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  the daniel July 19, 2015 at 10:17am

  I really like gasnier. He is a breath of fresh air. Not afraid to take on the idiotic opinions of people like matty, kent and ikin.
  
  He generally has the same open and realistic opinions of the general rugby league community, and has very little agenda.
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    sixtiesboy > the daniel July 19, 2015 at 10:20am

    Spot on. He has developed much better than my preconceived ideas on him would have thought.
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    AJAX > the daniel July 19, 2015 at 11:40am

    I would have to agree. He is very different from say, Brad Fittler who seems to waffle on without entertaining anyone, and seems to be a little...tactless and thickheaded
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    Kurupt > the daniel July 19, 2015 at 12:49pm

    I've said this before too, didn't like him as a player, but have a lot of respect for him now as a commentator, he tells it like it is and even when he speaks of the eels in a negative way, it is factual with examples.
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    ParramAddict > the daniel July 19, 2015 at 1:28pm

    The only thing that shits me about him is his support for shortnening the season, the only thing that is too long is the offseason
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  Prof. Daz July 19, 2015 at 10:23am

  This is a neat idea for a blog.
  
  Though it will not be a popular choice, I like Phil Gould. I find Gould to be a thoughtful analyst not afraid to speak against the tide. He calls it as he sees it and he has a good footy brain.
  
  On the anecdote side, I had a nice email exchange with Gould years ago. It must have been 8 or even 10 years ago. I was living overseas in Canada, and the only NRL I could get was a few highlight videos and one game per week on some global sports channel. I read this article on the Sydney morning herald online edition, by Gould, which amounted to a rant against those he did not like, with a lot of mystery references, unname so and so's, half made pregnant innuendos, etc. It was awful journalism, more suitable to a diary entry. So I wrote him an email (back when direct email for online journo pieces was more common!). I basically said I respected his footy analysis and that there were many footy fans like me who liked reading intelligent commentary on the game, and that muck raking wasted our time, not to mention some fans living overseas had little real news, so it really wasted our time. Gould wrote back directly and said he regretted the piece and took seriously his role as an analyst, and conveyed a series of his own anecdotes to say he knew his standards should be higher.
  
  I found Gould to be a good fellow in those emails, and thus never go for the criticism he unjustly cops on 1eyed. That's my story anyway.
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    FME > Prof. Daz July 19, 2015 at 10:54am

    Gould calls it as he sees it LMAO. Thanks Daz I needed that laugh.
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    sixtiesboy > Prof. Daz July 19, 2015 at 11:34am

    Thanks for the response Prof. My only anecdote with Phil Gould comes from the 1980s. I'd popped into the Business Mans Club in Parramatta for a drink after work and he was there holding court with a group of people hanging off his every word. Of course he was just a player at that time and I was surprised by the authority that he seemed to hold in what was just a group of blokes having a drink and a chat. Given how this was a small, tucked away club in Hunter St I was actually surprised to see him there.
    Unlike other league personalities, I've always been impressed with him authoring his own pieces. Whilst I often disagree with his ideas, I respect his intellect.
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    Ham Sammich > Prof. Daz July 19, 2015 at 1:20pm

    The reason I don't like Gould is because he waffles on about useless crap. He has some good ideas for the game though. He's a much better print journo.
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  Phil Mann July 19, 2015 at 10:32am

  Sixties, you will remember all the radio callers, Frank Hyde, Ron Casey and 2KY's Tiger Black would set up along the sidelines with their equipment on card tables. Frank would regularly get annoyed by the ball boys standing in the way and start yelling, "ball boy! Get out of the way!" Tiger Black's calls were always so far behind the the game you could often hear his voice in Franks broadcast 3 plays behind.
  On radio, every scrum penalty was "feet across the scrum". Those were the days.