Oppo Camp Other Clubs News/General Discussion

[manicpie]

Always the complainer, the saints

I can understand where he's coming from. The Northern states have been handed players on a plate. A struggling club like St.kilda should feel aggrieved. I like where he said the AFL should just give Brisbane pick 1 , it saves the garbage that we're all forced to endure from the AFL.

 

[Chameleon75]

INCREDIBLE NEWS

put your pint glasses out

 

[Sea fog]

Maybe from a player's perspective they can feel aggrieved but the Saints are heavily subsidised by other clubs when the AFL distribution is made each year.

 

[manicpie]

Maybe from a player's perspective they can feel aggrieved but the Saints are heavily subsidised by other clubs when the AFL distribution is made each year.

Why shouldn't they be. They've been around for 100 more years than the Northern AFL owned clubs. The AFL, prior to the interstate invasion has always shared money throughout the clubs. We've been doing it forever. We need more presidents with balls like him. Now they're bringing in tassie and guess who misses out again, it won't be the Northern states, they'll still have their academies

 

[danielnajdek]

Always the complainer, the saints

Not wrong about the Northern clubs. The whole Academy thing is a rort.

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Maybe from a player's perspective they can feel aggrieved but the Saints are heavily subsidised by other clubs when the AFL distribution is made each year.

Yeah, I don't suppose he brought up AFL funding to clubs in his speech :

The Age estimated St Kilda received $156 million across the decade 2012-21, the most of any Victorian club and $17 million more than the next (Western Bulldogs), with Brisbane ($160 million), Gold Coast ($198 million) and GWS ($203 million) getting the most help over that period. 4 Feb 2023.

Revealed: Where your club sits on AFL’s $276m ladder... and who’s getting the most help

Where your club sits on AFL’s $276m ladder as league’s wealth divide explained

www.foxsports.com.au

Don't they also complain about other club's F/S too? Who's fault is it if their former champion players haven't produced good footballers?

 

[NMBB]

Not wrong about the Northern clubs. The whole Academy thing is a rort

And once established, listen for the screams if it's removed

 

[Abdul_The_Bull]

I think it’s Luke Hodge.

And Jesus wept...

 

[jimmy35]

Yep, stuff Robbo, that drug story days out from the start of our season (2016?) helped to derail that season. He led the story with us, yet other clubs had more players who tested positive in the off-season.

And the Fasolo story.

Robbo plays the role of the genial idiot, the sloppy funny ‘Everyman’ - but his Collingwood hate runs deep.

Bucks as coach couldn’t stand him either.

He’s near the top of my list for Collingwood haters - and I know I’m pathological in my refusal to forgive and forget.

+1

Obnoxious drunken slob rounds out my dislike of the man as well.

 

[Abdul_The_Bull]

Hope he's not.

My top 3 (in no order) would be Jack, Dunstall or Tony Armstrong.

Tony Armstrong would be a great addition to the panel. Smart, down to earth, and not pretentious like the others.

 

[sideswipe]

Yep, stuff Robbo, that drug story days out from the start of our season (2016?) helped to derail that season. He led the story with us, yet other clubs had more players who tested positive in the off-season.

And the Fasolo story.

Robbo plays the role of the genial idiot, the sloppy funny ‘Everyman’ - but his Collingwood hate runs deep.

Bucks as coach couldn’t stand him either.

He’s near the top of my list for Collingwood haters - and I know I’m pathological in my refusal to forgive and forget.

He is a sloppy flog and is poorly thought of by a number of people across the industry. Has a bad reputation for going "off script" during interviews, looking for a gotcha moment. There are plenty of interviews that are "structured" in that the parties agree to certain topics. Robbo habitually moves onto other "non agreed" areas, searching for a story.

Now some might say, that's cool, he's a journo, nothing should be off limits. But that ignores the reality of commercial relationships. What happens when journos go off script is that they run the risk of having interviewees decline to come on their show. Not every interview needs to be a grilling.

Wouldn't surprise if it was decided Robbo has done this too often.

 

[Jen2310]

 

[Pistol Night]

He is a sloppy flog and is poorly thought of by a number of people across the industry. Has a bad reputation for going "off script" during interviews, looking for a gotcha moment. There are plenty of interviews that are "structured" in that the parties agree to certain topics. Robbo habitually moves onto other "non agreed" areas, searching for a story.

Now some might say, that's cool, he's a journo, nothing should be off limits. But that ignores the reality of commercial relationships. What happens when journos go off script is that they run the risk of having interviewees decline to come on their show. Not every interview needs to be a grilling.

Wouldn't surprise if it was decided Robbo has done this too often.

You can see genuine hatred from Bucks towards him when he was on 360 regularly

 

[brysie]

I think a lot of people also resent the fact that he's presented as a fan and a 'man of the people' and 'one of us', when in reality a large portion of the footy-following population consider that they could do a better and more professional job than he does.

It's an insult to people's intelligence that he has been chief football writer of the Herald Sun since 2012 and a host of one of Fox's flagship footy programs for 14 years.

 

[sideswipe]

Wonder how Mrs Wright will cope with being told that after her European summer, she is about to move to Adelaide?

"It's just like Rome honey. Lots of churches".

 

[jmac70]

Wonder how Mrs Wright will cope with being told that after her European summer, she is about to move to Adelaide?

"It's just like Rome honey. Lots of churches".

A poster on the Cats board just described Geelong as a cosmopolitan city.

 

[jmac70]

Problem for Geelong is how Oliver will look in the Cotton On Catalog.

Not going to sell too many polos with him as a model.

 

[sideswipe]

A poster on the Cats board just described Geelong as a cosmopolitan city.

It may well be. Cosmopolitan doesn't necessarily mean good. Refugee camps are cosmopolitan.

 

[Pistol Night]

Problem for Geelong is how Oliver will look in the Cotton On Catalog.

Not going to sell too many polos with him as a model.

Not sure. Perhaps they’re looking to target the unfit, ugly ranga in their new marketing campaign

 

[Pistol Night]

A poster on the Cats board just described Geelong as a cosmopolitan city.

Aka shithole

 

[sideswipe]

Not sure. Perhaps they’re looking to target the unfit, ugly ranga in their new marketing campaign

It's time.

 

[jmac70]

Not sure. Perhaps they’re looking to target the unfit, ugly ranga in their new marketing campaign

True. Geelong is overrun with fat rangas

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Not sure. Perhaps they’re looking to target the unfit, ugly ranga in their new marketing campaign

Diversity

 

[Pistol Night]

Diversity

 

[ElliottsMaggies]