You listen to that one do you? I do, and he's the same on the radio. A major endorser of almost everything AFL. He gets 2 cracks at pushing the AFL agenda.
BTW it's OK to like GW. I like him as a pure commentator and he has a pretty good knowledge and appreciation of a lot of sports. I find him self-indulgent and smug i9n general. And far from independent when it comes to most things AFL.
We are part of the same 'mob' MD. Well... according to some.
Agree with you, although I no longer listen to him. He is the AFL mouthpiece wrapped up in a reasonable grasp of the English language.
He has become smug and self indulgent since he started as SEN's headline act - from the moment they pumped up his tyres as Croc Media's Number 1 headline, his commitment to his profession got buried.
On the ABC, his knowledge + his humility + his presence of his profession working for the ABC kept him objective.
Now, he is as much a groupie for his own club as many of us are but far worse is that, as part of SEN and FOX who rely on the AFL's good graces to keep their licences, he is anything but independent.
Couldnt care less about his looks, mannerisms, female journos, etc.
What does make me laugh is when ppl call him intelligent and well researched simply b/c he can string a few words together better than most.
Of course, he appears smarter when you compare him to his comrade Robbo across the table on FOX or King, Cornes, etc across the headsets from him on SEN.
We'd all sound and look like Einstein relative to the rest of them.