Is 3MMM the worst commentary station in the history of AFL? I was listening to the streaming broadcast of the Saints - Bulldogs game last night and missed the end of the match because the commentators spent the end of the match talking about nothing. When I say nothing, I mean they weren't talking about the action on the ground. There was a few minutes of waffle and then "and there's the final siren". :roll:

Then today after I loaded the Gameday Live on the AFL website just before half time in the Melbourne-Geelong game I got 30 seconds of commentators waffling about nothing then a full 3-and-a-half minutes of advertising before they came back and went through the highlights of the first half. The siren went sometime in that 4 minute block though!

I guess it doesn't matter to some if they don't miss any scoring shots, but you should be able to listen to radio commentary and know what's going on.

Just about the only commentary worth listening to, and this goes for AFL, NRL, Super14, cricket, World Championships of just about anything, Olympics, etc, is the good old ABC.

Ofcourse you cannot get complete coverage that way with simultaneous matches, but atleast the commentators know what they're talking about and will usually talk about the actual game being played that they are actually at.

My main gripe about footy commentators these days is their preoccupation with "skill levels". When I was a boy (let's not discuss this too much!) I watched "The Winners" on the ABC after CountDown every Sunday arvo when Drew Morphett was young, had a bad tie and a massive afro. In those day is was all VFL ofcourse, and they actually had key position players, man-on-man contests, and the players were completely different.

None of these modern teams could compete in a Morrabin mud-pit for 100-minutes. Sheesh, these days a team consists of a full forward (sometimes), a full back (sometimes), and 16 mid-fielders who just flood up and down the park all day, with unlimited interchanges, intravenous drips, and a support staff greater in number than the players themselves keeping them alive for the afternoon.

Rant, rant, rant, rave, rave, complain, whinge ...

It used to be that we tough Aussies said that soccer was for "sheilas, wogs and pooftahs" (a big thankyou to Johhny Warren for that most quotable title), but other than the ability to run a marathon in a series of ten-minute sprints, some modern players have very little in the way of smarts, play reading, whatever that footy skills simply become a hand-eye coordination thing and a weekly session with the team psych!

Whoo yeah!

These new rules make the game even more of a joke. Whats next - get rid of the runners and have time outs? Is there any more yank bullshit they can bring into our sports? Im bored now!

Agree about the ABC commentary.