A little crispy one Garry - The footy media thread

Football Discussion Non Essendon Stuff
2033

Watch Marngrook peoples, if want a footy show where they talk footy.

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2034

I haven’t really watched any type of TV football show for years now, but since the saga my interest in the AFL outside of Essendon FC these days is precisely zero. Couldn’t give the very slightest of flying farks, I’m afraid… Sad but true.

So, it really doesn’t matter to me what format they use, or who they have on it - it’s of no concern to me whatsoever…

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2035

Yep, they can all go and get farked

2036

I can’t cope with Gilbert McAdam.
Would rather burn my own ears off than listen to him.

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2037

I think he quit.

2038

He did for last year but he is back this season again.

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2039

Surely The Purple Flog and Crazy Caro were Siamese twins separated at birth. No other independent barely sentient being could possibly spew as much bile as these 2.
Although I emphasise I didn’t read the article why hasn’t the AFL used the off season to explain the concept of sliding doors to him? It’s the biggest cockup since Alanis Morissette confused irony with bad luck.

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2040

HaHa. A Tiges fan dropped his strides during a piece by E McGuire on last night’s FOX broadcast.

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2041

I saw that last night and was surprised security or anyone got him out of there.

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2042

Is Sam still on the footy show?

2043

I think they’ve put him on the Sunday one

2044

I’m the same. Plus the way he wriggles around and mucks around with his pen the whole time.

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2045

Saw the Front Bar for the first time, and found informative as well as amusing. TFS is no sort of comparison.

2046

Listened to off the bench this morning. Hutchy tore absolute strips off the Giants.
Apparently they could not induce any corporate to pay for naming rights, so they did a standard complete media release, with pressers, media representative invites, etc. You know the drill when theres a big big signing ?

Then they announce they have named the stadium “GIANTS STADIUM” .
According to Hutchy, they are going to pay themselves for the rights to use their own name!

2047

Apparently the Giants are the first team in Australia to do this. Channel 7 in Sydney conveniently overlooked Shark Park and Panther Stadium.

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2048

I’m fairly sure the Sydney Swans have been playing at the Sydney Cricket Ground for a fair while.
And I believe Melbourne may feature at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the odd occasion

How much do they pay for the naming rights?

*PS - naturally Ch7 missed this because their communication specialists always use acronyms (and other terminology they don’t understand the meaning of, ‘ironically’).
#You mean MCG stands for actual words. No way!
Insert twit emoji

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2049

I’m betting the AFL is paying for the naming rights. Might not be a super dumb thing either, … naming the Stadium after the Major thing you are trying to promote.

2050

Handy way to help hide some of the ongoing huge subsidies too.

2051

With 6/9 games completed, the perfrormance of the so called experts in tipping the winners of games
has been abysmal.

So far in 6 games the consensus among them has 1 ( Spooners vs minor premiers ) correct.
The rest; 5/6 wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

These are the guys who watch almost all the games, analyse all the games, analyse the stats, analyse the changes to lists, and of course that most informative of indicators the JLT form.

Then they factor in such well known indicators.
Home ground advantage … Dit Dah
Last years ladder position … Dit Dah.
The aggregated models in Squiggle Dit Dah.
Champion Data. Dit Dah

One would be forgiven for thinking they make it up as they go along!

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2052

I think it also reflects the AFL commentariat bubble effect.
There’s probably an academic case study lurking here as an extreme example of contemporary communication only taking place within a reinforcement bubble.
Another example is bound to be their tips for the final eight. The commentariat all acknowledge that this changes significantly each year, with almost invariably at least one major surprise packet.
So did any of them actually risk a wildcard pick?
(I don’t count Essendon as a ‘wildcard’ pick)
Some Adelaide & a few Port - both teams who dropped out last year.

You bet your sweet bippy they didn’t.
Or to put it another way;
Lesser minds think alike.

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