by Millsy »
05 Nov 2023 20:54
Brogue rabidbee Elm Park Kid
Yeah, I spotted that myself listening today. Almost every time it's like he's talking to someone who's watching the game with him, rather than actually informing us of what's happening.
His actual commentary can be heard with
the video highlights on the Beeb, and goes something like this for the first MK goal: “…good early ball in, Pereira <cheering> tries to turn the ball away, and Alex Gilby, the MK captain, is on hand to score.” Similar for the second: “here’s the shot, through a crowd, Pereira makes a good first save <cheering>, but the second follow-up shot is there, Max Deans scored for MK Dons…” For all of the things he can be criticised for, this seems a tad harsh.
For the Reading goals there’s no mucking around:
“Kelvin into the box, here’s his shot… 1-0 Reading!”
“Wing delivers, header, GOAL!”
“Great chance, here’s Wing… 3-1!”
Oof, not sure how millsy is going to come back from this one
Bollox. That's how.
Sorry rabidbee I've listened to shit loads of commentary over the decades and Dellor - whom I normally defend - is categorically the worst in this regard. I'm frequently left trying to figure out if a goal has been scored. And on footy you want to know IMMEDIATELY with zero ambiguity. Not a few seconds later trying to decipher his ramblings. I was not at all dead sure the equaliser was in at the moment it went in and that's the one that bothered me. The ball goes in at 30s on the highlights. You hear cheering but that could be anything. At 36-37s he eventually says "the captain is on hand to poke it home" but not only is that a whole six seconds after the goal but being there to poke it home does not necessarily mean you've actually poked it home especially when you're casually rambling in a low key conversational voice like Dellor is. Ballard was technically "on hand to poke it home" recently ago but unbelievably fluffed. As was Savage. I mean I was 80-90% sure by piecing together various bits of logic and probability but that's exactly my complaint - I shouldn't have to flipping well do that. That's not good enough. The commentary goes on to 43s without making it cast iron clear and then highlights go onto the next goal so made it categorically clear at least 15s after the goal. Why? Why not like how he does on other goals does he not just instantly say "GOAL!". If he does it sometimes and not others it's just inconsistent and I'm frequently left guessing ok has a goal been scored or is the cheering because of a miss or offside or something else? Then when I do hear a chance and massive cheering I assume a goal has been scored but no it's just crowd reaction to something else.
Fact is Dellor often commentates like everyone else is watching the game with him.
I appreciate it may have been instantly obvious to you somehow and others may not mind to wait 15s+ and do some logical guessing, but I'd have thought commentary should be instantly unambiguous to all especially when it comes to goals.
