Brilliant! It's only taken them a year to catch on then.
Vic bias and the media
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But we're not talking about my WA media, or your Victorian media.
We're talking about our national media that has it's head up your Victorian backside.
Are Richmond playing anyone of note?
The media pander to their audience which they should. If you support a Vic club and live in WA then you will find out little about your club in the West Australian newspaper.
In Victoria I would expect to see very little about the Eagles in the Herald Sun.
It is when finals come around where it should change a little, I got a Herald Sun on GF day last year in Melbourne and it was pretty much all Collingwood, probably about a 10-1 article difference and this was the GF. That surprised me a little.
But when all is said and done if you want info on your club then it’s not hard to find these days, and the Herald Sun or the Age has no more requirement to be more national than the West Australian in WA.
In Victoria I would expect to see very little about the Eagles in the Herald Sun.
It is when finals come around where it should change a little, I got a Herald Sun on GF day last year in Melbourne and it was pretty much all Collingwood, probably about a 10-1 article difference and this was the GF. That surprised me a little.
But when all is said and done if you want info on your club then it’s not hard to find these days, and the Herald Sun or the Age has no more requirement to be more national than the West Australian in WA.
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not quite so accurate,
the Docklands 3 ( Dogs, North, Saints ) finally got a stadium deal( end 2017) that they could make money( Saints expected an extra $2m a year from same crowd sizes) and the big clubs received the same renumeration at the MCG ( along with the GF ) despite already being well ahead of those smaller clubs in stadium profitability.
Saints have played 1 home final (Sydney 2011) despite making back to back GF's and prelims before that.
The Bias isn't just Vic clubs, its specific clubs and it comes from the media's insistence that only ex footballers can be on the Telly and only sub standard flag waving gossip mongers can write in the papers, Exept Denis of course. he's as impartial as Eddie........
Another poster who can't read.
Go read the OP.
Who has their head up their backside?
Vic media currently going with 'Finals like intensity for Eagles Showdown with Richmond'
'Finals-like intensity' for West Coast's showdown with Richmond
With the top four sides facing off next weekend, Eagles coach Adam Simpson knows a top-two slot is up for grabs and expects his side to lift in bid for a home final.
That 'tin' foil is probably made in Victoria too, but from at least 90% WA materials.
The afl it self is massively Vic centric.
Fta games almost always feature at least one Vic side.
Friday night games the same.
All umpires based in victoria
It is not not surprising the media is the same.
Fta games almost always feature at least one Vic side.
Friday night games the same.
All umpires based in victoria
It is not not surprising the media is the same.
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I may be travelling to Perth later this year. In the spirit of this thread I expect to see Richmond given the same media coverage as West coast.
Lol, i'd be surprised if they even know who Richmond are.
Yeah right, imagine the salt flow from non vic if ch 7 cut to Simpson if wc lost the game. Fair dinkum if that happened then it'd been seen as rubbing salt into the wound.
From any pie supporters view that cut to Buckley was seen as rubbing our noses in it.
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I can’t remember a positive HUN article about the Giants in the 6 years I lived there.
It was always, always negative with the same s**t “player exodus” “concessions” ya da ya da ya da.
And a lot of it lead by a high profile media identity president.
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Interstate clubs have middle child syndrome. Vic media talks about Vic clubs and WA media talks about WA clubs! Shocking!
Then why did WA fans jump off the wafl and follow a completely new start up club in a foreign comp? Why not snub this vic based comp and stick phat with an already strong and high profile comp (WAFL)?
So it's ONLY negative reporting on the giants, righto. Dismiss any reporting on how good their list is and the fact that the national media including vic based has the giants as a contender for the last 3-4 years.
Hit the nail on the head, not all of us as still to this day West Perth mean a hell of a lot more to me than the Eagles but the majority just dropped their club to follow the Eagles.
I will say however the media in Perth stopped talking about the WAFL pretty much overnight and unfortunately if you don’t tell the sheep where to go it will always be hard to get them to go there.
You said you haven't seen a positive article in 6 years, can i ask, why do you still read it?
Good for you.
But that's what stupid people do, buy something for 6 years only to say how crap it is.
