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52 minutes ago, xarronn said:

LH, Patrick Smith is the only person in the media who corrected the mistruths or spin which have been put out by, Amendola, Hird Snr, Corcoran, Pickering and Warner. That was the point of his article. He would not have written this article at all were it not for what seems like a concerted effort to re-write events, by these Hird supporters.

As for your bolded statement, I would really love to know what more you would have wanted Smith to say regarding his condition and what is the difference that it would make anyway? In my eyes he made the necessary PC statement of concern, what more is needed?

I would assume that James Hird will get plenty of support from his family and friends and the best treatment money can buy. There is no need for anyone to express concern that is not genuinely felt. Neither his condition nor his recovery is dependent on a few more sympathetic words any of us might utter. 

Fair comments, x.  I also applaud Smith for exposing the mistruths, the blaming and the rewriting of history in recent weeks. 

It irked me that he used the inanimate 'this column' to express 'its' concern rather than the more humane 'I'.  So, I would have preferred he said nothing at all about concern rather than make insincere platitudes.  His exposure of the mistruths would have been just as powerful without that last line, afterthought.

I guess, I feel that anyone who has reached the end of the line, regardless of the enormity of their sins or being the master of their own demise, is deserving of some compassion simply because they are human and in a very dark place.  Just my feelings tho'.

Not sure how much support Hird will get from his family and friends.  He seems to have burnt them off over recent years.  He is a lonely man in a dark place; yes of his own making.  I for one, wish him well in getting his life back together again.

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    53 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Fair comments, x.  I also applaud Smith for exposing the mistruths, the blaming and the rewriting of history in recent weeks. 

    It irked me that he used the inanimate 'this column' to express 'its' concern rather than the more humane 'I'.  So, I would have preferred he said nothing at all about concern rather than make insincere platitudes.  His exposure of the mistruths would have been just as powerful without that last line, afterthought.

    Smith is an old school journo and in the old school it was the standard of professionalism to say "this column believes" or "the author regards". It was seen as amateurish to say "I believe" or "I think".

    (Nowadays the standards are so low that a tipsy and inarticulate buffoon can livestream his inner voice in half sentences, without any pause for reflection, in print and on radio & TV.)

    But Smith is also not a particularly warm character and even a vocalised expression of compassion would probably come across as rather stiff and formal.

    The only credible show of emotion from Smith would be a sledge at a batsman who's been sat on his backside by a nasty bouncer.

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    LH...i certainly acknowledge your view and appreciation of the vernacular but it might be carving cute to differentiate a pronoun ? 

    The subject, object and content remain the same JAH is  a psychopathical with Icarus issues. 

     

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    1 minute ago, beelzebub said:

    LH...i certainly acknowledge your view and appreciation of the vernacular but it might be carving cute to differentiate a pronoun ? 

    The subject, object and content remain the same JAH is  a psychopathical with Icarus issues. 

     

    Only James Hird probably thought the sun flew too close to him ... :)

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    1 hour ago, Ted Fidge said:

    Smith is an old school journo and in the old school it was the standard of professionalism to say "this column believes" or "the author regards". It was seen as amateurish to say "I believe" or "I think".

    (Nowadays the standards are so low that a tipsy and inarticulate buffoon can livestream his inner voice in half sentences, without any pause for reflection, in print and on radio & TV.)

    But Smith is also not a particularly warm character and even a vocalised expression of compassion would probably come across as rather stiff and formal.

    The only credible show of emotion from Smith would be a sledge at a batsman who's been sat on his backside by a nasty bouncer.

    Caro too uses the third person "in this journalist's opinion". Quite a few use variations of that. Old school.

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    3 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    Caro too uses the third person "in this journalist's opinion". Quite a few use variations of that. Old school.

    Ah, the good old days, before "journalism" became endless clickbait and product placement disguised as an article (and usually not declared in the addendum).

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    3 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Fair comments, x.  I also applaud Smith for exposing the mistruths, the blaming and the rewriting of history in recent weeks. 

    Ditto to that !!

    Cant believe the hypocrisy in the Hun from the editor down/

    In the middle of last week the editor extolled people to "leave James in peace" while he recovers his health.

    On that very day he/she gave Allan Hird headline coverage.Then on Saturday 3 pages were devoted to Danny Corcoran's views on the victimisation of his good mate. All part of a concerted effort to stir the pot - and reignite the emotions that James is struggling to manage.

    It is the AFL that is showing compassion right now.. Fitzpatrick and McLachlan have worn damning criticism and innuendo  in an effort to leave him "in peace.. Hird's mates are the people preventing the football world - and Hird himself - from moving on 

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    12 hours ago, Ted Fidge said:

    Smith is an old school journo and in the old school it was the standard of professionalism to say "this column believes" or "the author regards". It was seen as amateurish to say "I believe" or "I think".

    (Nowadays the standards are so low that a tipsy and inarticulate buffoon can livestream his inner voice in half sentences, without any pause for reflection, in print and on radio & TV.)

    But Smith is also not a particularly warm character and even a vocalised expression of compassion would probably come across as rather stiff and formal.

    The only credible show of emotion from Smith would be a sledge at a batsman who's been sat on his backside by a nasty bouncer.

    Nowadays the standards are so low that an inarticulate buffoon can tweet his inner voice in half sentences, without any pause for reflection, and become the leader of the free world.

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    18 hours ago, hoopla said:

    Cant believe the hypocrisy in the Hun from the editor down/

    How about from the editor up?

    Murdoch's World. An Ethics Free Zone.

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    8 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Nowadays the standards are so low that an inarticulate buffoon can tweet his inner voice in half sentences, without any pause for reflection, and become the leader of the free world.

    Don't worry. It won't be free much longer.

     

    Or a world, come to think of it.

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    https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/01/18/sheedy-hird-should-never-have-coached-without-prior-experience/

    I rarely agree with Sheedy but I do this time when he says Hird '...should never have been allowed to coach without having acquired experience as an assistant beforehand.'

    Shame he said the exact opposite when Hird was appointed.  If he had spoken up back then he could have saved everyone a lot of grief! 

    On SEN Sheedy was rewriting history, again!

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    On 1/17/2017 at 10:43 PM, Moonshadow said:

    Caro too uses the third person "in this journalist's opinion". Quite a few use variations of that. Old school.

    Just as well otherwise they might end up sounding like dermie. I I IIII I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I .........counted 43 in one article. 

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    4 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/01/18/sheedy-hird-should-never-have-coached-without-prior-experience/

    I rarely agree with Sheedy but I do this time when he says Hird '...should never have been allowed to coach without having acquired experience as an assistant beforehand.'

    Shame he said the exact opposite when Hird was appointed.  If he had spoken up back then he could have saved everyone a lot of grief! 

    On SEN Sheedy was rewriting history, again!

    Funny, he would have been the only one. (However this poster expects that from a martian. Sheedy can probably barely remember his own name these days.)

    After the Tim Watson Experiment (that great '60s acid rock band), EVERYONE from Wayne Jackson down to the Dimboola thirds bootstudder knew that you don't appoint a coach without previous experience.

    And look where it got them. In this poster's opinion, all richly deserved ... apart from the damage to the competition, the sport, Aussie sport as a whole, the players, the families of those involved ... most lousy coaches only take their teams to the bottom of the ladder.

    Hird, a coach for the ages. (In this poster's opinion.)

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    On 18/01/2017 at 6:01 PM, Ted Fidge said:

    Don't worry. It won't be free much longer.

     

    Or a world, come to think of it.

    Let's hope we can see at least one more Demon flag before it ends ?

    Things were looking pretty grim for the world when we last won - Cuban missile crisis, JFK vs LHO all happened in the year or so before that great day  

     

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    On 1/17/2017 at 10:43 PM, Moonshadow said:

    Caro too uses the third person "in this journalist's opinion". Quite a few use variations of that. Old school.

    I've often seen Carro describe her opinion as "Fairfax media believes ......"
    Always just thought it saved her from getting personally sued.

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    3 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

    I've often seen Carro describe her opinion as "Fairfax media believes ......"
    Always just thought it saved her from getting personally sued.

    Third person plural! Lah-di-dah!

     

    No wonder so many people hate her.

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    So when round 1 comes along and yhe bombers play the hawks we will have 2 new captains.

    One returning from a year ban after drug cheating.

    One returning from a year out fighting cancer.

    Who gets the "returning hero" march/celebrations?

    I feel sick.

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    17 minutes ago, biggestred said:

    So when round 1 comes along and yhe bombers play the hawks we will have 2 new captains.

    One returning from a year ban after drug cheating.

    One returning from a year out fighting cancer.

    Who gets the "returning hero" march/celebrations?

    I feel sick.

    Great to hear Roughie is up and running, good choice of Captain by the Hawks....a real good news story and boy does the AFL need one.

    Who are the others you are talking about?????

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    32 minutes ago, biggestred said:

    So when round 1 comes along and yhe bombers play the hawks we will have 2 new captains.

    One returning from a year ban after drug cheating.

    One returning from a year out fighting cancer.

    Who gets the "returning hero" march/celebrations?

    I feel sick.

    Your post seems to be critical of Roughead. I hope that's not intended. I expect most footy supporters, whoever they support, wish Roughy well (except when his team plays theirs)

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    4 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Your post seems to be critical of Roughead. I hope that's not intended. I expect most footy supporters, whoever they support, wish Roughy well (except when his team plays theirs)

    Sorry. My post was critical of essendon having a big celebration to welcome back their drug cheats when the real comeback story leads out the other team.

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    26 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Your post seems to be critical of Roughead. I hope that's not intended. I expect most footy supporters, whoever they support, wish Roughy well (except when his team plays theirs)

    not sure it reads that way...not for me at least.Seems to indicate Roughy should be the hero...

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    3 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    not sure it reads that way...not for me at least.Seems to indicate Roughy should be the hero...

    I can't see how it could be interpreted any other way.    Reading Demonland is playing with my mind.

     

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    Doesnt matter how bad my english is

    The point is roughy is actually a returning hero and a great story and deserves to be captain

    But essendon will welcome back their drug cheats with a big march to the g and pre game stuff and reward one of them with the captaincy.

    On the same night roughy returns. At the same ground. 

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    The expectations on Roughy have been set pretty high in my opinion all the same.

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    21 minutes ago, biggestred said:

    Doesnt matter how bad my english is

    The point is roughy is actually a returning hero and a great story and deserves to be captain

    But essendon will welcome back their drug cheats with a big march to the g and pre game stuff and reward one of them with the captaincy.

    On the same night roughy returns. At the same ground. 

    I know who im barracking for in that game.

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