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Old 31 May 2009, 07:28 (Ref:2472466)   #1
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billy bigtime has a lot of promise if they can keep it on the circuit!
Never thought I'd say this but.....

Congrats to Mark Skaife who is doing an excellent job in commentary.
P.S. What happened to his job as ambassador to HRT?
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Old 31 May 2009, 08:00 (Ref:2472475)   #2
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well said Billy , In all honesty I am enjoying Mark , Neil and Larko in the pits.

and also Huge congrats to Aaron Noonan (Ten tenths member Noonz) who also did a mighty fine job this weekend in Matthew Whites absence
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Old 31 May 2009, 08:31 (Ref:2472494)   #3
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Congrats to Mark Skaife who is doing an excellent job in commentary.
P.S. What happened to his job as ambassador to HRT?
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Old 31 May 2009, 08:40 (Ref:2472499)   #4
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Suprisingly I agree Skaife is doing a good job, really good job actually
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Old 31 May 2009, 09:09 (Ref:2472517)   #5
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No surprise here. Like him or hate him, Mark Skaife has always been a good commentator when called on to do so in the past. Very professional and quite sarcastic/funny. He certainly shows no sign of bias, although there would be those (the usual) that disagree.
Seeing that he is not included in the Long distance driver line-up, his ambassador duties may include handing out posters at Bathurst.
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Old 31 May 2009, 10:07 (Ref:2472545)   #6
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Let's hope Matty White's Today Tonight career keeps him away from the commentary box...
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Old 31 May 2009, 10:12 (Ref:2472551)   #7
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Be good if Noonz got drafted in full-time for Matt White. At least he knows what he is talking about.
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Old 31 May 2009, 10:27 (Ref:2472557)   #8
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I actually said to my wife yesterday during the coverage "Is that Leigh Diffey commentating?????"

Sorry Noonz, I didn't mean any offence.
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Old 31 May 2009, 11:17 (Ref:2472591)   #9
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IMO great team they have their now with Crompo, MS & Larko who have top knowledge of what goes on, it's good.

also i agree that Noonan is better by a country mile then White is, leave White to concentrate on TT.

never thought i'd see the day bathplug but well done and i agree.
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Old 31 May 2009, 15:38 (Ref:2472742)   #10
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also Briony Ingerson is good, she does a good job for Bogpond and at Winton and here she done great in the pits. she conducts a good interview with the driver's and she seems to know what she is talking about. she isn't a bad looker either.

best commentry of a V8 meet for a while, keep this crew together, Beretta is good hosting, Crompo, MS & Noonan in the box with Larko and Briony in the pits.
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Old 31 May 2009, 16:20 (Ref:2472758)   #11
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also Briony Ingerson is good, she does a good job for Bogpond.
Is Bogpond another new name for a toilet?
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Old 31 May 2009, 16:39 (Ref:2472761)   #12
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Congrats to Mark Skaife who is doing an excellent job in commentary.
Is the world comming to the end?
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Old 31 May 2009, 23:20 (Ref:2472996)   #13
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If Larko ever steps aside, and Paul Morris wants to retire from running a team, Paul could be the new pit reporter. What do you reckon, billy?

"They must have thought I was driving." Top stuff.
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Old 1 Jun 2009, 00:55 (Ref:2473041)   #14
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The only comment I'll make on Skaife is that he needs to be clearer about who he's talking about. Referring to 2 drivers racing, then saying "He's got to put on the left" doesn't help much when both drivers would put it on the left to gain advantage.

It'll come with time I'm sure, but that's the only uppercut I've got for him.
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Old 1 Jun 2009, 02:21 (Ref:2473067)   #15
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No problem with the commentary but I think the camera work could still use some attention. Coulthard was about to make a pass and they went to pitlane and a broken car!
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Old 1 Jun 2009, 03:18 (Ref:2473088)   #16
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well yes Telstra/Bigpond are ****.
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Old 1 Jun 2009, 03:45 (Ref:2473093)   #17
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well said Billy , In all honesty I am enjoying Mark , Neil and Larko in the pits.

and also Huge congrats to Aaron Noonan (Ten tenths member Noonz) who also did a mighty fine job this weekend in Matthew Whites absence
Could I please also pass my congratulations on to the commentary team. I really feel that Mark Skaife hit his straps at Tasmania, but the real surprise was the marked improvement of the overall commentary team. The only explanation for this is the absence of Matthew White, and the addition of Aaron Noonan.

I particularly enjoyed Aaron's input into the history of the James Courtney chassis.

Well done Aaron - long may you reside!!!
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Old 1 Jun 2009, 03:55 (Ref:2473096)   #18
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They really did well this round. Replacing White with Noonan was a good call, it would be nice if it was a permenant switch, Noonan does a really good job in the box.

@ Paul Morris as a pit reporter, that would be quite entertaining actually.
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Old 1 Jun 2009, 04:10 (Ref:2473099)   #19
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Thats just the name that any previous telstra customer now gives them. Cause their service is ....
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Firstly, congrats Billy for being big enough to swallow some pride...

This is undoubtedly the best commentary team ever assembled. Cromley has always been good then the addition of Larko was brilliant. Now Skaife has added another dimension and Noonz should stay to complete the team. Please say Goodbye to White!

Larko and Skaife have been good mates since they raced each other in open wheelers and have a magic rapport (the magnetic cars was superb) with great humour. They are both extremely knowledgable and it comes across ... compare Larko describing technical issues to the past (especially that embarrassing watts link segment by Greg Rust at Bathurst). Also Skaife is one of the best technical drivers ever and his insights are superb, both with cars/setup and competitors.

Note how alert these guys are compared to the amateurs as well ... noticing things in the background and also by watching things other than monitors (Skaife noticed the Crashney incident and several pitstops before the director picked it up).
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Old 1 Jun 2009, 06:41 (Ref:2473142)   #21
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I agree, they've got a good team, Cromley has always been excellent, Larko is brilliant, Skaifey is improving all the time and Noonz is a massive, massive improvement over Matt White. Briony Ingerson is awesome too.
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Matt White was "away on assignment". I hope someone at Seven is reading this and finds more assignments for him.

Noonz, Cromley and Skaife was a great team. More, please.

Maybe keep Larko as the pit reporter, and just have Paul Morris for 'additional comments'. He can keep running the team and thinking up things like the diagonal tyre swap while adding some 'colour'. Maybe have Russell wired up to talk during the race like DJ used to do, and we'd have commentary to send the ratings up to where TC thinks they already are.

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Billy Bigtime giving praise to Mark Skaife. The final frontier.
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Commander Kirk, my neural net processors just exploded.

Billy Bigtime giving praise to Mark Skaife. The final frontier.
Not really. He's finally found something he's good at As soon as I hear any bias, I'll be on the attack
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