News Media Thread, 2024: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent

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To be fair he signed the deal before he knew COVID would hit the season like it did and they would be hubbing.

Poor form from the AFL not to let them get Job Keeper due to the optics of the situation. $35k to play when you are an elite level athlete (diet, recovery costs etc), as Schofield said he was paying to play that year.

Really shouldn’t have touched the salary’s of anyone under 100k.

And Tbh the AFL has made all that money back they should repay all staff and players to 17/22 of their salary
 
To be fair he signed the deal before he knew COVID would hit the season like it did and they would be hubbing.

Poor form from the AFL not to let them get Job Keeper due to the optics of the situation. $35k to play when you are an elite level athlete (diet, recovery costs etc), as Schofield said he was paying to play that year.
Wonder if getting him to do random pieces for the media team as well as some of the roles Hammer did for us was in part the club trying to help pay them back for it.
 
Schofield would have been on a base plus match payments in that final year which would partly explain his saltiness at being dropped - no play, no pay

On a more serious note, with little things like the cut in pay and no jobseeker to help cover it, you can understand why our players weren’t entirely happy during the first hub. Details like that get overlooked when the club gets criticised for how they responded at the time
 
On a more serious note, with little things like the cut in pay and no jobseeker to help cover it, you can understand why our players weren’t entirely happy during the first hub. Details like that get overlooked when the club gets criticised for how they responded at the time
Wasn't that the same for players at all clubs though? Genuine question.

Schoey was probably worse off than the others because he accepted a pants rate, which was then reduced - but while that's an awful situation, it's not the clubs fault...
 
Used to piss me off every time they show that Leo Barry 'mark' whenever they do the Grand Final montages. But now they got Sheed in there to balance it out so I'll cop it.
 
Used to piss me off every time they show that Leo Barry 'mark' whenever they do the Grand Final montages. But now they got Sheed in there to balance it out so I'll cop it.

No, Leo Barry’s mark still gets a F off whenever it’s seen


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Used to piss me off every time they show that Leo Barry 'mark' whenever they do the Grand Final montages. But now they got Sheed in there to balance it out so I'll cop it.
Funny how you hardly see the Chick smother/handball, Hunter goal from 06 in any of the GF moments clips (or the Cuz wind up after his goal).

You get the feeling the AFL are trying to distance themselves from 06 as much as possible, and with 18 ours, they probably feel they can do it guilt free
 
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Wasn't that the same for players at all clubs though? Genuine question.

Schoey was probably worse off than the others because he accepted a pants rate, which was then reduced - but while that's an awful situation, it's not the clubs fault...

I think us and Freo were the only ones sent to the hub with no definitive end date of when we were getting out though.

Having a large number of players with young kids added to the unhappiness. Freo by comparison only had Mundy who had kids at the time from memory.
 
Funny how you hardly see the Chick smother/handball, Hunter goal from 06 in any of the GF moments clips (or the Cuz wind up after his goal).

You get the feeling the AFL are trying to distance themselves from 06 as much as possible, and with 18 ours, they probably feel they can do it guilt free

Smother/handball/shepherd

😀
 
I think us and Freo were the only ones sent to the hub with no definitive end date of when we were getting out though.

Having a large number of players with young kids added to the unhappiness. Freo by comparison only had Mundy who had kids at the time from memory.

Pretty sure there was a two more in Nathan Wilson and Michael Walter’s.

I vividly remember Wilson and his partners pregnancy photos on the back of the west and shit talking the Eagles
 

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