News Media Thread, 2024: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent

[THE A5]

Kinda want it to happen to see the fall out alone.

Atleast it would be more entertaining than watching us play

 

[Tugga27]

His time as a player ended on a sour note, let’s go for the double.

I think Schoey is the type of player that if his last game was his 300th and he won the Norm Smith, it would still end on a sour note.

 

[bzparkes]

I’m sure it’s come up before but the club needs to severe ties with Will Schofield ASAP.

I’m all for freedom of press but it’s a bad look having a guy on the payroll that is spreading rumours and giving ‘hot takes’ about the club ‘pulling the rug out’ from under a player who has a big contract for 3 more years.

Go be a hard hitting click bait warrior without the clubs cash Will.

How do you know it's not the club feeding him the info to 'soften' the blow for fans, per se?

Also, why does it even matter?

 

[Goroyals22]

I’m sure it’s come up before but the club needs to severe ties with Will Schofield

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5.0

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ASAP.

I’m all for freedom of press but it’s a bad look having a guy on the payroll that is spreading rumours and giving ‘hot takes’ about the club ‘pulling the rug out’ from under a player who has a big contract for 3 more years.

Go be a hard hitting click bait warrior without the clubs cash Will.

No such thing as freedom of the press. The afl dictate now what sex, race, identity group you have to listen to if you want to watch the game on tv




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[Miguel Sanchez]

Won’t someone think of all the boofhead white male commentators?

 

[bzparkes]

No such thing as freedom of the press. The afl dictate now what sex, race, identity group you have to listen to…




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Well, one good thing is it might get rid of the complete and utter muppetry that currently exists.

It's not as though the AFL media is in a good space currently.

 

[Ochre]

Really spits in the face of the hard work Tim Watson's son and Gillon McLachlan's brother did to get their roles on 7.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Didn’t realize Waterman was in doubt, Johnson would definitely be an out of the box replacement.

 

[Ochre]

I really hope to see Eddie McGuire's son and Graham Cornes' son get stuck into the AFL for apparently wanting to give people roles just for who they are. Hopefully Kerry Stokes' close friend can give it some airtime over here too if he's not to busy getting parachuted into any more political roles.

 

[Altum Volantes]

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Didn’t realize Waterman was in doubt, Johnson would definitely be an out of the box replacement.

I have my doubts whether Woodcock has tweeted this from Earth.

 

[THE A5]

The irony of that tweet is that Tom Morris is breaking that news

 

[Alesana]

Really spits in the face of the hard work Tim Watson's son and Gillon McLachlan's brother did to get their roles on 7.

And for Adam Papalia, Jason Bennett?

 

[DanWCE]

Waterman > Fyfe

 

[Altum Volantes]

How do you know it's not the club feeding him the info to 'soften' the blow for fans, per se?

Also, why does it even matter?

To me it’s just a poor look.

One would assume he has closer access to our players than the average guy in the media, beyond his existing relationships.

Clubs that leak are weak. For decades, the media didn’t get anything out of WCE. Even guys like Chris Mainwaring were kept at arms length for that reason.

He can say what he wants in the media, I’d just rather he wasn’t representing the club at any time.

But hey, maybe you are right, maybe the club are feeding him the info, not just Barrass/his management?…

 

[Ochre]

And for Adam Papalia, Jason Bennett?

The fact that they're relatively minor callers on each network shows that it's so far from being merit based already.

 

[Altum Volantes]

No such thing as freedom of the press. The afl dictate now what sex, race, identity group you have to listen to if you want to watch the game on tv




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lol.

Garry Lyon thankful stopping short of saying ‘they’ve got an Aborigine now haven’t they?’

 

[Doashuey]

Tubby's flick with the foot to make the catch at slip is still one of the best slip catches of all time IMO.

Years of training by ensuring no food that falls off the kitchen bench goes to ground and is wasted.

 

[Doashuey]

No such thing as freedom of the press. The afl dictate now what sex, race, identity group you have to listen to if you want to watch the game on tv




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WTF?
They always have mate. It's just in the past they have dictated that you listen to old white male ex footy players with the occasional white male journalism graduate that identifies as an ex-player.

I know, change can be hard for some.

 

[bzparkes]

To me it’s just a poor look.

One would assume he has closer access to our players than the average guy in the media, beyond his existing relationships.

Clubs that leak are weak. For decades, the media didn’t get anything out of WCE. Even guys like Chris Mainwaring were kept at arms length for that reason.

He can say what he wants in the media, I’d just rather he wasn’t representing the club at any time.

But hey, maybe you are right, maybe the club are feeding him the info, not just Barrass/his management?…

For me, it's more indicative of Nisbett permanently shutting up shop and never releasing anything.

If he were CEO, he'd expressly deny this were happening and say Tom's a required player and fans would get a 2,000 word email about it, only for Barrass to be nudged out the door at trade time and Nisbett playing damage control instead.

Or, he'd just give him a 5 year extension on top-dollar and never mention it to anyone.

Interesting that the club's said nothing despite the constant speculation though. A bit of a departure from the past.

 

[JackOutback]

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Didn’t realize Waterman was in doubt, Johnson would definitely be an out of the box replacement.

That’s nice of JL, we could certainly use the help. Any chance he could make it Brayshaw instead?

 

[bzparkes]

WTF?
They always have mate. It's just in the past they have dictated that you listen to old white male ex footy players with the occasional white male journalism graduate that identifies as an ex-player.

I know, change can be hard for some.

Make
AFL
Great
Again

 

[HoneyBadger35]

They already have plenty of diversity, Joel Selwood for example doesn’t speak English.

The AFL commentary/presentation landscape is about as grim as any professional sport on earth. Anyone crying about this is soft as butter and desperate to be offended. Whatever moves the current crop along faster is best for everyone.

 

[ziad]

They already have plenty of diversity, Joel Selwood for example doesn’t speak English.

The AFL commentary/presentation landscape is about as grim as any professional sport on earth. Anyone crying about this is soft as butter and desperate to be offended. Whatever moves the current crop along faster is best for everyone.

Be careful what you wish for

 

[MrKK]

They already have plenty of diversity, Joel Selwood for example doesn’t speak English.

The AFL commentary/presentation landscape is about as grim as any professional sport on earth. Anyone crying about this is soft as butter and desperate to be offended. Whatever moves the current crop along faster is best for everyone.

Except the current crop moved along will be the low-profile but actually good commentators like Papalia and Bennett. Not against the idea but it ain't gonna improve the commentary.

 

[Lia]

What a choice, Abbey Holmes shouting at you and rupturing your ear drums, or needing a translator to understand Jobe Watson or Concussion Selwood.

Can we just get better people regardless of physical appearance?