Gerard Whateley on Petracca incident

[layzie 30,289]

I think it's time to go 

[Katrina Dee Fan 2,507]

On 17/06/2024 at 19:44, Norm Smith's Curse said:

In some weird way, somehow MFC are the real villains of an injury one of our players sustained due to someone else's knee.

The story isnt the knee being lifted when attempting to spoil for no obvious reason (or maybe...), or that in the last two games against Collingwood one of our players has sustained catastrophic injuries, the story is that somehow MFC are at fault for not overruling a player's urge to go back on the ground. 

That being said most of these media outrages are just tame distractions from a sychophantic brigade that would be too scared to say anything controversial. 

This is what I've got issue with.  The media have been salivating in Collingwood lately and scathing on Melbourne, all on made up narratives to suit their agenda, whatever it is.  It was good to see both Goody and Trac throwing shade on the BS reporting that Trac's family were not happy with the club's handling of it.  What did Caroline Wilson base that off?  The fact Trac deleted a couple of Instagram posts.  That's her evidence.  She's a hack.

Were the media this scathing last year on Collingwood when Cox played through and completed a game with broken ribs and it wasn't until THE NEXT DAY that his ruptured spleen was detected, by which point he'd lost 3 litres of blood?

Were the media this scathing back when the same thing happened to Matthew Lloyd, and his was detected 2 days later, and he was told if he'd gone to sleep he wouldn't have woken up?  He continued playing when the club doctors he was "just winded".

I actually give credit to Melbourne for putting him in an ambulance before the game was over.  The hospital didn't pick up on it until 2 am, after 3 previous scans didn't pick it up. 

 

Edited June 19 by Katrina Dee Fan

[Kick_It_To_Pickett 3,075]

46 minutes ago, Katrina Dee Fan said:

This is what I've got issue with.  The media have been salivating in Collingwood lately and scathing on Melbourne, all on made up narratives to suit their agenda, whatever it is.  It was good to see both Goody and Trac throwing shade on the BS reporting that Trac's family were not happy with the club's handling of it.  What did Caroline Wilson base that off?  The fact Trac deleted a couple of Instagram posts.  That's her evidence.  She's a hack.

Were the media this scathing last year on Collingwood when Cox played through and completed a game with broken ribs and it wasn't until THE NEXT DAY that his ruptured spleen was detected, by which point he'd lost 3 litres of blood?

Were the media this scathing back when the same thing happened to Matthew Lloyd, and his was detected 2 days later, and he was told if he'd gone to sleep he wouldn't have woken up?  He continued playing when the club doctors he was "just winded".

I actually give credit to Melbourne for putting him in an ambulance before the game was over.  The hospital didn't pick up on it until 2 am, after 3 previous scans didn't pick it up. 

 

Where has Trac thrown shade on the reports? 

[daisycutter 28,723]

12 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

Where has Trac thrown shade on the reports? 

Simon Goodwin dismisses reports of Christian Petracca's family unrest, backs Melbourne Demons medicos (afl.com.au)

[old dee 23,256]

1 minute ago, daisycutter said:

Simon Goodwin dismisses reports of Christian Petracca's family unrest, backs Melbourne Demons medicos (afl.com.au)

Of course he would say that dc.

[drysdale demon 4,328]

29 minutes ago, old dee said:

Of course he would say that dc.

Don't think he would say it if it wasn't correct, that would come vack to bite him far worse than the media have currently been doing.

[WalkingCivilWar 34,883]

59 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

Where has Trac thrown shade on the reports? 

The very first insta post from Tracc (which I think has since been deleted) included words to the effect of it was my choice to keep playing, for all those who are questioning the medical staff.  

[Ethan Tremblay 28,777]

Whateley was back on this topic this morning. He’s such a little weak, little rat man. 

[Willmoy1947 3,854]

What we know;  Gerard loves controversy, especially if he's not part of it

                             Collingwood has the form and players on the board to question their fairness and credibility

                             Our second player to be severely damaged in off the ball incident.

                             Gerard supported Essendon in their escapades.

                             Collingwood seems to have taken up another tactic. Which is to tackle then stay on top of players for extended time, being done by the same culprits. Umpires pfft might as well not be there.

                             I have no idea what would make their players behave like that. I have a gut feeling though.

                             Its pretty obvious that the ploy of supposedly genuine opposition interest  has been motivated by  "Don't look over there, Look over here" , because there have been murmurs by some in the free press that are not impressed with Admin and umpiring by the untouchable AFL.  Can anyone see anything getting better. I think not.

                             I find it very offensive again to the Club that this slant has been propagated to disguise a real perpetration. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sue 8,596]

11 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

The very first insta post from Tracc (which I think has since been deleted) included words to the effect of it was my choice to keep playing, for all those who are questioning the medical staff.  

I'm amazed at the 'guilty'  interpretation that has been placed on that deletion.  Most probable reason to me is that by saying so he thought he was exonerating the medicos but realised later that it sounded like they were easy to overrule which would be a bad look. 

[Chook 14,647]

Gerard Whately has always really gotten under my skin. People praise his intelligence, but in reality he's a conniver - he has no actual understanding or training in the topics he comments on, and yet has opinions that he tries to convince others are the only logical ones.

Edited June 19 by Chook

[Clintosaurus 6,885]

23 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Collingwood seems to have taken up another tactic. Which is to tackle then stay on top of players for extended time, being done by the same culprits. Umpires pfft might as well not be there. I have no idea what would make their players behave like that. I have a gut feeling though.

They do it to give the other 17 time to set up defensively in the knowledge the ump won't pay a 50 as we well know. They also won't ping Pies players late in games for HTB. They won a flag based on these and it continues to apply. Most other teams not so lucky. 

[Rab D Nesbitt 7,455]

42 minutes ago, Chook said:

Gerard Whately has always really gotten under my skin. People praise his intelligence, but in reality he's a conniver - he has no actual understanding or training in the topics he comments on, and yet has opinions that he tries to convince others are the only logical ones.

To be fair you could praise an orangutan for it's intelligence if you sat it next to Robbo most nights. 

[Sir Why You Little 35,320]

21 hours ago, Chook said:

Gerard Whately has always really gotten under my skin. People praise his intelligence, but in reality he's a conniver - he has no actual understanding or training in the topics he comments on, and yet has opinions that he tries to convince others are the only logical ones.

Yes there really are 2 Sides to Whateley. 
He is a brilliant Commentator on Radio, but his editorials every morning at 9am can be very divisive 

Although i do agree with him when he gets stuck into The ARC Score Review 

[layzie 30,289]

I guess we've learnt the lesson. Don't go into media if you're scared of offending Demonland..

[Demon trucker 1,800]

On 15/06/2024 at 00:27, 3183 Dee said:

Gerard Whateley’s take on Petracca incident

Apologies if this has been posted previously, but quite a damning article by Gerard Whateley on the duty of care that appeared to be absent last Monday. According to him, Collingwood players (Moore and Crisp) were concerned enough to ask Christian if he should be on the field.

If true, this is a shocking indictment on our club and certainly does not help with the litany of other stuff that has been swirling about recently. I’m beginning to wonder if our fitness program/ethos, whereby you build resilience by playing through injury has started to take its toll. It feels as though the players are being told that their mental and physical well-being comes before everything, yet clearly several of them are banged up. I wonder if this is creating disillusionment within the playing group?

Another media man going after the demons, when will this pile on stop, it happens to no other team, Cameron at Geelong was concussed they didn't even take him off the field for a  concussion test, when Port did that they got big fines, Geelong should have been fined big time, I didn't hear Whateley's coming out and talk about Geelong's duty of care, hindsight is a wonderful thing, shut up, you are part of the pile on 

Edited June 20 by Demon trucker

[Clintosaurus 6,885]

2 hours ago, Demon trucker said:

Another media man going after the demons, when will this pile on stop, it happens to no other team, Cameron at Geelong was concussed they didn't even take him off the field for a  concussion test, when Port did that they got big fines, Geelong should have been fined big time, I didn't hear Whateley's coming out and talk about Geelong's duty of care, hindsight is a wonderful thing, shut up, you are part of the pile on 

Well there is a group of clubs who have plenty of ex-players or supporters in the media. You know who they are but we are not one of them, so the cartel piles on but stays quiet when one of the cartel should also be piled on.

[jnrmac 19,485]

Whateley's just another garden variety doorknob that is paid to pontificate 7 days a week about footy. He's another clickbait outrage machine - but never against the AFL or umpires mind you. That would put in jeopardy his handsome pay check.

Who gives a fat rat's clacker what he thinks?

[Katrina Dee Fan 2,507]

Garry Lyon reported yesterday on SEN that he went along to training on Wednesday, and Trac wanted to go to training to help out and the club has told him stay home.  Seems he's bored at home at the moment and wants to get back into it!  Doesn't sound like someone dissatisfied with the club, does it?  Poor bloke, he can't run, can't do gym for 7 weeks, can't do contact sport for 12 weeks, it's going to be a long stretch for him, isn't it!!  Cue more recipes for Tiktok, I think....!

Edited June 21 by Katrina Dee Fan