Crikey.com on Channel Nein commentary team

Meh, those Saffie tours are to Bill what the back foot no-ball rule is to Richie.

Seriously Skulls it is painful to listen to. Nein wouldn't even have one SA commentator for balance during the last tour.

taipan wrote:FFS it was 40 years ago. If he is not professional enough to commentate in an unbiased way he should fark off.

Can't you just turn down the sound and listen to the coverage from Radio Capetown or sumpent?

taipan wrote:Seriously Skulls it is painful to listen to. Nein wouldn't even have one SA commentator for balance during the last tour.

Greigy is more than enough, thanks.

Nah! Bill has sort of more of a case. He was a screaming farkwit. Richie was a screaming farkwit with an audience. He had a point but Christ he crapped on so farking long.

Greig is 50% Aus, 45% pom and 5% SA

I meant that just as Richie won't let go of the back-foot no-ball rule, Bill won't let go of the pain of those Saffie tours. It manifests itself in a slight (awaits taips' correction) bitterness towards all things Yarpie.

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:FFS it was 40 years ago. If he is not professional enough to commentate in an unbiased way he should fark off.

Can't you just turn down the sound and listen to the coverage from Radio Capetown or sumpent?

Skulls you have clearly never heard the SA radio team. I am hardly bear to even have it on in the car.

taipan wrote:Greig is 50% Aus, 45% pom and 5% SA

Except when South Africa are playing. Then he's 100% Saffie.

taipan wrote:

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:FFS it was 40 years ago. If he is not professional enough to commentate in an unbiased way he should fark off.

Can't you just turn down the sound and listen to the coverage from Radio Capetown or sumpent?

Skulls you have clearly never heard the SA radio team. I am hardly bear to even have it on in the car.

Erm, that was my point. So stop your bellyaching.

skully wrote:I meant that just as Richie won't let go of the back-foot no-ball rule, Bill won't let go of the pain of those Saffie tours. It manifests itself in a slight (awaits taips' correction) bitterness towards all things Yarpie.

Fark orf Skulls. He makes Red look like a middle of a roader.

Are you sure they aren't related. Both from Melbourne?

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:Greig is 50% Aus, 45% pom and 5% SA

Except when South Africa are playing. Then he's 100% Saffie.

BS, I have never heard him so anything good about SA

And there's the correction of my description of Bill's bitterness as "slight".

taipan wrote:

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:Greig is 50% Aus, 45% pom and 5% SA

Except when South Africa are playing. Then he's 100% Saffie.

BS, I have never heard him so anything good about SA

That's cos you have the sound turned down because Bill is on, and Greigy and Bill are always on together.

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:Greig is 50% Aus, 45% pom and 5% SA

Except when South Africa are playing. Then he's 100% Saffie.

BS, I have never heard him so anything good about SA

That's cos you have the sound turned down because Bill is on, and Greigy and Bill are always on together.

Crap, the problem is that the nein team is so skewed that if anyone makes an unbiased comment it comes across as anti Aussie

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:FFS it was 40 years ago. If he is not professional enough to commentate in an unbiased way he should fark off.

Can't you just turn down the sound and listen to the coverage from Radio Capetown or sumpent?

Skulls 40 years ago SA didn't have TV, so they couldn't turn down the sound. In fact thirty years ago they didn't have TV. We're talking about a really farked up society, not anyone's fault posting here, just the fault of a whole lot of old men who were scared of new ideas. Though I noticed they embraced viagra big time.

Not quite correct. TV started in SA on 5 January 1976.

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skully wrote:

taipan wrote:

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:Greig is 50% Aus, 45% pom and 5% SA

Except when South Africa are playing. Then he's 100% Saffie.

BS, I have never heard him so anything good about SA

That's cos you have the sound turned down because Bill is on, and Greigy and Bill are always on together.

Crap, the problem is that the nein team is so skewed that if anyone makes an unbiased comment it comes across as anti Aussie

Jebus, you never heard Greigy on the 2000-01 tour of India then. Half of Aus wanted to shoot the qunt (as opposed to the normal 25% that want to shoot him), he was so biased against Aus.

taipan wrote:Not quite correct. TV started in SA on 5 January 1976.

Jeez, that's sumpent I didn't know. Cheers qmy and taips.

Was TV seen as some sort of evil technology by the apartheid regime?

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:Greig is 50% Aus, 45% pom and 5% SA

Except when South Africa are playing. Then he's 100% Saffie.

BS, I have never heard him so anything good about SA

That's cos you have the sound turned down because Bill is on, and Greigy and Bill are always on together.

Crap, the problem is that the nein team is so skewed that if anyone makes an unbiased comment it comes across as anti Aussie

Jebus, you never heard Greigy on the 2000-01 tour of India then. Half of Aus wanted to shoot the qunt (as opposed to the normal 25% that want to shoot him), he was so biased against Aus.

That has SFA to do with him supporting SA which was your entry comment.

Every time South Africa tour Aus, Bill asks him the same question, "So Greigy, are you an Englishman or a South African at the moment" and Greigy's answer is always "I am rock solid behind the South Africans".

QED.

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:Not quite correct. TV started in SA on 5 January 1976.

Jeez, that's sumpent I didn't know. Cheers qmy and taips.

Was TV seen as some sort of evil technology by the apartheid regime?

Yep was tied into the whole quasi religious/poltical setup.

Most saffies of my age believed girls had stars for nipples.

taipan wrote:

skully wrote:

taipan wrote:Not quite correct. TV started in SA on 5 January 1976.

Jeez, that's sumpent I didn't know. Cheers qmy and taips.

Was TV seen as some sort of evil technology by the apartheid regime?

Yep was tied into the whole quasi religious/poltical setup.

Most saffies of my age believed girls had stars for nipples.

Hmm, wow, amazing.

And girls don't have stars on their nipples???

Well it was a step up from the black stripe they originally used.

Blue movies were a hanging offence

Eek, that's harsh.

Anywho, dinner awaits.