You like Hamish? Wowzers
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jobe gives hamish a run for king nepo baby in an industry they shouldn’t be
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You mean anything is better than Ling.
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This won’t make me popular. Or even less so. And all my comments are very much just personal opinion grafted together with fact and speculation (blurred) in order to make a statement on somebody we love as dons supporters very much, especially those who lived through the saga.
So here goes.
Tim Watson was my hero growing up. It was only until Kickett arrived at the club he was superseded, but by that stage he was starting to wane from a playing perspective. And you probably would too if you started at 15 in the most brutal sport (maybe apart from league) in the country.
But I’ve noticed a bit of a whiff the last few years. Not quite a potent gust, but a whiff non the less. I didn’t listen to the Jennifer Keyte rumours, and Victorian Dad of the year suited him in a team of baby bombers.
The whiff started to sneak in when his broadcasting career began. Chanel 7 are a cesspool, and I’ve always believed if you work as a public face of a company type it means somewhere at some point you’d have to share some of its values.
Values of the kind who support war criminals. You know the type.
Then him and Garry Lyon teamed up, and there are those type of values where you may or may not not see it as a bad thing to knock of your best mates missus.
So there’s that type.
But what rocked the fanboi32 in me was when Jim and the family Watson finished their speaking terms on the back of what was certainly the greatest relationship tester in Australian sports history. And I get that there would be a million and one scenarios that would have played out behind that curtain. And it doesn’t help that I’ll always be a Jim supporter to the point of happily engaging in the possibility of him returning to coaching this year (at the time it was flouted).
I’m even willing to draw similarities between that relationship and that of Jordan and Tiger as why the latter ended up with a nine iron wrapped around his head whilst “parked” outside the family home and why similar stuff regarding fidelity has been suggested regarding Jim.
I don’t choose to believe it, but like any decent potent gust, if it hasn’t already registered, it is out there.
Now watching Jobe gasp for air at the side of 7s goldfish bowl is starting to make me feel like things could go the same way. It will be a long slow painful burn because I’ve always seen Jobe as an open minded, liberal and upstanding citizen. Plus an Essendon Brownlow medal winner. Sameolds Jr was on the way becoming “Jobe” in name until someone twigged. And I want to see justice for Jobe and his team, just as much as I want to see Jim get his moment in the sun. But I think Jobe is naive, at least in how he comes across, and I can quite easily see him taking that sleazy slide that comes when you enter media street, especially if dad is there to guide him.
Again, speculative stuff for some.
What’s wrong with being a barista? Couldn’t he just do a podcast called Watsons Roast, invite Gil and AD on and have a surprise 33 guests with complimentary tridents? And then build his own media empire from there.
He’s a tragic figure, but it would be nice if he stays true to that rather than the tragedy that potentially, very speculatively, may await him on the fourth estate.
Anne Frank was a tragic figure.
Jobe Watson has been a very well paid professional footballer who is now leveraging that into something of a media career.
He is not a tragic figure.
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That’s quite a post there, Sameolds.
wow
Jobe Watson was my hero growing up.
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Both are ■■■■ media performers.
Huge if true.
Jobe Watson my hero for how he handled himself through Saga, thecreturn and retirement.
Kudos to Jobe.
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I can’t stand Jobe’s opposition sycophantic commentary, but he is actually a smart guy away from 7. If you listen to his interview either on Howie or Dyl and friends he is really switched on.
On the other hand, I’ve never understood how Tim gets a media gig and his footy opinions are that of a casual watcher on the couch at home, not of someone that actually provides any special comments. I don’t really rate his footy IQ at all, you can see why he was such a ■■■■ coach.
The only possible defence I could make of his special commentary is he’s working next to some moronic commentators so I think he has to drop to their standards. Daisy Pearce for some unknown reason has a real anti-Essendon bias and I feel on the weekend she says stuff and instead of having an on air argument, Jobe just agrees and gets on with things.
What’s his formal education? He knows football, and needs to make a living somehow.
I thought he got a bit tongue tied during the game… Someone even said he sounded drunk, but he’s probably just nervous. You get 10 seconds to add insight, and that’s it. I don’t think he is a natural behind a microphone… Just needs time. Actually, reminds me of lloydy when he started in the media, could barely get 2 words out.
I don’t begrudge anything he does. He was unfairly treated, stripped of the highest honour in football, and was the face of the club during that entire time.
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Jobe on special comments is a completely different person to the Jobe i,'ve heard speak to media as a player. It’s really bizarre.
Daisy is a shocker. Preferable to Carey but not by much. It made me miss Matthew Richardson listening to those two inunison the other night which not a sentence I thought i’d ever write.
Richo sounds so slow and monotonous like a 9 year old reading a book report to the class.
As for Jobe, not only does he sound uneloquent, his comments just go on a little too long. Just make your point and get out of there.
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Let me tell you his special comments get worse with each replay. I watched the game for the 4th time last night and have been psygcloglo-coflically scarred.
(I hope he’s okay because he doesn’t sound it)
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Is he the same for non-Essendon games?