Comments on: Eddie leads Nine’s Olympic team

By: GP

GP — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:11:40 +0000

Who decided that Eddie Maguire would be the right person to host the winter olympic coverage?? A Sports commentator and interviewer he most definately is not. His commentary during the opening ceremony was absolutely dreadful. His inability to pronounce foreign names correctly, ask sensible questions during interviews and his constant pronouncement of “Australia” as “Austraya” are all soooo annoying. How did he get that job over others who have much more expertise and articulation??
The winter olympics coverage is incredibly disappointing. I want to watch the sporting events, not little sections of highlights.
Learned my lesson. If Nine hosts the next olympics coverage…Foxtell must be the way to go.

By: LM

LM — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:34:49 +0000

Why can’t Eddie Maguire, and many other commentators, pronounce our country’s name correctly? Australia has an “L” . Why do Eddie, Grant Hackett and many others insist on saying “Austraya”?

By: johb123

johb123 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:08:39 +0000

The Olympics would all be so watchable if we could just watch the sport and leave all the plastic commentating (mostly Eddie McGuire) somewhere else. Stick with your AFL Eddie!

By: Glen Powell

Glen Powell — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:47:28 +0000

Eddie Maguire’s interview with Begg-Smith was a disaster in my opinion. The ‘we was robbed’ line is just un-Australian – the Canadian born Begg-Smith was clearly uncomfortable with Maguire’s infantile questioning – and far more ‘aussie’.

Begg-Smith did a brilliant job on the moguls. The Canadian pipped him by a tiny margin, with a faster run. Maguire should get off television.

By: David Knox

David Knox — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:30:55 +0000

Sounds very Aussie to me!

By: Rosie

Rosie — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:25:22 +0000

At the opening ceremony we hear the athlete taking the oath on behalf of all athletes. She hopes for drug free dope free olymoics. Tonight in banter from Maguire and Malloy we hear that when describing some part of the opening ceremony (I think it was the uniform of a country) the word stoned (I think this was describing what the team unifrom looked like.) Regardless what they were bantering about surely the word stoned is terribly inappropriate in such a context. Shame on them and I hope some one can pull them up!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:09:32 +0000

Eddie was a disaster during the opening ceremony. His robotic reading of the context for each aspect of the ceremony was way below even his most lackluster performance standard. It was absolutely dreadful and marred what would have otherwise been a stunning spectacular. What were you thinking?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:32:18 +0000

Jay Onley is gorgeous tho. I will be watching him, not Eddie!

By: hello TV

hello TV — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:48:32 +0000

nice to see it on nine!

By: Vid

Vid — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:46:33 +0000

@neon Kittin…its a whole lot btter than your beloved CH7… sevens coverages was nothing short of crap!
maguire may not be everyone cup of tea but atleast he knows his sport and knows how to do his job.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:08:19 +0000

no Ray Warren?

By: damo

damo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:57:28 +0000

great cant wait. 9 wont have to do much to be better than anything 7 did with it’s coverage of last years olympics. all the stars that are heading up the commentary and the lead ups are a heap better than what 7 threw at us. sonia kruger, tom william, rebecca wilson and one of the daddo’s. they were terrible

thank god 9 has the rights

By: Jude

Jude — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:27:39 +0000

Cant wait go nine

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:00:22 +0000

Karl will be pi**ed if Cameron gets to go to Vancouver and he doesn’t! lol

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:55:20 +0000

Mr. Do-Bee, as much as I dislike Eddie, you can’t be serious about Ken Sutcliffe, the man can’t go through a sentence without stuffing up, I love my tennis and golf, believe me I have had to put up with him for many years. Always gets names of players wrong etc. At Least Eddie can speak.

Nine really not much else to use. I would prefer Tim Sheridan hosting than anyone else really, best of a fairly poor bunch really.

By: KFed

KFed — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:14:18 +0000

The thing I like best about Go! is it is brilliant for escaping sports I have no interest in. The Olympics hardly fits their format, and aside from curling the Winter Olympics fits very nicely into the category of sport I have no interest in.