Get a tape of the '96 AB v Scotland tests (Bill McLaren, Laurie Mains and Muzza)
Or get a tape of one of the Andrew Cotter/Martin Bayfield games from RWC2015
Listen carefully 2-3 times.
Try to emulate.
Find Marshall a bit of a curates egg. Some of his analysis is bloody insightful, other stuff is just waffle.
His saving grace is his enthusiasm and excitement for great play no matter where it comes from. Loved his "Go Mr Jet Shoes!" comments when Habana scored a stunning try against us a few years back
@Victor-Meldrew Marshalls analysis outside of Comms is excellent, RS often talk to him on a Friday morning in super season...it is a shame he gets excitable and speaks without thinking in comms because he clearly knows his stuff
@taniwharugby said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
@Victor-Meldrew Marshalls analysis outside of Comms is excellent, RS often talk to him on a Friday morning in super season...it is a shame he gets excitable and speaks without thinking in comms because he clearly knows his stuff
Except when he makes up new Laws or forgets existing ones. But yes, he can spot some pretty clever stuff that would go unnoticed to many.
@taniwharugby said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
Marshalls analysis outside of Comms is excellent, RS often talk to him on a Friday morning in super season...it is a shame he gets excitable and speaks without thinking in comms because he clearly knows his stuff
Maybe him and Wilson should swap places in the Test match commentary team?
Wilson contributing more regularly.. Marshall on the sideline doing analysis during breaks in play
@Duluth said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
@taniwharugby said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
Marshalls analysis outside of Comms is excellent, RS often talk to him on a Friday morning in super season...it is a shame he gets excitable and speaks without thinking in comms because he clearly knows his stuff
Maybe him and Wilson should swap places in the Test match commentary team?
Wilson contributing more regularly.. Marshall on the sideline doing analysis during breaks in play
Sorry, you're suggesting a halfback would surrender the spotlight in favour of ... well, anybody really? You've met a halfback haven't you?
@Crucial you highlighted the wrong part of that statement, because when you take it out of the context of my entire sentence...
it is a shame he gets excitable and speaks without thinking in comms because he clearly knows his stuff
again, when he speaks on the fly in comms is when he can get things wrong, he doesnt do that in his radio interviews.
Commentators disagreeing with a referee's decision to give a penalty having not listened to his explanation of the penalty which was for a completely different reason to the one the commentators are talking about.
While we're at it - whilst I'm pretty damn happy with the ITV coverage, having all the games (I'll ignore their incessant high tackle and England garbage) - it's a bit disappointing and I think they're missing a trick that there's no extended highlights show on pre-watershed. Big miss.
@jegga said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
“ why yes , I’d like to hear more of what a halfback thinks” said no one ever.
Not that you ever get a choice.
@Bones said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
While we're at it - whilst I'm pretty damn happy with the ITV coverage, having all the games (I'll ignore their incessant high tackle and England garbage) - it's a bit disappointing and I think they're missing a trick that there's no extended highlights show on pre-watershed. Big miss.
It's on at 7pm. After all the news broadcasts have finished.
@MiketheSnow really? on 1 or 4? I went hunting about 3-4 nights ago and didn't see anything until about 11pm or midnight.
@Bones said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
@MiketheSnow really? on 1 or 4? I went hunting about 3-4 nights ago and didn't see anything until about 11pm or midnight.
ITV 4
@MiketheSnow said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
@Bones said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
@MiketheSnow really? on 1 or 4? I went hunting about 3-4 nights ago and didn't see anything until about 11pm or midnight.
ITV 4
Take your shitty facts and go stand in the corner with @Snowy. What is it with you snow based posters?
@Bones said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
I'm pretty damn happy with the ITV coverage,
It's OK when Miles Harrison is about 100km away from the microphone.
Coverage was better in 2015 IMHO. Perhaps it will improve past the pool stage.
@Crucial said in DEAR ITV COMMENTATORS:
Except when he makes up new Laws or forgets existing ones.
Perhaps it's part of his career plan - become a rugby hack for a UK newspaper.
@Victor-Meldrew It's actually not OK when Miles Harrison is any where near a microphone.
He's a total plonker and a muppet who offers nothing except an extremwly irritating voice.
I'd be happier if they left the comms with ex-players.
Commentary hell would be Miles Harrison and Jonathan Davies. The Waldorf & Statler of TV Rugby but without the wit.
Davies sole contribution to technical analysis is to repeat the phrases "Space out wide!" and "You just can't do that!".