Preview 2019 Round 21 - Richmond vs Carlton, Sunday 11th of August @ MCG, 3:20pm

[Poska]

Often like your no-nonsence posting. But this one was a bit thoughtless. Below is Whateley's wiki excerpt. If you want to post yours, we can compare the relevant weights and discuss. I'm not a fan of Whateley, but I do think he brings intellegence, sometimes even when it's not wanted (by Robbo mostly). He's a journo, it's tough gig. I have a daughter doing Journalism and Political Science, I hear first hand how hard it is, so am loathe to criticise what I can't do better.

(Wiki)
Career
Whateley started his media career at the Herald Sun newspaper. He spent six years at the paper during which he gained experience including police rounds, courts and state politics.[2] He was also involved in the research of the Herald Sun's hardback book Our Home Front, documenting life in Australia during the Second World War from the newspapers of the time. Whateley became the paper's movie writer, then editor of HIT magazine (the Herald Sun's movie and music lift out), prior to being appointed senior writer for the newly released Sunday Magazine in 1998. Whateley travelled to the US and Europe, interviewing some of the world's famous people including Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Geoffrey Rush and Cindy Crawford.[3] During this time, he was heard for the first time on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) with a weekly segment reviewing videos on the afternoon program.

Whateley began to focus more on sports, writing regular in-depth features and gaining access to the likes of Wayne Carey, Greg Norman, Damien Oliver and Jacques Villeneuve along with covering football as a "second job" for the Sunday Herald Sun.[4]

At the beginning of 1999, Whateley took up the job as the network's senior sport reporter for Channel Ten. His chief responsibilities were to cover the Australian Football League (AFL) and horse racing. At the completion of his first year, he was named the Young Journalist of the Year at the Melbourne Press Club's Quill Awards. He was also named the Network Ten Young Achiever of the Year from nationwide consideration of employees. Whateley earned a reputation for authority and accuracy, enhanced at the 2000 Olympics breaking a series of stories surrounding the drug use by competing weightlifters.

In 2001, Whateley accepted the chief reporter's position at Seven News, winning the Quill Award for the Most Outstanding News Report for an investigation that revealed a wanted US criminal had lied to enter Australia to win a Melbourne radio station's Valentine's Day competition.

Soon after, Ten reclaimed Whateley's services to be a foundation member of the network's AFL commentary team. He later joined ABC Radio's AFL team. In his inaugural year calling football, Whateley was named the Australian Football Media Association's Most Outstanding Radio Caller, following in the footsteps of Tim Lane. Throughout this time, Whateley's horse-racing work in print, radio and television was rewarded with numerous awards, including the 2004 Cox Plate Story of the Year for the ABC.

Whateley joined the ABC full-time in September 2004, as lead sports broadcaster in Melbourne, and a national caller of several sports including AFL, cricket, horse racing and Olympic swimming.[5]

Whateley was a regular panelist and occasional replacement host on the ABC's Sunday morning sports show Offsiders since its inception in 2005. He became the show's host from the beginning of the 2014 season[6] and continued in the role until his departure from the ABC at the end of 2017.

In January 2018, it was announced that Whateley was departing ABC to join Melbourne sports radio station SEN 1116, where he would become chief sports caller and host of a new weekday morning program called Whateley.[7][8][9] The Whateley program debuted on 29 January 2018. Whateley's first interview on the new program was with Australian former tennis champion Rod Laver,[10] discussing the previous evening's Australian Open tennis final. The same edition of the program also featured an interview with 2018 Australian Open men's champion Roger Federer.[11]

Whateley hosts Fox Footy's AFL 360 television program, which normally screens at 7.30 pm each Monday to Thursday during the AFL season. His co-host is Herald Sun chief football writer Mark Robinson. Whateley and Robinson began presenting the show on its debut in 2010 as a weekly program on Wednesday nights on the Fox Sports channel. In 2012, as a part of Foxtel's enhanced coverage in the new AFL broadcast rights deal, the program expanded to the Monday to Thursday schedule on the relaunched AFL-dedicated channel Fox Footy.[12] The show was named Most Outstanding Program at the Australian Football Media Association Awards in 2012,[13] 2013[14] 2015[15] and 2016.[16]

In 2012, Whateley wrote a book about Australian thoroughbred racehorse Black Caviar, Black Caviar: The Horse of a Lifetime. Later that year, Whateley rejoined the Herald Sun as a columnist.

Whateley was the winner of the Australian Football Media Association's "Alf Brown Trophy", awarded to the most outstanding media performer, in 2015 and 2017.[17]

Whateley supports the Geelong Football Club.[18]

He first met his wife, Claire, when they were teenagers at their local church parish in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave. They have three children.[19]

If studying and becoming a journalist means your opinion holds more credibility than the average punter on BigFooty, then Tom Browne has it over all of us.

 

[Vassp]

It may be a bit of a mongrel game. Chol should lift here and the reason l think he is in because he can cover more ground and is more agile and uses the ball better, I expect him to bounce back and I’m sure nank will push him.
Ross is classy, I’m sure they would not put him in if he wasn’t ready, also he offers options where we can throw him forwards if we had to. I’d try stack in the centre this game if we need him there. But FP is where he does his best work.

 

[biaseddustyfan]

Ross a good inside mid anyway. Might even help us a bit

 

[Charlie Pannam]

Ross in after 1/2 s game in 10 weeks or more!!! Big call , shows the high regard he’s held in

I’d say Caddy and/or Vlaus might have to spend some time in the guts and spread the load similar to a game earlier in the season

 

[Grechy]

We could play Dusty and Cotch yet have chosen to rest both against a team which isn't nearly as bad as their ladder position suggests over recent form. WCE had their work cut out last week. If we are off the boil Cripps will likely dominate inside and they could actually have an advantage. Think the brains trust are underestimating the Blues a little this week.

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Why do people give a * about what journalists say?
Who cares? If they say anything remotely negative about Richmond people cry, If they pump us up some people hate that like they are pumping us up to lose or something.
It’s Based on opinion and people sook about every bloody opinion there is.
It has absolutely no bearing on anything whatsoever don’t worry about it!

 

[Schlurp]

We could play Dusty and Cotch yet have chosen to rest both against a team which isn't nearly as bad as their ladder position suggests over recent form. WCE had their work cut out last week. If we are off the boil Cripps will likely dominate inside and they could actually have an advantage. Think the brains trust are underestimating the Blues a little this week.

I think the lesson from last year's Preliminary Final has been well learned. Key players are being managed into the finals and every Club is being forensically evaluated prior to our game against them. Even without Dusty and Cotch, we are putting a formidable group onto the ground. Good luck to Carlton if they win tomorrow. Can't see it happening though.

 

[Phar Ace]

After you.

I'm not the one calling someone else 'lightweight'. It doesn't matter!

 

[BKM78]

General soreness translates to "GWS lost so......fuqit....rest him for lolz"
Could backfire but like the confidence.

 

[Cotcho]

I'm getting nervous now. Collingwood above us on the ladder and needing to beat Carlton without Rance, Cotch or Dusty. Just makes me nervous.
I remember ≈'13 this mob used to pull it out of the hat against us. Annoying

 

[OhDustinMartin]

We could play Dusty and Cotch yet have chosen to rest both against a team which isn't nearly as bad as their ladder position suggests over recent form. WCE had their work cut out last week. If we are off the boil Cripps will likely dominate inside and they could actually have an advantage. Think the brains trust are underestimating the Blues a little this week.

I'd say the group is actually well prepared for Cripps.
Graham, Ross, Prestia, Caddy are all big bodies, capable of winning their own ball and breaking well even in the contests. Lambert, Bolton and Stack/Edwards are dynamic users. Balance is not bad at all

 

[Phar Ace]

Why do people give a fu** about what journalists say?
Who cares? If they say anything remotely negative about Richmond people cry, If they pump us up some people hate that like they are pumping us up to lose or something.
It’s Based on opinion and people sook about every bloody opinion there is.
It has absolutely no bearing on anything whatsoever don’t worry about it!

Good journalism is edifying. That said, a comic book can be as edifying to some as the Fin Review is to others. It's all a question of what you want out of a story.

Can't wait to see what is written about our Carlton clash with the players we have out.

 

[Charlie Pannam]

We could play Dusty and Cotch yet have chosen to rest both against a team which isn't nearly as bad as their ladder position suggests over recent form. WCE had their work cut out last week. If we are off the boil Cripps will likely dominate inside and they could actually have an advantage. Think the brains trust are underestimating the Blues a little this week.

You may have a point but if Cotch is not 100% and on a cold winters day did his hammy again and was out for 3 or 4 that’d be devastating. And we saw how Dusty limped into the finals last year we want him cherry ripe this year.

Prestia is the other guy that’s had a massive workload this year but with 2 tough games coming up after the Blues we probably can’t afford to rest him. Luckily the bye gives him a rest

 

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Good journalism is edifying. That said, a comic book can be as edifying to some as the Fin Review is to others. It's all a question of what you want out of a story.

Can't wait to see what is written about our Carlton clash with the players we have out.

I’ll never understand how people let it effect them particularly about sport. Or more to the point how they get angry at the journo.
I think it’s funny.

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

Keep dreaming you beak.

 

[THE THIN MAN]

Needs more

 

[Daveeee_12]

Dusty, Cotch, Rance > all of collingwoods injuries

 

[Tiger71]

Dusty, Cotch, Rance > all of collingwoods injuries

Judging by the blues preview thread, Marchbank, Dohety, and Plowmen >>>> Cotchin, Rance and Martin outs. Deadset, you have Aphroditie foaming at the mouth calling us feral and most of there posters believe they will win and then go on to lock in top 4 in 2020.

I am going to love watching them next year, when by round 12 they are still bottom 6 and realise Teague is a younger Geishen

 

[ARES]

It's their best team they've been able to put out this year.
Great test for us, and I'm actually excited. Win without Cotch, Dusty, (Rance is not in Sept calculations) will give the team a big leg up heading towards finals.

Actually we at times play better when we play as a team, I'm confident

 

[smasha]

Two Brownlow medallists and the best defender in the league out.

I’m hoping we can still pull off the win.

 

[tunksy]

Better win now can't afford a slip up yes

 

[Waca Jr]

f*n lol


Pickett had 70%.


Welcome to 1985.


West Coast kicked 9 goals to 1 in half an hour either side of half time last week.


Let's talk about Gerard Whateley.

He played his last game of football in primary school.
He spends his life talking about what other people do.
You can bet he's never been punched in the face.
You know he's never made a woman's toes curl.

Gerard Whateley is not substantial enough to be a lightweight. This is not a person to take seriously, about anything.

Strikes me as a bloke that wouldn't go the munch either. Straight up missionary.

 

[Bazzar]

Good journalism is edifying. That said, a comic book can be as edifying to some as the Fin Review is to others. It's all a question of what you want out of a story.

Can't wait to see what is written about our Carlton clash with the players we have out.

Maybe they will replace the word "world" with "Carlton"
I'd love to see the melts if that actually happened

 

[Waca Jr]

People worried. You cannot turn s**t into strawberry jam. And carlton are s**t.

 

[captain blood 17]

I'm getting nervous now. Collingwood above us on the ladder and needing to beat Carlton without Rance, Cotch or Dusty. Just makes me nervous.
I remember ≈'13 this mob used to pull it out of the hat against us. Annoying

* me. That’s 6 years ago. They haven’t beaten us since. In fact while they were winning spoons since 2013, we have won a flag.