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I too thought it was only last year when I last listened to "The Doc"
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Chris Warren was good when he was in London, Tony Rea is still around his weekend round up on SKy was ok, for English commentators look for someone new Barry n Terry has never been anything more than an annoyance. John Wilkin comes across well but may have a longer career playing if Toronto get up to SL.
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| Quote stpatricks="stpatricks"Chris Warren was good when he was in London, Tony Rea is still around his weekend round up on SKy was ok, for English commentators look for someone new Barry n Terry has never been anything more than an annoyance. John Wilkin comes across well but may have a longer career playing if Toronto get up to SL.'"
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| Quote fleabag="fleabag"I don't think we have ever had a decent commentator - ever ? Going back to Eddie Waring and then Ray French with his "bullocking runs".
Stephenson was Yorkshire biased in my opinion, but you could tell he really loved the game. Hemmings was just 'shunted in' and he knew nowt about the game when he first started.
Since then SKY have 'dumbed down' with the commentators. 'Tez and Baz' dear oh dear .
They could do away with them for me........just let me listen to the crowd when viewing.'"
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Who used to do the Wigan home games on screen sports in the 80s, was it John McDermott or something like that?
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| Quote Riderofthepalehorse="Riderofthepalehorse"Do you remember the golden tones of Keith Macklin
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Haha ! Yes I do. Keith actually got caught drink driving near my home in Rochdale in the late 1960's. After Eddie Waring any commentator was good. Waring loved the game but he was a bit of a joke and was regarded as such by the BBC. Hence why they put him on 'It's a Knockout' ! |
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| Quote hatty="hatty"Who used to do the Wigan home games on screen sports in the 80s, was it John McDermott or something like that?'"
IIRC Screen Sports had every Wigan game on satellite broadcasting for a while. |
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| Quote Riderofthepalehorse="Riderofthepalehorse"Do you remember the golden tones of Keith Macklin
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Over on Humberside was the most biased commentator I have ever heard. One David Doyle-Davidson . IIRC he worked for BBC Humberside.....................neutral ? Not a chance with this feller. |
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| Quote fleabag="fleabag"Over on Humberside was the most biased commentator I have ever heard. One David Doyle-Davidson . IIRC he worked for BBC Humberside.....................neutral ? Not a chance with this feller.'"
DDD black and white right through & through, player coach commentator, and now senior Airlie bird. |
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| Quote moto748="moto748"I appreciate it's a TV commentary not radio, but I wish the Sky crew in general would tell us who has the ball, who passed to who, etc, a lot more. Do they expect the viewer to just know? Even viewers familiar with the team can't always recognise players. With our stupid gold lettering on the shirts, I struggle to identify Wigan players sometimes, so how would I be able to tell Salford or HKR players? I'm not saying they should recite the name of every single player who touches the ball, but it's annoying when a player makes a break, say, and the commentators are still droning on about some previous incident or some anecdote completely unrelated to the game.
Once again, the Aussie commentators are much better in this regard.'"
Tbh player pass player commentary isn't easy.
With radio commentators often get players wrong and often miss out much of naming players too.
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Quote fleabag="fleabag"Over on Humberside was the most biased commentator I have ever heard. One David Doyle-Davidson . IIRC he worked for BBC Humberside.....................neutral ? Not a chance with this feller.'"
Mick Morgan would give him a run for his money on bias.......... 
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I can't speyk!
You know, I don't see what the fuss over impartiality is anyway. Even though Wigan were always copping it from Morgan I love the guy's enthusiasm and passion for his club. If commentators are going to be characters maybe we should chuck impartiality and focus on passion and love for the game and its clubs.
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