Match of the Day and Female Commentators

Epitaph · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 3:11 pm

First time I heard her commentate last night and I must say she was well shit. Get her off! She makes that Welsh geezer who always does the crap games at the end seem good!

kagni · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 3:21 pm

Heard her for the first time last night, thought she was poor.
She mentioned Zheng Zhi from Charlton three times and each time said that he was the Chinese captain.
After the third time I was hoping he'd get the ball again just to see if she'd tell us one more time.

Daxter · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 6:32 pm

She is bloody awful.

fatshaft · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 8:50 pm

bobo the clown wrote:

mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:

WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT.

Really poor again tonight.

Afraid you're right.

However 'inclusive' & open minded I'm trying to be her voice just doesn't work.

I also think Jonathon Pearce peaked on Robot-Wars. He's a good journalist, but he could open cans with that screeching of his.

His voice is made for Robot Wars, unfortunately when watching football you just expect Sgt. Bash to be coming on as a sub any second.

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 9:04 pm

One more example of why change is not good!

Athers · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 11:55 am

kagni wrote:

Heard her for the first time last night, thought she was poor.
She mentioned Zheng Zhi from Charlton three times and each time said that he was the Chinese captain.
After the third time I was hoping he'd get the ball again just to see if she'd tell us one more time.

I noticed that too (probably everyone did) - obviously she was short on notes for him..

While she's in a position that's an easy target for abuse, she's not been good at all and I'm sure there are better female alternatives out there. One of them that does the women's football maybe.

boltonboris · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 12:00 pm

Athers wrote:

kagni wrote:

Heard her for the first time last night, thought she was poor.
She mentioned Zheng Zhi from Charlton three times and each time said that he was the Chinese captain.
After the third time I was hoping he'd get the ball again just to see if she'd tell us one more time.

I noticed that too (probably everyone did) - obviously she was short on notes for him..

While she's in a position that's an easy target for abuse, she's not been good at all and I'm sure there are better female alternatives out there. One of them that does the women's football maybe.

Womens Football??? What next? Shotputting?

Athers · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 12:07 pm

It's terrible, but for the 5 minutes I usually watch per game before remembering that fact, the commentary isn't as bad as Jacqui on MOTD.

Montreal Wanderer · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 12:57 pm

Cassie Campbell, retired captain of Canada's world champion and Olympic champion women's hockey teams, has joined the broadcast booth as a colour commentator for NHL hockey. She not only knows a lot more about the sport that some of the talking heads - she is a lot easier to look at too. So I have no problem with women commentators in our national sport.

mummywhycantieatcrayons · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 1:01 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:

Cassie Campbell, retired captain of Canada's world champion and Olympic champion women's hockey teams, has joined the broadcast booth as a colour commentator for NHL hockey. She not only knows a lot more about the sport that some of the talking heads - she is a lot easier to look at too. So I have no problem with women commentators in our national sport.

What does she sound like though?

North American women can sometimes have a bit more of a drawl than their English counterparts, meaning they might be better suited to commentating.

Montreal Wanderer · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 1:05 pm

mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:

Montreal Wanderer wrote:

Cassie Campbell, retired captain of Canada's world champion and Olympic champion women's hockey teams, has joined the broadcast booth as a colour commentator for NHL hockey. She not only knows a lot more about the sport that some of the talking heads - she is a lot easier to look at too. So I have no problem with women commentators in our national sport.

What does she sound like though?

North American women can sometimes have a bit more of a drawl than their English counterparts, meaning they might be better suited to commentating.

Fairly low pitched contralto - not at all hard on the ear and speaks reasonably slowly. Colour commentators here don't do the commentary - they analyze during pauses

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