Media Thread, 2025: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent

[Donkers]

came across my YT suggested, decided to reminisce

these boys made it look so easy

Whenever anyone is feeling bad this is a great watch.

 

[Scotland]

Well they did cover that topic, or put it in that context, suggesting the AFL should've shot out a few texts or emails to said parties/clubs to tone it down. There were a few F-bombs on prime time finals TV, including the Pies coach. Nothing you don't hear walking through a shopping centre on any given day, or in a standard household, or at school. Aussies swear a lot, an awful lot. I guess you have to 'try' to set a standard for kids, in sport especially.

Re cheering a Freo choke, it is fun, as Freo do themselves and other rival clubs.
I think the Agenda Settlers were just wearing their bias on their sleeves and taking the opportunity to put the boot into a team/club on its knees (WC), human behaviour - just as WC were doing to Freo. Hypocrites abound. ((;

Agenda Setters is comfortably the worst footy show on TV now. There's some crap lurking around the bottom of the barrel, they are stuck to it.

Shitting on our B&F top 10 is pretty unprofessional. We finished last and won one game. Were they expecting to see Bont, Heeney and Nick Daicos top 3? Everyone knows that TB left and McGovern, Allen, Waterman barely played. The fact that the top 10 features a 20 year old, three 21 year olds and a 22 year old is actually a pretty big positive. The Richmond B&F might sneak in one player under 25 and they will froth over their rebuild.

Cheering on the Freo choke is a non story. Some fans and execs at an awards night who cares. Show Fyfe being interviewed on 2018 GF day if you think it's so unprofessional.

I remember when Quinten Lynch and Michael Braun swore on TV in 2006/7 and it was because we were the evil Eagles etc. but apparently it's fine for Nick Daicos and Craig Macrae to do it because everyone likes them. LOL.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Stop giving it oxygen.

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

As usual Hard Ball Gets had the best take on it by simply playing the recording of Fyfe from 2018

 

[Farang83150]

He'll be known as "Cornfield" soon if he keeps up with the click bait crap.
On a side note, got told by a reliable source the other day that he's developed kankles.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

He'll be known as "Cornfield" soon if he keeps up with the click bait crap.
On a side note, got told by a reliable source the other day that he's developed kankles.

 

[THE A5]

I’ve spent a large chunk of time in SA and lets just say our rivalry is a joke compared to over there. This incident just highlights it. Over there thats just the norm and wouldn’t be such an issue. While it made footy news, will’s 2 cents on it flamed it more than it is.

Both parties and WA footy public totally need to eradicate WA above all mentallity. We actually need to start being petty towards each others both on an off field. It’ll also be nice if the derbies aren’t completely dominated by which ever teams on top.

 

[Shuestar13]

I’ve spent a large chunk of time in SA and lets just say our rivalry is a joke compared to over there. This incident just highlights it. Over there thats just the norm and wouldn’t be such an issue. While it made footy news, will’s 2 cents on it flamed it more than it is.

Both parties and WA footy public totally need to eradicate WA above all mentallity. We actually need to start being petty towards each others both on an off field. It’ll also be nice if the derbies aren’t completely dominated by which ever teams on top.

Definitely agree with the rivalry being lesser than Crows/Port. It will go a long way to being more intense with the games being more evenly decided.

I actually think the younger generations lean into the hate. It does seem to be older people who still have the WA first mentality.

Bring on the hate and pettiness, am all for it

 

[Jumpoff Joey]

How is this even a story?

Playing Devils advocate. Is it not okay to Celebrate the Suns winning their first final. WA Boy scoring the winner that has given blood and sweat to a club to play a final that potentially IS his last game? Why is it even about Freo?

On the other side of the coin if you can take negative route, Fyfe went for Collingwood .etc

We can go all the way back inception of Freo where fans/players went for tit for tat. Off the top of my head if I recall correctly Freo fans celebrated us winning our first wooden spoon and took great pride with bringing spoons to a game in 2010....They are now our most hated rival (I use the term "rival" lightly because they will always shit the bed)

Anyway F Freo, and F Schoey.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Freo fans celebrated us winning our first wooden spoon and took great pride with bringing spoons to a game in 2010

Ah shit I forgot about that.

 

[Rowan18]

Ah shit I forgot about that.

I didn't. Was hilarious that we then made a prelim the next year and they missed finals.

Then in 2023 we finished last and drafted the guy who will probably be the best player in the league in a few seasons.

Lo and behold, we finish last in 2025 and the Wanchors crash out in a heartbreaking home final loss. What further pain may we cause them with our success around the corner?

 

[Wet Toast Rule]

6/9/25
Mark this date in your calendar
That's the date that the freo/wc not cheering for the opposition code is no more!!

 

[garlic munchers]

Damien Barrett, give you credit as never were truer words spoken in the extract below.

And whilst he wasn't directly speaking about WC, the 2020 years onwards were a Simmo/club hierarchy inspired death spiral to irrelevancy:

"Successful clubs don't settle and are never comfortable. They add, they cut, they tinker, they ask questions, they take risks, they challenge internally and they make hard decisions. They seek to fix problems. The very best apply a mindset once espoused by former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue: "If it ain't broke, fix it anyway"."

This is a make or break (it even more) year, with a reasonable draft hand incoming.

But it can't stop with the draft, we need to see some serious adjustments to how we deal with player development, in particular that shiteshow that is the Beagles (actually B is too higher rating, it more like Feagles).

Just feels that Shanahan natural ability aside, our young players are treading water and none seem to exhibit any joy or youthful exuberance on the field.

Rather, our relentless WC losing culture has sucked the life out of A.Reid, Gross etc; and we desperately need to find a couple of "Daisy Pearce's" for all these young kids.

If that means blowing our soft cap and paying tax, so be it.......and while we are at, celebrate hard that we celebrate Freo losing by a point in a home final and embrace being haters, not sheep.

 

[Cuzz09]

The complaining about Lynch/Cox swearing after the 06 GF was pure jealously as well as the carry on about some of the guys not shaking the kids hands.

FFS they just won a Premiership by 1 point!!

When we win no5 I hope all WC fans rip in to everyone

 

[DorothyG]

The complaining about Lynch/Cox swearing after the 06 GF was pure jealously as well as the carry on about some of the guys not shaking the kids hands.

FFS they just won a Premiership by 1 point!!

When we win no5 I hope all WC fans rip in to everyone

My spicy AFL opinion...

Get the ****ing kids out of the medal presentations.
These guys have just reached the pinnacle of their careers. Adrenaline would be pumping.
It's no place for kiddos.

Even worse, the cringe AF pre scripted mic-ed up kid. "You deserve this" **** off. No 10 year old is saying that to one of there idols.

Let the players have there moment. Have the kids somewhere during the lap when things would have settled down a little, they can give them there hat or touch the cup then

 

[ziad]

My spicy AFL opinion...

Get the ****ing kids out of the medal presentations.
These guys have just reached the pinnacle of their careers. Adrenaline would be pumping.
It's no place for kiddos.

Even worse, the cringe AF pre scripted mic-ed up kid. "You deserve this" **** off. No 10 year old is saying that to one of there idols.

Let the players have there moment. Have the kids somewhere during the lap when things would have settled down a little, they can give them there hat or touch the cup then

I have to disagree on the idols. They are random Auskick kids - probably dont barrack for either team and dont know the players.

 

[Lia]

My spicy AFL opinion...

Get the ****ing kids out of the medal presentations.
These guys have just reached the pinnacle of their careers. Adrenaline would be pumping.
It's no place for kiddos.

Even worse, the cringe AF pre scripted mic-ed up kid. "You deserve this" **** off. No 10 year old is saying that to one of there idols.

Let the players have there moment. Have the kids somewhere during the lap when things would have settled down a little, they can give them there hat or touch the cup then

I despise it. Biggest moment of their careers and maybe even their lives and they have to focus on this crap.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Kingy on the money. But we all know why

 

[Chris_6678]

Kingy on the money. But we all know why

If that was WC and Mini & Harley did what they did... you could imagine the finacial sanctions.

 

[squashface]

"Yeah it's bad but we just love the way Scotty goes about it - he's just a passionate operator! Anyway lets jump into how good Big Jez - the All Australian captain mind you! - was on the weekend."

 

[Vargo hoat]

Is anyone able to unlock this?

Barrass reveals he was already unhappy before Mitchell pitch

Tom Barrass wanted to be an Eagle for life, despite walking out on the club just weeks later, but the premiership defender has no regrets over his messy exit.

thewest.com.au

 

[FatPizza]

Is anyone able to unlock this?

Barrass reveals he was already unhappy before Mitchell pitch

Tom Barrass wanted to be an Eagle for life, despite walking out on the club just weeks later, but the premiership defender has no regrets over his messy exit.

thewest.com.au

Messy exit? Huh?

 

[Lia]

Yes, the smartest guy in the room, just ask him.

 

[ziad]

Yes, the smartest guy in the room, just ask him.

FIGJAM

 

[KBLT]

Is anyone able to unlock this?

Barrass reveals he was already unhappy before Mitchell pitch

Tom Barrass wanted to be an Eagle for life, despite walking out on the club just weeks later, but the premiership defender has no regrets over his messy exit.

thewest.com.au

Tom Barrass wanted to be an Eagle for life, despite walking out on the club just weeks later, but the premiership defender has no regrets over his messy exit.
Barrass was vice-captain and contracted for another three seasons, but amid the Eagles’ struggles, he was lured across to Hawthorn following a pitch from Sam Mitchell in his living room.
The 29-year-old revealed he was already unhappy with where his career was going, and it just needed Mitchell’s push to make a change.
“I think it was his general vibration and energy really. I wasn’t particularly happy in my life. I wasn’t feeling like I was growing, changing or developing,” he told The Herald Sun.
“And then the equivalent of Ron Barassi walks into your lounge room and offers you a great job, offers you mentorship, offers you a new way to look at things.
“And I think it was pretty quickly after that meeting, I started to realise that there was a bit of a hole in what I was trying to do with my career. And I was a bit dissatisfied. So it was his leadership, his presence, his humour, almost, that helped me to make the decision.
“It was an extremely hard decision, and it’s the hardest thing I have ever had to do to farewell my best mates and a club I love and grew up supporting, but ultimately I reviewed my values enough to know who I was loyal to, and that’s my young family and wife and myself.

“It became really obvious pretty quickly that I’d be leaving a very, very good opportunity on the table out of the interests of some people that aren’t my immediate family. And I thought, ‘I’m not going to make that sacrifice any more’.”
Despite his misgivings, he makes no apologies for his public recommitment to the Eagles despite his closed-door negotiations.
“It’s a very interesting and sometimes difficult scenario, because the media is quite intrusive, and they want to know everything. And sometimes you don’t know everything,” Barrass said.
“And there’s lots of things that go into negotiating contracts, and you learn in business that sometimes handshake agreements aren’t real agreements.
“And so with this big soup of changing variables, at some stage you have to just make a decision.
“And if it was not what you said previously, you just have to put your hand up and cop it for however long it is, from whoever it is that in reality, in your life, you don’t see, I don’t see too many people coming up to me screaming hate at me.
“You can look for it (on social media) if you want to find it. But at the end of the day, you have to have some conviction with your decisions and not take life too seriously.”

His trade drama was followed by snaps of Harley Reid pictured sitting next to Mitchell at his wedding, sparking fury amongst Eagles fans that he was helping Mitchell poach the Eagles’ biggest star.
“Oh, look, I don’t read into it too much. I knew that it would be controversial if anyone did take a photo of him with any of the boys,” says Barrass.
“I think Oscar Allen wasn’t seated too far away. I think when you’re actually in the industry, and when your friends are in the industry and your support networks are in the industry, you can understand what is important and what’s just a story or some clickbait, and so I don’t think anyone would be taking that too seriously, even though it was quite the story.
“I don’t waste my energy thinking about those kinds of things.”

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Comparing Sam Mitchell to Ron Barassi is... something.

 

[squashface]

Tom Barrass wanted to be an Eagle for life, despite walking out on the club just weeks later, but the premiership defender has no regrets over his messy exit.
Barrass was vice-captain and contracted for another three seasons, but amid the Eagles’ struggles, he was lured across to Hawthorn following a pitch from Sam Mitchell in his living room.
The 29-year-old revealed he was already unhappy with where his career was going, and it just needed Mitchell’s push to make a change.
“I think it was his general vibration and energy really. I wasn’t particularly happy in my life. I wasn’t feeling like I was growing, changing or developing,” he told The Herald Sun.
“And then the equivalent of Ron Barassi walks into your lounge room and offers you a great job, offers you mentorship, offers you a new way to look at things.
“And I think it was pretty quickly after that meeting, I started to realise that there was a bit of a hole in what I was trying to do with my career. And I was a bit dissatisfied. So it was his leadership, his presence, his humour, almost, that helped me to make the decision.
“It was an extremely hard decision, and it’s the hardest thing I have ever had to do to farewell my best mates and a club I love and grew up supporting, but ultimately I reviewed my values enough to know who I was loyal to, and that’s my young family and wife and myself.

“It became really obvious pretty quickly that I’d be leaving a very, very good opportunity on the table out of the interests of some people that aren’t my immediate family. And I thought, ‘I’m not going to make that sacrifice any more’.”
Despite his misgivings, he makes no apologies for his public recommitment to the Eagles despite his closed-door negotiations.
“It’s a very interesting and sometimes difficult scenario, because the media is quite intrusive, and they want to know everything. And sometimes you don’t know everything,” Barrass said.
“And there’s lots of things that go into negotiating contracts, and you learn in business that sometimes handshake agreements aren’t real agreements.
“And so with this big soup of changing variables, at some stage you have to just make a decision.
“And if it was not what you said previously, you just have to put your hand up and cop it for however long it is, from whoever it is that in reality, in your life, you don’t see, I don’t see too many people coming up to me screaming hate at me.
“You can look for it (on social media) if you want to find it. But at the end of the day, you have to have some conviction with your decisions and not take life too seriously.”

His trade drama was followed by snaps of Harley Reid pictured sitting next to Mitchell at his wedding, sparking fury amongst Eagles fans that he was helping Mitchell poach the Eagles’ biggest star.
“Oh, look, I don’t read into it too much. I knew that it would be controversial if anyone did take a photo of him with any of the boys,” says Barrass.
“I think Oscar Allen wasn’t seated too far away. I think when you’re actually in the industry, and when your friends are in the industry and your support networks are in the industry, you can understand what is important and what’s just a story or some clickbait, and so I don’t think anyone would be taking that too seriously, even though it was quite the story.
“I don’t waste my energy thinking about those kinds of things.”

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Comparing Sam Mitchell to Ron Barassi is... something.

A lot of words for not much substance which is par for the course with Barrass.

tl:dr he got a better offer from a club that was not in as bad a position as the one he was at