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I apologise if these have been posted before (I did a search without result), but I have just come across this list of Cometti AFL classics.

Thought they were worth a revival.

'Scotty Cummings alone in the square, jumping up and down and waving his arms like they're playing My Sharona ...'

'Farmer may have an injury to his calf ... hmmm, a farmer with a calf problem ...'

'Spider had both his legs taken out from under him - leaving only the other six to balance on ...'

"Ball to Barker to Barlow - The Hawks are attacking alphabetically"

On Melbourne's Adam Yze: "A terrific player . . . terrible scrabble hand."

"Ling's running off the ground a little bit gingerly."

"Cousins, runs away from Carr ... not the first time we've seen that this season."

'Hay is bailed up on the boundary line . . .'

'Walker to Carr . . . that's a step up . . .'

'He's made a typo! - he wanted Bickley and he's got Buckley!'

"The Magpies ought to be kicking themselves right now, but with their luck, they'd probably miss."

After Darren Gaspar hits the post from 40 metres out: "Gaspar, the unfriendly post."

"Ashley McIntosh, like a good hair spray ... capable of a subtle hold."

"Ball in dispute, Lamb, now Yze the meat in the sandwich. Really Lamb should be in the sandwich."

On former Magpie, Crow and now Cat, Brenton Sanderson: "He goes much better as a mammal."

Fremantle v Port, Josh Carr wearing 9 for Port, crunches his brother Matthew, wearing 9 for Freo. "How's that, a two Carr collision, both with the same rego!"

Brendan Goddard kicked St Kilda's 1st goal in the 43rd minute of play: "It was like waiting for Goddard"

Danial Metropolis playing for the Eagles was gang tackled by 3 opposition players. "Now there's a city under siege"

Collingwood were 40+ points up against the Dogs. The camera focuses on David Smorgon, the Bulldogs president who is looking despondent. "Now there's a glum dog millionaire."

Credit to Dan Richards in the Comments section of this article in the Guardian from Sept 2016:

www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/28/li...l-his-final-afl-game

Absolute gems jack. I'm not sure how many he came up with before games and pre-rehearsed given he knew who'd be playing but whatever.....there's some classics in there as you say.

Some brilliant stuff there, I read somewhere that he did a lot of research to come up with these gems but his real skill was the delivery of them at just the right time in the game.

From his WAFL commentary days I fondly remember one involving the late Steve Bazzo in his first appearance for Swans in a Kresta Cup match at the WACA in 1988. It went something like this-
“Here comes Bazzo who was always destined for Swans”

Dennis is easily the best TV football caller of all time with Frank Sparrow the best radio caller.