Episode 174: When Over Indulgent Commentary Kills the Game
On this edition of The Almanack Report, State of Origin II saw any thoughts of a dead rubber third game thrown out the window (to the audible sighs of Channel 9 and the NRL) with the Blues being able to turn around their performance from game one and get up for a victory on their second home turf at Optus Stadium in Perth. And through the twists and turns of the match, the positives and the negatives, the controversy and the conquest, viewers once again had to put up with the chosen few of the Channel 9 commentary team, and suffer through their supposedly unbiased angles of the game. And…
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