I wish I could get paid for doing a really poor job every time I turned up for work but unfortunately I'm neither a civil servant nor Jacqui Oakley.
If anyone doesn't know who Jacqui Oatley is then you've obviously decided to not sign up for CAFCTV player. Oakley is the commentator I've come to dread, she is absolutely awful. I wasn't really keeping track but apart from her dreadful delivery she must have spent three quarters of the time I was listening to her talking about anything other than what was going on during the match.
I wouldn't mind so much is she appeared to have any interest in commentating on football but quite clearly she doesn't. Given that opportunities to listen to match commentary in this league is fairly limited it seems we are stuck with this useless lump of a woman and her constant stream of inane verbal diarrhoea.
Can we start a petition to prevent her from commentating on Charlton games in the future?
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I have to agree, though for me it was more the fact that none of her sentences had full stops. She just seemed to ramble on and on, desperately trying not to stop constructing the same sentence she started 5 minutes beforehand.
and it seems we're not the only ones who can't stand her either...
Might be a good Would Ya.
Is it possible to Commentate,Twitter & do reports at the same time ?
Jaqui Oatley is a very annoying commentator, but I fear she's victim of mistaken identity today.
Might be a good Would Ya. ;)[/quote]
so http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_02/oatley_468x712.jpg would ya?
man hands jeeezus christ no i fooking wouldnt look at those hands
Might be a good Would Ya. ;)[/quote]
so[url][url]http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_02/oatley_468x712.jpg[/url][/url]would ya?[/quote]
man hands jeeezus christ no i fooking wouldnt look at those hands[/quote]
I noticed those hands too!
I'm with you all the way, Tel. Really irritating.
"But ... you have to ... err ... say ... that ... she .. err ... has managed to ... umm ... adopt ... the ... err ... Jeff ... err... Stelling ... style of ... umm ... commen ...err ... tary ............................beautifully"
I went down to the Valley to photograph this lady for the bbc, must admit I did not engage with her, she sits with Tony Hudd who was assisting her.
The pics are on my flikr account if anyone is interested. http://www.flickr.com/photos/52647217@N00/page18/
The Norwich reporter who's picture I used was excellent as I was listerning to him, seemed knowledable and was impressed with Shelvey and gave a good balanced informative account of the match, and although biased towards Norwich ( which is fair enough) concerntrated on the game, not inane crap .
Oakley, I have never met the woman but got terribly precious about having her photo taken for the bbc newspaper that I art edit. So I said forget it!.
In fact she refused to have her photo taken, I got one of the PA photographers to shoot her from the pitch surround with a long lens but thought stuff it.
I think she does the Match of the day community football thing, or she did a couple of weeks ago.
Come bck Mark Mansfield, the best Charlton commentator I have heard!
Unlikley to be effective. The company that provides the infrastructure for Charlton Player (PTV) is totally removed from the people appointing the commentator (the BBC), who in any case is primarily there to provide updates for the BBC's various platforms. I was at the game so I can't comment on the commentary, but the BBC will only be interested in whether she did a good job for them rather than on the commentary, assuming they were not broadcasting the latter. The club, on the other hand, gets too little revenue from the whole thing to seriously consider appointing a commentator of its own.
Who? Jacqui Oatley or Emma Jones / Adams?
Or Jacqui Oakley even?
I don't know the name, but this sounded like the woman on Radio Kent yesterday, "Charlton in .....possession with...Bailey he... passes it out... wide to.... Richardson whoo... Wycombe have.... won it... back just for... Baily to get... it again...."
It's like she can't talk and think at the same time.
I'm with you all the way, Tel. Really irritating.
"But ... you have to ... err ... say ... that ... she .. err ... has managed to ... umm ... adopt ... the ... err ... Jeff ... err... Stelling ... style of ... umm ... commen ...err ... tary ............................beautifully"[/quote]
I don't know the name, but this sounded like the woman on Radio Kent yesterday, "Charlton in .....possession with...Bailey he... passes it out... wide to.... Richardson whoo... Wycombe have.... won it... back just for... Baily to get... it again...."
It's like she can't talk and think at the same time.[/quote]
And that is normally a male issue, mind you with hands like that ... she could be!
I can undertand that Cafc Player could be a good resource for exiled Addicks but it would be nice if they didn't flagrantly take the piss with sub standard commentators. Perhaps an aspiring commentator/Charlton fan could set up some kind of fans run unofficial rival to Cafc Player?? It would probably be to hard both logistically and technically I suppose.
She couldn't string a sentence together without a pause of 5 seconds between each word. She really was shocking, didn't actually talk about what was happening during the game and was more interested in Sams yellow boots.
Indeed Pilch, CAFCTV is a godsend for me, but as I often mention in my blog Emma is absolutely pitiful (her photo ain't much better Ken tbh). She is a good 4-5 seconds behind play and as a radio commentator her job is to bring the game alive in a listeners mind. I don't expect John Motson but at least someone who is capable of describing what is happening in front of them, preferably at the same time. The game, football that is, moves too fast for her and I have written to the BBC to see if they could move her to crown bowls.
I remember as the game went into injury time at the Swindon match, she started to recap the game's events and then suddenly the crowd was going wild and she pipes up: "Oh, Charlton have scored." Sorry, you've got me going now....
Cannot be done as Premium TV (or whatever they are called) have the internet rights.
Club is in a lose/lose situation here. Criticised because they didn't provide Internet match day coverage, criticised when they do. Though I agree with the comments about the suitability of some commentators. Pity that a certain SuperClive doesn't get a chance to do it for the BBC, after all Billy Reeves is a Brentford fan.
I think the BBC contract ends in the summer. Unfortunately we don't have a local station any more because of someone who shouldn't be allowed to run Radio stations.
Emma Jones:
"i wouldnt mind jacqui getting them out even tho she has a touch of the heather mills about her.. As for Emma.... well there is a phrase for such people as Chris Moyles and Danny Baker.. Perfect face for radio.."
"Thanks Amanda, now over to you Simon"