Media Bias - What can we do?

[JimmyGadson 3,455]

Melbourne supporters playing the victim card, who would have thought. 

Every club's supporters think they're hard done by. 

I don't think it's any wonder that Adelaide got more praise than we did, on any show. 

And if it were us going over there as a young side against an expected flag contender, losing three important players during the game and coming back from five goals down at three quarter time to get within a few points, we'd be congratulated for our 'brave effort' as well. 

PERSPECTIVEEEEE. 

[dazzledavey36 54,260]

Honestly surprised reading the comments on here by majority of supporters who not only think we get hard done by in the media, but easily so sucked in as well lol..

 

 

[Jaded No More 68,867]

Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

Honestly surprised reading the comments on here by majority of supporters who not only think we get hard done by in the media, but easily so sucked in as well lol..

 

 

I could not give a flying elephant what any of these idiotic commentators have to say. 
I just think it’s hilarious how they continue to underrate us. 
Tomorrow they’ll be like “Melbourne is not a top 4 side, I believe North is ahead of them” 🙄

[Young Blood 2,575]

Quite happy with flying below the radar. Quite happy with being a tad boring in the media's eyes (apart from the Grundy situation). We'll just keep banking up the wins and get ourselves right for finals.

No issue with staying out of the headlines in a media world that is frothing for the next story, usually one that puts a club in a negative light, which always gets more views/reads.

[dazzledavey36 54,260]

8 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

I could not give a flying elephant what any of these idiotic commentators have to say. 
I just think it’s hilarious how they continue to underrate us. 
Tomorrow they’ll be like “Melbourne is not a top 4 side, I believe North is ahead of them” 🙄

But I think you do care? It obviously gets to you slightly because you and few other still have reacting to those comments on this thread.

I hear the comments as well but I brush it off because at the end of the day they're paid to give opinions and whether they're right or wrong, its the results that will speak for themselves. 

[Jaded No More 68,867]

1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

But I think you do care? It obviously gets to you slightly because you and few other still have reacting to those comments on this thread.

I hear the comments as well but I brush it off because at the end of the day they're paid to give opinions and whether they're right or wrong, its the results that will speak for themselves. 

It’s the state of the AFL media as a whole that gets to me. The sensationalist garbage and the reactionary narrative. 

It doesn’t matter who it’s about, you would hope that you could listen and actually gain something from these so called experts. You can’t. 

I get more valuable information on Demonland than I do in the media. But most people only go off what they hear on the radio or watch on TV, and so the BS narrative continues. It’s pretty pathetic that a multi billion dollar industry with over a million paid members, has to be subjected to such rubbish low level analysis from morons who can hardly string 2 words together. So laconic 🙄😂

[dazzledavey36 54,260]

1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

It’s the state of the AFL media as a whole that gets to me. The sensationalist garbage and the reactionary narrative. 

It doesn’t matter who it’s about, you would hope that you could listen and actually gain something from these so called experts. You can’t. 

I get more valuable information on Demonland than I do in the media. But most people only go off what they hear on the radio or watch on TV, and so the BS narrative continues. It’s pretty pathetic that a multi billion dollar industry with over a million paid members, has to be subjected to such rubbish low level analysis from morons who can hardly string 2 words together. So laconic 🙄😂

Yeah I understand. 

I don't mind some footy shows only because I like to get a different perspective on thr club instead of just having my rosy red and blue glasses on.

Some shows and media outlets provide some really valuable stats which I find really insightful. 

[Jaded No More 68,867]

1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Yeah I understand. 

I don't mind some footy shows only because I like to get a different perspective on thr club instead of just having my rosy red and blue glasses on.

Some shows and media outlets provide some really valuable stats which I find really insightful. 

Demonland is certainly not the place to come for rosy views of Melbourne… you’ve been here long enough to know that 😂

[BLWNBA 928]

[Willmoy1947 4,081]

On 7/12/2023 at 6:09 PM, DeeZee said:

Failed coach Buckley has gone down several cogs in my book.

Its the worse lot of miserable naysayers I’ve ever seen in my football supporting life.

Its not footy classified it’s Funeral classified.

I can’t stomach most of them , and only really watch the front bar and a bit of the Sunday footy show these days as anything else is just click bait and unbearable doom and gloom.

 

Front Bar for comedy and SFS for serious comedy.

[nedleg 169]

Interestingly Buckley did say on the couch today that if we're going to celebrate Collingwood and Pt Adelaide for pulling out the crucial close wins, then Melbourne deserve to be celebrated as well. I don't think he's necessarily anti-Dees, I get the feeling he kinda likes us but wants us to do better. And hopefully he'll be eating his words from a few weeks back.

Brown's hilariously pro-Brisbane but gives a fair enough go to all the others. Barrett's completely ignorable.

I remember Sam Pang from RRR Breakfasters days. Good egg. I once managed to peer-pressure him into singing on air, in front of a crowd, at 7am. 

[Fork 'em 6,983]

2 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

It’s the state of the AFL media as a whole that gets to me. The sensationalist garbage and the reactionary narrative. 

It doesn’t matter who it’s about, you would hope that you could listen and actually gain something from these so called experts. You can’t. 

I get more valuable information on Demonland than I do in the media. But most people only go off what they hear on the radio or watch on TV, and so the BS narrative continues. It’s pretty pathetic that a multi billion dollar industry with over a million paid members, has to be subjected to such rubbish low level analysis from morons who can hardly string 2 words together. So laconic 🙄😂

Was listening to the pre-game on MMM.
One of the morons made a dumb statement and was called out for it by one of his co-workers.
"Well we've got 7minutes of airtime to kill." was his reply.

Pretty much sums up the footy media these days.

[dee-tox 4,835]

1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

It’s the state of the AFL media as a whole that gets to me. The sensationalist garbage and the reactionary narrative. 

It doesn’t matter who it’s about, you would hope that you could listen and actually gain something from these so called experts. You can’t. 

I get more valuable information on Demonland than I do in the media. But most people only go off what they hear on the radio or watch on TV, and so the BS narrative continues. It’s pretty pathetic that a multi billion dollar industry with over a million paid members, has to be subjected to such rubbish low level analysis from morons who can hardly string 2 words together. So laconic 🙄😂

Agree! The genuine lack of insight is astounding. Pseudo intellectual jerks like Whately or brain dead ex footballers like Brereton are the worst!

One of my peeves is the concentration on individuals rather than the team. It's all about overperforming (star vehicles) or underperforming (trade bait) individuals. It should be about the gameplan and the execution of the gameplan because that is the single biggest factor in a team's success.

Taking Melbourne as an example hardly anyone has discussed our gameplan tweaks where we went from free scoring team early in year, to ultra defensive in the middle of the season to loosening our defensive structures in the past two games. The narrative is we have no key forwards, no star power, Petracca is amazing blah blah blah.

Proper analysis would show the where, why, how and the who of us holding back numbers or similarly when we are loosening numbers. Such analysis would give fans a proper insight into what their teams are trying to do. At the moment it is player xxx is good, player yyyy is useless.

 

 

[layzie 33,750]

Have we figured out what to do with the media bias yet?

[nedleg 169]

19 hours ago, layzie said:

Have we figured out what to do with the media bias yet?

Maybe we could somehow add FFS to MFCSS ?

Would be particularly handy for this sort of nonsense: 

 https://www.afl.com.au/news/987149

[ANB Fan Boy 8]

On 12/07/2023 at 21:26, Demons11 said:

Garry Lyon bags us more than anyone 

Garry Lyon is a coward who hides behind a desk, pots the club, never even came down the club during its troubled years, only got involved when Jim Stynes was dying and his sole contribution was to inflict Mark Neeld onto the club. 

He then acts like he loves the club when they won the flag and wanted to present the trophy (better than being locked down in Melbourne, I guess) when he had not set foot inside the club since the day he retired.