Shannon Gill

Bernie Quinlan, Kevin Bartlett, John Nichols.

give us interpretation without unnecessary scene stealing flamboyance.

Now you can, you can sort of, you can sort of see where that might've been beforehand that there was flamboyance involved.

So there is this sort of view that, hang on, we're starting to get better at this.

What I would say is it, it didn't all work well.

There was, sorry, keep going.

There was the hiring of Gary Dempsey and,

So was that Gary Dempsey or the Godfather?

He didn't last long because of that.

But what it all comes back to is that there is more evolution here and Malcolm Blight plays so much of a role in the evolution.

So in 1988, Channel 7 gets the TV rights back and they make a definitive step.

Analysis and special comments are needed.

So they hire a whole bunch of new play-by-play callers

and they decide to have a special comments caller at all games.

Here is the first night of having our new special comments men.

Blighty is the big change agent here.

So Malcolm Blight, Don Scott, Bernie Quillen are the first special comments men for Channel 7.

And that's when the whole idea of special expert comments truly arrives.

And it shapes what we've seen since.

And it also plays a part in the whole coaching and media and commentary nexus.