Crisp.
There is Sam Newman the media persona and John Newman the person ā¦ sort of like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Iāve played golf with John Newman at Riversdale GC a fair few times over the years and John Newman is one of the smartest, brightest and nicest blokes going around
You just canāt imagine he is the same bloke as Sam Newman in the media
PS - Dave Culbert is also a member there and is still a very much a c*nt
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l for one have welcomed the insights of the various female common potators, who offer far more insight into the game than Lingy. Although to be fair, that wouldnāt be hard. Anyway, l reckon they do a good job.
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I have no doubt that the private Newman is vastly different to the āshowbizā Newman and he seems like heād be a terrific mate if you were lucky enough to know him but his media persona is tired and worn out. He might not look old due to cosmetic modifications but he sounds old. And that show is old. And his attitude towards lots of things are outdated and borderline inflammatory. It seems that his recent moanings about Muslims had more to do with raising a sinking profile than a genuine attempt at engaging in a discourse about the good and bad of multiculturalism. And if he has to resort to marginalising people in order to stay relevant then his decision to leave is a good one.
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Does John (as opposed to Sam) Newman still support Trump?
Yep Iāve always thought that. All that bollocks is just for bums on seats and heās been very effective in keeping that putrid show going.
And he stood with us during the saga.
David Culbert can go ā ā ā ā himself with a blunt object however.
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All entertainers have to re invent themselves to maintain a good career. Newman typecast himself as the buffoon of the Footy Show, it was time for him to change his act years ago. Maybe become a quiz show host, a special comments man, move to an alternative network etc etc. However, he was a prisoner of the rolling contracts with massive money he was on and changing his career would have cost $$$$$$$$$$$, so his career has fizzled out but he has made $$$$$$ along the way .
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Sam Newman is just like Shane Crawford in that if you can get them to cast aside the buffoonery, idiotry, hyperbole and showmanship for a minute, theyāre actually quite intelligent and insightful in what they have to say about football.
Itās just a shame itās the public persona that becomes omnipresent since TV/Radio Networks will always cater to the lowest common denominatorā¦
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About two years ago I ran into Sam Newman at Bunnings Port Melbourne. I was with a colleague waiting in the cafe line when Newman approached from the left of where the line had formed.
He was with a woman who I assumed was some kind of interior designer as they were going through a multitude of decor options. He ordered coffee from in front of the machine instead of the line at the register. My colleague says, geez it pays to be famous, you can waltz to the front of the line. Newman heard this remark, stopped, turned around and came back to the line which had about five people in it. He asked the attendant if we were placed before him in the line, she responded in the affirmative. He then said to the attendant that he was awfully sorry for cutting the line and said heād pay for everyoneās items that were in the line before him by her adding them to his own order.
True to his word, he fixed the whole lot, food, drinks, coffee, everything. On my way out of the cafe, I approached him and said thanks and that my perception of him was completely false given what Iād just witnessed. He shook my hand and said he appreciated my honesty and then said on TV Iām Sam Newman, but off the set Iām John Newman and weāre nothing alike. He then wished me a good day and also said goodbye as he left around an hour later. Iāll never forget that experience as it taught me a valuable lesson.
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John Newman ( & Sam for that matter ) was consistent supporter of EFC during the saga.
It was almost as if he understood that more than anything else, it was a media pile on
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I get that some genuinely donāt like SEN and I also get that itās not cool to like SEN but I wouldnāt listen to anything else. I really like what Hutchy has done with the lineups and rapt that the likes of Robbo, Denham, Culbert, Leach and Allen have all disappeared.
I donāt love Whately in general but his show and guests are generally very interesting and his overall sport knowledge is excellent. Lyon and Tim have a great rapport and the morning is great listening. Radar is ok and has great knowledge and is humble but talks too much and Doc is suited to the Sat morn two hours with Hutch and Pickering but is terrible with KB.
Hutch is putting his nuts on the line and I hope that it pays off cause the ratings arenāt great at present. Of course being Australian weāll have a crack at his weight and hope he fails cause thatās what we do.
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Whereas I hope he loses them in a nasty car door incident.
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You know how you all hate the AFL media? How they are obsessed with scandal and rumour and off field crap, how they donāt actually talk about football much anymore?
Thatās Hutchys fault. All of it. He started it on the Footy Show and and heās gone on to procure almost all of the football media and mould it in his image. Heās a dirtbag. Everyone should hate him.
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How about this bit of Sliding Doors nonsense.
| If | anyone in early 2016 predicted that delisted Cat Mitch Brown would still be on Essendonās list in 2019 ā¦ |
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| then | weāre predicting theyāre a good liar. |
How can you suggest that someone is a āliarā, when they predict a future they cannot control? Furthermore, itās a nonsense to āpredictā that a person lied in the past.
It seems that at the Purple school of philosophy they āpredictā things that happened in the past. Amazing
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Heās turned ā ā ā ā and wind into a whole industry, and making millions off it.
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Iāve told this story before but I was at a convention of some sort talking to his brother who said the last time he spoke to him was just before his own wedding - which hutchinson didnāt attend as he was too busy with work.
Called him something that sort of rhymes with shocking punt, and bid me good day.
Yeah right. Dirtbag, all Hutchyās fault. Mate you are giving him an awful lot of credit. The only journo to report on off field stuff ever. The public devour it and players told him stuff and heās built a business on it by working 24 hour days. Good luck to him.
This is ban worthy.
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If he really wanted to, I reckon thereās room for him to produce an online-based āComedians In Cars Getting Coffeeā or āThe Tripā type show where he jumps in a car with someone interesting enough to pad out 30min (not necessarily footy related) and go for a drive somewhere. He had a real knack for getting good conversations out of people in those TFS segments in later years, and he wouldnāt dance around delicate questions.
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You need a footy journo history lesson.
Letās talk about early football shows, and the Footy Show under McGuire. When there was an offfield story, McGuire would break it, when there wasnāt one, heād just get on with the show. Totally fair in my view.
Then Hutch was employed as the off field newsbreaker. And he was on every week. Which meant every week there needed to be a story. Sometimes there were legit stories, but when there werenāt any, he just had to make them up, or endlessly speculate.
Pretty soon every show and radio program has a dude like Hutchy whoās role is is to go to air with rumours and innuendo and made up garbage.
And now, thatās all there is, 24-7. Who would bother to study tactics and watch games and work on insightful analysis when you can simply add āitās my understandingā or āwhat Iām hearing isā before literally anything and you can just make up the story?
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