Roast Media Shakes Head, Part 8

[Ford Fairlane]

Bwahaha SEN, go to your room without dinner.

 

[PAFC66]

Thanks for the clarification I didn't realise there was a difference. Now I have it, the Doctor did an assessment and concluded that Aliir didn't need deeper examination.

As for Cassie the more I read from other posters on this site the more her story doesn't tally with the facts as reported at the time or with Sam Mayes' version of events. Some journo asks Cassie for a quote and away she goes, I suspect she is enjoyng her five minutes of fame.

So the AFL fine us 100k due to a medical practitioners clinical judgement.

Cool

 

[StrappingTape]

A waiver like that would likely have very little weight. Apart from everything else, most making it would be minors when they do. Then, you have the information asymmetry between the league, with the resources that come with >$1bn in revenue, and players and their families.

So no one has any personal responsibility? Everything that happens to a footballer's head is someone else's fault? That's where we are at and what we are worried about, on the face of it I think it's ridiculous to most people. It's like NBA players suing the league because they have bad knees and ankles as no one stopped them after spraining an ankle from going back in the game.

 

[MrMeaner]

So no one has any personal responsibility? Everything that happens to a footballer's head is someone else's fault? That's where we are at and what we are worried about, on the face of it I think it's ridiculous to most people. It's like NBA players suing the league because they have bad knees and ankles as no one stopped them after spraining an ankle from going back in the game.

I'm not arguing about the merits of it (I don't have the time or energy for the back-and-forth of an internet 'debate' in which all nuance is lost), just the reality. There is room for personal responsibility in the general weighing up of things. However, power and informational imbalances are also relevant.

 

[RossFC]

Bwahaha SEN, go to your room without dinner.

Nobody wanted to put their name on that article?

 

[tribey]

Yeah OK but the helmets still do nothing.

Yep. They’ve done studies into ice hockey and found the enforcers/goons who routinely fist fought were in better brain nick than the skill players who suffered high speed shirtfront-style collisions to the body.

 

[longdonkey]

See Channel 7 news is going to troll us every night over Stinkley being re-signed until the day when it happens and they will celebrate us being completely neutered for another few years.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Whoever wrote that article pretty clearly just pumped in the young uncontracted players' names, looked at the 2023 games column, and slapped 'delist' on anybody whose numbers were low. Hugh isn't the only terrible call for delisting in there.

 

[longdonkey]

Whoever wrote that article pretty clearly just pumped in the young uncontracted players' names, looked at the 2023 games column, and slapped 'delist' on anybody whose numbers were low. Hugh isn't the only terrible call for delisting in there.

Give Evans 2 years
Give Teakle 1 year
but delist Jackson

I think the author has come across a bad batch of crack.

 

[raptalia]

FFS when will it stop!! Today's press is reporting that Jay Schultz has briefed a lawyer. According to this morning's paper Schultz is claiming to have played 20 times after suffering a 'probable' concussion. It begs the question of Jay, if you had head issues that many times and were that concerned why didn't you pull the pin Jay? I would hazard a guess that at the time you deemed the 300k plus salary to be worth the risk.

Jay Schultz played seven seasons for the Power between 2010 and 2016 and concussion protocols were not introduced by the AFL until 2021. Schultz also played seven seasons for Richmond yet they barely rate a mention in the today's article. We cannot win, we are slammed in the media for not following the AFL protocols and now we are pilloried for not following protocols that did not even exist when Jay Schultz played for us. We deserve criticism for the first but the second is unfair.

Greg Griffen, that perpetual ambulance chaser, is all over the article giving us a retrospective history lesson on head injury assessment. It would be interesting to know if Adelaide United introduced any sort of head injury protocols while Griffen was running the show between 2010 and 2018? I should not be too tough on Greg Griffen as he is probably doing all this work pro bono.

None of this should under emphasise the impact of brain injury. It is a genuine concern and needs to be addressed but all this 'holier than thou' retrospectivitly on an issue that was hardly discussed a decade ago is hard to take.

Anyone in any doubt about the job the Murdoch Press is doing on the Port Adelaide Football Club should take a look at today's editorial in the crow loving rag. What do these morons expect- Port to be stripped of all Premiership points? The PAFC medicos made an error no one disputes that but 100K is not insignificant and we are unlikely to repeat.

 

[raptalia]

Give Evans 2 years
Give Teakle 1 year
but delist Jackson

I think the author has come across a bad batch of crack.

They gave McEntee 2 years so anything is possible. Delisting Jackson after giving the superspud a two year contract does not bear thinking about.

 

[JakeNeadeFan]

Further reminder that the Murdoch Media are bottom feeding opportunistic scum.

 

[Palpatine_Power]

Further reminder that the Murdoch Media are bottom feeding opportunistic scum.

Nothing short of propaganda these days…

 

[Janey]

Further reminder that the Murdoch Media are bottom feeding opportunistic scum.

That was my first thought when I read this article, just didn’t sound like Jay's style to crucify his old clubs, he’s always been about helping and educating.

 

[Festerz]

That was my first thought when I read this article, just didn’t sound like Jay's style to crucify his old clubs, he’s always been about helping and educating.

Jay Schulz is being represented in his concussion class action by Adelaide sports lawyer Greg Griffin.

Griffin was interviewed on ABC News last night sitting in the stand at Prospect Oval crucifying the Port Adelaide Footy Club and claiming that the penalty handed out against it for the mishandling of concussion protocols was woefully inadequate. He said Port should have lost both premiership points and draft picks.





Reckon it's pretty obvious who supplied the video and the words for the Advertiser hit job. And also pretty sure Griffin will place the story and the video on his website - as he has with other media interviews on this case.

This is a class action and Griffin is obviously keen to get as many former players joining his claim as he can.

Reckon Schulz should tell his legal representative (Griffin will get a healthy cut of any class action payout of course) to stop using him (and his footy videos) for his ambulance chasing publicity seeking media interviews that are piggy backing on the hysterical hyperbole attacking PAFC for a mistake made by its doctor.

 

[Janey]

Jay Schulz is being represented in his concussion class action by Adelaide sports lawyer Greg Griffin.

Griffin was interviewed on ABC News last night sitting in the stand at Prospect Oval crucifying the Port Adelaide Footy Club and claiming that the penalty handed out against it for the mishandling of concussion protocols was woefully inadequate. He said Port should have lost both premiership points and draft picks.

His interview is at the 21:40 mark in this video:

ABC News SA: Friday 4/8/2023

News from where you live. ABC News SA brings you today's top stories, exclusive investigations and original reporting on issues that matter to you. Presented by Jessica Harmsen, Richard Davies, Candice Prosser and the team.

iview.abc.net.au

Reckon it's pretty obvious who supplied the video and the words for the Advertiser hit job. And also pretty sure Griffin will place the story and the video on his website - as he has with other media interviews on this case.

This is a class action and Griffin is obviously keen to get as many former players joining his claim as he can.

Reckon Schulz should tell his layer to stop using him (and his footy videos) for his ambulance chasing publicity seeking media interviews that are piggy backing on the hysterical hyperbole attacking PAFC for a mistake made by its doctor.

I don’t follow much in the news media these days so I hadn’t considered the class action issue and it’s part in all this. Ads a whole dimension when you get lawyers and their agendas involved.

 

[backtozero]

This was always the risk when Port was handed down its penalty from the Aliir incident and why I wasn't celebrating that outcome.

 

[Steve Dore]

Greg Griffin is the same ambulance chaser that represented the Bond brothers against the charity Variety for the use of their image on the Showdown trophy despite the Bonds having no qualms with the use of that image in 2018 when the trophy was first launched. A launch they even attended at the invitation of Variety and at which they spoke of how proud they were that the image was being used.

I wonder if during his time as a part owner of Adelaide United the players were banned from heading the ball?

 

[PAFC66]

Crows fans going hard as well as the media re the concussion scandal have short memories

Concussion sparks lawsuit for AFL Crows - 9News

The Adelaide Crows and four of its medical professionals are being sued for negligence by a former AFL foot...

www.9news.com.au

Also for their fans to care for player welfare all of the sudden is odd considering they defended their culty racist camp that re-traumatised players with PTSD.

 

[Jojay]

Further reminder that the Murdoch Media are bottom feeding opportunistic scum.

Advertiser well and truly entered the realm of absolute gutter journalism.

 

[bomberclifford]

Greg Griffen is a scumbag. Being an owner of nightclubs and a lawyer to bikies was a great combination for him in the early 90s. Lots of retail business opportunities combining those two interests.

 

[raptalia]

Port get slammed for not assessing Aliir correctly yet it is all smiles as the Advertiser reports that Charlotte Grant will play for the Matildas on Monday despite being diagnosed with delayed concussion yesterday. Where is the 12 day protocol in this case Mr Griffen?

 

[Festerz]

Note the use of inverted commas around the word concussions in the headline. That's because they are 'probable' concussions as determined by Greg Griffen, a lawyer, from video footage.

You could of course take video footage from almost any 150+ game player in the AFL from the 80s, 90s, 00s' and get a similar montage of head knocks. And of course, Schulz played 71 games for Richmond before joining Port.

No one is denying the severity of the CTE crisis being faced by former sports men and women across multiple codes. A study released earlier this year by the AFLs CMO estimated that about 10% of male AFL players every year received a concussion, but noted that player underreporting of symptoms was still a problem. The AFL is now considering having independent medical experts at all games to independently assess on whether a player can return to the field after a head knock.

But the media have found their whipping boy so all is well.

 

[PAFC66]

Advertiser well and truly entered the realm of absolute gutter journalism.

Murdoch media. What's new?

 

[PAFC66]

Port get slammed for not assessing Aliir correctly yet it is all smiles as the Advertiser reports that Charlotte Grant will play for the Matildas on Monday despite being diagnosed with delayed concussion yesterday. Where is the 12 day protocol in this case Mr Griffen?

The irony is allir never even had concussion. Passed every test including the SCAT5 after the game so the doctor wasn't all wrong.