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I get that but sometimes with Caro there is an undertone of attempting to destabilise. She would never report on the Tigers in the same manner.

It's a mutha [censored] grand old flag yo!

My policy has always been that if I, or the moderating team, think something is borderline then we take it off. Even if technically it's not libelous or defamatory I err on the side of caution and if the user isn't happy about that then I don't care. I'm covering my arse first.

Just feels a very dated story with no new insight - not sure why it needs re-hashing at this time

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but stumbled upon this on Facebook. Wearing it Rnd 23 v GWS

It’s a difficult thing advertising the location and times of training sessions.

It would have been interesting about two months ago.

Read it and I think it’s quite a sensible article. Looks at the story in good detail and takes a swipe at the obvious reactions like frawleys but he wasn’t Robinson Caruso. Call her what you will but she is an investigative journalist who actually still, you know, investigates. A rare breed these days

$299.

Please tell me that elementary school grammatical error isn't copied directly from the Herald Sun. His quote brings to mind our JLT match against North when Petracca gave a little nudge to Majak Daw, who's much much larger, to take an easy mark and goal. My brother's a North supporter and I was watching with him. Good times.

I nearly fell out of my chair. https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/03/15/cornes-reveals-his-2018-top-eight/ 1 Melbourne 2 GWS 3 Western Bulldogs 4 Richmond 5 Port Adelaide 6 Sydney 7 Essendon 8 Adelaide So we're not ignoring the good predictions are we?

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-03-16/season-preview-melbourne Hadnt seen this posted yet.

so, more money down the drain that could have gone to grass roots footy surprised they didn't get meatloaf to do the vocals

I sit in on a guitar group that play in the local bar in the village I live in. Have done so for years. After a lot of red wine and talking I got them to do a Spanish guitar version of Grand Old Flag. I get it played when we win, usually very late at night when we have all had enough. Had a few lost Aussies that had wandered into the bar and not believed what they were hearing.

I hope Beyoncé sings ours.

Please tell me this is a parody article highlighting how hopelessly out of touch the AFL hierarchy are and their addiction to fixing things that aren't broken and their constant desecration of footy traditions. It can not be real.

Nice... but I’m saving my money for the replica premiership cup.

Nice jumper but not at $300. That’s 6 bottles of rum.

Have a great weekend. Lucky you getting to see the Dees 2 weeks in a row. If you can be sure to give us a training report. Us tragics will take any skerrick of information we can get.

Like others, I wonder at the timing. The way the news cycle operates these days, the story is ancient history and, as a consequence, has no impact. Sadly for the Age, it’s a sign of the times and yet another example of a once great newspaper on the decline.

I can't imagine anyone in the Club gives a rat's toss bag about this story (if they even know it exists). 16/03/2018 — Season still on track

only thing wrong with the article is the timing as usual with kero one questions her motives

I think she's told the story pretty well. It's a balanced article, I've got no problems with it.

The only good alternate version of Grand Old Flag (minus the crowd clapping out of time).

To be fair most fans would have no objections to the AFL changing either the Dockers or Port’s song unilaterally

This old chestnut again, sick of hearing about it let’s start some footy already, every comment you read on Melbourne from opposition supporters on social media when it comes to someone pumping us up gets the same morons, oh they won’t finish that high they couldn’t even do a training camp, blah blah blah, I’m hoping we play well to shut a few up

You guys need to relax lol Just heard the Old v New version of the Richmond song on Triple M, there was literally no difference, maybe slightly higher clarity for the digital age Ya'll need to take a chill pill

'The AFL has decided...' What a bunch of [censored]. Who the [censored] gave them the idea that we want ANYTHING about this game changed?

So we win by 5 goals instead of 7. No biggie.

What's the story with today's high intensity training at Casey? It happening? Or, did they decide to go to the Pub, instead? We hopefully have at least one intrepid reporter on the spot...

I was watching closely for any evidence of this in the JLT, and thought Max held his ground very well, against a couple of big units in Goldstein and Hickey. Even when Max held the best position and the opposition ruckman hit him at pace to knock him out of the way, he stood his ground very well and won a lot more hitouts than he lost. His ability to stay on the park is huge for us, probably our most important player IMO.

Here's an article on the subject: "The internet groups are considered conduits of information rather than publishers under UK law, meaning they have limited responsibility for what appears on their sites. However, the chairman of the media regulator Ofcom said on Tuesday she believed the likes of Google and Facebook were publishers, raising the prospect that they could eventually face more regulation." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/11/government-considers-classifying-google-facebook-publishers

Are you implying that I could make such a rookie error? Just to be clear; the error was not mine.

Hilarious because according to Oxford, it is the exact opposite: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-fake-news-us-rightwing-study-trump-university-of-oxford “On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters consumes the largest volume of junk news, and junk news is the largest proportion of news links they share,” the researchers concluded. On Facebook, the skew was even greater. There, “extreme hard right pages – distinct from Republican pages – share more junk news than all the other audiences put together.” Left wing media outlets are certainly guilty of the same sort of sensationalised click-baity partisan journalism that the right wing outlets are. However as indicated by the Oxford study, fake news is shared on social media by the right more than the left. There are two separate issues here The first is reputable media outlets sensationalising and intentionally mislabelling headlines in order to drive web traffic and ad revenue. They report quickly to compete to get that traffic and often the truth gets put second. This is a huge issue, and as has been posted previously if someone like an AFL player can stand up to misrepresented facts and maybe change this trend then all the better. This sensationalism of stories is something found across the spectrum of media organisations (left, right, and those who claim to be unbiased). This sort of journalism has been called 'fake news', but it isn't. It's simply a lower quality of news that we are used to and as a society deserve. It can contain factual inaccuracies but at its heart is not meant to be fake. It is fake by virtue of lower journalistic standards and the speed at which it moves. The second is the intentional construction of patently false stories, deliberately written and created to spread misinformation. They're written by trolls in impoverished nations who are paid simply to create something that will be shareable on social media or achieve a political aim. This is true 'fake news'. Deliberate deception masquerading as journalism. This is also a huge problem, and this is the sort of news that is overwhelmingly shared by the right on social media, as indicated by the Oxford study. The two issues were conflated after Trump's election. The term 'fake news' started to trend, so Trump appropriated the label (which formerly applied only to the second form) to include the first. Now we think of both of these types of news as 'fake'. It's a sneaky trick of language, because including them both under the one umbrella conflates the issue. It puts CNN and MSNBC (who sensationalise and obfuscate) on par with a Romanian troll farm which outright deceives. They are clearly different, although the actions of both are deeply troubling. I'm aware the general board may be bleeding into this post. If the mods see fit to delete my post I understand. I just wanted to add a little clarity to the debate here, given the AFL players are concerned with misrepresentations in the media. Also faultydet's post was patently untrue and so I felt it needed to be corrected. Edit: corrected typo "faultydiet" to "faultydet". My apologies.

I believe the overall moment was special, right up there with T Mac’s “ Genius” game winner in the West. The Melbourne roar after the goal was possibly the loudest we have heard at the G in a long long time. It felt bloody good to hear such a roar with so many MFC supporters going absolutely bonkers with elation and that would have been the case if any of the other 21 players had kicked that goal.

Not even Richmond!? ?

Stephen Hawking had a similar ailment, there is no cure yet 2018 is the year of the Demon ”Do it for Danners”

I liked his running forward and his then his long handpass forward.

I don't think he was playing for the free whilst "in the contest" but once he was pushed he did ask the question. At the time I thought it was free but the replay showed it wasn't. He was badly out of position for that contest. I'd like to see Gawny return to the great intercept marking in defence form of 2016.

A few forums that I used to contribute to in Asia have closed and then re-appeared on Facebook for the very reason you suggest. As a positive your moderation policy seems to work very well. Originally the argument for facebook was that it was a simple platform akin to a blank page. With their aggressive use of channelling algorithms it is obvious that they are now far more. As an aside I was reading articles recently saying that Facebook is no longer as popular amongst the young. One of the reasons given was that millennials had no desire to share their life with their parents!!

Yes its a hard week. Well those 3 bets add up to 14/1 approx. Not to bad in the end.

Well I was joking. But to take up the question seriously, while a heavy belt would make him less agile, the idea is that against some opponents weight is more important than agility. Or he could put it on at throw-ins and hand it to a runner immediately after! (yes, still joking)

Best Bet. Morphetville R9 No. 5 Despatch. $2.90 Coming off a 65 week break but recent barrier trials have been impressive. Really struggled this week to find a “standout”.

Im going to go Rosehill R4 No1 Written By. 2.00. Its pretty short and Spin is paying the same for a place. But its either super competitive races or short favourites. I also like Bring me Roses for a place in the Coolmore.

I was implying the opposite - that I am disappointed that a major Australian newspaper would make such an error.

He’s getting a reputation as a sensationalist. I’m surprised he hasn’t got North Melbourne and Brisbane in his top 4.

Facebook and Twitter are outrageously biased towards left wing ideologies, and program their sites to filter in that direction. They have been allowed to continue unchecked by the authorities because they assisted the left wing globalist agenda Trumps people are already talking about an internet "Bill of Rights" because of the actions of almost all of the social media platforms. Not before time.

"There were no drugs at Essendon"

It's clearly an issue with journalism in general. Stories are pushed to one extreme or the other, to elicit the maximum amount of outrage or partisan support. Stories are headlined to generate web traffic, not to reflect the contents of the story or the actual issue in order to get clicks for ads. News and journalism have been chasing their tail since the internet became a thing. They missed the boat and are now trying to stuff an outdated business model onto a computer screen. But for that model to work, they need ads and a huge volume of traffic. So they sensationalise to an extent we haven't seen before to get the traffic and the ad revenue that comes with it. If the AFL players can counter or affect this to even a small extent then that's a win. But I feel like it's an uphill battle we're all fighting. Anything that forces journalists to get all (or at least more of) the facts is a win. Right now, being first with a story is the priority for this type of journalism. It doesn't matter if the facts are wrong. It matters that you get the story first and the web traffic that goes with it. Maybe if they're called on their factual inaccuracies often enough, they'll start to prioritise accuracy over speed. I am doubtful this will happen though.

Driving to Traralgon and got one of those pesky call centre calls. I said who is it and the caller said Clayton Oliver. I told him he was doing a great job doing a membership drive and our family were all dedicated Dees. He said awesome. So my prompt renewal is thanks to his yet again good work in heavy traffic.