Nauseating A League commentary

Nauseating A League commentary

Commentary I've heard on Sky Sports that makes me wince - okay, it's quite fresh when first heard but gets nauseating when repeated for the nth time;

"they ought to knock it back onto the mixer" or "it's going into the mixer" (or in Aussie-speak 'mix-aa')

and the other one, after Cruze scored;

.."and now they're in Cruze-control"  repeated ad nauseam .....

I'm sure there's more, but that's the two I remember

Cruze control....that shouldn't be legal

Brazilliant?

MUTE button. Problem solved :) haha.

If the mention of "cruze control" annoys you, it's still better than a MVFC game... "Oh Archie, he's so great, I want to have his babies" etc. For 90 minutes (plus stoppage time). Bleh.

They really need to employ a decent English commentator, maybe they could get Martin Tyler, by offering him a farm in the South Isleland High Country! Im sure all us ex pats miss Andy Gray and Alan Hansen. Istead we get Fred and Denis and Mark. All decent chaps, but. My suggestion would be Rufer. I would love to hear a guy who you actually want to anaylise a match.

I thought Cruse-Control was funny, great pun.

I must admit its drives me nuts that they say Reinaldo's name constantly to prove that they've got the pronunciation right.

"HEYnaldo making a great run off the ball, HEYnaldo receives the pass then HEYnaldo offloads"

blah blah, we know his freakin name.

and they call Covs a old war horse sometimes

and Muscats "concedes the penalty" after Muscat had just scored from the spot against CCM last night

Brazilliant is better.

God, that was the worst

Despite the fact that I can't stand his whiney voice, and the fact that he does have an orgasm every time Archie Thompson's name is mentioned, I actually don't mind Harper too much. He's actually said some positive things about the 'Nix. Far better than our friend Mr Slater.

Best part of the commentary the other night was "You'd have to say, looking at the bigger picture, the Phoenix have been the success story of the season".

Simon Hill is the only commentator I like. Just clone him 6 times. I don't mind Harper most of the time but it's like he has a thesaurus open next to him.
valeo2008-01-01 20:13:26

Andy Harper was laughing in the background when we conceded the penalty

..to be fair, if I wasn't a Phoenix fan I'd probably been laughing as well.

I myself was laughing in bewilderment.

more shanks than a butchers floor

Harper lamenting the poor defending in the Planes v Nix game

hehehehehe and we won!!

I doubt you hate them as much as the 'managers' seem to (especially given that it's half-time!)


to be honest, i reckon it's a bit of a laugh listening to the poor buggers squirm as they engage in the classic manager's practice of stating of the bleeding obvious and talking completely in cliches

occasionally someone slips up and says something they really mean!

I don't understand why the managers talk at half time; wouldn't their time be better spent talking to their own players?

Seems like TV coverage is more important than a good quality game?

One of them said exactly that...

oops, an 'occasioanl slip up'

I'm pretty sure it was Ernie Merrick, being a Melburnian I make a point of watching Victory games when I can.

I cant remember exactly how it went (or who they were playing), but he asked something about discussing different strategies at half time, and he responded that he'd like to be, but instead he's outside talking to the interviewer.

The way he said it was so much classier though, and it was blatantly obvious what he meant.

Surely they could replace those interviews with some half time analysis. Some pretty graphics wouldn't hurt.

edit - better than network ten's coverage of SFC v LA Galaxy though... that was horrific. Especially the part at the end, interviewing Beckham, the first thing the guy said was "so... how'd you go out there?". Nice.aussienixfan2008-01-03 18:27:17