Bickley to 5AA

[OnThePyne]

Haven't been near a radio much over the past couple of weeks, but did love it yesterday when Bicks got stuck into that wannabe football write from the 'tiser. From what I've heard of him, he seems to balance out Rowie much better than Bone ever did.

 

[skoobydoo]

Yes I heard that

Rucci is such a tool. First he says there's no difference between calling it a ban or guidelines. Bicks says there's a big difference, one is coach-imposed and the other is player driven. So then Rucci tries to blame his editor who decided that the shorter word "ban" fits the available headline. So then both Bicks and Rowie point out that he used the word ban in his article! So he tried to fudge around it by saying it leads to the same end point of elite standards (which it might but isn't the point you knob) and when Bicks tries to say how a policy would be worded and starts to say "you cannot.." and then retracts that because that sounds like a ban, Rucci tries to use that to say that he supports a ban!

At one stage he tried to wriggle out from it by saying "let's get back to the core issue of elite standards" - if I wasn't driving I was going to text that the core issue of the discussion was actually the lack of elite journalism standards in SA.

Very glad that Bicks continues to call him out on this, wish Bicks was able to pin him down a bit more.

Rucci needs to take more responsibility for what he says or writes. Like when he said the SMA was responsible to no one except the SANFL. Then the CEO comes on and says their report is tabled in parliament. How much more public accountability can there be? Crickets from Rucci.

Good summary/post.

 

[Crow54]

Such sad and tragic news about Phil Hughes' passing away. My estimation of Bicks was confirmed when he broke down when talking about the news. Very empathetic man.

 

[mort0089]

Such sad and tragic news about Phil Hughes' passing away. My estimation of Bicks was confirmed when he broke down when talking about the news. Very empathetic man.

Could feel the sincerity in his voice. Gutted, feel sick. Lost for words. RIP Phil.