News Media Thread, 2023: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent

[Bender_]

Intimated is so loose.

"Would you be willing to move interstate, Harley?"

"Of course."

"Did you just wink?"

"No, I have something in my eye."

"Coz it looked like a wink. Wink again if you meant to wink the first time...ahhh, blinking, it's basically a double wink to show how serious the initial wink you made was about you are about staying in Victoria. I'll let the media know."

 

[UseR2006]

The thing that is just aggravating for me is the AFL could nip it quick smart so easily.

" we have heard the talk about draft conditioning and what not so to put the record straight we have sent a memo to all potential draftees and the player managers reiterating that this is a national competition and that there is a expectation that draftees know when signing up they could go to ANY state and ANY club. trying to manipulate where you end up in any way is draft tampering and there will be consequences from now on for players found to be doing so or for player managers doing it on their behalf".

Simple. But of course the AFL is run by a bunch of knobs who treat it like their own personal playground.

 

[Cuzz09]

That's it hey.

Run the bloody comp properly from the top

They're a bunch of idiots.

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[bzparkes]

Anyone able to read this?

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[Convocation]

thought this was worth posting in trades thread and here

Two top-10 picks up for grabs, bidding war looms for No.1 prospect in AFL trade drama

Two top-10 picks up for grabs, bidding war looms for No.1 prospect in AFL trade drama

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[bzparkes]

Anyone else want to post the same paywalled article?

 

[YeoGabbaGabba]

Anyone able to read this?

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In summary: McClure is full of s**t (what a shock that is) and its not surprising Reid's management have released this

 

[THE A5]

Had to do a double take to make sure this wasn’t a satire page

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

thought this was worth posting in trades thread and here

Two top-10 picks up for grabs, bidding war looms for No.1 prospect in AFL trade drama

Two top-10 picks up for grabs, bidding war looms for No.1 prospect in AFL trade drama

www.foxsports.com.au

But the more likely outcome, according to draft sources spoken to by foxfooty.com.au, is the AFL will allow North to pre-list star Tasmanian midfield prospect Ryley Sanders, who the Kangaroos are hoping will be added to their Next Generation Academy after he recently received his certificate of Aboriginality.


We should 1000% make the same claim for Collard?

 

[bzparkes]

who the Kangaroos are hoping will be added to their Next Generation Academy after he recently received his certificate of Aboriginality.

Did he get one of these?

 

[bzparkes]

Had to do a double take to make sure this wasn’t a satire page
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[Keys]

Anyone able to read this?

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Harley Reid’s coach says the No.1 draft prospect is annoyed by reports he’s reluctant to head to West Coast.
Bendigo Pioneers coach Danny O’Bree said on Thursday that Reid and his family were keen to set the record straight and make clear the emerging talent had no qualms about being drafted by West Coast, or any AFL club.

“That is what he has said in the past and I spoke to him yesterday and he said exactly the same thing,” O’Bree said of Reid.

“He is a bit annoyed. He said he has never talked about this to anyone and he has never said it. We don’t want the attention to keep going on. We just want to put this to bed and let him keep playing footy. That’s all he wants to do. Go out and have fun and play footy,” he told the Herald Sun.

“He is happy to go anywhere as long as he gets an opportunity to play footy. The comments (in the report) were that West Coast had been told (he didn’t want to play there). That is not just not true.

“He will thrive in any program he gets into. Interstate or Victoria. It wouldn’t matter with Harley. He is just a great kid and I am sure whatever program he gets into he will love.”

The Coates League does not start up again until next weekend and Bendigo has a bye in that round, so there are options for Reid to play VFL again in coming weeks at either Essendon or Carlton.

O’Bree said Reid was determined not to squander his momentum in the final weeks of the season, still as keen as ever to prove he is the best kid in the land.

“I think (VFL is) an option. That is what discussions are going on at the moment. We will try to map out a plan for him. He is happy getting back to playing footy for the fun of it and continuing his improvement, we won’t stray off those plans. Hopefully it will lead into a strong back-end for the Pioneers so he can lead us into the wildcard series and we can go a step further.

“We have alignments with Carlton and Essendon. He had an experience with Essendon at the start of the year (through the pre-season), he loves it at Carlton. Whichever one gets chosen, as long as Harley is happy that is the only thing that matters.”

Reid finished the Under18 carnival for Vic Metro with a spectacular 11-clearance game but in a packed field rivals including Jed Walter, Nick Watson and Xavier Duursma also put their names up in lights.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

That should totally put the issue to bed.

 

[bzparkes]

That should totally put the issue to bed.

Yeah but it won't though.

 

[bzparkes]

Shame it cuts off when he starts talking about his interviews with WCE and I'm too lazy to go looking for them.

 

[Goroyals22]

This is a good listen with Healy and Johnson getting into Cornes who stutters and stammers his way along before he essentially starts arguing against his own point of view…





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[Tugga27]

This is a good listen with Healy and Johnson getting into Cornes who stutters and stammers his way along before he essentially starts arguing against his own point of view…





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Cornes sounds like a fool.
When asked if Reid would be better off going to North " Well it's closer to home".

FMD

 

[Bender_]

In Cornes's defence he's been told regularly that everyone would be much better off he himself never left SA and he's just keeping up with popular opinion.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Cornes sounds like a fool.

True all the time.

 

[Convocation]

This is a good listen with Healy and Johnson getting into Cornes who stutters and stammers his way along before he essentially starts arguing against his own point of view…





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Kane knows he has this one wrong, but won't change his opinion as his too deep to back out now.
Under Kane's logic, if West Coast isn't going to be great for Harley's development and career, then the Eagles are not going to be great for any players, and thus we shouldn't be able to recruit any players......
fool

 

[Farang83150]

Harley Reid’s coach says the No.1 draft prospect is annoyed by reports he’s reluctant to head to West Coast.
Bendigo Pioneers coach Danny O’Bree said on Thursday that Reid and his family were keen to set the record straight and make clear the emerging talent had no qualms about being drafted by West Coast, or any AFL club.

“That is what he has said in the past and I spoke to him yesterday and he said exactly the same thing,” O’Bree said of Reid.

“He is a bit annoyed. He said he has never talked about this to anyone and he has never said it. We don’t want the attention to keep going on. We just want to put this to bed and let him keep playing footy. That’s all he wants to do. Go out and have fun and play footy,” he told the Herald Sun.

“He is happy to go anywhere as long as he gets an opportunity to play footy. The comments (in the report) were that West Coast had been told (he didn’t want to play there). That is not just not true.

“He will thrive in any program he gets into. Interstate or Victoria. It wouldn’t matter with Harley. He is just a great kid and I am sure whatever program he gets into he will love.”

The Coates League does not start up again until next weekend and Bendigo has a bye in that round, so there are options for Reid to play VFL again in coming weeks at either Essendon or Carlton.

O’Bree said Reid was determined not to squander his momentum in the final weeks of the season, still as keen as ever to prove he is the best kid in the land.

“I think (VFL is) an option. That is what discussions are going on at the moment. We will try to map out a plan for him. He is happy getting back to playing footy for the fun of it and continuing his improvement, we won’t stray off those plans. Hopefully it will lead into a strong back-end for the Pioneers so he can lead us into the wildcard series and we can go a step further.

“We have alignments with Carlton and Essendon. He had an experience with Essendon at the start of the year (through the pre-season), he loves it at Carlton. Whichever one gets chosen, as long as Harley is happy that is the only thing that matters.”

Reid finished the Under18 carnival for Vic Metro with a spectacular 11-clearance game but in a packed field rivals including Jed Walter, Nick Watson and Xavier Duursma also put their names up in lights.

Sounds definitive.
Love it when stuff like this gets written that 100% contradicts something a vfl flog like McClure wrote, just doesn't happen often enough though.

 

[Alesana]

"Harley Reid has essentially told West Coast that he doesn't want to be drafted there".
"I don't think there has been direct conversations between his management and West Coast".
"If he gets called out by West Coast at pick one he will happily go there."

Which one is it Sam?

 

[tigger_ferret]

I don’t think we could have hoped for much more from the Victorian media, in how they have called out both Mclure and Cornes

There has been several quotes today basically calling bullshit on both of them.

Add in his coach and others close to him basically rubbishing Mclures report, only the most pessimistic would be scared of the mummy’s boy go home factor.

 

[bzparkes]

I don’t think we could have hoped for much more from the Victorian media, in how they have called out both Mclure and Cornes

There has been several quotes today basically calling bullshit on both of them.

Add in his coach and others close to him basically rubbishing Mclures report, only the most pessimistic would be scared of the mummy’s boy go home factor.

It's been strong, hasn't it?

Unusual.

 

[Bender_]

It's just such an odd stance and reeks of sour grapes. I've never known the media to jump on a draftee and say that they shouldn't go to a club as it's a graveyard.

Combination of jilted media and content desperation.