Jim Maxwell - is he known to Aussie forummers?

He of the corncrake voice seems a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde character on the radio.

On the one hand, inquisitive, affable, jolly, even generous-spirited. The moment the play restarts, however, he is as blinkered and biased as any commentator I know.

It's an involuntary thing.

If it's a Pom batsman snicking, it's "OUT!! DEFINITELY CARRIED!!!".
In the same situation, if it's an Aussie batsman, it's "THEY'RE APPEALING - FELL WELL SHORT!!!"

If he is known in Oz, is he this chronic when barracking for, say, NSW vs. WA/VIC/TAS??

Red wine does funny things.

You cheeky scoundrel!!

Not as far as I have heard him, but there's not as much coverage of interstate cricket on the radio as there used to be. In NSW anyway.

He hates a drink btw.

And we have confirmation.

What's Neville Oliver doing these days? His voice brings back baaaad memories...

Just to redress the balance (and before anyone thinks me as biased as JM can be), Dizzy is doing surprisingly well, next to him. He tends to be the "supportive type", seeking out the best to say of the players - which has its strengths and weaknesses - but he says it as he reads it.

Chappelli is Chappelli, good and ill. I like his acerbic style and frank comment, even though I know he is roundly qunted at on here.

BBC Radio is doing its bit for fairness this year for fairness, with no fewer than three Aussies on board (commentating, I mean).

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.

skully wrote:And we have confirmation.

Of ...? It's quarter to eleven in the morning here FFS!

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.

Was it Roebuck?

Henry?

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.

Bowlology sounds like it's out of the same school as "bouncebackability".

Only a tad more scatological, as you say (I think).

Is there a corresponding doctrine of "batology"?

PeterCS wrote:Bowlology sounds like it's out of the same school as "bouncebackability".

Only a tad more scatological, as you say (I think).

Trust me Pete, the way I've been feeling today, there's been plenty of bowlology in the scatological sense.

Commiserations. I've been there.

I could almost open a pebblecrete business at the moment.

You might eventually run out of ammo, though.

These are recessionary times ...

That's enough to give you the shits.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

"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.

PeterCS 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.

Was it Roebuck?

Henry?

Not Spanky, and it sounded like Blowers but he was way more foggy than I remembered him.

Didn't he run for Tassie parliament? Or was that another Neville Oliver?

Another natural career move for such as he....

'VOTE 1 BIG NEV

THE MAN WHO TAUGHT BOONIE ALL HE KNEW

If he taught Boonie all he knew, then that explains a fair bit about the current NSP thinking process.

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?

The high-pitched one might've been Blowhard.

The BBC has come to its senses and not tried to replace Brian Johnson with similar (but degraded) types any more.

Could have been lightish-toned Simon Mann. Not very good, excitable, but not especially toffee-nosed.

Jonathan Agnew - the BBC's anchor - is not publlic school. (Not very good either, but that's a different story.) He can get coronically excited. Not particularly one-eyed, as far as I can see. He has other weaknesses.

I don't think it was the execrable Arlo White (Brummie accent), who couldn't detect what was going on in a game if it jumped up and bit him on the peenis.