1 hour ago, DeeZone said:

That’s good to know KC But what is his punishment??

A very stern talking to was mentioned by the club

If B Smith or Toby Green had posted the same material the squeels would be very loud as would the accusations

They wouldn't play again

Absolute double standards at play

2 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

Are you suggesting there is no outrage over what Willie Rioli has done?

Not from the AFL there isn't

4 hours ago, lorn said:

I like the show but I'm not a fan of the Tuesday show because it feels like Eddie talking non stop for an hour

Well said. It is him and his inserting Collingwood into every discussion. Nauseating.

42 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Not from the AFL there isn't

It's coming.

20 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

No you don’t.

And by the way, taking time off to deal with your mental health IS taking responsibility.

I do know what happened in 2022 Jaded, i saw videos before the media broke anything.

What has happened with Clarry is very sad and unfortunate, but he has to take some responsibility for it.

8 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

I do know what happened in 2022 Jaded, i saw videos before the media broke anything.

What has happened with Clarry is very sad and unfortunate, but he has to take some responsibility for it.

How long does Clarry deserve to suffer for his past behavior? Nobody is saying he is without sin. He made mistakes and he’s paid for them, personally and professionally.

I mean we have players in the system who have committed actual crimes, that haven’t copped half as much harassment as Clarry has.

He has worked so hard over the pre season to get himself to a great spot. It’s actually heartbreaking that he’s had to take time off to deal with the relentless external pressure. You’d think he’d punched a guy and hasn’t been getting a touch.

The pile on is absolutely disgusting, not to mention completely disproportionate.

6 hours ago, Adam The God said:

I have no idea why people watch AFL media. They are like legacy media. Increasingly hysterical and hyperbolic as they desperately fight for attention in a media landscape that is fracturing.

If you don't like what's being said or disagree with it, don't watch it, and they become increasingly irrelevant.

Agree mate...I don't watch any of it now.

I listen to a lot less radio coverage and if we all did that imagine how Kane and co would go trying to get a pay check.

Time to shut the noise down.

I find it adds nothing (in fact it detracts) to my quality of life.

11 minutes ago, rjay said:

I listen to a lot less radio coverage and if we all did that imagine how Kane and co would go trying to get a pay check.

judging from the recent radio ratings, not many are listening to kornes

well, the rest of the afl medja are, and guess who reports on kornes' every utterance?

3 hours ago, Redleg said:

It's coming.

Sounds like they've been dragged kicking and screaming

4 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Not from the AFL there isn't

I thought this thread was about the media.

5 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

As a matter of interest, does anyone believe flipping the bird is offensive? If not, why are players being fined for doing it?

Marginally. Don't give the bird to a cop that's just given you a ticket; don't condone your 6yo giving Great Aunt Myrtle the bird. It's probably better players don't do the gesture. But it's low on the scale of misdemeanors.

I've been rethinking how much footy and footy media I bother with. When we had footy cancelled for months in 2020 it really reminded me how much I love having it there during winter. Even then with its return I didn't have to fanatically consume every minute of it or the 'analysis'. But thank God it exists. These days I'm trying to wind back more and more the amount I watch. There are other things I enjoy doing with my time and I'd be surprised if anyone reading this who don't also.

We can't do much about the favouritism or witch hunts. But gradually I'm not just watching/listening to AFL stuff just cos it's there. Especially football media is there for the ratings and money (with some ethics tempering all that). We're engaging to be entertained and informed. Our goals and theirs arent necessarily the same. Honestly if we're really not getting enough enjoyment or (accurate) info from the daily footy media circus why not find other diversions, especially nowadays with so many things we can watch/do?

Its really not going to matter if you miss some eps of Footy Classified, On the Couch or mornings with SEN

11 hours ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

My god the hypocrisy from the media is beyond embarrassing.

It's obvious that the clubs are getting sick of them and starting to call out their BS.

I also think supporters are sick of them as well, at least I hope they are. I no longer watch or listen to any AFL based content as a way of showing my disproval of the way they operate. I hope more and more supporters follow as it is the only way we can get a change from these parasites.

I used to watch footy shows several nights a week and on weekends.

Now I watch matches that interest me, usually with the sound very low or off, and no prematch, half time, post match. So much sensationalism, goofy boy jokes and trivia.

8 hours ago, Nate said:

Is there actually a suppression order in place? I've not seen anything about it apart from hearsay on socials.

re Bruhn - IF there is a suppression order in place, that should surely be public knowledge.

IF charges have been laid, wouldn't that also be public knowledge, even though details would not be able to be discussed?

8 minutes ago, monoccular said:

I used to watch footy shows several nights a week and on weekends.

Now I watch matches that interest me, usually with the sound very low or off, and no prematch, half time, post match. So much sensationalism, goofy boy jokes and trivia.

I'm pretty much the same...I didn't mind that show SEN have on Saturdays around lunch time but it's gone off. Plus with Tom Morris on it, well, I just don't bother anymore.

No pre match, no during match breaks (I go and do other things and come back for the bounce), the analysis just doesn't exist any longer...so many heads working in football media and such a poor offering.

I get my news & footy fix on Demonland...

If anyone is watching the Front Bar tonight you really go have to give Caroline Wilson her flowers for being a pioneer

Yes she can be a pain but I’d put faith in her reporting over the new breed of bozos (McClure, Morris etc) every day of the week.

1 minute ago, deegirl said:

If anyone is watching the Front Bar tonight you really go have to give Caroline Wilson her flowers for being a pioneer

Yes she can be a pain but I’d put faith in her reporting over the new breed of bozos (McClure, Morris etc) every day of the week.

corrie perkin before her, fwiw

they came up together, but perkin was the originator of female football reporters

2 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

How long does Clarry deserve to suffer for his past behavior? Nobody is saying he is without sin. He made mistakes and he’s paid for them, personally and professionally.

I mean we have players in the system who have committed actual crimes, that haven’t copped half as much harassment as Clarry has.

He has worked so hard over the pre season to get himself to a great spot. It’s actually heartbreaking that he’s had to take time off to deal with the relentless external pressure. You’d think he’d punched a guy and hasn’t been getting a touch.

The pile on is absolutely disgusting, not to mention completely disproportionate.

I am not disagreeing with any of that. I lived in St.Kilda for 3 decades, i have seen and helped with Rehab on a number of occasions.

Clarry still has work to do, and he is certainly not fit enough to play out 4 Quarters in the Heat of the middle

If he can play 2 Quarters right now he is doing well, but don’t tell me i don’t know the extent of what happened in 2022, because you are wrong

I absolutely love that Green came out to say the way the media have treated this situation as another opportunity at easy chum and media speculation, rather than recognising this is simply a young man who has put his hand up and said, "i'm struggling" is disgraceful.

And surprise surprise it seems the only people that are saying it's all ok is the media themselves. For them to be critical of Green in the same week it's Spuds Game is hypocritical at best, because every one of them will be getting behind it saying how important it is to men's mental health.

I would love for the club to do a media protest of sorts, one word answers or just blanking certain reporters/outlets.

McGuire calls for Dees president Green to 'put the phone down'

Eddie McGuire and Tom Morris debate Melbourne president Brad Green's criticism of the media.

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This is the same 💩Eddie McGuire 💩who in June 2016 did this …

Collingwood Football Club president Eddie McGuire has ruffled quite a few feathers with his latest joke, and it's not just the so-called "PC brigade" that's upset.

McGuire is copping it for making a "joke" on radio about drowning female sports journalist Caroline Wilson.

AFL spokesman Patrick Keane weighed in on Twitter overnight, writing that the on-air comments "could be seen as supporting violent attitudes to women and was clearly inappropriate." He said the AFL had only become aware of the comments on Sunday.

The "joke" in question was aired on radio station Triple M last week, when McGuire was talking about the Big Freeze at the 'G, an event where celebrities plunge into ice to raise money for MND.

"I reckon we should start a campaign or a one-person slide next year," he said.

Caroline Wilson, I'll put in the 10 grand straight away, make it 20, and if she stays under, 50."

Others in the studio had a good laugh and former AFL coach Danny Frawley even offered to hold her underwater. McGuire then suggested people stand around Wilson and "bomb" her.

Surf Life Saving Australia posted on Facebook on Sunday night that it was "disappointing to see high-profile media identities make light of drowning", which killed 102 people on Australia's coastline last year.

Sports writer Erin Riley drew attention to McGuire's comment in a column pointing out that it was made just days before the weekend match between the Bulldogs and the Cats to support White Ribbon.

McGuire's comments went unnoticed by most last week, but Riley wrote a damning piece which has put the Collingwood Football Club president in the spotlight.

"These are some of the most high-profile men in football joking about hurting one of football's most prominent women," Riley wrote.

"So much of our discussions about violence against women acknowledge the importance of language and of attitudes in shaping the way men think about women."

17 hours ago, Redleg said:

It's coming.

And it will be a completely revisionist narrative.

3 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

McGuire calls for Dees president Green to 'put the phone down'

Eddie McGuire and Tom Morris debate Melbourne president Brad Green's criticism of the media.

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This is the same 💩Eddie McGuire 💩who in June 2016 did this …

Collingwood Football Club president Eddie McGuire has ruffled quite a few feathers with his latest joke, and it's not just the so-called "PC brigade" that's upset.

McGuire is copping it for making a "joke" on radio about drowning female sports journalist Caroline Wilson.

AFL spokesman Patrick Keane weighed in on Twitter overnight, writing that the on-air comments "could be seen as supporting violent attitudes to women and was clearly inappropriate." He said the AFL had only become aware of the comments on Sunday.

The "joke" in question was aired on radio station Triple M last week, when McGuire was talking about the Big Freeze at the 'G, an event where celebrities plunge into ice to raise money for MND.

"I reckon we should start a campaign or a one-person slide next year," he said.

Caroline Wilson, I'll put in the 10 grand straight away, make it 20, and if she stays under, 50."

Others in the studio had a good laugh and former AFL coach Danny Frawley even offered to hold her underwater. McGuire then suggested people stand around Wilson and "bomb" her.

Surf Life Saving Australia posted on Facebook on Sunday night that it was "disappointing to see high-profile media identities make light of drowning", which killed 102 people on Australia's coastline last year.

Sports writer Erin Riley drew attention to McGuire's comment in a column pointing out that it was made just days before the weekend match between the Bulldogs and the Cats to support White Ribbon.

McGuire's comments went unnoticed by most last week, but Riley wrote a damning piece which has put the Collingwood Football Club president in the spotlight.

"These are some of the most high-profile men in football joking about hurting one of football's most prominent women," Riley wrote.

"So much of our discussions about violence against women acknowledge the importance of language and of attitudes in shaping the way men think about women."

Eddie should just STFU and [censored] off back to his comrad's barbies !! A greater narcissistic hypocrite I've yet to see.

Imagine being a club president who defended Maynard, De Goey and 'The Rat Pack', while also overseeing a culture of rampant racism, and then passing judgement on what other club presidents are doing.

I don't know what is bigger, Eddie's chin or his ego.

5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Imagine being a club president who defended Maynard, De Goey and 'The Rat Pack', while also overseeing a culture of rampant racism, and then passing judgement on what other club presidents are doing.

I don't know what is bigger, Eddie's chin or his ego.

Easily the ego,

And that is a big chin!

6 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Imagine being a club president who defended Maynard, De Goey and 'The Rat Pack', while also overseeing a culture of rampant racism, and then passing judgement on what other club presidents are doing.

I don't know what is bigger, Eddie's chin or his ego.

Or that day Shaw & didak made him look stupid when they had that car incident & told ed it wasn't them & ed went on tv really defending them & hitting out at the media only for the 2 to confess

Ed is now unwatchable and unlistenable.

I prefer not to see or hear him too.