Roast AFL media - trade rumour tracker

[Old Campaigner]

I thought as our season winds down and thoughts turn towards the offseason movements it would be fun to track which media personality, Big Footy poster (only the ones who take themselves too seriously), twitter account and so on has the worst mail when it comes to player/pick trades.

The trade period is like catnip for the media; it seems to get more media engagement than the actual footy and all the media outlets are right there to soak up all the clicks and ad views. This desperation for content most definitely leads to a quantity over quality situation and there's always plenty of predictions that seem pretty suspect.

If you come across any predictions of player movements in the media post them here. Screenshots are ideal because an embarrassingly wrong article or social media post can be quietly deleted. For interviews and radio/tv segments if possible get some footage/audio, but failing that a quick summary is fine.

What I envisage is a spreadsheet with columns for Media Personality, Player/Pick being traded, Destination (club/s, state or 'Anywhere'), Exchanged For, and Outcome (Correct/Incorrect/Partial Credit). Lore loves spreadsheets so they've been volunteered to keep that side of things up to date.

By draft night hopefully we'll be able to rank them all by how rank their predictions were.

Opposition posters are more than welcome as long as y'all stick to the spirit of the thread which is mostly just making fun of the shitty AFL media landscape.

 

[Duckworth]

I bet Tom Browne doesn't make another wrong call for the rest of the year.

 

[Lore]

I thought as our season winds down and thoughts turn towards the offseason movements it would be fun to track which media personality, Big Footy poster (only the ones who take themselves too seriously), twitter account and so on has the worst mail when it comes to player/pick trades.

The trade period is like catnip for the media; it seems to get more media engagement than the actual footy and all the media outlets are right there to soak up all the clicks and ad views. This desperation for content most definitely leads to a quantity over quality situation and there's always plenty of predictions that seem pretty suspect.

If you come across any predictions of player movements in the media post them here. Screenshots are ideal because an embarrassingly wrong article or social media post can be quietly deleted. For interviews and radio/tv segments if possible get some footage/audio, but failing that a quick summary is fine.

What I envisage is a spreadsheet with columns for Media Personality, Player/Pick being traded, Destination (club/s, state or 'Anywhere'), Exchanged For, and Outcome (Correct/Incorrect/Partial Credit). Lore loves spreadsheets so they've been volunteered to keep that side of things up to date.

By draft night hopefully we'll be able to rank them all by how rank their predictions were.

Opposition posters are more than welcome as long as y'all stick to the spirit of the thread which is mostly just making fun of the shitty AFL media landscape.

There's usually an identical thread on the trade board, complete with one of Lore's spreadsheets, and I've handed the responsibility for it to other mods because I don't have time to keep on top of every rumour

 

[eth-dog]

Relevant to us guys like Tom Browne, Dan Cherny and Cal Twomey are usually pretty good.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Were there any notably dumb predictions regarding Redman?

 

[ghostdog]

I thought as our season winds down and thoughts turn towards the offseason movements it would be fun to track which media personality, Big Footy poster (only the ones who take themselves too seriously), twitter account and so on has the worst mail when it comes to player/pick trades.

The trade period is like catnip for the media; it seems to get more media engagement than the actual footy and all the media outlets are right there to soak up all the clicks and ad views. This desperation for content most definitely leads to a quantity over quality situation and there's always plenty of predictions that seem pretty suspect.

If you come across any predictions of player movements in the media post them here. Screenshots are ideal because an embarrassingly wrong article or social media post can be quietly deleted. For interviews and radio/tv segments if possible get some footage/audio, but failing that a quick summary is fine.

What I envisage is a spreadsheet with columns for Media Personality, Player/Pick being traded, Destination (club/s, state or 'Anywhere'), Exchanged For, and Outcome (Correct/Incorrect/Partial Credit). Lore loves spreadsheets so they've been volunteered to keep that side of things up to date.

By draft night hopefully we'll be able to rank them all by how rank their predictions were.

Opposition posters are more than welcome as long as y'all stick to the spirit of the thread which is mostly just making fun of the shitty AFL media landscape.

Don't these kinds of journos come to Big Footy for their mail? Oh what a conundrum!

 

[Beerfish]

Ben Mckay on his way to Essendon according to Edmund

I think right now hes 99% in red and black next year

Here's one.

 

[andleanback]

Were there any notably dumb predictions regarding Redman?

Think old scoopy thought he would leave
Other than the crows mafia thinking they had him. Generally most of the media thought he would stay