5 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I assume you mean "not purely profit focused".

Having said that, I disagree with your points that the AFL has regressed and that the pursuit of profit is compromising the quality of the product. It's a necessarily evil that if we want the best product we need to have the revenues to pay the players, the coaches, the support staff and to have great facilities to attend games.

Sadly you may be right. But I recall being just as passionate and interested in games when it was just a bunch of part-timers playing in the 60's.

1 hour ago, Dees1911 said:

Maybe as a Captain and leader of a football club you shouldn't be taken an in season meeting with another coach !!!

And if you do, you have to expect the scrutiny, if & when you get caught !!

This was my initial reaction and still somewhat aligned to it. However, this is their workplace and i think everybody has a right to chose their workplace.

The media have been far too aggressive in the past few years especially post covid and you have the personalities such as Morris, McClure, Corners, Barret who are disrespectful and at times stoop to gutter trash levels of reporting.

As a society we have to recognize the impact that social media is having of people, footy players are no different. The AFL should absolutely be looking at the behavior of some of these journos and their employers and asking for a please explain.

The AFL should have oversight, not just compliant Clubs. What happened about the Guns? What happened about the ongoing Race Relations? And what is happening about Rules for all clubs not just the favourites?

i wonder if Jake Nial's piece today on the failed Oliver trade and then the news that Oliver will not play have any connection. Jake is not the first person that comes to mind when you talk about poor journo's but i find it really tough to believe this is a sheer coincidence.

I cant see the MFC pulling Oliver from the team as a result of this story. Which begs the question that TheAge chose to run with this story knowing he was going to be 'managed' this week. You wont be able to prove it, but i genuinely wonder whether there are any credible, ethical and moral journo's actually left in the AFL industry.

@GS_1905 This was a drivel story from Jake and really undone by it's own use of stats, Oliver has clearly improved on his '24 season averages, and has been in a a 2-5 team this yer as against the salad days of 21/22/23. In answer to your question about journalist ethics. I really think some lobby for a trade that does their mates/clubs a favour in these type of articles, not just reporting the facts.

The Geelong trade was awful - really I would rather Oliver sat on the pine than pay for him to play for Geelong or get a really average draft pick for a player that over the journey has been phenomenal.

King and Co are saying he is done, pffft, we need a much larger sample size, Oliver has plenty left and I think this handball focused gameplan suits him to a tee. I would like to see his tackle numbers go up though.

He copped a leg injury last week, I see no reason not to manage a player or two against WCE on what is a big hard ground.

3 hours ago, Willmoy1947 said:

The AFL should have oversight, not just compliant Clubs. What happened about the Guns? What happened about the ongoing Race Relations? And what is happening about Rules for all clubs not just the favourites?

Tonight I got barred from AFL WEB SIGHT, unless it's down

His article is all over the place. He talks about his diminishing output and how we'd now be lucky to offload half of his contract but in a Geelong jumper he'd be the next Greg Williams with years of decent football ahead of him. Couldn't end the article without reminding us of the BP5 and JS sagas of course. What a fruit loop.

Edited Thursday at 11:223 days by Rab D Nesbitt

https://t.co/Fg9Ot8kDRW

Adding Niall to the list of gutter scrapping journalists. We know the story. Let’s get Clarry the support he needs. He’s a champion. He helped us win a premiership. Let’s support him through tough times. This article doesn’t help. It’s another “aren’t the Cats wonderful “ story. Ffs.

Was it just me or was the commentary in the Eagles game disgustingly biased??? To the point of trying to get melksham rubbed out??? Get stuffed.

4 minutes ago, biggestred said:

Was it just me or was the commentary in the Eagles game disgustingly biased??? To the point of trying to get melksham rubbed out??? Get stuffed.

I’ve never heard such biased commentary.

Trying to get milk rubbed out, but excusing a whack on Viney, trying to suggest Windsor ran too far when he kicked an absolutely incredible goal.

On the footy show this morning they bought up the melksham incident.

Matty Lloyd just said straight away he had his eyes on the ball to mark it & you can use your elbow to push your opponent under the ball

17 hours ago, Stinger said:

I’ve never heard such biased commentary.

Trying to get milk rubbed out, but excusing a whack on Viney, trying to suggest Windsor ran too far when he kicked an absolutely incredible goal.

Schofield who I generally like, was appalling with his biased special comments.

The only thing he didn’t say was “ boo Dees and go Eagles”.

He was terrible.