Dear Channel 9, if you insist on filling your commentary team with ex New South Wales players and coaches could you do us a little favour? Ask them to take a leaf out of Peter Sterling’s book and provide us with some insightful, balanced and shrewd analysis of the game.
The odd good humored dig at Queenslanders is alright, instead of degenerating into a full 80mins of bag the Queensland team.
Now don’t get me wrong I appreciate the myriad of camera angles and replays, the pre and post match analysis where there can be some quite balanced and sharp comments coming from both sides of the table. But when that whistle blows and the token Queenslanders are trundled out to the change sheds for the odd half time comment or worse still, kicked out of the studio completely until the end of the game, the weight on the fence shifts dramatically until it topples over completely onto the blue side.
Of course there’s nothing wrong with having the odd one eyed comment, it helps show your passion for the game and where your loyalties lie and it also helps to get the people watching at home even more into the game either cheering or swearing at the T.V. There is no problem with that at all but when the commentary team starts to refer to the teams as “Us” and “Them” you can’t help but start swearing a bit louder.
And when you get too the point where you have one team being sledged for scoring two tries through the air and the other team applauded for only managing one try through a bloke with a broken arm, even a room full of Victorians with no care of the result start laughing at the blinkers these guys are wearing.
So if could you help us out a bit it would be greatly appreciated.
I’m not asking you to kick all the Blues supporters out of the studio or even getting them to change their opinions as there is something about State of Origin that fires the blood and the imagination of any footy supporter and to dull that in any way would be a crime.
All I’m asking is that the next time you send Rabs up to the box to do his thing could you send up one Blues supporter with him say Phil Gould, and one Queenslander of your choice. Preferably one that’s not going to try and sit on the fence like Benny Ikin does from time to time, maybe Kevie Walters or someone similar that won’t take a backward step from Gus’s comments and is quite happy putting in his own two cents.
Because the couple of token Queenslanders at the start and end of the show just doesn’t quite cut it at the moment.
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