Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

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Way too much good media about us it makes me uncomfortable think we’re getting big heads or just being hung to dry later the moment we fall. And maybe that’s just my conditioning to North for the past decade.

It’s a big ask this weekend but the best we can do is show up and play our brand of footy which against the Dees was evident, and we have good options in the wings. I don’t expect a win but a close one would be grand.
 
Don’t listen to radio or footy tv shows…..win or lose.

Most of the content is garbage.
 
Gumble Frankieton said:

North Melbourne finally have their day. Could it herald a successful era? | Jonathan Horn

The Kangaroos thwarted the Demons at every point of Sunday’s game to bring a feelgood factor to the club
www.theguardian.com

"At North Melbourne home games, club president Dr Sonja Hood and CEO Jennifer Watt often sneak out of their functions and spend the last quarter sitting with the cheer squad. They’ve had some glum afternoons – games that were over after 15 minutes and games where they were mown down late. Last year, one of Hood’s KPIs for her football department was how fans felt coming to games, rather than how many games the team won. For most supporters, half an hour of proctology was preferable to some of the final terms they had to sit through." (Yep, he's perfectly summarised the past few years in that one sentence)

"But they finally had their day on Sunday. With the contest still in the balance early in the final quarter, they slammed on three goals before Melbourne had even touched the ball. Soon it was torrential, and they’d kicked half a dozen goals in as many minutes. It was their biggest win in five years and perhaps a portent of a successful era to come."

This summary is from Jonathan Horn in The Guardian. He's one of the better footy writers around that most people haven't heard of.



This article is a good example of his writing:

Lights out in Melbourne: lack of footy in Australia's capital of sport amplifies city's sullen silence | Jonathan Horn

When you live behind a mask and are subject to curfew, it feels trite to even talk about football but it is a huge part of life in this state
www.theguardian.com

Some of my favourite bits:

"To listen to these dipshits, or to wade through Twitter for 10 minutes, was enough to tip you over the edge. To clear my head, I bought a new Sherrin football. I took it everywhere with me. I sniffed the leather like some sort of deviant. I slapped it from hand to hand. I broke about half a dozen lamps in my apartment. It quickly wore down, lost its shape and became waterlogged.

Mindful of not decapitating some poor hound tottering around the goal-square, I took pot shots from the deep pockets at my local oval. It used to be footy’s most feral and intimidating venue. It was where Nicky Winmar lifted his jumper. It was where Tank O’Donoghue ironed out Geoff Hayward in The Club. It was now frequented by hipsters, semi-retired academics, fully-retired greyhounds, meth addicts, personal trainers, psychotic sausage dogs, miscellaneous lurkers and blokes like me, chasing old glories. My quads and hamstrings weren’t up to it. My kicks had no penetration. They never did really. But every now and then, I’d flush one. The ball would bend like a pretzel. I’d crane my neck, tilt my torso and will it through the goals. I’d puff my chest out and collect my footy. I’d glance up to see whether anyone was watching. They never were.

There is hardly anyone down there now. It is mainly just dogs – the big winners of this pandemic – dashing through the corridor and crapping on the 50-metre line."

"You also look back on all the things you used to gripe about – the officiating, the rolling mauls, the moronic commentary. They are still genuine grounds for grievance, mind you. But they seem so quaint right now. So much wasted energy, so much hot air. Remember the way tribunal hearings would turn into two and three day morality trials? The way Kane Cornes would find 25 things to object to by lunchtime? The way, on AFL 360, Mark Robinson would react to a two-goal loss like someone had just set fire to his house?"
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Love those past reflection be them ficticious embelishments or weird facts.

This is why i miss the couldabeens on a weekend.
 
Dan said:
Don’t listen to radio or footy tv shows…..win or lose.

Most of the content is garbage.
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That’s what I said when we mostly lost.

This week I don’t care if it is garbage, I want it (although it helps if I can come here and GR has sorted the North content out for me).
 
 
Sphynx said:
I don't necessarily think it's because Lyon (as an example) is older etc

Lyon was just a really intense player and a known leader. A bit like J.Brown, but obviously more articulate. They naturally command a bit of respect and have presence about them.

Jack was a petulant child in his first 100 games, he's always come off as a bit of a lark and a had youthful exuberance about him. Always a bit of a joker, despite the team first type attitude he tried to apply to his last 100 games or so.

He's just the complete opposite of the sharp and polished persona a host needs to be (as you stated).

It's just weird having him in that role. His voice, everything about him is off in it. Looks like he's going to smirk every time he's trying to present straight down the barrell.

He should just be the analyst, commentator, the person being asked the question. Not the host.

Should be him or Lewis, not both of them.

The fact he's clearly trying to so hard to be this person, makes it even weirder in itself.

In fact, the obvious candidate now thinking about it was Dunstall...

Dunstall, Buckley, Brown and Lewis would have been fine.
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Not sure who the Producer is at Fox these days but they have the casting for these shows all wrong.

Dunstall as others have said should move from Bounce to On The Couch and become the host.

J Riewoldt and J Brown should both be traded from On The Couch to Bounce.

Problem largely solved.
 
 
Piss off Damo, the North train is full!

train help GIF
 
It's amazing how quick things turn around. 2 weeks ago I thought we were miles off the pace. But now, you can see that we have covered all bases with astute drafting and recruiting.
Sure, the rebuild took time, but how satisfying/rewarding are the next 3-5 seasons gonna be?
As Stevie Wonder once sang, "The futures so bright, I gotta wear shades"
 
I still have 1% of love for Damo - can never forget how much help he was when we fought Vlad the Relocator to Keep North South. His support of WANM, the assistance he gave me media managing was crucial.
 
gokangas said:
I still have 1% of love for Damo - can never forget how much help he was when we fought Vlad the Relocator to Keep North South. His support of WANM, the assistance he gave me media managing was crucial.
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He has been a complete campaigner ever since then though.
 
Tas said:
He has been a complete campaigner ever since then though.
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I know. But I am applying the credits too. If you ever get a chance to have a chat with him you will understand why.
 
gokangas said:
I know. But I am applying the credits too. If you ever get a chance to have a chat with him you will understand why.
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Yeah, i know he is passionate about the club and he has had legitimate criticism about what the club has done in recent times. That being said, he is an "entertainer" and his laying the boot into the club even whenever there was a minor spark of positivity was lecherous, he did that for no other reason than to further his career at the expense of North supporters. He could have got the message across without being proactive in driving fans away from the club.
 
Tas said:
Yeah, i know he is passionate about the club and he has had legitimate criticism about what the club has done in recent times. That being said, he is an "entertainer" and his laying the boot into the club even whenever there was a minor spark of positivity was lecherous, he did that for no other reason than to further his career at the expense of North supporters. He could have got the message across without being proactive in driving fans away from the club.
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I hear ya!
 

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