Damian Barrett

[Deez 298]

What's with this guy taking stabs at the deez?

He talks about how other clubs and everyone dissaproves of the afl giving Melbourne money and the application for a priority pick.

Firstly, the afl giving Melbourne money doesn't affect any one except ensuring melb stays in the competition.

And secondly, the club has been in such a bad way for such a long time, declining the entire time with no improvement, and although we may have miss used priority picks in the past, the current group that have to handle this club are new to the club and could use all the help they can get to get this club up and running again, so a priority pick doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

Other clubs suggest they never got help. Some did get help, but none of them have been through what melbourne has been through.

Any way, barret makes me angry.

Feel free to vent lol.

[Deestinga2 51]

He takes stabs at us because we are an easy target.

We haven't been awarded a PP yet so the other clubs a whinging about nothing. Image the uproar if the AFL actually give us the PP.

Personally,i don't want one. If we don't get the PP, it shifts the focus of the rest of the clubs to some other issue that s going on, hopefully not at the MFC.

Some of the other clubs understand and agree that the AFL should help MFC with cash, they need 18 clubs and a club called Melbourne in a national competition.

But I do agree with you Deez, that Damien Barret is a giant [censored].

[Soidee 1,496]

Serious journalism on the Footy Show!! Barrett is in the Sam Newman boys club and cannot be taken seriously as a journalist.

As for Barretts cracks at the MFC....fill ya boots Barrett because we don't give a [censored] at the worlds oldest football club.

[Dees2014 2,377]

What's with this guy taking stabs at the deez?

He talks about how other clubs and everyone dissaproves of the afl giving Melbourne money and the application for a priority pick.

Firstly, the afl giving Melbourne money doesn't affect any one except ensuring melb stays in the competition.

And secondly, the club has been in such a bad way for such a long time, declining the entire time with no improvement, and although we may have miss used priority picks in the past, the current group that have to handle this club are new to the club and could use all the help they can get to get this club up and running again, so a priority pick doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

Other clubs suggest they never got help. Some did get help, but none of them have been through what melbourne has been through.

Any way, barret makes me angry.

Feel free to vent lol.

He is a convenient mouthpiece for other clubs, and particularly for people like Eddie and Malthouse who would not want to vent their spleen at the demons in that way publicly, but if they can get someone like Barrett to do it for them in the highest rating, and most inane football show in the country, then of course they will. Barrett is a stooge. I'm surprised you're surprised!

It is about putting public pressure on the decision makers to ensure the powerful remain powerful, and the also rans remain also ran . quite simple really.

Fortunately we have an independent commission which is set up to make these sorts of decisions, and in my view the AFL makes these sorts of decisions pretty objectively. We also have someone like Peter Jackson on our side who has huge credibility with the AFL commission and knows his way around the politics of it better than almost anyone.

Yet another reason for being optimistic.

Edited September 19, 2013 by Dees2014

[KLV 1,692]

Barrett is a lightweight, ignore him.

[Deez 298]

Yeh I'm feeling pretty similar regarding the pp, I think the club can manage without it.

Well that's it, there has to be a team called Melbourne.

Your not wrong, he's a bit of a [censored].

[DeeSpencer 23,689]

Sam Newman is quite the [censored] but he's no fool and his opinion on Barrett reflects that. He can barely stand his drivel.

Although Barrett is also employed by the AFL fr a weekly segment so someone should tell him to STFU

[RickyJ45 392]

Thats how the AFL operates these days. He is their unofficial PR trying to raise the ire of the supporters to see the support for, or establish the popularity of, a decision by the AFL.

Agreed he should take a long walk off a short pier.

[Machsy 2,858]

Damian Barret works for the AFL, but his agenda is not necesarily guided by the AFL.

It's only about 4 days until the deadline when we find the result of our priority pick application, and I honestly think he's just winding the football public up for an almighty backlash as he thinks we'll probably get one.

He's trying to create a situation of public outrage so he can get mileage out of the issue.

Good luck to you, DB.

[Dees2014 2,377]

Thats how the AFL operates these days. He is their unofficial PR trying to raise the ire of the supporters to see the support for, or establish the popularity of, a decision by the AFL.

Agreed he should take a long walk off a short pier.

I don't think it is the AFL. they have a history of making tough decisions for the good of the game. I think it is the clubs who are trying to protect their entrentched powerful positions via the "court of public opinion".

Nothing in this is new. It is meat and drink to the AFL Commission. PJ must be really enjoying this, being the consummate politician he is.

[spirit of norm smith 13,652]

Damian Barrett is a Muppet. He has no base and just repeats the same story over and over.

[Deeman 1,426]

At best a late rookie selection but if so, I doubt he will get past the development league in 2014. Desperately needs to cure his acne issues before he can play with the men.

[Soidee 1,496]

When it comes to football journos Barrett is in the magoos. Would not get a look in for the best 22 in the country.

[Machsy 2,858]

He won a lot of awards at the AFL media awards night last night.

So did Caro.

To think that those 2 set the standard...

[Dees2014 2,377]

He's a drop kick!

[DeeSpencer 23,689]

He won a lot of awards at the AFL media awards night last night.

So did Caro.

To think that those 2 set the standard...

1 pay TV channel, 2 free to air channels that really cover the game, AFL.com.au and club websites and then 2 major papers and yet they feel they need a media awards. Have you ever heard of anything so self centered?

[Disco Demons 92]

He does raise a fair point. The club's right to demand a priority pick has diminished. The AFL now needs to work through independently. Whatever the outcome. When has Melbourne suffered enough that we then deserve one?

[Ted Lasso 17,320]

I don't get how he wins awards, he is plainly wrong as often as he is right!

he is just using his standing to push a case to remove an idea that doesn't suit his personal wishes,

i am looking forward to monday as i believe we will be granted the Priority pick we NEED maybe not deserve and [censored] off Barrett and his army of knobs bigtime

[rpfc 27,693]

1 pay TV channel, 2 free to air channels that really cover the game, AFL.com.au and club websites and then 2 major papers and yet they feel they need a media awards. Have you ever heard of anything so self centered?

lol

Swine eating their own filth.

I love journalism. Yet to see many journalists in the profession however.

They are loud air horns in an echo chamber of their own making and grandiose delusions.

So what if we get another good kid, Damien.

Who really gives a flying moose tail.

I am in Sweden right now, that isn't a Swedish saying but it could be, and that's what matters.

[What 18,810]

he is an absolute germ

[Freddy Fuschia 667]

He takes stabs at us because we are an easy target.

We haven't been awarded a PP yet so the other clubs a whinging about nothing. Image the uproar if the AFL actually give us the PP.

Personally,i don't want one. If we don't get the PP, it shifts the focus of the rest of the clubs to some other issue that s going on, hopefully not at the MFC.

Some of the other clubs understand and agree that the AFL should help MFC with cash, they need 18 clubs and a club called Melbourne in a national competition.

But I do agree with you Deez, that Damien Barret is a giant [censored].

I'll never understand this point of view and I've never heard this sort of thing coming from supporters of other clubs. The AFL draft is so severely compromised with compensatory picks going here, there and everywhere that one more hardly makes a difference. Let them make their decision and everyone can move on and focus on the drug cheats, the dwarf burners and all of the other things that go to making this game of ours so great.

[Bring-Back-Powell 13,680]

If you think about it, getting Paul Roos and Peter Jackson were kind of like our priority pick and to demand a pick on top of this is a bit greedy.

That being said I hope we get one but life moves in if we don't.

[CBDees 3,162]

Damian Barret works for the AFL, but his agenda is not necesarily guided by the AFL.

It's only about 4 days until the deadline when we find the result of our priority pick application, and I honestly think he's just winding the football public up for an almighty backlash as he thinks we'll probably get one.

He's trying to create a situation of public outrage so he can get mileage out of the issue.

Good luck to you, DB.

I so hope that you are right. It would be lovely to steal Boyd from under the nose of GWS and then use pick 3 to trade/draft the best mid (Martin, Swallow, Sloane, Adams etc)

[Gorgoroth 12,447]

The clubs now complaining about us getting the money is we got Roos. If we had signed Eade for instance, there would be no negative noise. The fact is PJ got us the best coach not coaching and arguably within the top 3-5 in the AFL.

They are getting a little worried that we will get our shite together and pass them sooner rather than later.

[DemonOX 8,581]

I hope we get both the $ and pp

That will stick it right up every whinging sook.

Bunch of cry babies.