Damien Barrett

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54 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

I'm kinda staggered that someone would read through all of his tripe to compile that list.

 

Theres an hour or so of your life that you aren't going to get back

 

It was about an hour. Fired me up. Hopefully the boys read it too and it fires them up to stick it to spex.

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I’d say that, since 2017 at least, he’s probably new the most positive journos when writing about Melbourne.

 

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I'm bored of this bye already and the weekend hasn't even started.  

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There is a reason his nickname is purple.

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5 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

I’d say that, since 2017 at least, he’s probably new the most positive journos when writing about Melbourne.

 

A bit of a stretch to call him a journo, but I reckon David King, on & off, has been our biggest promoter.

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2 hours ago, dworship said:

There is a reason his nickname is purple.

It's certainly not because purple is a combination of red and blue.

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12 hours ago, Demonstone said:

I don't think Damien actually knows what the term "sliding door moment" means.

I'm not convinced he even understands what an 'If/then' statement is.

As far as I'm concerned his journalistic range stretches from 'listicle-maker' to 'nosy vicar' and not much else. Just another media passenger weighing down the game.

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2 hours ago, Mach5 said:

A bit of a stretch to call him a journo, but I reckon David King, on & off, has been our biggest promoter.

King definitely went all-in during 17 and 18.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Little Goffy said:

I'm not convinced he even understands what an 'If/then' statement is.

As far as I'm concerned his journalistic range stretches from 'listicle-maker' to 'nosy vicar' and not much else. Just another media passenger weighing down the game.

just another nerd-wanna-be-jock by hanging out with them and trying impress them with his Dodge Charger

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19 hours ago, Mach5 said:

Can someone give me some sort of summary so I don’t have to read through all of DB’s waffle? Hurts my brain.

Damien Barret : Shizen

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I listen most mornings to his show with Nat Edwards. He has a fair crack at Carlton’s governance (or lack of), the Collingwood board, Jeff Kennett and the AFL match review procedures. I quite like him

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Damien Barrett is painful. Jay Clark is trying to have a crack at the title after that stupid question to Chris Scott in the after match press conference. 

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22 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

I'm not sure why Damien (or anyone's) opinion matters to you, and I can see that it does.

Here are some reasons as to maybe why he hasn't given credit where credit is due in the IF...THEN... column

• Maybe he falls into the 'I still don't trust them' camp.
• It's not the right forum to be putting that opinion forward
• We became minor premiers essentially at the last kick of the season - a week earlier we could have dropped to 5th.
• Perhaps he really [censored] hates us for some obscure childhood reason, and only he knows that, but because of that, he gets to shape how people feel about how he feels about Melbourne because he has agency to write words about a sport that he gets paid to write about.

It suits the Media(individual) to not look stupid right up until the last minute, and then be able to say " I told you so".

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If you think that he was against us there, read his stuff on us in ‘13. 

A lot of what he wrote then about scattergun recruiting was spot on. Not surprisingly, some people on here thought he was just being a ‘hater’.

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4 hours ago, Nelo said:

Damien Barrett is painful. Jay Clark is trying to have a crack at the title after that stupid question to Chris Scott in the after match press conference. 

Which stupid question was that?

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7 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

Which stupid question was that?

I apologise if I got the wrong journalist but the question was along the lines of this "what would the shape of the game look like if Jeremy Cameron was playing for GWS and not for Geelong". After 120mins of an AFL game that was the best question he could come up with.

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4 minutes ago, Nelo said:

I apologise if I got the wrong journalist but the question was along the lines of this "what would the shape of the game look like if Jeremy Cameron was playing for GWS and not for Geelong". After 120mins of an AFL game that was the best question he could come up with.

That was Jake Niall

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Good on you for doing the research I guess, wish it was more enjoyable. 

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2 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

That was Jake Niall

Ok thanks. For a qualified journalist thought the question was pretty ordinary. 

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3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

That was Jake Niall

Chris Scott politely referred to it as a "weird hypothetical". Seriously who actually pays these journos to come up with this stuff...