John Mcdonald

[lefty]

Has he dropped another clanger here? Can anyone make out exactly how he says "Froch"?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCe_8KeVFS4

[banjo]

The Cobra........Carl FRAAAAARRRRRGH!!!

Bellend, why does this gimp keep getting gigs, he does the darts too doesn't he? ONE HUNDRED AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHH!!!

Maybe he used to be a pirate

[lefty]

The Cobra........Carl FRAAAAARRRRRGH!!!

Bellend, why does this gimp keep getting gigs, he does the darts too doesn't he? ONE HUNDRED AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHH!!!

Maybe he used to be a pirate

How can you get payed to do something so simple and mess it up so often!

[banjo]

The Cobra........Carl FRAAAAARRRRRGH!!!

Bellend, why does this gimp keep getting gigs, he does the darts too doesn't he? ONE HUNDRED AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHH!!!

Maybe he used to be a pirate

How can you get payed to do something so simple and mess it up so often!

I wouldn't mind he does the hard bit easily, reeling off the titles, ref, judges, timekeeper and then fucks up the names "AAAAAARRRRGH"

[ILikeBeer]

The Cobra........Carl FRAAAAARRRRRGH!!!

Bellend, why does this gimp keep getting gigs, he does the darts too doesn't he? ONE HUNDRED AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHHH!!!

Maybe he used to be a pirate

He's been doing the snooker in Coventry all week. He hasn't added much to it, I must admit.

[MightyWarrior]

Carl........RRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!

[danconnollyeire]

Haha WOW... Caaarrrrlllll Farrah

[tony1234]

And he says after Froch has weighed in, 'both boxers are inside the scheduled distance' whatever that means ?

[Fortynineandout]

Yep I clocked that one too.
He's becoming a figure of fun amongst fight fans.
At the start of today's weigh in , much to the amusement of the crowd he even got one of the main sponsors wrong saying betfair before correcting his error to bet365 .
Subsequent uses of bet365 were greeted with cheers from the crowd and in fairness a big smile from john.

[handsofstone]

I cant decide whether he,s my worst or my favourite announcer

On a serious note,he making some stupid mistakes,h,s probably paid handsomely and its disrespectful to the fighters

PAUL GGWWAAAARRGHH

SAMIR...(sighs)....MAAMMMAAMMIIA

CARL FRRRAAAGH

FIGHT NIGHT LLIIIIIVVEEE

[rossij8]

He won't do 'its fight night liveeeee' tomorrow surely

Its PPV, so the programme doesn't come under this title

Also, I hope all the studio guests aren't wearing Tux cos its PPV

[handsofstone]

I can see it now

THE GGGGRRUUUUUUDDDGGGEEE

[fantaheed]

He is terrible and if Eddie is looking to put on top shows get rid of this chump.
Hopefully every fight will be a knockout coz he gives away the result every time by his tone

[bfchunk]

When he holds on to his words, he reminds a bit of this guy:-


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExG7Ut6DJ1E

[Emmseegee]

The first thing i noticed there was how bad the get ups were that the wee ring girl chicks had on….

honkin!!

[ILikeBeer]

And he says after Froch has weighed in, 'both boxers are inside the scheduled distance' whatever that means ?

They had to walk in and get weghed within twelve rounds.

[youngrell]

He is terrible and if Eddie is looking to put on top shows get rid of this chump.
Hopefully every fight will be a knockout coz he gives away the result every time by his tone

I noticed that last week watching PF. Excited as hell announcing Sprotts QF victory, extremely subdued announcing Mintos.

[winkveron]

I don't even find it funny anymore, just irritates the life out of me. He may be a nice bloke but he's f**king useless as an MC. Surely if your job is to read people's names out you would go to the trouble of finding out how to pronounce them!?! It's lazy and disrespectful

[tony1234]

I'm not sure why he needs to do the growling, although I do prefer him to Mark Burdis but that's not saying much

[ThereByTheGrace]

He must be cheap.

He's a useless f@ckwit!

[Paullow]

It's not just the tone, it's the way he reads it out as well. I can't remember exactly how, but I recall him fornicating up the Crolla-Rees scores. They were 116-113, 115-113, 115-115, but he gave them in an order you knew Crolla had won so it wasn't exciting. I will see if I can find it on Youtube. He has done this a few times.

He is OK for darts when it is not as serious, and the vast majority of it's recent success is based on the whole production, but crap at the boxing.

[Paullow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGBQ4SD8PUs

13:00 mins in,

[lefty]

It's not just the tone, it's the way he reads it out as well. I can't remember exactly how, but I recall him effing up the Crolla-Rees scores. They were 116-113, 115-113, 115-115, but he gave them in an order you knew Crolla had won so it wasn't exciting. I will see if I can find it on Youtube. He has done this a few times.

He is OK for darts when it is not as serious, and the vast majority of it's recent success is based on the whole production, but crap at the boxing.

The thing that bugs me is that I'd imagine he's being paid rather handsomely for this and it's not exactly rocket science! Everyone makes mistakes but he seems to get it wrong more than he gets it right!

[np88]

after the weights... "both fighters within the scheduled distance"

[Matt W]

Don't know anything about him personally but I'm not a fan of him as an MC. I can't stand the modern trend for growling, presumably to add excitement and significance, especially in commentating. I wish he'd just announce the names, rather than twisting them into 3+ syllables that end up sounding nothing like what they're actually called.