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THE WILSON FILE - the arrogance at the heart of the innuendo


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How did a 30-second aside in a lengthy match committee meeting morph into a specific meeting held by the Melbourne Football Club in 2009 supposedly as a call-to-arms to its football department to lose matches?

Imagination?

Read first the stories written and published in the Age in a whirlwind five day spree in which its chief football writer, aided by underlings who produced nothing much to add to the subject, carried out her relentless daily attack on the Melbourne Football Club and some of its senior officials with nothing much to go on but a ½ minute grab of lighthearted comment at a meeting in a place ominously referred to as "the vault":-

Tanking affair darkens for Dees

Senior Demons drove tanking

Secrets from the vault

Why the Dees alone are facing probe

Three losses that raised eyebrows

A timeline on tanking

What they said about tanking

'We tried to stop tanking'

Jobs on line: Dees warned

Sheedy saw Dees' problems coming

Demons: shock & awful

and finally ... a small semblance of sanity

Dark artists drop the ball

And this is how the rival Herald Sun dealt with revelations by former Demon coach Dean Bailey that the events that were supposed to have taken place in "the vault" had been blown out of all proportion - Dean Bailey tells the AFL he didn't order players to lose

A lousy 30 second grab became the arrogance at the heart of the innuendo!

Dripping through The Shrew's ministrations are attacks on two Melbourne people who are the targets of her malice.

"Melbourne will be harshly punished. Cameron Schwab and Chris Connolly will be finished at the club."

Connolly's sin appears to be that he cracked a few funnies but the case against Schwab seems to devolve down to innuendo and the fact that, instead of doing somersaults and handstands after Melbourne's round 15 win over Port Adelaide, he appeared "grim-faced". The problem is that said game was one of the most shyzen exhibitions of football in the history of the game. In fact, IMO it was so bad that anyone who didn't walk away from the game with a grim face needed to be institutionalised.

WHAT NOW?

This is your opportunity to help us build "The Wilson File" to help us uncover the reasons for this arrogant, obsessive hatred on the part of one journalist towards the Melbourne Football Club and those who are working hard to make their club a success once more.

We want solid evidence here - articles with links and quotes from appearances on radio and television. Help us get to the bottom of the arrogance at the heart of the innuendo.

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http://www.3aw.com.a...0403-1wal8.html on davey and the misfud affair

Bulldogs deny Dees in fight for sponsor (ragging us about sponsorship)

How Demons killed the coach they loved, but saved a CEO (re the sacking of the coach and not Schwab.

one more re davey and misfud... http://www.3aw.com.a...0404-1wcxk.html

there will be a few from '186' too I am sure. and if anyone knows the date we hired schwab. perhaps that is a good date too look at articles from...

had enough for now. finding defamatory articles means having to actually read her schizen. it hurts my brain...

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"Dees hold forum to appease fans" (MFC supporter info nights)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/dees-hold-forums-to-appease-fans-20120530-1zjgj.html

"De-cision on the run" (MFC "rushing" to appoint what Caro intimates is clearly not-the-best-available, in Neeld)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/deecision-on-the-run-20120521-1z1di.html

"Date with disaster" (Caro re-living 186 with gusto)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/date-with-disaster-20120504-1y4ky.html

"Battle of science rages as dees 'gap' bid revealed" (Neeld wants to enforce gap year on 1st year players)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/battle-of-science-rages-on-as-dees-gap-bid-revealed-20120313-1uyix.html

"Demons want Schwab to stay"

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/demons-want-schwab-to-stay-20120417-1x5m0.html

"Facing up to Demon days" (Neeld's early days as coach)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/facing-up-to-demon-days-20120406-1wh2c.html

"Dark days turn darker for bedevilled demons" (Just basically a recap on all the crap stuff happening to MFC)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/dark-days-turn-darker-for-bedevilled-demons-20120405-1wfml.html

"Grand old stoush: Demons take on AFL" (Davey-Mifsud saga: Mifsud delays meeting)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/grand-old-stoush-demons-take-on-afl-20120404-1wd8f.html

"Davey at centre of storm" (Davey emerges as potential source of racist allegations against Neeld)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/davey-at-centre-of-storm-20120403-1waw6.html

"McGuire's Jurrah scoop angers demons"

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/mcguires-jurrah-scoop-angers-demons-20120312-1uwi5.html

"Chinese whispers may land demon sponsor" (Schwab's china trip)

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/chinese-whispers-may-land-demons-sponsor-20111207-1oj6c.html

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l agree. The papers won't name ex-players who have supposedly said the club didn't try to but ex-players like James McDonald and Ricky Petterd have said they were never told to not win but this doesn't get written in any newspaper. Wilson doesn't let facts get in the way of a story.

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Very few articles by CW on the demons before that, and most are relatively ambivalent.

I think we can pinpoint when she started being fed information by disgruntled factions of the club.

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Cheers Jose. She pretty much did the equivalent of bombing the wrong country with that effort. At least she was able to slip in one "in my opinion" unlike the bile she coughed up last week!

It sets a tone though. She has always had a bee in her bonnet about Melbourne's list management (not sure why just us? :wacko: ) and would have been quivering with excitement last when the AFL slipped her the info from their water-boarding.

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Not sure whether or not you have these WJ

1."THE bitter fall-out between Melbourne and its VFL partner Casey over Brendan Fevola could spell the end of the alignment between the two clubs at the end of this season"

http://www.theage.co...0309-1bo05.html

2.''Cameron came to us and asked if we could assist in a transaction,''

http://www.theage.co...0328-1cdgq.html

3 "As has been well documented, Schwab was not Melbourne's first choice as CEO after Stynes sacked Paul McNamee"

http://www.theage.co...10422-1driv.htm

4.Let's pop back 10 years " Former captain Garry Lyon is one of several Melbourne footballers who have been investigated this year by the tax department"

http://www.theage.co...7332344714.html

Whether or not the file ever means anything in a legal sense - it might a helpful aid to a suitable journo from a rival media outlet!!

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Why not take this all a step further and ask who are the people feeding her and others in the media with the information for these stories and why?

I thought that was implied as being one of the main purposes of this thread...

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