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I'm slowly realizing the Ch9 decided to employ a troupe of brain-dead morons as commentators. They are pandering to an audience and doing it very well.

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I'm slowly realizing the Ch9 decided to employ a troupe of brain-dead morons as commentators. They are pandering to an audience and doing it very well.
There was a good article on this http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/feb/13/channel-nine-destroying-cricket-legacy
Let’s be honest – Nine’s cricket coverage has never been a place where genius came to joust. Unchaperoned, though, recent seasons have subsided into a swamp of hokey backslapping. Grown men call each other Tubby and Binga and Slats, not as nicknames but a full-time mode of address. The guffaw is king. It’s all about being the matiest mates who ever mated. Michael Slater plays the daft little brother who bounces around after the big kids until they let him have a go. James Brayshaw has the emotional depth of a sock puppet during a button shortage. Between them they offer insights like “Whey-hey!” and “Look out!” and “Turn it up!”. Mark Taylor, Ian Healy, Brett Lee and Warne descend to that level. Mike Hussey perches quietly to one side. Mark Nicholas, a fine writer on the game, stands like a school-play caricature of a nobleman stranded in the colonies, unable to hedge or redirect. Advertisement Here comes that fresh middle-aged banter: did you know Warnie used to be fat? Or that Braysh spends an hour in front of the mirror? But Tubs is thinning on top, look out! Maybe time for an Advanced Hair joke. Back to Heals for more about the lobster at lunch before Warnie runs a poll about pizza. It’s a mode that cricket writer Jarrod Kimber describes as “embarrassing dads”, with Ian Chappell “looking more and more like a professor at a keg party”.
There’s a deliberate idiocy at work here: not just not knowing, but making a point of not knowing, and of telling us he doesn’t know. Consciously or not, this is Brayshaw nudging his audience to say that he doesn’t give a fig about this touring team, that none of us need to, they’re a mere backdrop to Australian glory. Jingoism is now Nine’s province. Too many links to the administration and players mean that cricket is called by company men. That’s literal for Cricket Australia board member Taylor, and recent Big Bash players Lee and Hussey. The rest know which side their party pies are sauced. We hear ad nauseam about India’s DRS position, but not on the running of the local game. Nor is there true criticism of players, aside from fringe types who never made the club. When Warne suggested on-air that Mitchell Starc had timid body language, Australian coach Darren Lehmann told a press conference he would call Warne that night for an explanation. That alone is extraordinary. Starc’s next match was played with a pantomime flail of aggression for the commentary box while Warne fell over himself to issue compliments. The whole scenario was high farce. No one blinked twice.
There’s no sense that they feel lucky to bring their audience the cricket. There’s the sense that we’re lucky to have them. That old line about no one being bigger than the game is drowned out by chuckles and chiacking. The lights flare. The cameras roll. Someone throws Slater a treat. Welcome back, you’re with Binga, Warnie and Heals. Sending down a few cherries. Still talking about ourselves as we sink, dinosaurs in a tar pit, into a burbling cry for relevance. Remember that time Slats got out. Remember that time Tubby got a wicket. Remember that we used to play in this team. Remember us. Please? Remember us?
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:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
We aren't used to playing on rugby fields, how that ground is ODI worthy is beyond me, and the umpire cheated. :finger:
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We aren't used to playing on rugby fields' date=' how that ground is ODI worthy is beyond me, and the umpire cheated. :finger:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical:
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We aren't used to playing on rugby fields' date=' how that ground is ODI worthy is beyond me, and the umpire cheated. :finger:[/quote'] :whine: :mama:
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We aren't used to playing on rugby fields' date=' how that ground is ODI worthy is beyond me, and the umpire cheated. :finger:[/quote'] Keep going. Only makes it better. :hysterical:
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We aren't used to playing on rugby fields' date=' how that ground is ODI worthy is beyond me, and the umpire cheated. :finger:[/quote'] With superior genes surely the Aussies could have seen this earlier and prepared accordingly??
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We aren't used to playing on rugby fields' date=' how that ground is ODI worthy is beyond me, and the umpire cheated. :finger:[/quote'] DRS wasnt there?

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