Runs on the board

[Despair]

Being an Essendon supporter, most of the "news" that is of interest to me (lately), is usually in the form of speculation. Journo's, coaches, players making calls "Player X will not play here in 2015", "EFC will/won't escape bans"...

Some of them allege to have "sources", some are just being Nostradumbasses. But what I want to know, is who has the most "runs on the board"? It would be really interesting if someone collated all the "calls/claims/predictions" from the not-so-distant past and assessed how they stacked up with the actual outcome that transpired.

Who do you think would come out as being the most credible?

PS. inb4 Caro lolol

 

[tangolikelama]

Me

 

[mottrain]

Mark 'Robbo' Robinson. He has scored more runs for the opposition than all other journalists have runs on the board combined.

 

[Tas]

It is a tough one, as a journo, the real ones, they are often not just giving personal opinion but passing on the opinion/information of other parties. If they have a leak in the AFL telling them something and they print that in the paper, it is not always their opinion, they are just informing people of information from a 'credible' source.

However, if the source is frequently wrong, then you would hope they abandon the source as a credible source of information.

 

[Jaeger]

Caro

 

[Scotland]

Robert Walls.

There reaches a point where you contradict yourself a sufficient number of times that you have all bases covered and cannot be wrong again.

Wallsy got there some time in the early 2000s IIRC.

 

[Private Hudson]

Robert Walls.

There reaches a point where you contradict yourself a sufficient number of times that you have all bases covered and cannot be wrong again.

Wallsy got there some time in the early 2000s IIRC.

Just give him a run in the ruck.

 

[Beetlebum]

Journos in general seem to think their job is to give opinion these days. If you've got an editorial colum then you spout your s**t opinions but if you're writing an article worthy of being read by the people it really should be 100% correct, I understand fact checking is something journos find tedious and beneath them but they really should try it some time.