Five Seasons By Emma Quayle - Football journalism the way it should be done

[Dont be a lemon]

I have no problem with her, but it's easy to be everybody's favourite when your main thing is writing about optimistic, young players and not 'bad news'.

 

[the dog's kennel]

The Emma Quayles of this world are never going to be able to churn out volume day after day. And they'll also never attract the coins and attention of the casual viewers. Sadly the world is filled with morons who would TLDR pieces of substance. So they will never dominate press coverage.

But god, writers like her are valuable. Worth their weight in gold, and I see no reason there can't be more than just Emma. In the era of paywalls and value-added content, writers like Quayle give footy diehards a reason to pay for their news.

 

[NarklesHelmet]

Some of her stuff about the Essendon drug scandal was embarrassing. She should stick to what she does best.

Glad someone else picked up on that. She didn't say much on it but what she said showed she wasn't too much different from the irrational Rohan Connolly and the rest.

 

[LanceRomance]

I knew this thread would be started by an Essendon fan.

Anyway, insightful article.

 

[Walter Sobchak]

This is longform, narrative journalism. It has a different purpose and focus than the kind of muck raking, news breaking stuff done by Caro etc. Doesn't make much sense to compare them imo.

 

[the_interloper]

Best journo by a mile.

Yep this, just goes to show you don't need to be an AFL puppet or a Twitter mouthpiece to be a good journo these days.

 

[ManWithNoName]

I have no problem with her, but it's easy to be everybody's favourite when your main thing is writing about optimistic, young players and not 'bad news'.

You didn't read the one about Nathan Jones or Gia?

 

[KingJ]

I have no problem with her, but it's easy to be everybody's favourite when your main thing is writing about optimistic, young players and not 'bad news'.

She wrote about your club though?

 

[Franc de Borges]

One of the few football writers worth reading.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Nathan Jones wonders aloud why he re-signed for Melbourne
Jack Ziebell struggles with being suspended again
Gia gets dropped to the VFL

Clearly all Emma writes is positive stuff about youngsters.

 

[swansfan51]

Some of her stuff about the Essendon drug scandal was embarrassing. She should stick to what she does best.

100% correct, several utterly embarrassing articles a couple of months ago.

 

[ManWithNoName]

100% correct, several utterly embarrassing articles a couple of months ago. As other posters have said, it is easy to be popular when you write very positively about young players and how much potential they all have (though most of them end up failing).

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threa...t-should-be-done.1039521/page-2#post-30801842

 

[Brasher]

Emma Quayle is a writer in a sea of football journalists.

 

[FRUMPY]

Have read the Vlaustin and Gia articles, both pretty good, enjoyed the vlaustin one more although would have liked to hear his thoughts on the final

 

[thejester]

Hopefully the lesson both papers (and everyone else) take out of this is that there's a market for longform journalism in footy. Pretty sure the reason why we don't see more is that papers simply don't have the space to do articles that run into the thousands of words - and while the format is pretty this is basically a polished transcription of five interviews...you can't imagine it represented a massive drain on resources.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

You didn't read the one about Nathan Jones or Gia?

Nathan Jones wonders aloud why he re-signed for Melbourne
Jack Ziebell struggles with being suspended again
Gia gets dropped to the VFL

Clearly all Emma writes is positive stuff about youngsters.

I said main thing, not only thing.

Consult a dictionary.

 

[lamaros]

Harsh on Caro ITT. She does her job well. Not there to write match reports.

The rest, I agree with.

Emma is the second best journalist in football, behind the insurmountable Martin Flanagan.

No, she's far better. Flanagan just writes to inflate his ego - he has no feel for the medium, just a frustrated author stuck in the footy pages.

 

[Tulip]

No, she's far better. Flanagan just writes to inflate his ego - he can no feel for the medium, just a frustrated author stuck in the footy pages.

Where on earth did you pull that from?

 

[Vigawla]

Nah John Grisham's much better.

 

[CaptainChardonnay]

Great journo. Should be doing more general AFL stuff. Not just drafting and trading.

Funny that the two best AFL journos are both women. Her and Caro lead the pack by a mile.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

No point whinging. We get the media we deserve.

 

[lamaros]

Read a bit of it.

To be honest it's a bit serious. It's sport, and while it's guys lives it's guys playing sport. They're not child soldiers or anything like that. The whole tone is just a little too dramatic.

Also the editor has done a rubbish job. Lots of errors.

 

[AndysAngels]

read the one on vlastuin first, an awesome read. kudos to emma.

 

[brisbane13]

Harsh on Caro ITT. She does her job well. Not there to write match reports.

The rest, I agree with.

Emma is the second best journalist in football, behind the insurmountable Martin Flanagan.

caro is an idiot a trash, gossip journalist, of any one has a go at her, she plays the, you have issues because im a woman card, & she attemps to back up her claim with her imaginary sources!

just to think Emma Quayle's writes under Caro, it should be the other way around!

 

[Dixie Flatline]

I've read the Vlastuin and Boyd pieces. Engrossing stuff, especially the content on how Vlastuin adjusts to becoming a full-time professional footballer and how Boyd handles the demands of being a putative no. 1 pick.