Daily Telegraph promotes Football!!

[Dimenhydrinate]

AFL don't play at Suburban Grounds anymore (Apart from Skilled Stadium for 7 times a year for Geelong games. But 27,000 seats [seats, not standing ground like half of pretty much every Drugby ground is] shits on every Drugby suburban ground). And AFL has 8/18 interstate while Drugby League only has 1 team outside their heartland (Qld, NSW, ACT) in Oz.

Yeah, but eight of the clubs are named after suburbs that nobody outside of Victoria has heard of.

 

[finders]

Yeah, but eight of the clubs are named after suburbs that nobody outside of Victoria has heard of.

No its just the uninformed uneducated fools like you that dont know the names of famous Melbourne suburbs - most of them were formed when we had the magnificent Gold Rush that put us so far ahead of the criminal infested boganville Sydney as a decent city to live in that they are still trying to catch up 157 years later!

 

[finders]

The Australian is actually a very important paper if you want to find out what is really happening with the INEPTITUDE of the federal government. The Age won't report on that type of stuff as they are still living in Peter Pan land. I though Rudd was incompetent, but the wastage of money and resources of this new Gillard govt is astounding.



The Telegraph still can be considered as having an agenda against Australian football. A couple of videos doesn't change the general attitude of the paper.

eg Friday's article called the "Code Breaker" by Josh Massound....all about a "rugby league man" helping the AFL's push into Sydney's west. The whole theme of traitor/returning to the fold being played up as an emotional selling point. It is actually possible to like both sports if you want to...but some of the writers of the Telegraph think otherwise.

You have obviously fallen hook line and sinker for the vicious pro Phoney Tony anti Gillard/ALP campaign that the Australian and other Murdoch/News Corp papers have been running.
I personally wouldnt wipe my arse on our self styled "national" newspaper which BTW struggles to sell 30,000 in Melbourne so it is essentually only a Sydney paper thinking it is way better than it actually is.

If you believe everything the Murdoch press prints as being 100% truthfull and unbaised then you must also believe in Santa ,the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny LOL

 

[Dogs till i die]

... Isn't that what the AFL is?

Bitter, bitter soccer troll.

I want my 43 million bucks back.

 

[Dimenhydrinate]

I just find it ironic that AFL fans are calling the NRL suburban, one day after Hawthorn played Essendon.

 

[Pie eyed]

big footy over 100,000 members RU - 29,000
Says it all.

6000 of LU's members are AFL supporters reading the posts of the simians for the lulz. I'm one of them.
It's akin to watching baby apes at play, everyone tumbling around and rolling in their own faeces, occasional looking up to see a cityscape in the distance and wondering what it's like to have opposable thumbs.
Still it's amazing how well they can masturbate given the lack thereof.

 

[Dogs till i die]

I just find it ironic that AFL fans are calling the NRL suburban, one day after Hawthorn played Essendon.

Tottenham play Chelsea who play Fulham who play WestHam who play Arsenal but we don't consider the EPL suburban.

The NRL has 9 Sydney based NRL clubs (same number as Melbourne based AFL clubs) but the difference is the NRL play at 10 sydney stadiums only 3 of which (SCG, ANZ and SFS) would would be up to AFL standard. Many of those run down /basic NRL stadiums are truly suburban.

 

[Dimenhydrinate]

Tottenham play Chelsea who play Fulham who play WestHam who play Arsenal but we don't consider the EPL suburban.

Yes, but every suburb, town, village, city and pub team plays in the English system.

 

[harmesy 37]

You have obviously fallen hook line and sinker for the vicious pro Phoney Tony anti Gillard/ALP campaign that the Australian and other Murdoch/News Corp papers have been running.
I personally wouldnt wipe my arse on our self styled "national" newspaper which BTW struggles to sell 30,000 in Melbourne so it is essentually only a Sydney paper thinking it is way better than it actually is.

If you believe everything the Murdoch press prints as being 100% truthfull and unbaised then you must also believe in Santa ,the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny LOL

If you bothered to read the paper(The Australian) you would realise they use left-wing comments from people such as George Meglanomenis (seen on Insiders regularly) and critical pieces by more informed people.

It is up to you to make up your mind based on the information provided- it is called free speech and is essential. If you don't want analysis of a poor govt then our alternative is to have a Uganda-like govt with ultimate power. And if you also close your mind to various points then your myopic viewpoint will cloud you from making proper judgements.

The wastage that The Australian was reporting on (eg education building contracts at double the normal wage) was at least reported on in detail by the Australian. The Age went and hid their head in the sand. Journalism? or fan base support? you make up your mind. At least some papers give you the option.. The Age doesn't even bother (for the most part when it comes to Gillard) reporting the truth.

The Terrorgraph is equally myopic with their reporting -but in their example it is with sport. Apparently the only sport to ever exist in the Terrorgraph world is Rugby League. Thank God we live in a free country with the option of reading other papers.

 

[cos789]

Yeah, but eight of the clubs are named after suburbs that nobody outside of Victoria has heard of.

Very poor retort .AFL is played Australia wide with teams well known in every state and territory .Not the same depth of knowledge for the NRL especially outside NSW and QLD but most people would be struggling to name even a few soccer teams .What I find strange is that the SRU teams don't have place names so people have no idea where most of the teams play out of and thus they are robbed of having any emotional attatchment .

 

[alison_z]

I'm a Sydney based Swans fan and as a journo student - read most papers daily, and start by looking for the AFL news.

Credit has to go to the Telegraph for their improved coverage of the AFL. There is normally at least one article every day on AFL and not just Swans related - Buddy and Jack Reiwoldt articles ran in the lead up to the games against Hawthorn and the Tigers.

Of course I would love to see more coverage but I don't have a problem with it at all and compared to the Herald where you're lucky to get more than 3 sport pages in total, it's great!

 

[finders]

[QUOTE=harmesy 37;21441588]If you bothered to read the paper(The Australian) you would realise they use left-wing comments from people such as George Meglanomenis (seen on Insiders regularly) and critical pieces by more informed people.

I only sport to ever exist in the Terrorgraph world is Rugby League. Thank God we live in a free country with the option of reading other papers.[/QUOTE

I READ The Australian online every day just to see how much further to the right they can go

Meglanomenis is the only slighty left leaning journo they have. The rest may as well be on the LNP payroll I much prefer to get my unbiased opinions from sources like Crikey.com.
The vicious relentless anti Gillard anti anything the ALP does is the worst case of Media bias I have seen since the Whitlam years


Its in the DTele and Murdochs interests to promote the AFL as Foxtel which they are part owners is the main AFL TV broadcaster from next year having paid a lot of dollars to get AFL footy and Muddoch hates to lose money on anything.

Rupe has never been backward at cross promoting his businesses and will start to push the AFL more in future seeing that News Corp are getting out of the NRL.

 

[cos789]

There is normally at least one article every day on AFL and not just Swans related - Buddy and Jack Reiwoldt articles ran in the lead up to the games against Hawthorn and the Tigers.

Yes they ran a Jack Reiwoldt article an no mention of the Swans , the SCG or the importance of the game .It was if they were trying to avoid mentioning theren was a game of Australian Football taking place in Sydney .

I lived in Sydney for 22 years and it was hard to find an extra news other than the obligatory relatively small weekly snapshot .Of course it was better due the GF years .During my regular visits I scan the DT daily (because the rels buy it) and nothing has changed .There is no way in the world there is an AFL article every day .Even if you are counting all the anti-AFL diatribes -no way in the world .

When you go online ,as you know there only two main feeds .The DT takes one of those and removes all the "AFL is winning stories" type stories from it's list .It has a serious problem .

 

[alison_z]

I have no problem with the coverage of AFL in Sydney papers at the moment ... But if you do, just don't read it? The advantages of the Internet means that you can read anything from just about anywhere and can stay away from things you don't like - I like particular AFL journos so I only read them!

 

[tonk]

I have no problem with the coverage of AFL in Sydney papers at the moment ... But if you do, just don't read it? The advantages of the Internet means that you can read anything from just about anywhere and can stay away from things you don't like - I like particular AFL journos so I only read them!

The problem is the 'lack' of coverage.

 

[wikipediaAFLproject]

I have no problem with the coverage of AFL in Sydney papers at the moment ... But if you do, just don't read it? The advantages of the Internet means that you can read anything from just about anywhere and can stay away from things you don't like - I like particular AFL journos so I only read them!

I read the paper on the public transport of a morning. It is ridiculously hard reading news on a smartphone ... i want enough football news to complement the australian, world and financial news such that im not stuck on the same section the whole journey. Because of that i am forced to buy the Financial Review, because to be honest it usually has more afl articles (usually tv rights recently) than the dailyterrorgraph and Sydney Morning Herald.

The Daily Telegraph is also widely sold in regional and rural NSW. I think you will find that in a large chunk of the Riverina people buy the Herald Sun for their news despite being within NSW, and it is purely because of the football (they sacrifice the news about how the nsw govt is going).

 

[10571z]

6000 of LU's members are AFL supporters reading the posts of the simians for the lulz. I'm one of them.
It's akin to watching baby apes at play, everyone tumbling around and rolling in their own faeces, occasional looking up to see a cityscape in the distance and wondering what it's like to have opposable thumbs.
Still it's amazing how well they can masturbate given the lack thereof.

Haha im not a member but i read it sometimes for lolz. Amazing how impressed and happy there are with a 10,000 crowd. I dont know how they would react going to a collingwood vs carlton/hawks/essedon/tigers game.

 

[Furn]

One of the Adelaidde papaers should do a poster on "how to play" the teams there could use it.

 

[tonk]

6000 of LU's members are AFL supporters reading the posts of the simians for the lulz. I'm one of them.
It's akin to watching baby apes at play, everyone tumbling around and rolling in their own faeces, occasional looking up to see a cityscape in the distance and wondering what it's like to have opposable thumbs.
Still it's amazing how well they can masturbate given the lack thereof.

Perfect characterization, very astute stuff Pie eyed.