GF.

If Johns was so concerned with protecting play makers he and his punctured lung should have stayed in hospital.....

 

[Captain Moondog]

Has Ray Warren retired yet? He's morphing into Grandpa Simpson......Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter,' you'd say. Now where were we...oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."