NRL ready to eject Announcer!!!!!!!!

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The NRL has warned the Manly Ground Announcer not to show too much parochism at Brookie this weekend or he could end up be removed during the game.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 14,00.html

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LOL! Grant Goldman!

Aside from being a radio announcer, he was the voice of the CityRail DVA system from the mid 1980s until they brought in a female voice around 2000 to do the bulk of the announcements and try and be a bit more gender neutral/varied.  Any pre-recorded announcement on a CityRail station with a male voice is this guy's voice.

Fortunately for the Sea Eagles, there aren't any trains in the Manly-Warringah district, so people probably wouldn't crack up at hearing the same near-mechanical voice they hear apologising for the delay and any inconvenience caused whenever their train is late.

Edit: Oh dear, the things you find on the internet. 

http://railwavs.railmedia.com.au/index. ... sub=Sydney

I can only assume that a group of aspies have gone around with microphones and audio cassette tape or digital audio recorders grabbing captures of different styles of announcements on CityRail.  This site even identifies a few announcements with mixed rising and lowering inflections (typically when piecing together an announcement/recording with multiple words recorded separately, you need to record every word three times, one with rising, one flat and one with falling inflection, however, for oddly routed trains that only run a few times a day, they don't always put in the effort to consistently use the right inflection like they do on the announcements that get repeated hundreds of times a day)

I particularly enjoyed the Grant Goldman announcement at Sutherland Station telling people that Car A is at the Newcastle end of the platform, when Newcastle is not on either of the lines to Moss Vale (it's about 300km north of Moss Vale).