A little crispy one Garry - The footy media thread

A bit of dough in the back pocket can ease a lot of enmity.

Hutchy has brought some of the old SEN crew back. Think he realised he had cost himself lots of dollars by getting rid of Oz and Finey when he took over.

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Did I just here old Caroline just say there has been no Saturday arvo games this year start before 4.20pm ?

Hello ess v haw round 1 was a 1.45pm start wasn’t it

It’s about the 27th topic she’s got wrong on this show tonight.

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Oh and hutchy since when has Orazio fantasia changed his name to Sam fantasia as you just called him

It gets better than just Essendon:

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Maybe she just meant Saturday arvo games that she was interested in.

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13:45 is a standard slot every (numbered) round (with two games at that time in Round 11, for some reason).

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Hawkins has torn the Bombers apart more times than I care to remember over his career…

But the media attention on that three seconds of holding a phone (weather radar on screen) during the lightning break yesterday, when the game was already effectively over, is next level over the top by a media industry that like to scrape the barrel each and every week to get ‘stories’. Beyond pathetic.

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Lol you could Garry Lyon was desperate for us to lose Friday night. He already had his narrative of lack of polish and langers not giving the handball to Jakey, how it was a big ‘psychological moment’ of the game.

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So I get a random email….

Click on the King and Twatley headline - only to get this…

Good thing the internet protects me from ■■■■ that causes you harm!

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If the names King and Whately weren’t warning enough already…

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it’s not a “random” email, you’re on their mailing list

there will be an unsubscribe link down the very bottom

Mick Warner’s latest missive on the Demon’s boardroom coup that ousted Glenn Bartlett is well worth a read.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/inside-story-how-afl-lost-its-war-with-former-melbourne-president-glen-bartlett/news-story/3f95b4b62a9877bb6d26ceb1b7bec906

Especially enjoyed this quote:

If it hadn’t dawned on the Melbourne board or the AFL commission that they had gravely underestimated Bartlett as the bitter boardroom saga rolled into a third season in January, it should have when Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie stood up in federal parliament in March and dropped a bomb on the game’s already contentious illicit drugs policy.

Suddenly, the Bartlett story had broken the AFL’s containment lines, where house-trained journalists, broadcasters and club figures with their snouts buried deep in football’s trough form a Praetorian Guard around the industry.

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I love Warner, that last paragraph is soooooooo well put

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Following on with the WA theme after the game…

A certain Perth based AFL ‘journalist’ needs to be a little careful about his social media habits:

:grimacing:

Be careful with that ‘Like’ function.

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HE WAS HACKED

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Goss is a strange unit

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I’ve seen him MC at functions. That’s right down his alley

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No its right up hers by the looks of it.

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