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[Halfbaked]

maybe a new editor has helped.

 

[Sully90]

I wish Mark Duffield would write all Fremantle-related articles...

https://thewest.com.au/sport/freman...field-and-forward-line-in-2019-ng-b881116208z

Nothing any of us avid followers wouldn't already know but some good quotes from Walters confirming it.

He has a really good podcast on the WA based teams with Steven Quartermain every Tuesday and Thursday. Pretty good listening for a Dockers or Eagles fan.

 

[armpit]

The West seems a bit conducive to +ve articles on Freo lately
Maybe coz they are losing circulation, and they have pissed off 30% of their target audience?
They are trying to get some purple back, it's a trap viewers, it's a trap

I reckon you're right about the circulation and we're going to be news this year also so...

 

[E Shed]

Noticed it too. In a week when both local teams played practice matches Freo had the back page and the Eages were inside fold.
Maybe because Eagles game was closed. Perhaps Freo have been making themselves more generally available to media?

 

[NicoNicoNico]

Interesting: http://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/26057542/afl-draft-doerre-reselecting-top-20-2016-draft

"...This is Doerre's top 20 from 2016.

No. 1: Sean Darcy
Where he was picked: No. 38
Analysis: Darcy is the competition's best ruckman under the age of 24 and can be the best player in this draft pool. He's a powerful unit who is an excellent tap ruckman and tackler. The bargain of the draft, Darcy made an incredible jump from a junior who struggled to find the ball, didn't hit the scoreboard and had a limited impact on games to putting up the best numbers of any first-year ruckman in a long time. He backed this up with a promising second season and is likely to take further strides over the next few years."

 

[wayToGo_]

Interesting: http://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/26057542/afl-draft-doerre-reselecting-top-20-2016-draft

"...This is Doerre's top 20 from 2016.

No. 1: Sean Darcy
Where he was picked: No. 38
Analysis: Darcy is the competition's best ruckman under the age of 24 and can be the best player in this draft pool. He's a powerful unit who is an excellent tap ruckman and tackler. The bargain of the draft, Darcy made an incredible jump from a junior who struggled to find the ball, didn't hit the scoreboard and had a limited impact on games to putting up the best numbers of any first-year ruckman in a long time. He backed this up with a promising second season and is likely to take further strides over the next few years."

Good to see the big man get some recognition. We nailed that draft. Two of our other players are probably deserving of being top 20 in the redraft as well...

Brennan Cox - better numbers than Charlie Curnow at the same age... best KPP of that draft easily so far but Charlie plays for a club over East.

Luke Ryan - three years younger than Tom Stewart and had either equal or better output than him last season... but Tom plays for Geelong.

Htf does Venables get a mention? If we are talking about what they've shown to date... not even in the same postcode as Cox and Ryan.

Hopefully Logue will also start climbing into the best draftees from 2016 as well this year. And Duman.

 

[Purple Jesus]

Also noticed, anecdotally, that on Instagram, lots of comments by teammates on others posts, Fyfe has clearly been making a point of doing it too. Lots of positivity and banter.

 

[Freo88]

https://www.watoday.com.au/sport/af...agna-smacks-of-hypocrisy-20190225-p5106q.html

Who is this guy - does he just hate freo?

Just smashes Montagna in this article and paints fremantle in a generally bad light.

He just sounds like he hates the club and has dribbled this piece under the guise of an opinion

 

[Lach72]

https://www.watoday.com.au/sport/af...agna-smacks-of-hypocrisy-20190225-p5106q.html

Who is this guy - does he just hate freo?

Just smashes Montagna in this article and paints fremantle in a generally bad light.

He just sounds like he hates the club and has dribbled this piece under the guise of an opinion

Prestipino is a campaigner

 

[nurries]

He has no idea what sort of relationship Montagna had with Lyon. A lot of the players from Lyons St Kilda tenure loved him and still talk highly about him. Prestipinhead ignores this fact.

 

[Yeti]

https://www.watoday.com.au/sport/af...agna-smacks-of-hypocrisy-20190225-p5106q.html

Who is this guy - does he just hate freo?

Just smashes Montagna in this article and paints fremantle in a generally bad light.

He just sounds like he hates the club and has dribbled this piece under the guise of an opinion

Wow.

That is a hit piece if I ever saw one.

 

[Joao]

Wow.

That is a hit piece if I ever saw one.

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I am not clicking that article but I am guessing the conclusion is that "opposition analyst" is codeword for misogynist expert.

Crazy how long a bow people will draw to try and get clicks. Never mind the fact they have basically insinuated that Montagna and Ross are predator's and are planning (as in Ross' primary mandate for this position is to organise romps and not analyse oppositions) to use this engagement to conduct sexual acts AND Montagna knows nothing about football because this clown watched Fox and is clearly in the position to judge that. Holy **** what a steaming pile of ****. Did someone proof read that?

If you are going to go all moral high ground then don't introduce the analytical stuff into it. Makes it really obvious you are a ****.

Journalists really **** me off.

 

[wayToGo_]

How does Prestipino still have a job as a journalist? He is terrible at it. He is at the bottom of the pool and that's saying something given how rancid most of that pool is.

 

[Kenny_01]

Prestipino and journalist don't belong in the same sentence.

Last year he insinuated Cowan left Freo for cultural reasons and didn't even bother try giving her a phone a call to back his assertions. Simply just guessed.

 

[nurries]

He goes to the Hackdorn school of absolute shitness

 

[Monument Hills]

Prestipino and journalist don't belong in the same sentence.

Last year he insinuated Cowan left Freo for cultural reasons and didn't even bother try giving her a phone a call to back his assertions. Simply just guessed.

Yep, Michelle said that was made up and she gets along well with Ross.

We may see a changing of the guard WA media wise this year. With the new West editor coming in (you don't usually get a job that big, that young, unless you're really good and insightful, or your last name's Packer or Murdoch), I have already noticed a more mainstream focus rather than down the extremes when compared to the previous editor. With regard to the footy, it did seem counterproductive to alienate so much of your potential readership in a footy-mad town. Alternatively, WAToday continues to move toward the extremes seeking to uncover and 'highlight' more controversy everywhere they can find or create it. That's obviously Preachi's role with regard to footy. Time will tell if this continues or not (and who gives Hardly an opinion piece).

 

[wild side]

He's just trying to get an audience. WA Today is close to "death's door" and he needs clicks to keep his miserable existence!

 

[Freo88]

Yep, Michelle said that was made up and she gets along well with Ross.

We may see a changing of the guard WA media wise this year. With the new West editor coming in (you don't usually get a job that big, that young, unless you're really good and insightful, or your last name's Packer or Murdoch), I have already noticed a more mainstream focus rather than down the extremes when compared to the previous editor. With regard to the footy, it did seem counterproductive to alienate so much of your potential readership in a footy-mad town. Alternatively, WAToday continues to move toward the extremes seeking to uncover and 'highlight' more controversy everywhere they can find or create it. That's obviously Preachi's role with regard to footy. Time will tell if this continues or not (and who gives Hardly an opinion piece).

Interesting you say that about the West. I've noticed it's become even more like a tabloid and is mirroring the Daily Telegraph in NSW, which is where he was previously. I'm not the only person to notice either with that comparison. Positioning of stories, outrageous rubbish that somehow sneaks onto the front page are just some of the examples I've noticed since he was made editor.

 

[masai]

https://www.watoday.com.au/sport/af...agna-smacks-of-hypocrisy-20190225-p5106q.html

Who is this guy - does he just hate freo?

Just smashes Montagna in this article and paints fremantle in a generally bad light.

He just sounds like he hates the club and has dribbled this piece under the guise of an opinion

WTF, that aint an article, that's just throwing manure from the rooftop.

There is no attempt to write a balanced, well research look at Montagna's role at Freo. Was there any mention of how Montagna would attack the role ( watch live all games in Melbourne + regularly interstate, video analysis etc ), nah I didn't think so.

Duffield, give him a slap across the chops !!!!!.

 

[Scham]

Wow, he’s gone from a WC hating Freo fan to having it in for us. Someone or something has really pissed him off!

 

[Monument Hills]

Interesting you say that about the West. I've noticed it's become even more like a tabloid and is mirroring the Daily Telegraph in NSW, which is where he was previously. I'm not the only person to notice either with that comparison. Positioning of stories, outrageous rubbish that somehow sneaks onto the front page are just some of the examples I've noticed since he was made editor.

Sure. Tabloidy, but down the mainstream that everyone can get alongside - like a Labrador puppy, rather than the Germaine Greerishness of WAToday out to virtue signal and highlight offense.

 

[stax on the mull]

Don't get why the headline says that it smacks of hypocrisy, when the article seems to be making a case for a continuing consistent disrespect for women by linking this appointment with maybe 3 separate incidents involving either Lyon or Montagna.

Perhaps I don't think too deeply about this topic, although the sexual assault case involving Stephen Milne usually springs to my mind when I see Montagna in the media, but I fail to see how Fremantle takes ownership of his past indiscretions by welcoming Montagna to the club as an opposition analyst - and that would go for any appointment of a person with a past criminal or possible criminal record.

 

[yoong]

Wow. Guess Montagna won’t be joining us after all. The dollars he’s going to get from the defamation suit he’s going raise against this guy is going to last him a long time

 

[Dockers v Channel7West]

I hope Montagna sues his f##n arzoff
This Tosspot Prestipino is off the planet with his reference to culture and must surely be a WC sycophant
His Biased references to last season as annus horribilus shits me and doesn't warrant comment
If this piece of work ever went in for an ar#ehole transplant the ars#hole would surely reject him...
Boycott this second rate spin off of the West Coast Australian

 

[BigKep]

That's not a news article that's a straight out hit job. Pathetic, lazy, opinionated "journalism."

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