Jim Maxwell - is he known to Aussie forummers?

skully wrote:God, I turned on the ABC coverage the other evening and some raving nancy boy was in a real excited tizz. Sounded like Henry Blowfly on acid, only twice as camp.

Admittedly, Aus were 2-20 at the time.

Hmmm, if ABC take the BBC commentary it was Aggers commentating with Phil Tufnell - I wouldn't call any of them Blowers-a-like though.

JKLever wrote:

skully wrote:God, I turned on the ABC coverage the other evening and some raving nancy boy was in a real excited tizz. Sounded like Henry Blowfly on acid, only twice as camp.

Admittedly, Aus were 2-20 at the time.

Hmmm, if ABC take the BBC commentary it was Aggers commentating with Phil Tufnell - I wouldn't call any of them Blowers-a-like though.

Nah, this was defo an older chap but farq he was gay. Has Blowers fogged up more in his old age?

Now the Cat. He DOES get excited.

I can't imagine anyone much less like Blowhard though - at least from south of the Humber.

JKLever wrote:

Fred Nerk wrote:"What's Neville Oliver doing these days?"

My first response is 'who cares' beyond a wish that he's turning little piles of big rocks into big piles of little rocks somewhere....last heard of he was selling real estate in Tassie, an appropriate occupation for a blow-hard bullshit artist.

So not an aussie commentating legend then?

More like an Aussie cockmunching legend.

skully wrote:

JKLever wrote:

skully wrote:God, I turned on the ABC coverage the other evening and some raving nancy boy was in a real excited tizz. Sounded like Henry Blowfly on acid, only twice as camp.

Admittedly, Aus were 2-20 at the time.

Hmmm, if ABC take the BBC commentary it was Aggers commentating with Phil Tufnell - I wouldn't call any of them Blowers-a-like though.

Nah, this was defo an older chap but farq he was gay. Has Blowers fogged up more in his old age?

Blofeld has always been fogged up, my dear old thing. Probably from all the flogging he got as a fog at Harrton.

EDIT: Bizarre! FB keeps turning my spelling f-a-g (servant to an older boy at public school) into "fog"!!

Err....no. Not unless you ask him.

BTW Jim Maxwell was NO's colleague at the ABC for about 15-20 years and a couple of years ago Jim wrote a book about his commentating career and in 200 pages the Nevmeister gets nary a mention by name.....

The bloke they've replaced him with in Tassie isn't much better either.

Would that be Peter Faulkner?

Why doesn't Max Walker commentate anymore? Thought he was pretty good as a summariser, though this is probably because I think of 86/7 tbf.

Fred Nerk wrote:Would that be Peter Faulkner?

Peter someone, not a former cricketer. Waffles on a lot.

skully wrote:
Nah, this was defo an older chap but farq he was gay. Has Blowers fogged up more in his old age?

Got to have been Blowers then. Getting on a bit now...

Only other posho is Chris Martin-Jenkins but he never seems to get that excited to do a Blowers impression.

These days Max flogs APIA Insurance and its special deals for pensioners (such as himself, which is a bit if a depressing thought). His schtick had lost its edge long before he finished IMO.

It'd give Billy Birmingham a whole new album if they brought Max back.

JKLever wrote:

skully wrote:
Nah, this was defo an older chap but farq he was gay. Has Blowers fogged up more in his old age?

Got to have been Blowers then. Getting on a bit now...

Only other posho is Chris Martin-Jenkins but he never seems to get that excited to do a Blowers impression.

Oh, forgot him, for some reason.

But he does get excited! He suddenly loses all control. (And the plot. And he's 3/4 blind - can't blame him for that, but I'm not sure he shoudl be commentating if he can't see wtf is going on. His misperceptions and misattributions are almost as bad as Blowers', at this stage.)

Losing all control, and Blowers. Not things that should really be in the same post.

Did he have a silver hammer?

Probably not your best work taips.

Nah, was a bit late. Had a bit of a mini crisis here.

taipan wrote:Nah, was a bit late. Had a bit of a mini crisis here.

Lucky you ... clubbing a thumb with a silver hammer, no less.
A fart might help ease the pain though.
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Oh bugger ...wrong thread.

Yes. Yes it was.

Zat wrote:At least they didn't pick up Damien Fleming, who seems to be trying to make up new phrases to describe the game. 'Avenue of uncertainty' and 'bowlology' being two. The second sounds like what I've been doing a lot of today.

It's the Avenue of apprehension. He likes the alliteration.

But, yes he is a poo poo head. I wouldn't be surprised if by the 5th test, MEW holds him down whilst the Fox talking head bloke beats the tripe out of him

My bad, you're right.

Seeing Flem beaten to a pulp would make the fifth Test compulsory viewing. Especially as I suspect that by then we may well have lost the Ashes again.

I am sure they will keep us on the edge of our seats and not lose until the last session of the last test. Bunch of qunts

Don't you mean poo poo heads?

Yes, eggzackly

p.s. I used to like Flem but he takes himself and his opinions way to seriously. I guess the Vomit in him had to come out sooner or lately.

He talks to that Fox bloke that he has no right to an opinion because he didn't play Test Cricket. Maybe Flem belongs on here, but he would have to be English