Siegfried wrote:
thylacine60 wrote:
It's pretty simple - listen to SEN.
One problem with that Thylacine (are you really extinct??)...
We weren't on SEN on the weekend. It was a choice of Dwayne or the boys-own-club on MMM. I think this will be the story for the next 3 years, we will either have a choice between AW and MMM, or SEN and ABC, due to the category A and B rights.
As for AW, most of their people I like...Grybas is up there with Tim Lane as the two best radio commentators going around, Walls, Shaw (yep, I'm a fan, calls it as it is and is generally positive), Healy...it's just that Dawyne's become a tool and Rex is just an idiot.
By the way, if you want the best calling team, listen to the ABC on Friday night...Lane, Dan Lonergan (getting better and better), Parkin and Schwab.
Fair point and I guess I was comparing stations generally. I just think the presenters are a breath of fresh air on SEN. Mark Allen, Finey (you want the truth he'll provide) Beva, Pickers, Rich, KB etc.
Harford is a pretender and Doran a dull dork but generally after a couple of decades of putting up with AW as the only commercial AM option I've had it. I used to listen to Harry Bietzel and Ian Major calling for AW with my dad out in the backyard in the seventies and eighties. We also had Jack Dyer, Bill Jacobs and Smokey Dawson to choose from back then. They called the footy and kept their allegiances and biases to themselves.
Yes, ABC Friday nights are grouse. Listening to Dan trying to stay impartial whilst his dogs go round is priceless. Tim Lane has a sense of occasion second to none. The MMM team are almost unlistenable.
And no, I'm not extinct yet. but another performance like Satty night and I will be.