Anonymous
Years ago

Who will the foxtel commentators be?

Any rumours or insights?

Hopefully dwayne Russell is back. The man that famously coined 'lisch... Is delisch after his game winning trey against tsville

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Train  
Years ago

If it is Brad Rosen I will kill myself.

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Its time for new blood. We cant keep expecting the NBL to grow and improve if the first suggestions for these sorts of things are Bill Woods and Steve Carfino.

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smoke  
Years ago

I reckon B.T and Santamaria (of Downtown Ball) who commentated the recent United v LSU exhibition broadcast would be a great find for Foxtel. Kept it entertaining and at the same time, had great insights. Please, please... no more Carfino!

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Matt  
Years ago

bring back John Casey for sure and some ex players like Rusty Hinder would add good value

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Pug 82  
Years ago

Should get the guy who called the Big V SCW Grand Final stream from Ringwood

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Train  
Years ago

Lachy Reid is great. Although I'm kinda hoping he doesn't get the job and reverts back to being Perth's MC.

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Anon  
Years ago

Maher is a yes

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Hope its Carfino, Gaze & BT

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KET  
Years ago

BT is awful, thank god he's at channel 7 and away from the NBL

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BT is awful but the alternates you listed in another thread are just as bad.

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Baller#3  
Years ago

Obviously keep the regular past players, they would possibly recycle the fox footy commentators after they are finished just before the season starts?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Agree with chalmers please no woods and carfino. They were cool 20 years ago but are past their use by date. John Casey is quality

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Anonymous  
Years ago

GAZE WILL GET A GIG, NO DOUBT!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Sorry, not yelling just 'caps lock' left on.

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Dave  
Years ago

Most of the regular past players are terrible. Gaze especially has no idea what he is talking about. Heal just relates everything to a story about himself...

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Callisto 75  
Years ago

Reckon Tommy Greer would be good.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

I like gaze as a commentator

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Matthew  
Years ago

Mike Ellis is a decent commentator and has good insights in the game. Ive heard him be the special comments man a few times.

Id actually like to see Dennis Commeti back behind the microphone for these. He did it was back in the 80's.

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KET  
Years ago

BT is awful but the alternates you listed in another thread are just as bad.


John Casey isn't bad, let alone "just as bad" as BT.
Dwayne Russell is a lot better than BT.
Gaze/Heal/Maher aren't even close to being as bad as BT.

So i'd have to disagree with you there, mate.

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Indominous-Rex  
Years ago

How come no one has mentioned the SKTV Crew? I mean they do a really good job

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Boti said he would like to see McQuade & Rosen get a gig, I appreciate their efforts but they're a bit too OTT for my tastes.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The issue with ex players commentating is the obvious bias for their team which is annoying as hell.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The guys from the Illawarra v cal Bears game.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

KET, you mentioned Bill Woods, Carfino and Huddo as well. They are terrible.

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proud  
Years ago

I'd pay to have Cometti and Mike Ellis for Wildcats games as they would inform and entertain.

I'd love Bill Woods in some capacity even if it's the weekly talk show then I'm fine with that.

Mel Marsh and Michelle Trewartha deserve a gig as they added to the coverage and other ex WNBL players as sideline comments would suffice

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Anonymous  
Years ago

^^^^

You refer to a weekly talk show? Is there such a thing on tap? Didn't see it in the announcement but would be nice to have, I note the A-League has something like this.

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koberulz  
Years ago

Mel Marsh and Michelle Trewartha deserve a gig as they added to the coverage and other ex WNBL players as sideline comments would suffice
Marsh didn't really work as a sideline commentator, although she did well as part of the actual commentary team in a game a couple of years ago.

Mike Ellis was just awful on NBL TV.

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KET  
Years ago

Carfino wasn't that bad when he was a special comments commentator alongside Casey. It was the OneHD initial years where he was the primary commentator where it all started to suck.

Bill Woods some people love, some people hate. I'm not the fondest of him, but the fact he's pretty well known would probably help the NBL a little bit especially in the role of what he's meant for, being a studio anchor instead of an actual play by play commentator.

Huddo is a good commentator, it just seems that he stopped caring anymore about AFL since 2007/8 but his swimming commentary and other sports commentary has been on point.

What other realistic options are there? Forget about the likes of Cometti - as awesome as he is - it's just not going to happen and forget about Lachie Reid, he's one of the few sports commentators at Channel Ten who's actually secure in his job.

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William  
Years ago

@Train - I doubt Lachy Reid will commentate for FOX Sports as he is a part of the Ten team. If Ten eventually gets the rights to the NBL from FOX Sports that one simulcast live game then Lachy Reid will appear in the broadcasts. Lachy Reid has done ANZ Championship for both Ten and Fox.

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DJMOJOFOSHO  
Years ago

Bring on the SKTV commentary boys of Matt, Brad & Bruce

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Anonymous  
Years ago

With every game live will fox need to use some of the local nbl.tv crews?

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Mark-e-Mark  
Years ago

Coining "D-Lisch" shouldn't be a claim to fame. I couldn't stand hearing that phrase over and over again.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Bring back Bruce Palmer - "Paul Rees is deceptively slow"

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