Ben Ikin

[Professor47]

I'm not his biggest fan either but I don't hate him as much as others, but he does ramble.
I love Voss and Gus combo, whose the third wheel when they commentate, but those two are my fav ch 9 commentators.
I can't stand Rabs now.

 

[Kimlo]

Slater is the best player in the world....

Riiight.

lol, I was being sarcastic. It fucking shits me when they have a fap over slater and say *best player in the world* everytime he does something and when he does something bad, they hardly mention it.
He scored a pretty average try yesterday and Mr ikin... "That's why he's the best player in the world." :roll:

 

[Jeba]

"Last night I called a game,
as I recall it was a Storm game.
I walked outside into the rain
and I saw Billy again.

And I jizz in my pants"

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I saw a number 1,

and I jizz in my pants

You can't look me in the eye and tell me with a straight face that you don't get the same feeling there Hammo [icon_razz1

 

[Je$ter]

I agree schmix, Ikin is less annoying than the Johns brothers, Gould and Daley. (However Daley is less annoying now he's at Fox Sports again..)

However Ikin said tonight, "And that's why Slater is the worlds best player...." (After he scored that try)..

Ooook. Exaggeration much?

He got the Golden Boot Award last year, therefore making him the world's best player.

They do go a bit ott, but they do so with heaps of players like Benji, anyone who has big hair, anyone who is extra small or extra big etc. etc. They try to make the game more exciting to watch.

 

[Jeba]

The worst thing about the 'world's best player' tag is that last week Ikin used it for Thurston AND Lockyer, and now Slater as well. He uses it way too freely. These tags can't just be handed out every week. Peter Sterling summed it up in Origin 3, 2006, after THAT try by Locky. "Darren Lockyer - one of the great champions of our game, and you don't use that term loosely. We've got great players, we've got excellent players but very few champions. He's in the right category".

That's how these big tags should be used.

 

[Coxy]

Sterlo has always been careful with the term champion. I remember in 1998 he went to great lengths to argue with someone that Fittler was not a champion. He had areas in his game that simply weren't good enough. Namely, going MIA in close ones.

He doesn't get drawn into hype and hysteria.

 

[ningnangnong]

Sterlo has always been careful with the term champion. I remember in 1998 he went to great lengths to argue with someone that Fittler was not a champion. He had areas in his game that simply weren't good enough. Namely, going MIA in close ones.

He doesn't get drawn into hype and hysteria.

Sterlo is definitely my favourite commenator. He's all class.

 

[Kimlo]

I love sterlo, he's an awesome commentator!

 

[Flutterby]

Sterlo = #1

 

[Je$ter]

Yeah definitely can't argue with Sterlo being number one, he doesn't get into the dramatics that Johns, Gould, Ikin, Warren use, and he is a scholar of the game and reads the game really well.

 

[Nashy]

I don't love him or hate him really. As far as annoying commentators go he's pretty far down my list behind Gould, M. Johns, A. Johns and Daley.

I think Gus has come a long way from a few years ago when he was banned from QLD matches by 9. I would much prefer to listen to him than Rabs.

Although, I love how he winds Rabs up every game too, it's brilliant to listen to that old coot get angry on the air.

Gould comes out with some stupid shit, like last week about that near try at the end of the Raiders match. "If it was a try, it would have been one of the best this season!".

 

[gUt]

Gould would be more palatable if he lost the fkn

"NO! NO! No no no!..."

[other commentator moves on with the game]

"....No no no no no no! No! NO!"

Ikin is a plonker.

 

[Kimlo]

^ I love the No No No No No from gould haha, I think it's hillarious.

 

[Bucking Beads]

no its just dumb Gould is an A grade tool squeezer

 

[Flutterby]

I'm a fan of Gould. Mostly the stupid stuff he says is just to wind up his co-commentators (and to a lesser extent the fans) or to take the p*** out of them. His knowledge of the game is extraordinary. I'd have a Sterling/Gould commentary team any day.