Shannon Gill

So that's how big he was.

So if I then relate it back to our footy world, there were experts in the chair from the time TV starts, but they weren't really used to specifically analyze the game.

They were color, but also dabbled in play-by-play.

Now,

A great example is Ted Witten in the 1960s Grand Finals.

I think we've played this audio before, but we will do it again.

So this is what I would call colour commentary.

Some might call it barracking.

They've done it.

Look at this.

So that is what special comments were in the 1960s, but more it's colour and Ted would then do a bit of play-by-play.

So this was not what we know of special comments.

So then we get through to the 70s and 80s, and generally Channel 7 would cover three games during the regular season on a Saturday.

Each game would have two play-by-play commentators, and often they were ex-players, so they could put an expert word in there, but not in name.

So if there was colour analysis, it was just up to the play-by-play duo.

So there was no special comments as well as the play-by-play.

Absolutely.

And that's until the 78 grand final where we hear, we just heard with Bob Skilton introduced.

So what changes then is when there is a live broadcast like a grand final or where there's a final where there's only one game played on the day,

Bob Skilton was the B-team play-by-play man.