He's fine. Kings have been trying to imitate him ever since he left, so it’s some sort of justice that he’s back. At least he seems to have figured out how the Hungry Jacks promo works now.

The game day experience is definitely rough. They've completely reset it and it's going to take some time - remember how bad the game day experience was initially with the last ownership group? Took a good couple of months before it was remotely decent, and it was really only last season where I thought they had it down. It's a bit disappointing to go backwards again, but not really unexpected either.

He's still the best option but personally I like to evolve - it's not basketball trading card, Australia is obsessed with NBA fashion early 90s era anymore. Would have been nice to reflect that evolution by having an on-court dude that's less Yank, personally.

To me, that's what's holding back the "atmosphere", but I can't argue because it seems "NBA-lite" works marketing wise for the Kings.

In the SEC era, the "feel" just used to be more grass roots. Quick scan of patrons and you see oversized 11 year olds, freakishly tall parents, everyone rocking local basketball association hoodies.

You still have that at Qudos but it's predominantly NBA-lite. Fans rocking NBA jerseys, or non playing parents who are there for a good time with the family (and on that point, it definitely delivers).

Went a bit off topic, but back to topic, I'll say he's about a 6 of 10 but there probably aren't any better options anyway. I mean there is the almighty, the effervescent, the chosen one, Newy's finest, Straight Outta Fanny's and 7 miles less than Marshall (One Mile Beach, Newy represent)...the one, the only, the realest of the realliest Clint Dizzle Dorkle Dogg, but I'm not sure the Kings have that sort of budget.

Further, I'm not sure his CD-Rs are compatible with the PA system.

Rodney has to be careful when announcing as he is giving the wrong information at times and causing issues between the Refs, teams,stats and scoretable.

Last saturday he called fouls on the wrong players before the refs signalled the foul and then you have teams jumping up and down about who got the foul when the stats agree with Scoretable and the team makes a sub when they do not have to because he announces incorrect information.

In the early days he was entertaining but time has taken it toll and he needs to concentrate and watch and listen better.

Have to say that even at the tail end of his announcing before the Kings went under last time, he was dialing it in... Very repetitive and unenthusiastic, relying on his reputation as The Voice to carry him through...

I was glad to hear that he was back, but it's been a long time since he was behind the mic and really needs to put the effort in, as Eric had gotten decent and have a lot of people calling out "Who's ball?" even now... I always thought that it was catchy and the notoriously shit Sydney fans needed a catch phrase to get behind...

I say it every single time something like this is mentioned, but Sydney crowds are really hard to motivate and keep at a level of interest that actually translates into atmosphere, Rodney is going to have his work cut out and I don't know if he's that interested in putting it in...

Sydney ain't big enough for the C-Dog, Bill

Bill Beaver with the C-Dogg reference, genuine lol.

You can never have enough ClintDogg references.

I'm happy to see Rodney back. Sure, he's a bit rusty but seems to get better each game. It's a pity they didn't keep Mike around as his replacement is terrible, but I'm assuming the budget wouldn't stretch for both Mike and Rodney.