The Media Re: our supporters...

[Miguel Sanchez]

He's on Channel 7 so it's not your money unless you happen to be advertising on that network.

Not sure why people would get stuck into Richo on the boundary anyway, he's generally alright.

 

[Oneiros]

Given the club has under 2,000 junior members, I wonder where this idea comes from that there are kids in Eagles crowds; not lately there hasn't been!

 

[Roobs321]

Richo is nothing to me, doesn't leave an impression (except for his general ignorance regarding the Eagles and bias when we play Victorian sides, as well as the annoying banter he has with BT). He is just bland and predictable, although not as robotic as a Darcy.

He doesn't have the ego of some of the older analysts in the commentary game, so he is relatively harmless. He doesn't rate himself like a Derm.

 

[ChampRevesby]

I like how Richo gets paid 100K+ a year of our (Foxtel viewers) money to jet set around the country and talk crap but cant handle it when he cops a bit?

Genuinely can not remember a time where he has said something and I've gone, that's a good point never thought of it like that. Even Derm is incite full every now and then...

He did a few things on the w/e that made me think that he is just another hack campaigner. For instance, he was cruising the boundary and a few Eagles supporters called out, give us a wave Richo, he completely ignored them even though he was high fiving all the Ninethmond supports just in front of them. And just as he was entering the Eagles race, not sure why, he turned around to the them and raised a first and yelled, GO RICHMOND. Then I thought, what a ******* campaigner.

 

[Roobs321]

Yeah he has generally been like that since he joined the commentary team. His level of bias in comparison to a couple others tends to be underrated, just because of how harmless he is.

 

[The Dodger]

Richo is nothing to me, doesn't leave an impression (except for his general ignorance regarding the Eagles and bias when we play Victorian sides, as well as the annoying banter he has with BT). He is just bland and predictable, although not as robotic as a Darcy.

The Commentator 3000?
It hates the Eagles automatically and has 3 distinct varieties of inane chatter
"Say that again"
"That is a Saturday special everyday of the week"
"So brave, just love the way he goes about it"

 

[Roobs321]

Darcy has certainly reached a level of experience where he just sits on a crutch of robotic superlatives. It's so irritating, because it's the same several lines over and over. Hate the way he hypes up anything and everything. It's too lacking in personality. At least guys like Dennis, Anthony Hudson and Basil are able to talk without bias, but you can generally sense their opinion below the surface (which for me is ideal in a caller). They talk like they are holding some opinion back. Darcy just seems like he is reading a news prompt.

Lately they've all generally been doing this with Nick Smith. It's got to the point where football analysis outside Ch7/Fox is so much more interesting. Offsiders and AFL Gameday running concurrently on Sunday mornings is a hilarious comparison. The questions towards a regular guest on Gameday are just so dull and predictable.

One of the issues for me is having mostly the same crew do a Before the Game and then the game commentary. The lack of separation there is at the crux of the issue with the Saturday night team.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

The Commentator 3000?
It hates the Eagles automatically and has 3 distinct varieties of inane chatter
"Say that again"
"That is a Saturday special everyday of the week"
"So brave, just love the way he goes about it"

"Looks like those clowns in the Subiaco crowd did it again. What a bunch of clowns"

 

[bodazoka]

He's on Channel 7 so it's not your money unless you happen to be advertising on that network.

Not sure why people would get stuck into Richo on the boundary anyway, he's generally alright.

Does Foxtel pay for CH7 TV broadcasts?
I don't hate Richo, but it's rich for him to have a go at Eagles supporters when all that does in turn is add fuel to the fire. Be the better man and let it go, don't use your elevated platform to have a winge that supporters are being mean to you.

As well as all that.. you are an ex Richmond player how do you think it's going to look when you do that? to me it looks like he was deliberately diverting attention away from Vickery...

 

[Masto]

The solution is simple: don't kinghit a club legend and you won't incite the crowd. I'm amazed someone didn't jump the fence (actually I heard someone did but not sure). The public don't pay good money to watch that garbage. The media should be on the public's side.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Just another thing to have a go at us for. The media do it every year. Last year it was the watson boo-athon, before that it's our players ducking, and diving and throwing, something no other team has ever done before, just us cheats out West. Then you go back even further to the whole mid 2000's saga. Good vs Evil, that sort of crap, ex players saying they wouldn't want their kids coming over to play for us, cousins is the only player ever to do drugs.....even though he was never caught and plenty of players since have been and nothing gets said about that! Anyway that's another debate.

In the end the Vics still hate us for joining their comp and paving the way for non victorian teams to dominte their competition. Put that with the fact most of the ex players from the 90's who played against us seem to have deep hatred for our club for one reason or another, Lyon, Derm, Shaw, I'm sure their are others but can't think of them ATM.

f**k 'em all, maybe if our players showed the sort of passion that our crowd does (at times) we might actually win some games of football instead of worrying about off field things to try and make us look like a good contributor to the community.

Didn't want to "like" this post, because I love it

Tbh I quite like the fact our crowd is considered hostile to opposition teams..better than being accused of being a bunch of old grannys with no atmosphere, which is also another common criticism . That they are completely contradictory kinda shows that reality isn't particularly important here.

 

[kerrazy]

Imagine the uproar if Shuey did the same to Cotchin...The Vic media would want his head and demand a 10 week suspension!

 

[Oneiros]

The solution is simple: don't kinghit a club legend and you won't incite the crowd. I'm amazed someone didn't jump the fence (actually I heard someone did but not sure). The public don't pay good money to watch that garbage. The media should be on the public's side.

The pitch invader was someone running around with their phone taking a selfie as he ran from seccos

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

The solution is simple: don't kinghit a club legend and you won't incite the crowd. I'm amazed someone didn't jump the fence (actually I heard someone did but not sure).

Someone did but he just ran around like a nong and tried to take a selfie. They showed it on one of the Sunday morning shows.

 

[kerrazy]

I love how derm kept trying to defend vickery, saying how he didnt mean it and it wasnt what he had planned to do... lol.

 

[kerrazy]

Someone did but he just ran around like a nong and tried to take a selfie. They showed it on one of the Sunday morning shows.

Was right next to that, was better entertainment than the match itself!

 

[Oneiros]

I love how derm kept trying to defend vickery, saying how he didnt mean it and it wasnt what he had planned to do... lol.

Wasn't he saying Lake should get only get a fine for wrestling?

 

[nameless]

Wasn't he saying Lake should get only get a fine for wrestling?

It was only Petrie, so I have to agree with Dermie there.

 

[The Dodger]

"Looks like those clowns in the Subiaco crowd did it again. What a bunch of clowns"

Wow how does he stay up with the news like that?

 

[ziad]

Richo is nothing to me, doesn't leave an impression (except for his general ignorance regarding the Eagles and bias when we play Victorian sides, as well as the annoying banter he has with BT). He is just bland and predictable, although not as robotic as a Darcy.

He doesn't have the ego of some of the older analysts in the commentary game, so he is relatively harmless. He doesn't rate himself like a Derm.

I always assume he is on air for comedy value as a legacy of his playing days. problem is these types start to take themselves seriously.

 

[garlic munchers]

Glad we have never been this bad!

"Stadium operators have started taking special security precautions when hosting Richmond matches �so predictable has a Tigers loss, and the subsequent fan fury become.
"We were very conscious that we had Richmond last week ... and we've got them again next Friday night," said a concerned Ian Collins yesterday, speaking on behalf of Telstra Dome, rather than his football club.
"I think the Richmond supporters ought to control what they do. Yes, they can barrack as hard and as often as they like but they ought to refrain from any physical or disgraceful tactics like spitting," he said.
"Once they start to resort to ruffian tactics or even degrading things like spitting, I think it's gone beyond the mark."
The Telstra Dome chief confirmed that the stadium was now deploying extra security toward Frawley when making his way to and from the arena at Richmond matches.
"We really don't want to resort to hooliganism or revert to what happens in soccer in many places around the world. We've got to be better than that," Collins said.
Richmond president Clinton Casey, midfielder Tim Fleming and several other people whose job it is to support Frawley, were given ample opportunity to do so on radio yesterday. However undoubtedly the day's strongest show of support for Frawley came from a talkback caller by the name of Anne.
"We support him, we love him, he has got feelings," she said on 3AW. "We just feel for him as a family ... you can't just keep copping it ... you can only take so much.''
Perhaps the most revealing comments made by Anne �Frawley's sister � was the way she spoke about the human side of her brother's plight.
"I don't like to take my family down (among the crowd) and hear all the rot ... I don't think my parents will go to the football again this year," she said.
Anne said that her parents were so upset they could not sleep, while her husband Brendan, who helped Danny on match days, needed a police escort. The coach's wife, Anita, had also told her she had felt menaced by frenzied fans.
Frawley's mother, Shirley, said yesterday that she and her husband Brian were in the stands at Telstra Dome on Friday night but had to keep moving seats to try to avoid the abuse.
"They didn't sleep all night, they feel sick, they were abused and my sister (Christine) was called many names � she was down there also last night," Anne said.
"I know they're allowed to sit there and abuse but you can only take so much. Anita has rung this morning and said that she felt threatened last night also, and this has been going on for a few weeks.
"My husband actually does the boards, the match-ups for Danny and he's even had two police escorts to his car. You just feel threatened when you go there.
"My parents came here this morning and said: �We didn't sleep all night, we were so worried about Danny'," Anne said. "You can't keep copping it � you're not mentally able to keep copping it.
"They buy their ticket and they're allowed to go in and say what they like. But you can't stand at someone's front garden and abuse them because they didn't mow their lawns right or something.
"I don't think my parents will go to the football again this year �and that is so sad. Why should we have to put up with that?" Shirley described the behaviour of the crowd last night as "unbelievable".
"It's hard for Danny and it's just gone too far," she said. "Animals don't do that. We've been here watching the kids play and I think we'll just stick to that."
Anne said that Danny would remain with the club trying to lift it out of its desperate situation. "He will hold his head high, he will stick with the club. He's giving 125 per cent," she said".

Got a love the SS mob from Richmond (Simpletons & Spanners).

 

[Matera LeNui]

The 2 minutes after the incident was electrifying...........the subi crowd had a part in that. Pat yourselves on the back for going nuts. Haha Its been a year of low intensity football

 

[Roobs321]

It could certainly be a whole lot worse. Anyone remember hearing about that Brazilian football match last year, with the stabbing and beheading.

As long as mob outrage is mostly vocal (and non discriminatory) and doesn't spill out onto the pitch and endanger both players and spectators, then it's mostly media beat up.

 

[Dark Sharks]

Weird, usually they whinge about us when we're actually good. But now they're whinging when we totally suck.

It never ends.

 

[kerrazy]

Wasn't he saying Lake should get only get a fine for wrestling?

Yep, he's a * wit.