News Media Thread, 2024: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent

[Farang83150]

Not that I disagree at all, but certainly a different take than I remember when it was all just the evil Eagles

Gonna rattle some feathers

 

[Ghossein]

media when west coast players do drugs

media when Melbourne players do drugs

 

[Farang83150]

lawyers and doctors get sacked if they get caught doing this so the comparison doesn't really work

Not just lawyers and doctors

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

But but but #VICBIAS isn't a thing

 

[YeoGabbaGabba]

Funny how we went from “Meth Coke Eagles” to “millions of other Australians do it”. I mean just as Gary Pert said himself "Our culture at the club is the best I've seen in 40 years."

 

[Truckosaurus]

Also ignores that Smith tested positive on game day, at which point it's considered performance-enhancing (and why he wasn't able to play the mental health card to avoid a penalty).

 

[ghostbat12]

Funny how we went from “Meth Coke Eagles” to “millions of other Australians do it”. I mean just as Gary Pert said himself "Our culture at the club is the best I've seen in 40 years."

I think it’s fair to say that we can let it go given cousins left eagles 17 years ago.

World has changed in that time including understanding of mental health.

 

[Farang83150]

I think it’s fair to say that we can let it go given cousins left eagles 17 years ago.

World has changed in that time including understanding of mental health.

FK that, media have r*ped us for yrs.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

I think it’s fair to say that we can let it go given cousins left eagles 17 years ago.

World has changed in that time including understanding of mental health.

That Cousins article is from 2017.

 

[YeoGabbaGabba]

FK that, media have r*ped us for yrs.

Theyre enjoying it even more so now cause there’s finally heaps to lay into about on field performance.

I can think of one tossa who can’t go a week without having give his opinion on everything related to all things WCE

 

[BeornJ]

Hmm... are 'millions of Australians' drug traffickers?

 

[Ochre]

Ah yes, famous Victorian Brandon Jack

Brandon Jack

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. Anyone actually bother to read the article? Thought it was very good tbh.

 

[Ochre]

You're basically proving his point.

But is there a “problem” within the AFL specifically? No. Defiantly, I will say, no. Go to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in any local hall, and you’ll hear stories of addiction shattering a person’s life. You can hear it in their voices, the daily struggle to live with addiction. These are the impacts of a real drug problem. Their suffering is not comparably to the stupidity of a young man in the public eye being caught out consuming a drug that a vast number of Australians also indulge in from time to time.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

You're basically proving his point.

1. I couldn’t read the article, it was paywalled.

2. He’s giving Smith a lot of credit there, from the sounds of it he’s done a bit more than just “get caught out consuming a drug”.

 

[squashface]

You're basically proving his point.

Yeah but Vicbias!!!!!!

 

[ghostbat12]

That Cousins article is from 2017.

Yeah and? A grudge for what happened 7 years ago then!

As long as people read about it and then talk about it, they will flog the horse for as long as possible. I don’t read or watch anything anymore where it’s about him or he is mentioned.

It’s just not that interesting, it’s same old shite and why do people feel the need to relive it? They will keep writing about him from time to time until he is effectively dead. It’s lazy cheap journalism that weak minded fall for.

 

[Ishmael_]

lawyers and doctors get sacked if they get caught doing this so the comparison doesn't really work

Dunno mate, they definitely do not (lawyers), even if they are tested which they aren't.

 

[Avalor]

Theyre enjoying it even more so now cause there’s finally heaps to lay into about on field performance.

I can think of one tossa who can’t go a week without having give his opinion on everything related to all things WCE








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Where's my shotgun?

 

[happy_eagle]

Not seeing the comparison here

 

[Big_Birdy]

Not seeing the comparison here

One involves a sublime pick up, broken tackle and Burst from pack.

The other is a handball receive walk into an open goal with nice finish

 

[Rowan18]

Not seeing the comparison here

Is he trying to compare a rookie playing in a scratchie to Judd playing the current multiple premiers? That's a long bow.

 

[Truckosaurus]

There's a reason Cal gets by with his connections to recruiters rather than on his own assessment of talent.

 

[bzparkes]

Not seeing the comparison here

Kicked a rudimentary goal on the run in a match sim under no pressure.

Whereas Judd had to collect a loose ball and break a tackle before accelerating away.

 

[CountryLad]

Theyre enjoying it even more so now cause there’s finally heaps to lay into about on field performance.

I can think of one tossa who can’t go a week without having give his opinion on everything related to all things WCE








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To be fair to Kane he gives every club except for Port a pretty hard whack when the opportunity arises. It’s not just an Eagles thing.
Doesn’t mean he’s not a fkwit though.