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Are the commentary team paying attention?

Yes I noticed this too, very amatuerish!

I am not happy with the refereeing and their consistency like most people here.
But it would be good if the commentators actually tell us what call has been made by the ref.
Far too frequently they either do not know that a foul has been called let alone what it was for.
At times people are upset with the ref because a foul was called on a play that appears to not be a foul but the call was for something either off the ball or other reason.
It is not too hard to see the ref and look at his hand signals when signaling to the score bench.
If they tell us what call was made it may resolve some of the confusion of a call.

At least that is my opinion :-)

Nice news link thanks :)

Bret Brown will be visiting Australia and meeting some old mates soon, perhaps hammer will try to get him to stay and coach MU ?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/shane-heals-lawyer-seeks-adjournment-on-fraud-case-to-confirm-us-witnesses/news-story/8c4a49c3126e55a90fc6a891668bf429

Oh yes he had a flutter with the SEQ Stars.

I remember him coaching the SEQ Stars.

Haha classic Heal.

Remember that one season he player/coached the Dragons? Nuff said.

Was it just me or did Robbins barely say a word?

Was it just me or did Robbins barely say a word? Was easy to forget he was even one of the commentators.

Heal went on for about a minute how the ball bounched a certain way off the ring and out of bounds in a way he had never seen before. OMG WOW SHANE AMAZING INSIGHT!!! Groan.

I like the idea re: importing sportscasters.

They aren't apathetic, they're just plain pathetic.

Maybe we need to import a couple sportscasters.

Yes. When talking about available NBL level coaches, Heal stated that BJ was sitting in the adjacent box ....

John Casey for all finals games please. The rest are amateur and apathetic. Clear the trash out LK.

Zodiac correct re: Heal endorsing Joyce.

What a disgraceful endorsement. But they have each others backs going back to Blaze days. Also another reason Heal needs to be dumped as a commentator, so unprofessional.

Why did Robbins do this game??
It's bad enough he's locked in for Cats home games. Was literally every other commentator unavailable today?
Could they not have begged Cometti seeing as he was in the building?

The commentators also admitted their mistakes when they realised. Heal was happy to laugh at himself for the obvious error.

I didn't hear it but did Heal actually advocate for MU to replace DD with his buddy Brendan Joyce?

Boti is going to have a field day - yeah no kidding!!!

Yeah noticed that as well, wasn't great, but what annoyed me more was the return of the sweeping boom camera.

The commentary was ridiculous, like they were barely watching the game, they just carry on their irrelevant conversations.

And its annoying. I started the game a little late and was playing catch up until on of the time-outs in the last quarter, so I didn't want to keep switching to the stats. It would be nice if they kept the audience apprised.

Statman is this true, that since Martin returned to the roster the HAWKS havent got a win?? ...

Strange coincidence or what? hmmm. thinking not
Im sure that every other coach in the universe would return to 'Winning' rotation and consider benching Martin more as opposed to making him on the first subs.
Another noted point is Ervin hasnt played to his best since Martins return and we've seen the demise of his stats since then too.

If it aint broke (ie: team winning) dont fix it (inject Martin)