Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

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Which TMS commentator do you find most irritating to listen to, and makes you turn on the TV?

Henry Blofeld
3
27%
Jonathan Agnew
2
18%
Simon Mann
0
No votes
Alison Mitchell
1
9%
Charles Dagnall
0
No votes
Vic Marks
0
No votes
Phil Tufnell
0
No votes
Geoffrey Boycott
2
18%
Alec Stewart
0
No votes
Michael Vaughan
1
9%
Graeme Swann
1
9%
Ebony Rainford-Brent
0
No votes
Another (I'll post below)
1
9%
 
Total votes : 11

Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby bigfluffylemon » Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:30 pm

My money's on Blofeld to win this one hands down, but Boycott might run him close.

Personally I'll happily listen to most of them apart from Blofeld and Boycott, although Tuffers can be quite juvenile and doesn't add much insight. I think Ebony Rainford-Brent has been a really good addition - I do like listening to her, especially her understanding and enthusiasm for the women's game.

Perhaps I should have had two separate polls, one for summarisers and one for ball-by-ball commentators, but I've lumped them together.
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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby Aidan11 » Wed Aug 02, 2017 7:22 am

Agnew.

Can't stand him.
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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby DiligentDefence » Wed Aug 02, 2017 7:45 am

Hard pushed to pick between Blofeld and Vaughan, but Vaughan's smugness wins.
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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:42 am

Blowers or Boycott. Probably Boycott.

No Ed Smith?
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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby alfie » Wed Aug 02, 2017 1:38 pm

Rarely listen to it these days with all the TV streams ...but Henry wins this hands down . Could stand a couple of mentions of pigeons or buses but after a few minutes...

Plus he made too many errors for my taste : colour at the expense of accuracy is not what I want in a commentator.
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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby Slipstream » Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:31 pm

Ed Smith and Boycott
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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby bigfluffylemon » Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:15 pm

I forgot Ed Smith. Sorry. Can polls be edited? I guess not once people have started filling them in.

Slightly surprised to see so many votes for Agnew, he doesn't seem too bad to me.
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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:41 pm

I quite like Aggers as a commentator, not so much as an accommodating ECB yes man.
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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Mon May 13, 2019 10:25 pm

This is plain weird. Aggers is Roger Melly from Viz.

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Re: Most irritating radio commentator (UK edition)

Postby Alviro Patterson » Fri May 17, 2019 12:12 am

A toss up between Ebony Rainford-Brent and Ali Mitchell
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