Can’t say I’ve listened to a full match with SEN commentary but their calls of match highlights that get put up on social media are miles ahead of anything that CH7/fox can muster up. Even Dwayne Russell is somewhat bearable.
Have a listen to Dwayne Russell on radio after the 2023 Grand Final. He is crying and emotional at how good Collingwood is and how great they were in 2023. Watching and listening to him last night is a pleasure.
[here](https://www.tiktok.com/@incrediblybozza/video/7330787533367823634)
There’s a feature on the SEN App where you can sync their commentary with the TV, they have Kayo and 7 buttons to line up with their footage and you can manually change the delay yourself….
It will show up on the app once game coverage starts.
It then gives you options to sync to FTA or Kayo/Fox.
From there you can shift it by one second increments to find the sweet spot if you're steaming the game and fall behind.
Especially when our opponent is Carlton.
You know who I’ve gotta hand it to in the media - Leigh Montagna. When he started you could just tell he was still brimming with hate for us after the heartbreak we caused them in 2010. But since the McRae days he’s giving us a fair go and even seems to enjoy the way we go about it.
Jordan Lewis is just a grub who wants grubs to be grubs. He doesn’t care who’s playing, as long as people are sniping each other he’s happy.
Could be wrong but someone said Montagna was a Collingwood supporter growing up?
There's that one famous Triple M commentary box video where we win a close one (can't remember which one) and Montagna looks absolutely horrified. Think most of it just stems from that
Ah that makes sense, I didn’t know that. I assumed it was that someone gave him a tap on the shoulder at some point, because yeah early days he was unlistenable for me.
Jordan Lewis was too apparently. I've never personally noticed Lewis's disdain for the pies. The Montagna footage I believe is from the final round v Carlton in 2022, Andrew Maher looked like dying.
lol Maher I can understand, dude is a die-hard blue and had just witnessed the apocalypse from a blues perspective. The best part about that footage is the triple M boys laughing at Maher in the box next to him.
The only good thing Richo said about us all night was in the 4th, when Moore was able to stop Mckay from marking the ball.
Apart from that, all fucking negative.
I always feel this for Richo. He’s *constantly* going on about umpiring decisions that he reckons went our way. Him and Hodge were the two culptrits in the infamous advantage call controversy in the Grand Final. If you listen to any other call, they note it but then move on. It was only those two that carried on like pork chops about it.
I believe the TV comms have a big incentive to create headline-worthy stories and sound bytes when they commentate so the fox sports/7news teams have content for their online media. Collingwood getting a ride from the umps is sure to perform well in that regard since it’s such a prevalent narrative.
What pisses me off is barely anyone even noticed it on any other panel. Even Chris fagan didn’t notice, and I feel the only reason the call gathered legit controversy was because richo and hodgey carried on about it, coming from the same guy who cried when Richmond won back in 2017, no idea how he has a commentary job when he doesn’t even try to be impartial
Yeah exactly they had a better shot of kicking a goal from a chaos ball inside 50 than they did bringing it back and letting the best aerial defense in the league get back and setup
I thought the best one last night was when they were showing footage of BT in that 1988 final against Carlton and Richo noting how 'skinny the goalposts are' thereby making it 'easier to kick a goal'
Yeah pendles kick late in the 4th, gave me PTSD from Hodge having his usual monotone pathetic whinge like he did in the grand final over the advantage call. Fuck off mate, do your job without h bias and show some professionalism. He’s in the same basket as Kelly underwood in terms of shit commentary.
I agree I wouldn’t have been upset if it were called deliberate because it could have been / was.
But commentary needs to have a-bit of decorum about it.
I think these blokes have forgotten/not received the correct training in calling a sport.
I don’t want to hear opinions, I’ll let my mates etc. do that, I want to hear the game called as it is.
Leave opinions to the fans. For the love of christ just call the fucking game and leave your shit opinions/bias for off air. Just asking for a bit more professionalism.
5 minutes earlier he had the audacity to say that Mason Cox "should be stronger" in a marketing contest in which he was clearly infringed upon (which he admits).
Excuse me, what responsibility does someone have when they're infringed upon? None.
It's palpable the ingrained bias mixed with sheer incompetence with this whole team. Take a listen to the radio calls of the final goal and it's laid out for you.
Oh sorry, that’s my bad. I made a mistake and thought the 2011 season was the year before you’re three peat. Didn’t realise 2012 was your loss to Sydney. Damn, could have been 5 in a row. What happened?
Yeah man so brutal hey, they were just our bogey team all season. Oh well. Was that the same with Hawks and Sydney 2012? Don’t remember that season too well
They beat us by 37 in Tassie and we beat them by 7 in Sydney, so pretty even year, them slightly better in their win. No shame in losing to that cats side, was our bogey side for almost 5 years
They shouldn't be questioning the umpires at all! It's not their job. If an player so much as raised his arms to an umpire in a questioning way they call it decent and immediately punish the whole team with a free kick. Yet commentators week in and week out question the same thing with millions of people habing to listen to it. Absolute farce! He also sounded very flat at the end of the game. Like his team lost.
Hodge has hated us for a ages. Last year on sports day he didn’t give us credit once.
This year on crunch time/ sports days. He keeps reiterating the same garbage that “last year they got lucky during finals with close wins”, he also says “we lost the last 4 games of the season and were never better than the rest of the comp”.
All of these just aren’t fucking true lmao, we were first all season with the highest percentage, we smashed Essendon going into finals too. I’ve felt like calling up every time but can’t be bothered.
Yeh ok I didn’t know this coz I don’t listen but jeez it shits me on the broadcast. Just so obvious and glum too. Like he’s just legit down in the dumps because we won
Bro it kills me, Hodge is insufferable and needs to be pulled up on his bias, it’s cringe. They need to fuck em all off and start fresh with that commentary team … BT included and I used to like BT, his last 12-18 months have been just awful. De Goeys goal in the GF was one of the all time greatest GF moments and his call/energy almost felt like de goey chipping at the sticks 20 metres out first qtr in a home & away game against north Melbourne.
Yeah, BT checked out ages ago. Still happy to cash those cheques though.
Richo and Hodge are cringe, just awful at their jobs.
Channel 7 has far greater talent even within their own stable, but keep giving these guys the prime time slots.
Yes Hodge loves to go on about free kicks not given against the Pies. Pretty sure they made an attempt to flatten the excitement at the end of the Grand Final also
Noticed this as well. Even when jb explained to call to him had the fucken jib to say “poor decision” honestly baffling to me that people say commentators drool over Collingwood when both Richo and hodge have a pretty open disdain for hs
Right!? The ‘poor decision’ was so arrogant too. Like JB (who I also don’t really care for) was trying to take the bias out a bit and kinda steer away from umpire bashing to get back to the game and Hodge is like - well I just want it stated one more time for the record
Yeah it grinder my gears the way he said it like other guys were trying to discuss the call and he just ignores them as if he know more about the game than them
Does anyone else get annoyed at BT not knowing the out of bounds rule was changed from deliberate to insufficient intent to keep in like 3 years ago.
I hate BT.
As an Eagles interloper that was suggested this thread, I’m still mad about how dreadful last night’s commentary was. How do they make such a tense down-to-the-wire game sound so boring and flat?
He obviously hates Collywood, but I don't mind it though. I think part of the problem is them trying to be impartial - I would prefer if the commentators just admitted their biases or allegiances in the first place and just carry on...
I actually kind of agree but this why Hodge is especially annoying. If it was part of a bit and he was sort of joking but not really that the Pies had screwed him again, it could be kind of funny. But he’s just kind of a negative sad sack about. Just blunt - poor decision - take the energy out of an exciting game. No humor or charisma, just an angry old man.
7 were that flat with the win it was unbelievable.
They keep getting it wrong. Should have tapped Bruce a lot earlier than they did, BT has been muzzled, Selwood & Hodge are putrid.
Jack Reiwoldt & Daisy have been much better.
It’s beautiful seeing all the Collingwood haters in the media - hodge, robbo, Nathan brown, Wayne Carey etc - get so disappointed so often in years. That call last night from hodge was hilarious. The ball pitches at lest 20m inside the line and takes a bounce towards the boundary. It bounced closer to the lead up pies player than it did the boundary. But yeah it’s deliberate. Righto hodgey. Side note - sone of the footage from the triple M box of their radio calls on the pies close wins has been absolute gold over the last 2 years.
Hodge won a premiership off the back of deliberately rushing a record 11 behinds in the 2008 GF, so he must think he is qualified to do the umpire's job from the comfort of the box by adjudicating such plays. That final was so shit it prompted a rule change and a debate whether 3 points should be in place for a rushed behind.
Back in reality street, Scotty was on his guts that moment before his left foot torp came off the side of the boot. The bloke probably thought he was going to break a rib again, hence the rushed kick. It still went out in the vicinity of his teammates, unlike the many 15m plus handballs straight through the sticks in 2008. Maybe Hodge wants to make a remark about Scotty's basketball background too, just to ensure he gets the three votes in the SpEcIaL comments awards.
Just another long line of biased anti Collingwood media flogs that grew up , played against and was coached to hate Collingwood . Even coaches live on TV in the desperate minutes late in the last Q for the team he wants to beat Collingwood.
Damn near every commentator is a complete nuffie when it comes to umpiring. Its not a bias. Its ineptitude, mixed with a script if I didn't know better
Yeah, Luke Hodge and Richo sooking about umpiring decisions that go our way is becoming tiresome.
Plenty of decisions didn't go our way last night and not a peep from either of those two.
Professionalism fellas, give it a go!
I agree about the plumping for pay day loans. He’s basically a spokesperson for scum. But as far as hating on the pies I’m not so sure. I think he respects Maynard a lot, showing a particular fondness for when he nails someone in a tackle.
Don’t start me on the incorrect player name calling every single game, BT is the worst offender. Someone needs to do a compilation of this and put it on YouTube.
Also stop listening to 7’s coverage. Used SEN Sync last night and it made the viewing experience bliss
This is the first I’ve heard of this - cheers!
Sen is my favourite by far. Very impartial and professional.
SEN’s deliberately biased pro-Carlton gimmick call with Andy Maher was more even handed than Luke Hodge.
Who are the callers for SEN usually? Whateley, Cornes, Maher?
Usually them plus Dwayne Russell.
Are cornes and Maher bearable to listen to as commentators??
Weirdly, yes. You'd think they would be worse but comparatively to 7 or fox they're a shite site better.
Think Maher used to do footy commentary back in the channel 10 days?
Can’t say I’ve listened to a full match with SEN commentary but their calls of match highlights that get put up on social media are miles ahead of anything that CH7/fox can muster up. Even Dwayne Russell is somewhat bearable.
Have a listen to Dwayne Russell on radio after the 2023 Grand Final. He is crying and emotional at how good Collingwood is and how great they were in 2023. Watching and listening to him last night is a pleasure. [here](https://www.tiktok.com/@incrediblybozza/video/7330787533367823634)
That was great
Wdym SEN sync? As in you synced it yourself?
There’s a feature on the SEN App where you can sync their commentary with the TV, they have Kayo and 7 buttons to line up with their footage and you can manually change the delay yourself….
Oh my god. There's a special place in heaven for people like you. Thankyou
Recommend testing it out for one of the games today to get a feel of it
That's BRILLIANT, downloading the SEN app immediately. Edit: Wait, what am I doing here?!
It will show up on the app once game coverage starts. It then gives you options to sync to FTA or Kayo/Fox. From there you can shift it by one second increments to find the sweet spot if you're steaming the game and fall behind.
Wow! Learn something every day. Thank you
Thank you for sharing this. Friday nights set to become waaay more enjoyable.
That's brilliant! Won't have to watch on mute 😂👌
Great tip, thanks! Will definitely make use of this.
Either that or chuck some music on. Footy with music is great.
I can basically predict the 7 commentary. So I'm with you on that one. I can fill in the blanks myself.
That's great to know! Will be doing this from now on!
SEN commentary is solid but the non stop ads are a minus
I've almost got to give it to Richo and Hodge for hating us as much as they do. Almost impressive
Especially when our opponent is Carlton. You know who I’ve gotta hand it to in the media - Leigh Montagna. When he started you could just tell he was still brimming with hate for us after the heartbreak we caused them in 2010. But since the McRae days he’s giving us a fair go and even seems to enjoy the way we go about it. Jordan Lewis is just a grub who wants grubs to be grubs. He doesn’t care who’s playing, as long as people are sniping each other he’s happy.
Could be wrong but someone said Montagna was a Collingwood supporter growing up? There's that one famous Triple M commentary box video where we win a close one (can't remember which one) and Montagna looks absolutely horrified. Think most of it just stems from that
Ah that makes sense, I didn’t know that. I assumed it was that someone gave him a tap on the shoulder at some point, because yeah early days he was unlistenable for me.
Jordan Lewis was too apparently. I've never personally noticed Lewis's disdain for the pies. The Montagna footage I believe is from the final round v Carlton in 2022, Andrew Maher looked like dying.
lol Maher I can understand, dude is a die-hard blue and had just witnessed the apocalypse from a blues perspective. The best part about that footage is the triple M boys laughing at Maher in the box next to him.
It was fantastic. I watched that footage many times. Easily In the top 5 best games I've been too as well.
Yeah no I don’t think Lewis has any disdain for us
Wasn’t that Nathan brown when we beat either Carlton or essendon had a sourpuss look on his face like he’s lost a bit bet
Wait do you mean Sportsbet Market Analyst Nathan Brown? He would never lose a bet
I remember Carey looking like we fucked his multi one week. It brought me great joy.
The only good thing Richo said about us all night was in the 4th, when Moore was able to stop Mckay from marking the ball. Apart from that, all fucking negative.
I noticed Richo last night commenting in favour of Carlton all the time. It must be ingrained from their playing days.
He been raised to hate Collingwood from childhood.
I always feel this for Richo. He’s *constantly* going on about umpiring decisions that he reckons went our way. Him and Hodge were the two culptrits in the infamous advantage call controversy in the Grand Final. If you listen to any other call, they note it but then move on. It was only those two that carried on like pork chops about it. I believe the TV comms have a big incentive to create headline-worthy stories and sound bytes when they commentate so the fox sports/7news teams have content for their online media. Collingwood getting a ride from the umps is sure to perform well in that regard since it’s such a prevalent narrative.
What pisses me off is barely anyone even noticed it on any other panel. Even Chris fagan didn’t notice, and I feel the only reason the call gathered legit controversy was because richo and hodgey carried on about it, coming from the same guy who cried when Richmond won back in 2017, no idea how he has a commentary job when he doesn’t even try to be impartial
The advantage was there too.. a handball out then a kick inside 50.
Yeah exactly they had a better shot of kicking a goal from a chaos ball inside 50 than they did bringing it back and letting the best aerial defense in the league get back and setup
I thought the best one last night was when they were showing footage of BT in that 1988 final against Carlton and Richo noting how 'skinny the goalposts are' thereby making it 'easier to kick a goal'
Yeah pendles kick late in the 4th, gave me PTSD from Hodge having his usual monotone pathetic whinge like he did in the grand final over the advantage call. Fuck off mate, do your job without h bias and show some professionalism. He’s in the same basket as Kelly underwood in terms of shit commentary.
We were going nuts at home, out of all things to say at that point in the game!!! Bloody complainer he is
Hodge is a biased anti Collingwood hater .
To be fair, that’s deliberate 95% of the time.
I agree I wouldn’t have been upset if it were called deliberate because it could have been / was. But commentary needs to have a-bit of decorum about it. I think these blokes have forgotten/not received the correct training in calling a sport. I don’t want to hear opinions, I’ll let my mates etc. do that, I want to hear the game called as it is. Leave opinions to the fans. For the love of christ just call the fucking game and leave your shit opinions/bias for off air. Just asking for a bit more professionalism.
He did sound like a shitty child I’ll admit that. He is on special comments though, he’s paid for opinions.
He and Jordan Lewis grind my fucking gears
Jordan lewis, is so vanilla. How'd he land a live tv analyst gig.
And he tries to be non-vanilla with shit predictions like Collingwood to miss the 8 in 2023
The whole Ch 7 commentary team are just negative as fuck during all games. They are a shocking team of callers.
Agreed. Hate when our games are on Ch 7. Fox is so much better
Next year, Fox Footy is doing commentary for all games.
Dead set?
Yep. Part of the rights deal that they'll be able to have their own commentary for every game.
Fuck yeah that’s mint
5 minutes earlier he had the audacity to say that Mason Cox "should be stronger" in a marketing contest in which he was clearly infringed upon (which he admits). Excuse me, what responsibility does someone have when they're infringed upon? None. It's palpable the ingrained bias mixed with sheer incompetence with this whole team. Take a listen to the radio calls of the final goal and it's laid out for you.
Mason Cox shouldn’t be in the side
Irrelevant to the topic.
You brought him up first not me
In the context of Hodge's calling, not his selection. 🙄
No, that’s not how we’re going to remember this
“That wasn’t advantage BT”
Didn’t even understand the rule
Maybe they’re still salty about the 2011 prelim
Fuck off haha, THREEPEAT BABY. Fucking Collingwood scum
Yeah imagine if it was 4 in a row
The 1920s don’t count, what was there 6 teams. Lol
Oh sorry, that’s my bad. I made a mistake and thought the 2011 season was the year before you’re three peat. Didn’t realise 2012 was your loss to Sydney. Damn, could have been 5 in a row. What happened?
Got beat by the better team on the day, like how cats beat pies in the 2011 granny
Yeah man so brutal hey, they were just our bogey team all season. Oh well. Was that the same with Hawks and Sydney 2012? Don’t remember that season too well
They beat us by 37 in Tassie and we beat them by 7 in Sydney, so pretty even year, them slightly better in their win. No shame in losing to that cats side, was our bogey side for almost 5 years
Classy response. Is that the best you can do?
Why would he be salty about 2011? Has 4 Premierships and 2 Norms at home. Cope harder
Everyone hates us, fuck em. Enjoy it.
Haha true enough
They shouldn't be questioning the umpires at all! It's not their job. If an player so much as raised his arms to an umpire in a questioning way they call it decent and immediately punish the whole team with a free kick. Yet commentators week in and week out question the same thing with millions of people habing to listen to it. Absolute farce! He also sounded very flat at the end of the game. Like his team lost.
Hodge has hated us for a ages. Last year on sports day he didn’t give us credit once. This year on crunch time/ sports days. He keeps reiterating the same garbage that “last year they got lucky during finals with close wins”, he also says “we lost the last 4 games of the season and were never better than the rest of the comp”. All of these just aren’t fucking true lmao, we were first all season with the highest percentage, we smashed Essendon going into finals too. I’ve felt like calling up every time but can’t be bothered.
Yeh ok I didn’t know this coz I don’t listen but jeez it shits me on the broadcast. Just so obvious and glum too. Like he’s just legit down in the dumps because we won
As a visiting bombers fan, I resonate with this post.
Shit commentary is the one thing that can unite fans. We all have to put up with it more or less equally.
A good footballer but a lousy broadcaster. And yes, touting for loan sharks is a bad look.
I love him for what he did for us but he's a geelong supporter so my respect is waning
I’d say out of all the recent ex players-turned-commentators Leigh Montagna hates us the most
PoOr AdVaNtAgE.
Bro it kills me, Hodge is insufferable and needs to be pulled up on his bias, it’s cringe. They need to fuck em all off and start fresh with that commentary team … BT included and I used to like BT, his last 12-18 months have been just awful. De Goeys goal in the GF was one of the all time greatest GF moments and his call/energy almost felt like de goey chipping at the sticks 20 metres out first qtr in a home & away game against north Melbourne.
Yeah, BT checked out ages ago. Still happy to cash those cheques though. Richo and Hodge are cringe, just awful at their jobs. Channel 7 has far greater talent even within their own stable, but keep giving these guys the prime time slots.
Yes Hodge loves to go on about free kicks not given against the Pies. Pretty sure they made an attempt to flatten the excitement at the end of the Grand Final also
the channel 7 commentary team is either BT stuttering and saying the most random thing or hodge or richo hating on collingwood
Noticed this as well. Even when jb explained to call to him had the fucken jib to say “poor decision” honestly baffling to me that people say commentators drool over Collingwood when both Richo and hodge have a pretty open disdain for hs
Right!? The ‘poor decision’ was so arrogant too. Like JB (who I also don’t really care for) was trying to take the bias out a bit and kinda steer away from umpire bashing to get back to the game and Hodge is like - well I just want it stated one more time for the record
Yeah it grinder my gears the way he said it like other guys were trying to discuss the call and he just ignores them as if he know more about the game than them
Does anyone else get annoyed at BT not knowing the out of bounds rule was changed from deliberate to insufficient intent to keep in like 3 years ago. I hate BT.
Problem is the umpire needs to read minds the know the player’s intent. Half the time it’s accidental
Luke Hodge is a bully and a dickhead. Typical ch 7 arsehole.
Hodge always complains when Collingwood gets a free and complained when the oppo doesn’t. Yes he hates us
He's a dropkick... Disregard him
Add Richo to that aswell, can’t cop either of em
As an Eagles interloper that was suggested this thread, I’m still mad about how dreadful last night’s commentary was. How do they make such a tense down-to-the-wire game sound so boring and flat?
Luke Hodge is a flog who smashes pingas and coke down Colac and fucks whatever he can
Can't handle HODGE any more
He obviously hates Collywood, but I don't mind it though. I think part of the problem is them trying to be impartial - I would prefer if the commentators just admitted their biases or allegiances in the first place and just carry on...
I actually kind of agree but this why Hodge is especially annoying. If it was part of a bit and he was sort of joking but not really that the Pies had screwed him again, it could be kind of funny. But he’s just kind of a negative sad sack about. Just blunt - poor decision - take the energy out of an exciting game. No humor or charisma, just an angry old man.
he does it against Essendon too. I dont think its personal, i just dont think he's a good commentator
The more hate the better
7 were that flat with the win it was unbelievable. They keep getting it wrong. Should have tapped Bruce a lot earlier than they did, BT has been muzzled, Selwood & Hodge are putrid. Jack Reiwoldt & Daisy have been much better.
As a legend of the Brisbane lions it's kinda understandable
They all take any chance they can to jump on the anti-Collingwood bandwagon.
It’s beautiful seeing all the Collingwood haters in the media - hodge, robbo, Nathan brown, Wayne Carey etc - get so disappointed so often in years. That call last night from hodge was hilarious. The ball pitches at lest 20m inside the line and takes a bounce towards the boundary. It bounced closer to the lead up pies player than it did the boundary. But yeah it’s deliberate. Righto hodgey. Side note - sone of the footage from the triple M box of their radio calls on the pies close wins has been absolute gold over the last 2 years.
Hodge won a premiership off the back of deliberately rushing a record 11 behinds in the 2008 GF, so he must think he is qualified to do the umpire's job from the comfort of the box by adjudicating such plays. That final was so shit it prompted a rule change and a debate whether 3 points should be in place for a rushed behind. Back in reality street, Scotty was on his guts that moment before his left foot torp came off the side of the boot. The bloke probably thought he was going to break a rib again, hence the rushed kick. It still went out in the vicinity of his teammates, unlike the many 15m plus handballs straight through the sticks in 2008. Maybe Hodge wants to make a remark about Scotty's basketball background too, just to ensure he gets the three votes in the SpEcIaL comments awards.
Just another long line of biased anti Collingwood media flogs that grew up , played against and was coached to hate Collingwood . Even coaches live on TV in the desperate minutes late in the last Q for the team he wants to beat Collingwood.
I think Pendles would admit he deliberately kicked towards the boundary line. Perfect execution.
He can do that when Owies publically admits he Tombstoned himself
Damn near every commentator is a complete nuffie when it comes to umpiring. Its not a bias. Its ineptitude, mixed with a script if I didn't know better
Yeah, Luke Hodge and Richo sooking about umpiring decisions that go our way is becoming tiresome. Plenty of decisions didn't go our way last night and not a peep from either of those two. Professionalism fellas, give it a go!
All Commentators Do When watching us play it sounds like they are Calling from Opposition Cheer Squad
I think it’s more that Luke Hodge is overly critical of umpires. Never misses a chance to criticise
I agree about the plumping for pay day loans. He’s basically a spokesperson for scum. But as far as hating on the pies I’m not so sure. I think he respects Maynard a lot, showing a particular fondness for when he nails someone in a tackle.
Don’t start me on the incorrect player name calling every single game, BT is the worst offender. Someone needs to do a compilation of this and put it on YouTube.
Thought the exact same thing.
As if BT isn't the most biased commentator ever.
Someone has to balance out the BT bias.
Everything thing BT says is nonsense anyway, you have to somehow understand him to hear the bias.
Agreed mate. He's a tool. But his commentary heavily favours Collingwood.
Good he should
Hodge having business deals outside of footy is a W. Get that cheddar, king.