Opinion Commentary & Media V

[Danni_Benson]

Basically on the eve of the footy season, without a ball being bounced for points, ‘Footy Classified’ can’t even find one positive story 35 minutes in. The negativity is astounding!

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Basically on the eve of the footy season, without a ball being bounced for points, ‘Footy Classified’ can’t even find one positive story 35 minutes in. The negativity is astounding!

What’s astounding is that anyone is still watching that tripe.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

 

[Snake_Baker]

Tasmanian interests would demand board positions.

It would be death by 1000 cuts.

 

[Zondor]

Laughable. Twits in Full Flight. :stern look

 

[Cool Kangas]

Basically on the eve of the footy season, without a ball being bounced for points, ‘Footy Classified’ can’t even find one positive story 35 minutes in. The negativity is astounding!

About us or in general?
Note: I never ever ever watch that show. It’s insufferable.

 

[tazaa]

This is a great read on where Caros hatred began at the famous 1974 brownlow. Didn’t know this went to print almost 7 years ago now but considering we had just gotten demolished by Sydney in a prelim can see how we may have missed it.

When the Brownlow turned nasty: The count that ended in a scuffle

The Brownlow Medal count that ended in a scuffle between two club officials

www.afl.com.au

Doesn’t say it on the article but reading between the lines Keithy robbing KB of Charlie was one thing that might have set her off but I never knew there was a full on brawl that night SimpkinByTheDockOfTheBay

Reckon her old man Ian might have gotten caught up in the scuffle and got belted by one of our blokes?? Who knows
The footy world went on to hate Richmond for what they did and maybe her fathers reputation was never the same.

 

[darko]

**** me, when Kane Cornes is the only one on the panel thinking rationally.

 

[Snake_Baker]

It appears to me that they're trolling North for their own amusement these days because the Chicken Little Posse never ceases to bite.

 

[Firestarter]

Credit to Twitter calling her out on her repetition.

 

[Flawed Genius]

I guess we shouldn't be surprised. She has a pathological need to shit on us at every opportunity but it's interesting that she's now lying about her previous shitting on us

Let's look at a timeline of her pushing the barrow for the cause (and thanks to the brilliant minds behind Caro's Agenda - http://www.carosagenda.com/articles-2/list/)

March 2021 -

The Kangaroos’ relatively small supporter base and membership numbers continue to make that club a target in relocation discussions

Tasmanian push may put focus on North Melbourne

Apple Isle believes a relocated club is its best chance of getting an AFL team.

www.theage.com.au

October 2020 -

And according to Wilson, the AFL now has serious concerns over the current state of the club.

North Melbourne's financial situation and direction moving forward has the AFL "worried" and increasingly losing confidence in the club.

"They're (AFL) putting on a brave face," Wilson added.

"They're terribly worried about them, terribly worried about them."

"They don't know what they stand for, they're really worried about their financial situation going forward

"Obviously there were eyebrows raised that their CEO Ben Amarfio didn't go to the hub like a lot of CEOs did who had rookie coaches and rookie football mangers.

"We know it was terrible for North Melbourne and the players with what went on and how badly they played, but I feel so sorry for the young players at the club.

"What have they got to hope for?"

AFL 'terribly worried' for North's future

'What have they got to hope for?'

wwos.nine.com.au

April 2020 -

“I’m absolutely fine with people defending North Melbourne, but all I was saying on Monday night was that everything I’m told from certain club presidents and certain AFL people, everything is on the table.

“There are no sacred cows, and if you ask clubs and people at the AFL about a few scenarios, obviously there’s a range, but a repeated comment probably from three clubs and also coming out of AFL, not Gillon McLachlan or Richard Goyder, is that there’s still a view that North Melbourne should’ve relocated.”

'World's nastiest boy's club': Caroline Wilson hits back at AFL 'bullies'

Veteran writer Caroline Wilson has returned serve after her controversial report about the Kangaroos being relocated to Tasmania.

au.sports.yahoo.com

March 2020 -

According to veteran AFL reporter Caroline Wilson, club bosses and figures at the AFL remain convinced that North Melbourne should be relocated to Tasmania, with the idea of 10 clubs remaining in Victoria thought to be unsustainable.

"Every time I talk to a club, the team that keeps coming back is North Melbourne and the fact that they should have relocated to (the) Gold Coast some years ago," Wilson told Footy Classified.


"Even within the AFL there's a view that Tasmania should not be off the table despite the fact that it seems like an indulgence at the moment, and that North Melbourne should go to Tasmania.

AFL power brokers pushing Kangaroos relocation

'Now the rules have changed'

wwos.nine.com.au

October 2012 -

In terms of Victorian clubs North Melbourne, the Bulldogs, Richmond and St Kilda are all still battling varying degrees of seven-figure debts while the Kangaroos, Saints, Bulldogs and Melbourne would all lose significant amounts of money this year without AFL subsidies.

North Melbourne tried - but failed - two years ago to reach a deal to play seven home games in Tasmania.

AFL's ticking time bomb

Sydney chairman Richard Colless questions AFL's commitment to 10 clubs in Victoria.

www.smh.com.au

April 2011 -

And it was suggested at the time that even before that, someone at the Kangaroos spoke to Cook about becoming their CEO when they were still looking at taking the generous AFL package - something their then coach and many players were keen to do.

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His thoughts on North's relocation echoed those of most in other AFL clubs and probably riled Brayshaw even more when Kangaroos premiership player David King - in his radio commentary role - stated once again that North should have moved north given that its best option now appeared to be Tasmania - in other words a relocation south.

...

North hates hearing this, but when presidents like the Hawks' Jeff Kennett talk about the rich getting richer in the AFL landscape and the poor getting poorer, it is North Melbourne that always comes to mind.

Let the clubs prosper

The clubs are the lifeblood of the AFL and should be the beneficiaries of the AFL's TV rights bonanza.

www.theage.com.au

July 2010 -

North Melbourne and the AFL deny the club has signed an agreement to play four games a year at Hobart's Bellerive Oval and help lead a push to revitalise the game in Tasmania from 2012, but it will almost certainly happen. North can say all it likes about avoiding the ''R'' word, but talk of relocation to a state that ultimately wants its own team will, in reality, haunt the club in the manner the Gold Coast did.
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The club can deny all it likes that this will prove a hybrid relocation. It can point to Hawthorn and the manner in which that club has engaged with the people of Launceston while remaining a Melbourne-based club. It can say that this time will be different.

But the truth is North Melbourne is pushing to move part-time to Tasmania because it cannot afford to sustain itself at Arden Street and Etihad Stadium - when it assured its members and fans that it could and would. It has taken less than three seasons of the new board to break that promise.

Roos can play dumb, but Hobart looms large

Aching familiarity about mixed messages emanating from Arden Street where club's fourth interstate move in little more than a decade is concerned.

www.theage.com.au

October 2007 -

THE AFL is losing patience with the leaderless Kangaroos and is on the verge of threatening to withdraw its annual $1.4 million special funding of the club by the end of 2009.

Pressure on Kangaroos to move

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

There's also a number of articles in 2007 where I can't find links (h/t SimpkinByTheDockOfTheBay)

November 2007:

“THE Kangaroos have attempted to put off their historic relocation decision for 12 months, with acting chairman John Magowan yesterday asking the AFL Commission and its clubs to approve a one-year deadline extension for the club to build a survival plan in Melbourne.”

July 2007:

Laidley, on the other hand, would welcome a new contract offer. He is the lowest-paid coach in the AFL and in charge of a team that almost certainly will relocate to the Gold Coast before the 2010 season.

May 2007:

“Next year, the AFL will move forward with at least four clubs boasting new coaches, an Essendon without Kevin Sheedy and, most likely, a Gold Coast-bound Kangaroos.”

April 2007:

THE seemingly inevitable relocation of the Kangaroos to the Gold Coast gained further momentum after unofficial talks yesterday between the three most senior figures in the AFL and an influential local businessman.

The defense of this is obviously that she herself has never actually said "North should relocate to the Gold Coast/Tasmania/Kargoolie/Outer Nar Nar Goon". In that she is technically correct and will always hide behind the excuse that she is just reporting what she is being told and that it's not her opinion, it's just news.

But **** me if I can't find anyone else that has pushed the cause more, time and time again, in various ways and means. She is not the only journalist that has ever had sources at AFL House, but she appears to be the only one that gets repeated inside information about how crap North are going and how we're circling the drain. And she has always been 100% wrong.

She has been banging on about our financial position for 14 years. We are now debt-free, no longer reliant on handouts and subsidies. We are in a far stronger position as a club than we have arguably ever been, and certainly the wolves have been staved off and are no longer baying at the door. Whether Caroline likes it or not, and whether she has expressly called for us to be relocated in her own words or not, she must accept that she has been the AFL's biggest cheerleader and water carrier for their attempts to get North out of Melbourne. She cannot deny that.

We have proved her wrong every step of the way. Everything she has ever written about North and our finances and relocation, she has been proved wrong. Give her opinion less and less weight every time she writes about us, because the more she does, the better we get

 

[Del191229]

She's a joke now, even her own peers on her own show mock her over it.

St Kilda's debt getting into the discussion is very good.

 

[King Corey]

The best part about the new concussion rule (forced 12 day break) is that it will stop clubs from manipulating their own medical reports to say that a player is suffering from delayed concussion in order to get an opposition player suspended. If their doctors were not willing to pull the player mid-game, then they should never have been given the ammunition to change the grading of the MRO.

Carlton have now amended their 2012 report to state that Aaron Joseph just had a dizzy spell mid-air from a dodgy pre-game vindaloo.

 

[The Y Factor]

Tasmanian interests would demand board positions.

It would be death by 1000 cuts.

I would instantly cancel all memberships and move on, possible over a 5th game

 

[Mav]

It appears to me that they're trolling North for their own amusement these days because the Chicken Little Posse never ceases to bite.

Yep, like those that cried on here about the girls team taking over the VFL team.

 

[King Corey]

Yep, like those that cried on here about the girls team taking over the VFL team.

I was more worried about Sexy Loader coaching our VFL team for another season.

 

[jimandphilbadge]

The story about your mate makes me think of everytime they show a path lab on the tv.... Some freakin' tubes spinning about on a piece of equipment that should've been discarded in 1982 or someone using a fancy 12 tip pipette in to some coloured water....

I mean, where's the good stuff like me looking down the scope at some other blokes swimmers while trying to ignore the slight ammonia smell and knowing it's not yours.... Or getting the scissors to cut a cup full of sputum... Or having the lid blow off a 3 day faecal fat collection tin and paint the roof as it warmed to room temperature too fast....

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TWELVE channel pipette? You ****ing millionaire

 

[Twinkletoes]

I guess we shouldn't be surprised. She has a pathological need to sh*t on us at every opportunity but it's interesting that she's now lying about her previous shitting on us

Let's look at a timeline of her pushing the barrow for the cause (and thanks to the brilliant minds behind Caro's Agenda - http://www.carosagenda.com/articles-2/list/)

March 2021 -

Tasmanian push may put focus on North Melbourne

Apple Isle believes a relocated club is its best chance of getting an AFL team.

www.theage.com.au

October 2020 -

AFL 'terribly worried' for North's future

'What have they got to hope for?'

wwos.nine.com.au

April 2020 -

'World's nastiest boy's club': Caroline Wilson hits back at AFL 'bullies'

Veteran writer Caroline Wilson has returned serve after her controversial report about the Kangaroos being relocated to Tasmania.

au.sports.yahoo.com

March 2020 -

AFL power brokers pushing Kangaroos relocation

'Now the rules have changed'

wwos.nine.com.au

October 2012 -

AFL's ticking time bomb

Sydney chairman Richard Colless questions AFL's commitment to 10 clubs in Victoria.

www.smh.com.au

April 2011 -

Let the clubs prosper

The clubs are the lifeblood of the AFL and should be the beneficiaries of the AFL's TV rights bonanza.

www.theage.com.au

July 2010 -

Roos can play dumb, but Hobart looms large

Aching familiarity about mixed messages emanating from Arden Street where club's fourth interstate move in little more than a decade is concerned.

www.theage.com.au

October 2007 -

Pressure on Kangaroos to move

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

There's also a number of articles in 2007 where I can't find links (h/t SimpkinByTheDockOfTheBay)

November 2007:

July 2007:

May 2007:

April 2007:


The defense of this is obviously that she herself has never actually said "North should relocate to the Gold Coast/Tasmania/Kargoolie/Outer Nar Nar Goon". In that she is technically correct and will always hide behind the excuse that she is just reporting what she is being told and that it's not her opinion, it's just news.

But fu** me if I can't find anyone else that has pushed the cause more, time and time again, in various ways and means. She is not the only journalist that has ever had sources at AFL House, but she appears to be the only one that gets repeated inside information about how crap North are going and how we're circling the drain. And she has always been 100% wrong.

She has been banging on about our financial position for 14 years. We are now debt-free, no longer reliant on handouts and subsidies. We are in a far stronger position as a club than we have arguably ever been, and certainly the wolves have been staved off and are no longer baying at the door. Whether Caroline likes it or not, and whether she has expressly called for us to be relocated in her own words or not, she must accept that she has been the AFL's biggest cheerleader and water carrier for their attempts to get North out of Melbourne. She cannot deny that.

We have proved her wrong every step of the way. Everything she has ever written about North and our finances and relocation, she has been proved wrong. Give her opinion less and less weight every time she writes about us, because the more she does, the better we get

Superb FG. Send that to Corn Kanes so he can use it on his Friday SEN morning show.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Firestarter]

Someone pointed out the "Carolyn" spelling. Although another person claiming her agenda is against Hawthorn makes me laugh with scorn.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Firestarter]

The lizards will be eaten by Chinese needle snakes which will be eaten by gorillas until the game of Australian Rules more resembles touch ball.

 

[Swallow_Wood]

That last line is the AFL rules committee motto and is written in Latin on all their stationary and mugs.

'Aregula creatus est, tunc habebamus, ad alium partum solvere quaestionem de illa regula'

 

[Intothewind]

Bring rotations back to 4 per quarter.

Then you don't need a concussion sub. (You already got 4 sitting there)

Then smart coaching recognises the fatigue factor and strategic balance swings back towards preserving energy, and more positional, less congestion.

Then you don't need 15 coaches to manage rotations.

75 rotations is like swapping horses after a mile in the Melbourne cup.

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[giantroo]