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[RubbaDuck]

Long rant incoming...

You know what I'm sick of seeing on my Twitter and Instagrams? Endless content of players from every team except the Swans.

I say we get rid of our media department completely. Take the money used towards our media resources and put it towards something we'll actually use. Maybe one of the many community or corporate initiatives the club loves promoting, more than their actual players.

In the past week, our media team have found time to flog the following off-field initiatives: a Valentine's Day membership offer, a competition offering SCG box seats, the upcoming guernsey presentation, the new state of the art headquarters, teaming up with an NFL team for Pride, flogging NFL merchandise for the Superbowl, behind-the-scenes of the headquarters unveiling, different kinds of membership packages on offer, and Redbacks members' exclusive tour of the new headquarters.

All of the above I would have zero problem with, if it weren't for the fact that when it comes to content of our actual team and our actual pre-season? One post of training, and it's a retired player (JPK) watching from the sidelines. This after five weeks of pre-season with only one 12-photo training gallery to show for it. Some players, like Sheather and Melican, haven't featured on the Swans Instagram in over a year. A first-round pick with a red hot chance at playing senior footy this year in Sheldrick hasn't featured on the Swans' socials since March of last year (when he didn't even get a debut interview of any sort). And spare a thought for the families of, say, young Cooper Vickery or Jaiden Magor, who have nothing by way of photographic evidence of their sons' first pre-seasons.

If you think we're not the only club with such shoddy coverage of our team, all I can say is I suggest you take a look at what all the other clubs are doing. Our crosstown rivals GWS got a draftee who hasn't even played a game yet on The Project and other national broadcasts by simply showing enough interest in him to find out he drinks milk instead of water. Here in Perth I am frankly sick and tired of their clubs' detailed reports from their match sims constantly popping up on my social media. But I can't even begrudge it - this is THE time of the year to be building excitement around your club, and they're all doing their job perfectly.

Meanwhile ours have given us so little to be excited about. Fans can only conjure up so much excitement amongst themselves before actual content is needed to do the job. It's made what should be an exciting, eager time of the year filled with hope and optimism feel like a boring, dragging slog towards games. I now want the season to start already not because I'm impossibly excited about our team and our players like I usually am, but because I'm just plain bored and need something to happen with this club.

Considering we're one of the most poorly-covered teams in the competition as it is, it's incredibly disappointing that this issue is being compounded by our own media team.

Sorry for the rant. Wish I had no reason to.

It's like they read my rant and just decided to twist the knife in even deeper.

I empathise completely. Here's a quality Swans related article you might have missed. It's a bit more player focused.....

Sydney Swans fan partners with Miele​

RubbaDuck, a Sydney Swans fan, is proud to announce he has partnered with Miele as his official coffee machine provider to keep him awake while he searches fruitlessly for any mention of the Swans in the media.

Miele have been welcomed into the Sydney Swans fan's family in his kitchen, forming an integral part of his Kitchen/Dining Area with the installation of their Miele CVA7440 Built-In Bean to Cup coffee machine (ex-Demo model)

RubbaDuck's kitchen allows for the Sydney Swans fan and his family to enjoying making their own coffee using Miele's world class machinery - helping to create a 'campfire experience' and providing a pure sense of family.

RubbaDuck says:

"The kitchen is epic. Every morning we come in as a family and it has brought a real sense of family for us. It's a bit different to what we have had in the past, these new facilities have been amazing, and to use them so frequently and easily has been incredible.

"It's been a real benefactor for us this pre-season, and not just within the family but among our friends too, and even staff, such as the gardner who comes in for a couple of hours each week, which has been great.

"I use caffeinated beans for my morning brew then switch to decaf beans in the afternoon. Coffee keeps me going while I'm searching for Swans news. When I set fire to the kitchen bench it creates a campfire experience in the kitchen for my whole family. I like to hum the Swans theme song under my breath while the beans are grinding."

Miele is incredibly proud to take huge chunk of change from a Sydney Swans fan and be part of their amazing new kitchen at their house, which we believe aligns perfectly with the cultural change that they're looking to drive in this amazing family.

Miele is excited to see and hear the part that a great cup of coffee plays in bringing people together. Coffee in Australia is driven by community - it happens in suburbs, cafes, and it should happen in Rubba's kitchen. Bringing everyone in RubbaDuck's family together, and not just Rubba.

RubbaDuck says:

If James Rowbottom, Heeney or Fox want to drop around for a coffee they're welcome, as is Horse, the rest of the coaching staff and all the Swans players, but not all at once. Our kitchen's not that big and who's going to pay for all the coffee beans? But yeah, by themselves or in small groups all Swans players are welcome to drop in for a coffee, except Ladhams who's an angry c&nt. I enjoy a peaceful morning. I don't need Schizoid Pete using my wife as a punching bag or brutally flattening my kids at breakfast.

 

[RubbaDuck]

The entire sequence that had Fox's smother as the centrepiece was sheer defensive magic.
It finished with Logan (in the back pocket!) chipping a clever kick into defensive space where Clarke smashed the Dee out of bounds.
Rewatching it makes the hair on my neck stand up. So cool when desperate!

I read too fast. I read "The entire sequence that had Fox's mother as the centrepiece", thought "WTF, Fox's mother? Is this some Tasmanian thing?"

 

[Neverwas]

Long rant incoming...

You know what I'm sick of seeing on my Twitter and Instagrams? Endless content of players from every team except the Swans.

I say we get rid of our media department completely. Take the money used towards our media resources and put it towards something we'll actually use. Maybe one of the many community or corporate initiatives the club loves promoting, more than their actual players.

In the past week, our media team have found time to flog the following off-field initiatives: a Valentine's Day membership offer, a competition offering SCG box seats, the upcoming guernsey presentation, the new state of the art headquarters, teaming up with an NFL team for Pride, flogging NFL merchandise for the Superbowl, behind-the-scenes of the headquarters unveiling, different kinds of membership packages on offer, and Redbacks members' exclusive tour of the new headquarters.

All of the above I would have zero problem with, if it weren't for the fact that when it comes to content of our actual team and our actual pre-season? One post of training, and it's a retired player (JPK) watching from the sidelines. This after five weeks of pre-season with only one 12-photo training gallery to show for it. Some players, like Sheather and Melican, haven't featured on the Swans Instagram in over a year. A first-round pick with a red hot chance at playing senior footy this year in Sheldrick hasn't featured on the Swans' socials since March of last year (when he didn't even get a debut interview of any sort). And spare a thought for the families of, say, young Cooper Vickery or Jaiden Magor, who have nothing by way of photographic evidence of their sons' first pre-seasons.

If you think we're not the only club with such shoddy coverage of our team, all I can say is I suggest you take a look at what all the other clubs are doing. Our crosstown rivals GWS got a draftee who hasn't even played a game yet on The Project and other national broadcasts by simply showing enough interest in him to find out he drinks milk instead of water. Here in Perth I am frankly sick and tired of their clubs' detailed reports from their match sims constantly popping up on my social media. But I can't even begrudge it - this is THE time of the year to be building excitement around your club, and they're all doing their job perfectly.

Meanwhile ours have given us so little to be excited about. Fans can only conjure up so much excitement amongst themselves before actual content is needed to do the job. It's made what should be an exciting, eager time of the year filled with hope and optimism feel like a boring, dragging slog towards games. I now want the season to start already not because I'm impossibly excited about our team and our players like I usually am, but because I'm just plain bored and need something to happen with this club.

Considering we're one of the most poorly-covered teams in the competition as it is, it's incredibly disappointing that this issue is being compounded by our own media team.

Sorry for the rant. Wish I had no reason to.

Well said caesar88. I had been working up to a similar rant myself.

I thought Rubbaduck's parody wonderfully captures the ai driven advertising copy feel of the club's communications.No bloody content.

It seems to me that whoever is running this has no real knowledge or passion for the game or any idea how to build excitement about the team.

I would hate to think how many memberships this complete absence of real reporting on the team is going to cost.


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[Maximumlnsanity]

Long rant incoming...

You know what I'm sick of seeing on my Twitter and Instagrams? Endless content of players from every team except the Swans.

I say we get rid of our media department completely. Take the money used towards our media resources and put it towards something we'll actually use. Maybe one of the many community or corporate initiatives the club loves promoting, more than their actual players.

In the past week, our media team have found time to flog the following off-field initiatives: a Valentine's Day membership offer, a competition offering SCG box seats, the upcoming guernsey presentation, the new state of the art headquarters, teaming up with an NFL team for Pride, flogging NFL merchandise for the Superbowl, behind-the-scenes of the headquarters unveiling, different kinds of membership packages on offer, and Redbacks members' exclusive tour of the new headquarters.

All of the above I would have zero problem with, if it weren't for the fact that when it comes to content of our actual team and our actual pre-season? One post of training, and it's a retired player (JPK) watching from the sidelines. This after five weeks of pre-season with only one 12-photo training gallery to show for it. Some players, like Sheather and Melican, haven't featured on the Swans Instagram in over a year. A first-round pick with a red hot chance at playing senior footy this year in Sheldrick hasn't featured on the Swans' socials since March of last year (when he didn't even get a debut interview of any sort). And spare a thought for the families of, say, young Cooper Vickery or Jaiden Magor, who have nothing by way of photographic evidence of their sons' first pre-seasons.

If you think we're not the only club with such shoddy coverage of our team, all I can say is I suggest you take a look at what all the other clubs are doing. Our crosstown rivals GWS got a draftee who hasn't even played a game yet on The Project and other national broadcasts by simply showing enough interest in him to find out he drinks milk instead of water. Here in Perth I am frankly sick and tired of their clubs' detailed reports from their match sims constantly popping up on my social media. But I can't even begrudge it - this is THE time of the year to be building excitement around your club, and they're all doing their job perfectly.

Meanwhile ours have given us so little to be excited about. Fans can only conjure up so much excitement amongst themselves before actual content is needed to do the job. It's made what should be an exciting, eager time of the year filled with hope and optimism feel like a boring, dragging slog towards games. I now want the season to start already not because I'm impossibly excited about our team and our players like I usually am, but because I'm just plain bored and need something to happen with this club.

Considering we're one of the most poorly-covered teams in the competition as it is, it's incredibly disappointing that this issue is being compounded by our own media team.

Sorry for the rant. Wish I had no reason to.

Stealing this and posting it on the Swans subreddit (I'll give credit obvs) because holy **** you've put it into words better than I ever could. I've started having footy content from other clubs show up in my Tiktok feed and it's honestly ridiculous how much better their content is. I don't even follow our account because the content is so shit.

 

[hairy biker]

Just on the internal coverage of the Swans, TBH I'm not as concerned as others about not seeing galleries or interviews with players, because in truth you are going to learn very little (no one ever mentions the war).

However what I do hope is that when the matches get underway we get a weekly report from Raper on injuries and a weekly report from Truslove on the reserves.
Now I realise that may be a forlorn hope, but this is an example of what GWS (and Truslove) posted each week on their reserves outing;

Swans Defeat GIANTS in VFL

The GIANTS suffered a 38-point defeat to the Swans in the VFL.

www.gwsgiants.com.au

And every week GWS put out an injury report;

Rehab Report: Round 15

A full injury update ahead of round 15.

www.gwsgiants.com.au

I also note that both Adelaide and Port are streaming their intra-club hitouts this week.

At the very least I hope the Brisbane match sim will be streamed (v Carlton will be on Foxtel/Kayo).

I think Neverwas hit the nail on the head with his comment "It seems to me that whoever is running this has no real knowledge or passion for the game or any idea how to build excitement about the team."

The media team seem very much commercially focused, rather than paying much attention to the whole purpose of the club, playing and winning football games and coverage associated with that.

 

[BloodySwan]

On second thoughts maybe our media team are doing great

 

[Maximumlnsanity]

On second thoughts maybe our media team are doing great

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Yeah ya know what I can't blame Tom Green at all tbh

 

[sataris]

Asking ChatGPT about Essendon missing finals (Stolen from reddit)

 

[hairy biker]

Good on him.

Melbourne's Ben Brown unrecognisable after chopping locks for charity

The Demons forward has raised over $64,000 in donations.

www.zerohanger.com

Melbourne forward Ben Brown has officially cut his iconic locks, with the premiership Demon raising over $64,000 for kids living with cancer.
Brown confirmed earlier this month he would shave his head, inspired by his young cousin, Grace, who has battled leukaemia.

The transformation is the first for Brown in close to a decade, with the former North Melbourn forward revealing he hasn't cut his hair in 10 years.

 

[caesar88]

SCG regulars, where is the best spot to sit for the game-day experience - in a forward pocket (closer to goals) or on the wing?

 

[Cadsky]

SCG regulars, where is the best spot to sit for the game-day experience - in a forward pocket (closer to goals) or on the wing?

If it's a day game, try and sit on the brewongal side as the afternoon sun is a killer on the trumper/o'reilly side. MA Nobel stand is the newest and best but that's members reserve.

 

[BloodySwan]

SCG regulars, where is the best spot to sit for the game-day experience - in a forward pocket (closer to goals) or on the wing?

Wing

 

[bedford]

Wing

Isn't it Centre Wing these days

 

[Wolftone]

There was an incident in the Swans Essendon where Caldwell is running with the flight of the ball. He collides with Tom McCartin

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Tom Mccartin

Age

25

Ht

194cm

Wt

99kg

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Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.3

2star

K

5.6

2star

HB

3.7

3star

M

3.7

4star

T

1.6

4star

MG

129.5

2star

D

7.2

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

2.8

2star

M

3.2

3star

T

0.8

1star

MG

87.4

2star

D

9.0

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.0

4star

MG

168.0

3star

running to meet the ball. At no time did Caldwell try tay turn to meet the ball. The collision happened with Caldwell still facing the way the ball had come. McCartin braces himself and in the collusion Caldwell comes off worse.

I think there are a few points that are pertinent:

1. At no time did Caldwell try to turn as he meets the ball in a contest. Yet he gets the free because he came off worse in the collision. Yet he is actually in the wrong
2. The fee was paid because Caldwell came off worse. He was not hit in the head he was met body to body
3. Caldwell's awareness was shite. He had no idea McCartin was running to meet the ball.

To me the fault of the collision is Caldwell, because he had no awareness and he did not turn to meet the ball as the rule states. McCartin did nothing wrong, he met the ball from the correct direction and braved for contact. The only responsibility he has to Caldwell is to not hit him high. He did not hit high. He body hit and the head was thrown back by the momentum not by being hit. This is yet another example of an AFL player having no game awareness.

One of my greatest beefs is the situation where two players meet both vying for the ball. One comes out badly off because their technique is shite. At no time do they tuck their head into the shoulder. They lead to the ball head first and are rewarded with a free kick for rotten technique. If I did that years ago in the lower leagues I would have ended up in hospital or dead

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[caesar88]

I AM GOING TO AN SCG GAME !!!!! LIFELONG DREAM !!

 

[Cadsky]

I AM GOING TO AN SCG GAME !!!!! LIFELONG DREAM !!

Where are you from?

 

[bedford]

Where are you from?

Rome

 

[caesar88]

Where are you from?

WA! Have managed to get to Melbourne for a few games over the journey, but never Sydney, so this is two decades in the making!

 

[Cadsky]

WA! Have managed to get to Melbourne for a few games over the journey, but never Sydney, so this is two decades in the making!

You'll have a ball! The ground is not state of the art like some newer grounds but the atmosphere is amazing. As an interstate supporter, being at a home game where 90% of the supporters are on your side is a completely different and surreal experience. There's really no other ground like it.

 

[caesar88]

You'll have a ball! The ground is not state of the art like some newer grounds but the atmosphere is amazing. As an interstate supporter, being at a home game where 90% of the supporters are on your side is a completely different and surreal experience. There's really no other ground like it.

As someone most familiar with Fremantle and West Coast games at Perth Stadium (which resemble funerals, only without the good music), the bar for atmosphere at sporting events for me is quite low. So I'm bloody excited for the SCG, and to be among the faithful!

Although I have been to one home game for the Swans... the great Sydney derby of 2020 in Perth. About 10,000 Swans fans all packed into one wing of Optus Stadium with like 2 Giants fans was still the most surreal experience at the footy ever.

 

[bedford]

As someone most familiar with Fremantle and West Coast games at Perth Stadium (which resemble funerals, only without the good music), the bar for atmosphere at sporting events for me is quite low. So I'm bloody excited for the SCG, and to be among the faithful!

Although I have been to one home game for the Swans... the great Sydney derby of 2020 in Perth. About 10,000 Swans fans all packed into one wing of Optus Stadium with like 2 Giants fans was still the most surreal experience at the footy ever.

Believe me they are different lol

 

[Kiama Chris]

If it's a day game, try and sit on the brewongal side as the afternoon sun is a killer on the trumper/o'reilly side. MA Nobel stand is the newest and best but that's members reserve.

This is good advice.
I sit in Bay 28 (Churchill) near the 50m arc. Bay 26 to Bay 33 upper rows (L to Q) give sun on your back for a day game, a nice angle on the Randwick end goals and enough height to get some depth on the play plus it's close to Driver Ave.
Which game?

 

[Nuggetz]

I AM GOING TO AN SCG GAME !!!!! LIFELONG DREAM !!

Enjoy mate, pop over to the new Allianz stadium if you get a chance too. Great atmosphere & facilities.

 

[dosser]

I AM GOING TO AN SCG GAME !!!!! LIFELONG DREAM !!

Coming over for the Suns game, are you?

 

[caesar88]

Coming over for the Suns game, are you?

The Port game in round 4. Didn't have a choice in what weekend I was there, which meant I didn't have a choice in which game to go to. If I did, I'm quite sure I would've picked a game against someone we haven't lost to every year since 2017...