Player Watch Josh Rachele - Sent To The Gulag!

[weekend at bernies]

He made a joke that has been going on ever since Poort entered the comp. All of a sudden it is offensive!! so can get offended every time they mention apricot slice??

 

[Executive Landlord]

Rash liked a comment I left on his instagram. I suggest everyone get in there and back him as our shitty club can’t.

**** Rory laird. Maybe start trending that on twitter it something.

Wow he is gone, club has lost him. How sad

 

[Dewy006]

The guy is a kid who really doesn’t know what he’s doing, or how it’s going to impact his future.

Egging him on to turn his anger onto the club does not help.

I hope he has wiser heads around him giving him better advice.

To be fair, the club deserves all the anger currently directed towards it, by both players and fans.

 

[Redline]

How do these comms guys have a job seriously , they’ve had an absolute mare this week

It’s up there with having Ogilvie for 13++ years without drafting an elite or A grade mid

Amazing that Ian Shuttleworth was directly responsible for the comms and media management around the fallout from the camp and survived. It was actually handled worse than the camp itself.

 

[ftmch]

Michalanney unlucky...

Thought the same thing

 

[footy4ever]

Or he was going to be dropped, till they saw the backlash

Which is what I basically said a few posts of mine ago.

 

[dogs105]

Good one

Also, no offence meant

 

[crows dude]

Is Rash dropped or just sent on holidays early. If he’s truly dropped then he better be playing in sanfl this week.

 

[Scorpus]

Rash liked a comment I left on his instagram. I suggest everyone get in there and back him as our shitty club can’t.

**** Rory laird. Maybe start trending that on twitter it something.

Uh oh, Rachele is getting another few weeks in the gulag for that

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Amazing that Ian Shuttleworth was directly responsible for the comms and media management around the fallout from the camp and survived. It was actually handled worse than the camp itself.

He’s hopeless , let’s be honest

I’m sure there are people on these pages that know more about that field than me

But he’s clearly NO good at what he does

 

[Slippery Pete]

To be fair, the club deserves all the anger currently directed towards it, by both players and fans.

Sure, but the club isn’t wrong having concerns about Rachele.

How they handle the next chapter is where it usually goes arse-up.

 

[Jeffcrowe]

Im actually torn on this.

On one hand I say **** the media. Ignore them because they always want to draw out some comment to spin, twist, quote out of context, because that's what keeps them in their shitty scum jobs.

On the other hand, yes, address the issues immediately and negate the rumour/s to shut it/them down.

But every club, not just the Crows, have private club issues they don't want the media tooling with, so if in the past, issues have been addressed immediately, a club's chosen silence, or a delay in responding on any new issue, according to the media becomes an admission of guilt.

So give them nothing all of time and their speculation runs rife.

Give them something some of the time and the first time you remain silent you're seen as being guilty because otherwise you would have responded immediately.

Give them everything they want to know and you're exposing your belly. Not one club in the AFL does that.

It's a balancing act we always seem to somehow stuff up.

That’s the art and skill of controlling the info

Which we are hopeless at , just another failure with same guys in same jobs year after year

 

[Crow_68]

Amazing that Ian Shuttleworth was directly responsible for the comms and media management around the fallout from the camp and survived. It was actually handled worse than the camp itself.

He's going nowhere, firmly entrenched in Riccuito's Circle of Trust.

 

[Jbudds04v2]

He made a joke that has been going on ever since Poort entered the comp. All of a sudden it is offensive!! so can get offended every time they mention apricot slice??

C'mon mate, things are completely different now. Dentures are heaps better now!

 

[Slippery Pete]

The other thing you gotta figure out about players is whether they respond to the carrot or the stick.

To me, Rachele very much looks like the former.

Now, that doesn’t mean you let him get away with whatever the f*ck he wants, but it means you’ve gotta handle him a certain way to get the best out of him.

A wise head has to really put the time into this kid. It’s the only way he’s going to get better.

The AFC is renowned for completely f*cking up these delicate situations.

 

[Crow_68]

I'm somewhat torn.

On one hand, I hope Rachele and a couple of our other gun kids ruffle feathers and request trades at season's end.

On the other hand, to protect their own arses, I'm fearful the hierarchy will circle the wagons and back Nicks in ahead of these kids.

Will set us back 5 years or more.

 

[cleanhands]

He’s definitely in need of growth but that’s not the argument here , it’s more the amateur hour style this has been dealt with

He doesn’t need disciplining, he needs to be educated, and he better not be dropped because of it

 

[MRB37]

That’s the art and skill of controlling the info

Which we are hopeless at , just another failure with same guys in same jobs year after year

I think we're very "old school" in how we approach the media. We still think locally and we control through threats of "we'll revoke your access". For a local journalist that's an absolute killer, so if they get out of line they'll back track quickly when they get the stick wagged at them. Rowie does it all the time for example.

National media and in a digital landscape? Those threats don't work nearly as well if at all.

 

[Crows I Am]

The fact it’s been announced today that Rash made 22U22 is hilarious btw

AFL Media trolling us with the timing of the announcement. Loving the timing of their post. Nicks would be hating it and sucked in to him.

 

[Danger in Texas]

AFL Media trolling us with the timing of the announcement. Loving the timing of their post. Nicks would be hating it and sucked in to him.

Looking forward to how Nicks acknowledges it through gritted teeth in his next presser

 

[Betts are off]

AFL Media trolling us with the timing of the announcement. Loving the timing of their post. Nicks would be hating it and sucked in to him.

The AFC posted it as well pretty much immediately. Just as this way blowing up.

Which makes me think this might all end up being a total mountain out of a molehill, and in 5hrs time Rach will be selected on the ground for this Saturdays game.

 

[SadCromFan]

Rash liked a comment I left on his instagram. I suggest everyone get in there and back him as our shitty club can’t.

**** Rory laird. Maybe start trending that on twitter it something.

broooooo delete that shit off here.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

AFL Media trolling us with the timing of the announcement. Loving the timing of their post. Nicks would be hating it and sucked in to him.

Has the club celebrated the announcement on their social accounts?

 

[Bazz_27]

Has the club celebrated the announcement on their social accounts?

Not on X weirdly. I'm sure they would cop it massively

 

[Frothiewalker]

Calm down lairdy.