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On Talking Footy last night, Caro was under siege, and had to use the backdoor to escape.

She obviously did get leaked info at some stage, and when pressed onit by her workmate Wallsy, you could see her squirm like she does every September when she realizes just how close the Tiges were to the eight...

And Sly, I couldn't look at Caro (I try to avoid it anyway) without thinking of the bondage costume and Richo suckling on her boosums...lol:rolleyes:

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Well to be fair to Caro I thought the question by Wallsy was a little unfair! As if she is going to say, "well Grant Thomas had been telling me Blight was gone for months" She's a journalist who relies on 'sources' and leaks to keep her in a job, not even she would be stupid enough to reveal who was spilling the beans on the Saints.

Talking Richmond wasn't that bad last night actually...Heffernen was one of the better players in the league to be interviewed.
 
Originally posted by GOALden Hawk
Well to be fair to Caro I thought the question by Wallsy was a little unfair! As if she is going to say, "well Grant Thomas had been telling me Blight was gone for months" She's a journalist who relies on 'sources' and leaks to keep her in a job, not even she would be stupid enough to reveal who was spilling the beans on the Saints.
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She said she used her initiative and didn't "initially" get any leaks. How the hell could she have thought Blight was a goner before anyone else, without anyone telling her? And if she thought Blight was in danger, why didn't she ask the hard questions to Butterss when he was on last week?
 

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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out USC's source, what team did the Tigers coach use to play for.:rolleyes:
 
And how the hell do you think that Danny Frawley knows what is happening at Moorabbin?
 
i think alot of people are harsh on her, just because she is a woman, and because she is a woman, knows nothing about footy.

maybe out of paranoia, some people bag her, because she knows more about footy then them. and thats threatening in a way, because "footy is a mans game"

what a lot of crap!! i like listening to her, i think her knowledge of the game is exceptional!

pity she doesnt make an effort to present herself a little better!
 
Originally posted by PiesPremiers
i think alot of people are harsh on her, just because she is a woman, and because she is a woman, knows nothing about footy.

maybe out of paranoia, some people bag her, because she knows more about footy then them. and thats threatening in a way, because "footy is a mans game"

what a lot of crap!! i like listening to her, i think her knowledge of the game is exceptional!

pity she doesnt make an effort to present herself a little better!
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Kinda sorta agree with you PP. While not overly wrapped with her, she is fairly good at what id call 'background' stories, ie finances, off-field type goings on. Just cant stand the constand fawning over the Tiges though. Its her bias towards them that really destroys the credibility (or lack of) for anything decent she does.
 
Originally posted by Grendel


Kinda sorta agree with you PP. While not overly wrapped with her, she is fairly good at what id call 'background' stories, ie finances, off-field type goings on. Just cant stand the constand fawning over the Tiges though. Its her bias towards them that really destroys the credibility (or lack of) for anything decent she does.
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Exactly...I think she can do some good stories and seems to be able to find dirt where others can't (ie St. Kilda). But her blatently biased articles in regards to the Bulldogs and Richmond have to leave your creditibility under question. I mean, we all know Rohan Connolly follows the Dons, but I don't believe he lets it get in the way of his job as a journalist.
 
Originally posted by Grendel


Kinda sorta agree with you PP. While not overly wrapped with her, she is fairly good at what id call 'background' stories, ie finances, off-field type goings on. Just cant stand the constand fawning over the Tiges though. Its her bias towards them that really destroys the credibility (or lack of) for anything decent she does.
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Exactly right.
 
Originally posted by PiesPremiers
i think alot of people are harsh on her, just because she is a woman, and because she is a woman, knows nothing about footy.

maybe out of paranoia, some people bag her, because she knows more about footy then them. and thats threatening in a way, because "footy is a mans game"

what a lot of crap!! i like listening to her, i think her knowledge of the game is exceptional!

pity she doesnt make an effort to present herself a little better!
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Spot on! I agree entirely with you.

If a guy (any guy) said the stuff she says, they would be admired and respected.

As for her bias to Richmond, I've never ever noticed it, and if it hadn't been for people here saying it I wouldn't have picked it at all.
 
Originally posted by Crow54



Spot on! I agree entirely with you.

If a guy (any guy) said the stuff she says, they would be admired and respected.

As for her bias to Richmond, I've never ever noticed it, and if it hadn't been for people here saying it I wouldn't have picked it at all.
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Sorry Crow54, have to disagree with you there. No one respects Mike Sheahan for nominating 7...yes 7 different teams this season as the genuine threat to Essendon...that's just sloppy journalism and writing whatever will make good copy at the time.

Like his articles on Whitnall, after Round 3 he was finished, 5 weeks later he was a superstar!

My beef with Caro is her stupid statements and Richmond bias, not that she is a women. I mean, how many more people can be 'certainties' for the Freo coaching job?

And how could you not have noticed Caro's Richmond bias? I guarantee Richmond has received more coverage than any other side on Talking Footy. Sides such as Sydney, Geelong, Adelaide and the WA clubs, you never see them.
 

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It is not the fact that she is a woman that is the issue, it is the fact that she is a law unto herself and she runs with stories based on half truths at times.

Sure all journos manipulate the truth, but some of the stinkers she has come up with this year have been appalling, based purely on innuendo and without relevant fact.

She obviously is a muckraker and is quite good at it, but she does need to sweat on stories for a little longer at times, rather than diving in chasing glory.

No doubt that is a product of being female in a man's world and I guess to a fair degree it is the only way she will earn respect, but at times her articles can be extremely damaging not only to the clubs themseleves, but football in general.

When is the last time she wrote a feelgood piece, an article that you read and felt your passion for the game had been placed on paper.

I cannot remember one.
 
What's wrong with bias, anyway? Good luck to her. Richmond needs all the help it can get.

I haven't seen much of her, by the way. So, I admit I'm not familiar with her style. But she cops so much criticism on here she'd just HAVE to be doing something right, wouldn't she?
 
Originally posted by kymhodgemansmo


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When is the last time she wrote a feelgood piece, an article that you read and felt your passion for the game had been placed on paper.

I cannot remember one.
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Kym,

I could probably point you in the direction of a few but as you don't follow the Tigers, I don't think you'd find them interesting! :D
 
Originally posted by GOALden Hawk


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But her blatently biased articles in regards to the Bulldogs and Richmond have to leave your creditibility under question. I mean, we all know Rohan Connolly follows the Dons, but I don't believe he lets it get in the way of his job as a journalist.
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I'm pleased to see that you don't find her biased against the Kangaroos! :D

As for Rohan Connolly, you've got to be kidding! What was he calling Adam Ramanauskas last year?

Adam RamaNorwich or something similar!

I've got no problem with Caro's Richmond bias as it is certainly no worse than Eddie and Collingwood, Rohan and Essendon or Mike and Melbourne.

(I note that Mike wrote another hard hitting piece on the Demons today. Hell, he is nearly as bad as Gary Lyon who seems to write exclusively on the Demons!)
 
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As for Rohan Connolly, you've got to be kidding! What was he calling Adam Ramanauskas last year?

Adam RamaNorwich or something similar!
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just because he barracks for them doesnt mean he cant make any comments about the team!! thats not a biased comment anyway! rama is a champion, and im bleeding we missed him, and got that dud olarenshaw.. (sorry spide)
 
As soon as someone refers to Caroline Wilson's looks I stop reading the post.

If you have a problem with her veiw on football, say so and explain why. Her looks have nothing to do with it.
 

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I agree completely Hawkforce. It is really lowest common denominator stuff to criticise people for their looks/speech. I thought we left that stuff behind in primary school. There aren't too many football scribes who are oil paintings and even less bigfooty contributors from the few photos I have seen! (Me included) :D
 
Originally posted by Hawkforce
As soon as someone refers to Caroline Wilson's looks I stop reading the post.

If you have a problem with her veiw on football, say so and explain why. Her looks have nothing to do with it.
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Allright I have a problem with her and this is why.

My memory is that she arrived as a bi tch with her post 98 grandfinal article on Wayne Carey and the North Melbourne football club. If you want to know why North supporters wouldn't pi ss on her if she was on fire then read this.

In general, the most damning thing against her is that she either makes things up or prints inuendo with disclaimers such as "according to sources" "it is believed", "the word in football circles" , etc which gives her an out clause on everything she prints or says. This gives her the ability and she uses it all the time, to back down from what she prints. ie she has no accountability for what she prints and says.

I would summise that everything she has written about North has been later proved to be untrue. For example;
"Johny Blakey not being paid" - categorically denied by J.B
"Denis Pagan having lost the players" - total crap
"First season draft players not being paid" - absolutely false
etc
etc
etc

She never admits she has been proven wrong or she "stands by her story". She constantly denigrates North in all her articles by prefacing every remark with putdowns such as the struggling kangarooss, the cash strapped roos etc. in relation to membership, financial status, players and administration.

The fact that she is biased against a number of Victorian clubs in particular North and the Bulldogs gives her no credibility when she fawns over certain others. She attacks players, events and issues at certain clubs whilst ignores the same things at others.

She is a typical Richmond person with an inferiority complex about anything to do with North with its genesis back to the early seventies. Along with Robert Walls she cannot comprehend or accept the fact that a club such as North with no money or facilities has a better onfield record than Richmond.

If she want's to pass herself as a journalist then she needs to print the facts and not use copouts. Until she does this she is nothing but a gossip columinist who is given the contempt she deserves.

I couldn't give a flying fu ck as to how ugly she is or what her speech impediment is. If she uses the above tactics to have a go at North then she is fair game along with anyone else.
 
I don't like Caroline Wilson because she used her influence to just about ruin the life of a nice old lady I knew in Melbourne because the lady dared to discipline the spoilt brat in her care.

I also don't like Caroline Wilson because she plays on the fact that she is a woman in a man's world and therefore gets away with being able to present "the woman's view", which is inherently sexist and misleading.

I also don't like Caroline Wilson because she is biased in favour of Richmond and writes differently about that team compared to (eg) Kangaroos and Bulldogs.

I also don't like Caroline Wilson because she is a muckraker - but not in a way that actually helps society such as exposing corruption or exploitation, merely a gossip.

I don't like Mike Sheahan either. Yesterday I heard him praise Ken Judge and Grant Thomas and criticise Maalcolm Blight inside 10 minutes. I give him 0/3 for that. He just says things to be contrary. I'm with Roger Merrett on this one.
 
Don't joke, Hitman - something's married to that, and it hasn't been featured on The X-Files yet, either.

But she had some audacity on Talking Footy descrying Rod Butterrs coming onto the show the previous week and talking the way he did when he planned to sack Malcolm Blight a couple of days later.

She (and Walls) were talking like Rod Butterss was obligated to them - the Media, and not to the St. Kilda Football Club.

She's upset because if Butterrss had been a no-show, she could've written an article on how the St. Kilda President was a last-minute cancellation on Talking Footy, which would indicate there's problems at St.Kilda.

I think Butterss did the right thing - business as usual, which includes the sacking of Blight. I don't recall care one way or another about Butterrs or St. Kilda (and especially Blight) but I hate when Journalists start talking as if they should take precedence over Coaches & Presidents' obligations to their respective Clubs - as last year when Malthouse showed-up late to a Press Conference. Most of the Journalists took this stance of moral indignation, but I think Malthouse's first obligation is to talk to his players, not the damn media - and as a Collingwood supporter I'd be damn-well disappointed if the Coach bypassed addressing the players to talk to the media.

And while it's extremely petty, the show's called Talking Footy and not Lisping Footy.
 

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