Live Event James Hird live in concert (Interview now in OP)

[TennisPlayerAndy]

The bus has now morphed into a train.

 

[base615]

Holmes: "You were told you were going to be the scalp"
Hird: "I don't believe I was told I was going to be the scalp"
Holmes: "Who told you that"

 

[jerry springer]

he wont have a friend left at the club after this hour

 

[Fat Nyfe]

So brave, James. So brave.

 

[BusterBob]

Her ... concerns for the AFL, they needed a scalp. Were you identified as the scalp? (Such a leading question!).

Him: I was told by McLaughlin 'this is about the optics', and later on, 'you're the person' - how would it look if the highest profile person at the Club escaped sanction?

Her: Who inside the club do you trust at this point?

Him: Reid, Corcoran, the players, the staff in general. But it became hard to trust what you were being told by people in authority.

 

[Iskender Time]

Hird the scapegoat. Nice question James and well delivered Tracey.

 

[Mead]

Seriously how the actual **** is this on taxpayer funded TV- it's your ABC, provided you are a drug cheat in need of some soft focus PR.

 

[believe_it]

James let down by so many

 

[Messenger]

 

[Crankyhawk]

Now she's talking whether Hird is a scapegoat or not! That's not the relevant question. You have a central figure being interviewed, focus on what the individual did/ did not do or know. Not on whether they are being trapped/ hunted by others at the time.

 

[RuFiO]

Are the audience asking questions later or is their attendance pointless?

They help recoup his legal fees.

 

[Biggy_Boy]

He said he'd come out of this in a better place. So once he twists public perception of him to paint himself as the victim via scripted, one-sided interviews, he will be.

 

[Oscarman]

Didn't trust David Evans clearly

 

[ManWithNoName]

He is answering these questions WAY too fast for him not to have been briefed on the questions.

It's only when/if she follows up that he flounders.

Had the same thought. His answers seem way too prepared.

 

[Billyc]

Hard hitting interview this one. Nothing but Dorothy Dixers.

 

[Gavin Excell]

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Thats great

 

[base615]

Are the audience asking questions later or is their attendance pointless?

The latter. Their attendance is purely to donate $33 per head to the James Hird holiday fund.

 

[BusterBob]

Him: We had an obligation to the club ... may have made mistakes in 2012, but couldn't find the evidence, still trying to find it. Really good season on the field. A remarkable effort by the players.

 

[Spongebob]

I wonder if Tanya will go under the bus

 

[the bee sharps]

This is unwatchable she isn't challenging him on anything

 

[hench]

Jobe got booed.

Poor baby.

 

[Boxhead_31]

Tracey Holmes doing serious journalism

Where?

 

[Nikita Blue]

Did you start to doubt yourself? Thanks for your hard-hitting question Tracey...no.

 

[Oscarman]

Players so so brave

 

[Mead]

People responsible so far-
- the Essendon football club
- the club doctor Bruce Reid for not making the program so safe or stopping Lovett Murray form taking his injection and for approving AOD9604.
- the AFL for denying procedural fairness and making it public and interfering with the ASADA investigation.
- Ian Robson for designing the club structure, for not acting on the letter Bruce Reid wrote and for not firing Dank and Robinson.
- Paul Hamilton for reporting to Ian Robson
- Dean Robinson and Stephen Dank for not always following the protocols that James ensured were put in place.
- Someone for not putting the supporting documentation on the firms.
- Liz Lucan for ridiculously saying that Hird should take responsibility (seriously what an absurd idea)
- Gil McLaughlin for preventing him from lying during the press conference
- David Evans for betraying Hird and for letting him down.
- The West Coast crowd for booing
- Andrew Demtriou for protecting the AFL
- Paul Little for failing to agree with Hird and making mistakes in his administration.
- Bomber for not doing more.
- James Hird for trusting the above and being too loyal to them when they were letting him and his trust down.