Lots of headlines and negative media. Club in crisis.  Toxic culture.  Players want to leave. No communication.  Poor leadership. Staggered they don’t talk to each other.  
 

The truth is that he wants to go. What I don't know, is whether that will lead to a trade request." @tommorris32 gives an update on Christian Petracca and the situation at Melbourne.

 

Oliver to go 

Petracca to go 

Viney to go 
 

Here’s the key executioners 

Tom Morris💩💩💩

Kane Cornes 💩💩💩

Craig Hutchison 💩💩💩

Caroline Wilson💩💩💩

Matthew Lloyd 💩💩

Sam McClure 💩💩

Nathan Buckley 💩

Jay Clark💩 (Petracca wants to go to Collingwood) 

do any of them actually know ? It’s often just media click bait … they love the drama 

let’s kick the Demons 

thanks to Garry Lyon for his voice 👏👏

thanks to Max🏆 Gawn resigning to 2027 👏👏

 

Couple of emoji's short for Sam McClure.

Broke a looooong break from TV footy shows to watch F/C tonight cos maybe some kudos for Saturday.

Seemed like the set-up was, 'Here's Melbourne's problems' and the ensuing discussion was, 'Here's Melbourne not having problems'.

Back-peddling writ small.

3 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Lots of headlines and negative media. Club in crisis.  Toxic culture.  Players want to leave. No communication.  Poor leadership. Staggered they don’t talk to each other.  
 

The truth is that he wants to go. What I don't know, is whether that will lead to a trade request." @tommorris32 gives an update on Christian Petracca and the situation at Melbourne.

 

Oliver to go 

Petracca to go 

Viney to go 
 

Here’s the key executioners 

Tom Morris💩💩💩

Kane Cornes 💩💩💩

Craig Hutchison 💩💩💩

Caroline Wilson💩💩💩

Matthew Lloyd 💩💩

Sam McClure 💩💩

Nathan Buckley 💩

Jay Clark💩 (Petracca wants to go to Collingwood) 

do any of them actually know ? It’s often just media click bait … they love the drama 

let’s kick the Demons 

thanks to Garry Lyon for his voice 👏👏

thanks to Max🏆 Gawn resigning to 2027 👏👏

 

Well summarised.  It is truly and utterly pathetic.  Carlton, Collingwood and, to a lesser extent, Essendon escape scrutiny. We've just come off a 10 goal demolition of the Suns we're no interstate club has won with half a team. All kudos goes to the Blues against a pathetic and hapless Eagles. And what do we cop? The aforementioned pile of faeces that you have do eloquently outlined. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger!

Poop and scoop. They each belong in their own little plastic bag and in the bin.

💩🚮 

Surprising they haven't reported the following 

"Premiership full forward kicks 6 goals on weekend but prefers to give footy away than to play on with  dismal demons"

Edited August 19, 20241 yr by reynolds46

Tracc, Viney and Clarry all staying.

End of story.

Journos rushing off to find new dirt to dish.

Love to get Razor for our last game of the year. Great to see him running around.

Wouldn't hurt the Club to ask the AFL on Brownlow Medal night to have a Kossie Highlights Reel drawn up and played to show how good the bond is between all our players.

49 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Lots of headlines and negative media. Club in crisis.  Toxic culture.  Players want to leave. No communication.  Poor leadership. Staggered they don’t talk to each other.  
 

The truth is that he wants to go. What I don't know, is whether that will lead to a trade request." @tommorris32 gives an update on Christian Petracca and the situation at Melbourne.

 

Oliver to go 

Petracca to go 

Viney to go 
 

Here’s the key executioners 

Tom Morris💩💩💩

Kane Cornes 💩💩💩

Craig Hutchison 💩💩💩

Caroline Wilson💩💩💩

Matthew Lloyd 💩💩

Sam McClure 💩💩

Nathan Buckley 💩

Jay Clark💩 (Petracca wants to go to Collingwood) 

do any of them actually know ? It’s often just media click bait … they love the drama 

let’s kick the Demons 

thanks to Garry Lyon for his voice 👏👏

thanks to Max🏆 Gawn resigning to 2027 👏👏

 

Honestly the Front Bar has better takes each week.

It would almost be worth the subscription fee to Media Monitors just to have a rolling archive of articles based on nothing more than previous articles.

I genuinely wouldn't mind the rabid news if there was any actual information in it.

Does bring to mind the part of 'Foundation' (the book, not the entirely unrelated and best forgotten TV series) where the diplomat from the galactic empire makes a visit and half the council is absolutely convinced that Terminus has been given a security guarantee that will protect them, but then a specialist linguist analyses every single sentence said by the diplomat during the visit and finds that not a single actual statement was made on any topic at all. Like, even complimenting the dinner took the form of saying 'dinners of this type are often good'.

Barret being the football media master of it, but now has many disciples.

 

4 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

It would almost be worth the subscription fee to Media Monitors just to have a rolling archive of articles based on nothing more than previous articles.

I genuinely wouldn't mind the rabid news if there was any actual information in it.

Does bring to mind the part of 'Foundation' (the book, not the entirely unrelated and best forgotten TV series) where the diplomat from the galactic empire makes a visit and half the council is absolutely convinced that Terminus has been given a security guarantee that will protect them, but then a specialist linguist analyses every single sentence said by the diplomat during the visit and finds that not a single actual statement was made on any topic at all. Like, even complimenting the dinner took the form of saying 'dinners of this type are often good'.

Barret being the football media master of it, but now has many disciples.

 

Never heard of that book or series, sounds interesting.

I’m sure the media muck rakers have some sort of agenda or beef with Melbourne as it never seems to end.

For  a team that’s won a premiership and then made top 4 the follow two years , has a convincing win away on the weekend without lots of injured star players , we sure do cop more than our fair share.

Collingwood on the other hand win the flag last year and look like missing finals all together this year. Surely they are in more trouble and should be copping the criticism but strangely are not.

I really want to see us come out after all of this and give these losers the biggest f_you!  This is [censored] that hurts our team, our club, our brand, our sponsors.

One thing I hope we can get on top on this off-season is the constant leaks out of the club. The media report what they hear and they seem to hear a lot from us. By yesterday evening we had the ins and outs of a player only meeting and a little swipe from the club at the people around Petracca outside the club.

Go back to last year and you have all the stuff that got leaked about Oliver's issues. I know leaks happen but we do seem to have more than other clubs. It just creates fodder for the media and I can't imagine it's good for trust within the club if something you say in confidence gets a run in the papers a couple of days later.

The one thing that pizzes me off more than anything about the media is their constant harping on about us saying we have the best culture in the league. Not one of the coaches or players has ever said that, they've said we think we have a pretty good culture which can always get better, which isn't anywhere near saying it's the best.

21 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

The one thing that pizzes me off more than anything about the media is their constant harping on about us saying we have the best culture in the league. Not one of the coaches or players has ever said that, they've said we think we have a pretty good culture which can always get better, which isn't anywhere near saying it's the best.

Word for word what Simon Goodwin has said many times in the past. That it's a work in progress, never finished. Really profound things actually but then the people turn it around and say he's talking it too much. Things might have happened in the past but it's what happens next in terms of our culture that counts for me.

As for Norm's executioner list let's be honest, it's 1 x guy that has pumped it into the water supply and everyone else is just a drum circle all discussing what a potential trade would look like.

Add Sam Edmund 💩💩💩

 

Port Adelaide has renewed its interest in Melbourne forward Kysaiah Pickett. Pickett signed a new 4yr deal only last year, but the Power continue to reach out as the Dees battle their latest bout of player turbulence. Understand Adelaide & Freo have also asked the question. No suggestion at this stage that Pickett is considering leaving, just that the interest has again been made clear. @1116sen

11 hours ago, Deelectable said:

Well summarised.  It is truly and utterly pathetic.  Carlton, Collingwood and, to a lesser extent, Essendon escape scrutiny. We've just come off a 10 goal demolition of the Suns we're no interstate club has won with half a team. All kudos goes to the Blues against a pathetic and hapless Eagles. And what do we cop? The aforementioned pile of faeces that you have do eloquently outlined. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger!

I don't know if the other teams really escape it.  I have friends who sadly follow the Blues and Bombers and are absolutely convinced the media is out to destroy their clubs.

It's all just shock factor clickbait.  Bad news, drama, challenges etc is what sells and what generates clicks.  The moment there is any sniff of negativity around a club/player these parasites in the media are just ready to pounce as it's all about who's articles are generating the most reads.

It frustrates me but I get how it works.  What frustrates me more however is when reporter 'A' runs with a half cooked story that the reporter 'B' also takes a grab.  Then reporter 'C' comes along and says how multiple reports are coming out about *insert story here*.  It then becomes sensationalised as if 'the jungle drums are beating' when it's all just comments and stories between each other. 

These 'journalists' are literally creating their own news half the time reporting on others news abnd with so much media starved and desperate for information and so many football shows/streams/podcasts now existing, the little story A becomes sensationalised to the biggest story of the year.

Only for it not to happen and they go on with there work creating the next [censored] storm without holding any accountability.

 

 

i think there are a few chips on shoulders in this thread. the media are no more harsh on us than any other club.

19 minutes ago, BDA said:

i think there are a few chips on shoulders in this thread. the media are no more harsh on us than any other club.

Weird I haven't seen any news on X club chasing Curnow or McKay. Or Daicos.

I mean with all the BS these journos invent, they may as well do it with the big guns from other clubs. Just saying.

2 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Weird I haven't seen any news on X club chasing Curnow or McKay. Or Daicos.

becuase they haven't been blabbing to the media about being unhappy at their club.

4 minutes ago, BDA said:

becuase they haven't been blabbing to the media about being unhappy at their club.

Has Kosi?

It's easy to pick on clubs that have a good list and fail, like ours, that much is clear.

What isn't clear is where is the media pile on on the Pies, from premiers to bottom 8, or Geelong last year, or this year for that matter for what happened to Stangle. Please imagine the headlines if it was Clarry instead.

Why is it ok to cut the Pies slack because of their injuries, but ours are completely ignored?
Can you imagine the outrage if Goodwin came out and said we got robbed by the umpires because the game wasn't played at the MCG? Like honestly, just imagine how he would get cut to shreds by the entire AFL journalist community. 

I understand why we are getting picked on, and that's fine, we have been a total disappointment this season.

But we are not alone, so why are we copping more than most? 

23 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Has Kosi?

It's easy to pick on clubs that have a good list and fail, like ours, that much is clear.

What isn't clear is where is the media pile on on the Pies, from premiers to bottom 8, or Geelong last year, or this year for that matter for what happened to Stangle. Please imagine the headlines if it was Clarry instead.

Why is it ok to cut the Pies slack because of their injuries, but ours are completely ignored?
Can you imagine the outrage if Goodwin came out and said we got robbed by the umpires because the game wasn't played at the MCG? Like honestly, just imagine how he would get cut to shreds by the entire AFL journalist community. 

I understand why we are getting picked on, and that's fine, we have been a total disappointment this season.

But we are not alone, so why are we copping more than most? 

Because Christian Petracca is at the very centre of it all and he's in the top few players in the league. That's why.

It creates clicks not just from Melbourne supporters but from the whole comp, who also want to know, so they feed out the one bit of info they have with 100 disguises on it. 

Edited August 20, 20241 yr by Roost it far

Looking back at 2011-2013 when we really were in crisis, we didn't generate a lot of publicity ... certainly not compared to the latest going's on

Of course there was the tanking story but back then we were largely seen as irrelevant

So is any publicity good publicity?  I don't for a minute believe that we are a club in crisis so the club should be using all this stuff to galvanise from within

Bottom line is that we've still got a very good list of players and by and large, we're well coached.  We just need all our players to be fit and raring to go

We're financially secure as well with 2 excellent training facilities (don't forget that we won a flag training out of Casey) ... and with regards to the new facility at Caulfield, it's going to take a few years but at least the blueprint is there

Everyone I know who follows footy, reckons that most of the stuff generated in the media is garbage

They have little regard for Cornes, Hutchy, Eddie, Caro, Edmonds, Morris and the like.  And I share their sentiments

We need to start sticking up for ourselves. We remain silent on most things. The media know that the BS stories will not be refuted by the club. At least not straight away. It's clickbait heaven for them.

We should go down the GWS socials team, and start picking on everyone. Use humour to say F U.