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Club in crisis - Media pile on - August 2024

spirit of norm smith
in Melbourne Demons

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24 minutes ago, layzie said:

Can you smack talk media personalities on the banner or is that not allowed?

Knowing the AFL probably not allowed. 

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    1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    I take it as them saying a player is choosing to walk out on us to join another club and we foolishly bid him farewell and thanks, when we really should be p’d off with him. 

    If we were [censored] off the story would be ‘dees mistreat Premiership hero and call his newborn baby slurs’ haha

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    1 hour ago, layzie said:

    Can you smack talk media personalities on the banner or is that not allowed?

    Not allowed. 😭 

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    Mclure needs a quiet visit from Ray Shoesmith.
    He is such divisive little bottom feeder, whenever i see his face, i instantly think of a modern Cricket Bat

    Not sure why….

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    31 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Mclure needs a quiet visit from Ray Shoesmith.
    He is such divisive little bottom feeder, whenever i see his face, i instantly think of a modern Cricket Bat

    Not sure why….

    Because it makes you feel like smashing it out of the park?

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    1 minute ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    Because it makes you feel like smashing it out of the park?

    Moreso the Title of Midnight Oils 2nd Album….

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    35 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Mclure needs a quiet visit from Ray Shoesmith.
    He is such divisive little bottom feeder, whenever i see his face, i instantly think of a modern Cricket Bat

    Not sure why….

    Nearly finished watching it.

    So good I want to watch it again. 

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    46 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Mclure needs a quiet visit from Ray Shoesmith.
    He is such divisive little bottom feeder, whenever i see his face, i instantly think of a modern Cricket Bat

    Not sure why….

    I don’t know what his face looks like, I can never see past that hairstyle 🤮

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    12 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Nearly finished watching it.

    So good I want to watch it again. 

    Ray is a Legend…

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    On the subject of media pile on, back in the old Herald and Weekly Times days their chief football writer was the legendary Alf Brown. Only he was privileged enough to have his own office in the sports department. One day a copy boy took offence to an article Alf wrote about a player whose name now escapes me. On a weekend when the office building was empty he went in there and had a [censored] inside the drawer of Alf’s desk.

    Edited by John Crow Batty

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    9 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Sch!tt just got real 🤬

     

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    Now it’s personal.

    I stopped using twitter 6m+ ago but for this I reopened my account, really got up my nose too.

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    Turned on the paralympics and that maggot Morris was in the host chair.  Makes me want to spew. 

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    34 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

    Alf Brown

    Alf's son Bruce played six senior games for Melbourne in 1971.

    He mostly played reserves however and was good enough at that level to be a joint winner of the Gardiner Medal, the VFL seconds version of the Brownlow. 

    Bruce then went to Essendon in 1972, but played just the one game for them before moving to the VFA.

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    https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/draft/afl-draft-2024-prospects-rankings-jagga-smith-richmond-vfl-levi-ashcroft-brisbane-numbers-isaac-kako-injury-essendon/news-story/0d6d1f0577fb7562cd758474dd117189
     

    Sam Landsberger. RIP. Tremendous loss to the footy world and journalism.  He was not a vulture like other dirt mongers like McClure or Barrett etc. 

    He accepted the Neal-Bullen position  “Dees have handled this with maturity and acceptance”. 

    He saw the Dees list correctly. “Draft the elite kids. They’ve drafted superbly in the last 10 years.  Stop getting in the Billings and Fullerton types.  Dees can rebound back “.  
     

    Noted Jay Clark 💩💩💩try to again spike up the culture issue and the likely loss of Kozzzzy.  

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    On 03/09/2024 at 13:13, ElDiablo14 said:

    Chuckles McRae 🤣🤣🤣 made my day.

    Yes a very funny man.  Similar to the Scott brothers 

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    I sense the spotlight is going to be thrust on Collingwood and Carlton now. Carlton moreso from a playing and FD POV. 

    i'll be interested to genuinely see how the media treat Collingwood now - purely to compare whether there is actual bias when it comes to teams. 

    They have had a poor season, failing to make finals as a reigning premier. They have had Noble request a trade. But its the back-office too. Particularly the departure of Graham Wright and now the papers are reporting the accusations made against their CEO. It certainly is a comparable situation to MFC. 

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    On 03/09/2024 at 12:53, Sir Why You Little said:

    Mclure needs a quiet visit from Ray Shoesmith.
    He is such divisive little bottom feeder, whenever i see his face, i instantly think of a modern Cricket Bat

    Not sure why….

    I don't answer questions.

    Edited by Deepfreeze

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    On 03/09/2024 at 15:53, Sir Why You Little said:

    Mclure needs a quiet visit from Ray Shoesmith.
    He is such divisive little bottom feeder, whenever i see his face, i instantly think of a modern Cricket Bat

    Not sure why….

    sigh

    i miss raymond

    much, much better show than "barry"

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    53 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

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    “It’s always better to give than receive…”

    Shoesmith, R.

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    On the socials … 

    Very interesting and absolute hypocrisy by the media today. 
    McInerney goes back on with a totally stuffed shoulder, now misses the GF and needs surgery 
    Trac does the same thing and MFC doctors are totally vilified by the scumbags in the media!!!
    Just want the media to be consistent.

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    3 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    On the socials … 

    Very interesting and absolute hypocrisy by the media today. 
    McInerney goes back on with a totally stuffed shoulder, now misses the GF and needs surgery 
    Trac does the same thing and MFC doctors are totally vilified by the scumbags in the media!!!
    Just want the media to be consistent.

    Bone/ligaments vs internal organs are very different. 

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    2 minutes ago, SPC said:

    Bone/ligaments vs internal organs are very different. 

    yes, you can actually see their injury

    trac's injury wasn't even picked up by the epworth

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