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Gordon Bray, the greatest commentator the world has ever seen, is a rugby man for all seasons, all grades and all nations.
A man whose love of the game so outweighs his love of competition that the competition doesn’t seem to matter so much anymore.
Rugby people everywhere are sick of the stereotyped former player commentators who think their job starts when they arrive at the ground and ends at the post match interview.
I expect more. I want to know that the Namibian reserve hooker’s mother’s family grew up in Angola on a disused nuclear test site and that the Japanese manager was on a plane trip that went down in central Africa in 1972 and that he spent 18 months recuperating with an unknown Congolese midget tribe that believed he was Adroa, the God in the Sky.
I don’t want to hear from a former Australian hooker that Richie McCaw is the biggest cheat on the planet, I want to be told that he learnt his stealth skills from his Royal New Zealand Air Force grandfather who used to fly night raids during World War II to supply vital munitions and rations to guerrilla German troops who operated right under the watchful eye of the referee… errrr… I mean commandant.
We don’t want commentators to state the obvious – we can all watch the television. We don’t want technical expertise – Kafe can give us that.
What we want is an unbiased passion for the game, we want excitement, we want a guy who can make a 120 kg Samoan prop gentle, or an Englishman likeable and exciting, but what we really want to know is what makes the players we’re watching full of courage or spite or tenacity or good humour or whatever it is that they’re full of.
Gordon Bray, we want you.
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