Toast Collingwood Media team

[ThePhantom777]

Big toast to the media team this year.
Like

• Social media. Instagram stories showing training and pre-game, interaction with players, supporter questions for players.
• Black and White show.
• YouTube and the website both having the post game coach and player interviews, top 5 plays, game highlights.

Dislike

• Being inclusive...but not really. This is something happening more broadly in Australia and includes Pies. E.g. Happy to put up social media posts for Ramadan (see below). But I doubt they'll put up one for Christians celebrating Easter tomorrow. *I have nothing against Islam this is just an example.

Let me know your likes/dislikes from the media team this year.

 

[Markfs]

Big toast to the media team this year.
Like

• Social media. Instagram stories showing training and pre-game, interaction with players, supporter questions for players.
• Black and White show.
• YouTube and the website both having the post game coach and player interviews, top 5 plays, game highlights.

Dislike

• Being inclusive...but not really. This is something happening more broadly in Australia and includes Pies. E.g. Happy to put up social media posts for Ramadan (see below). But I doubt they'll put up one for Christians celebrating Easter tomorrow. *I have nothing against Islam this is just an example.

Let me know your likes/dislikes from the media team this year.

They didnt send out anything for world atheist day on march 23. I feel like I'm not included....

Atheist Day

Atheist Day is a time where the obscure is accepted and praised in all its glory.

nationaltoday.com

 

[ThePhantom777]

They didnt send out anything for world atheist day on march 23. I feel like I'm not included....

Atheist Day

Atheist Day is a time where the obscure is accepted and praised in all its glory.

nationaltoday.com

And that's the slippery slope Markfs

Is an Athiest or Christian supporter less important to Collingwood than their Muslim supporters?

When you try to be inclusive by singling out certain religions, beliefs, values or causes to celebrate you exclude others.

 

[Markfs]

And that's the slippery slope Markfs

Is an Athiest or Christian supporter less important to Collingwood than their Muslim supporters?

When you try to be inclusive by singling out certain religions, beliefs, values or causes to celebrate you exclude others.

I'm already feeling marginalised because you spelt atheist inccorrectly....

 

[Soups]

Can’t wait for Dave’s post

 

[Maggie5]

Being inclusive... .

including everyone. especially : allowing and accommodating people who have historically been excluded (as because of their race, gender, sexuality, or ability)

I don't have a problem with it and don't feel excluded. In fact wouldn't have even known about it.

 

[TradeDraft]

Can’t wait for Dave’s post

Well they make lot of Mistakes

 

[Soups]

Well they make lot of Mistakes

Don’t we all mate!

 

[JoinDate]

Threadmarks and reader mode, what's this all about?

 

[sr36]

Dislike

• Being inclusive...but not really. This is something happening more broadly in Australia and includes Pies. E.g. Happy to put up social media posts for Ramadan (see below). But I doubt they'll put up one for Christians celebrating Easter tomorrow. *I have nothing against Islam this is just an example.

“I’m actually speechless.”: Barber on Good Friday Appeal

Collingwood AFLW players visit the Royal Children’s Hospital for the Good Friday Appeal.

www.collingwoodfc.com.au

 

[Captivating]

“I’m actually speechless.”: Barber on Good Friday Appeal

Collingwood AFLW players visit the Royal Children’s Hospital for the Good Friday Appeal.

www.collingwoodfc.com.au

So Good Friday is only about the Royal Children’s Hospital.

i guess ANZAC day is really now only about a football game.

 

[sr36]

So Good Friday is only about the Royal Children’s Hospital.

i guess ANZAC day is really now only about a football game.

The point I am making is that Christian celebrations are culturally embedded in general society, within the AFL and at the club. Any Christians claiming to be left out due to the club acknowledging Ramadan are kidding themselves.

 

[TradeDraft]

Don’t we all mate!

Well when you putting stories and info out they should be Correct.

They have Deleted a lot of Tweets then done Recently

 

[Aussie pie]

Don’t call it the media team it’s the social media team. It’s all about engagement, likes, views, retweets etc. They are not judged on what the content is but how many people who have engaged with it.
A true media team would have a BF presence and have more info re VFL etc. instead it’s up to the public and bf posters to keep us up to date. I don’t know anyone on the media team but I hope they actually know something about footy because it seems sometimes that the post is more important than the actual content.

 

[Stronzatello]

Big toast to the media team this year.
Like

• Social media. Instagram stories showing training and pre-game, interaction with players, supporter questions for players.
• Black and White show.
• YouTube and the website both having the post game coach and player interviews, top 5 plays, game highlights.

Dislike

• Being inclusive...but not really. This is something happening more broadly in Australia and includes Pies. E.g. Happy to put up social media posts for Ramadan (see below). But I doubt they'll put up one for Christians celebrating Easter tomorrow. *I have nothing against Islam this is just an example.

Let me know your likes/dislikes from the media team this year.

No mention of Happy Easter…..yet! What can we expect here?

 

[ThePhantom777]

No mention of Happy Easter…..yet! What can we expect here?

Cancel Easter... Collingwood doesn't care

 

[ThePhantom777]

The point I am making is that Christian celebrations are culturally embedded in general society, within the AFL and at the club. Any Christians claiming to be left out due to the club acknowledging Ramadan are kidding themselves.

Australia is going through change. Christian celebrations are being removed from general society. AFL and the club don't have it embedded.

 

[sr36]

Australia is going through change. Christian celebrations are being removed from general society. AFL and the club don't have it embedded.

Definitely is going through change. I'm not catholic, but married into it. This morning I went to a packed church with a median age over 75. Congregations are dying out. Good luck finding an Australian born man to take on the Catholic frock.

But it's still embedded in lots of stuff, within and without the AFL:

Official AFL Website of the North Melbourne Football Club

The official AFL website of the North Melbourne Football Club

www.nmfc.com.au

'It's a significant day for all Victorians': Watt on SuperClash importance

North Melbourne CEO Jen Watt has highlighted just how important the club's annual Good Friday SuperClash is, which she believes is Marvel Stadium's only marquee game of the year

www.nmfc.com.au

 

[leon123]

Do people remember when on Good Friday, literally everything was closed. Couldn’t get a beer anywhere, no footy, no nightclubs, wired stuff on tv.

Bit like perth currently actually

 

[GCMagpie]

I actually said to my husband last week that I felt like there had been some big fan engagement KPI’s set at the club for this year.

Compared to past years, I’m receiving heaps of information via email, they’ve had Darc appealing to the fans via social media a couple of times to get to the games, Fly mentions the importance of the crowd at any opportunity he gets. I’ve felt like they’ve really stepped up their game in terms of making us as members feel a part of the club.

 

[Anzacday]

After Collingwood won the premiership in 2010, the next year they only lost three games. All of them were to Geelong, the last one on grand final day.
They didn’t fall short of winning back-to-back premierships for lack of trying. Geelong were better.

Collingwood don’t want to talk about back to back. Craig McRae

Craig Mcrae

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prefers back to work.
“We’re really not defending anything, we’re getting back to work,” McRae said on Thursday, about backing up again this year.

They want to stop talking about last year’s premiership at Collingwoodand focus on this year’s. Well, as a team, they do, but the club has also just released a movie in cinemas about last year and a special premiers edition of Monopoly to add to the wardrobes of premiers-branded apparel. The marketing and sales departments naturally want to ride the wave of excitement of 2023 and turn it into a dollar. There is a subtle but significant difference between reflecting on last year’s game and projecting that into back-to-back success.
Collingwood are the biggest club and the wave, the expectation, the circus is in turn greater. But then, that is always true of them, regardless of a premiership, so at least by that reckoning they are conditioned to deal with the carnival that surrounds them.

Nick Maxwell

Nick Maxwell

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was captain in 2010 and 2011 and knows the challenge Collingwood face in trying to repeat as premiers.
“There’s a few layers to it. The most important one is you have proven you are capable, so you have a belief that you didn’t have previously,” he said. “Beforehand you think you are good enough, but there is still a hope around it. With us, we got smashed in the prelim the year before and the teams from the grand final [of 2009] St Kilda and Geelong were still strong in 2010. After 2010, we knew we were good enough, we had confidence we could do it again because we had done it.”

This point, he felt, was just as critical to this Collingwood team after narrow losses in the 2022 finals.
“An important part of the group are those players who didn’t play in the premiership but have the resolve to make sure they don’t miss out again. This year they have [Daniel] McStay, [John] Noble and others, then there are players they have brought in who want to have an impact like Lachie Schultz and the younger guys who are playing for their careers who haven’t been able to break into the side like Finn Macrae, Reef McInnes,” Maxwell said.
“It’s harder to break into a premiership team than a rebuilding team, and you are hoping they are the factors that push the team on, but then you are coming back to that ‘hope’ word again.”
Critical, too, he felt, was the presence of his former premiership teammates Scott Pendlebury

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Scott Pendlebury

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and Steele Sidebottom, who carry those lessons of 2010 into this season and who understand the good and bad of Magpie euphoria.
“The fans, the media, everyone expects you to be there again and do it again. But you have to remind yourself – and this is a hard bit – that everyone starts on zero again and doing it last year doesn’t mean anything for this year. That’s really hard when everyone is talking about you being there again already, and you have to start over and do all the same work.
“It’s almost impossible to answer if it is different at Collingwood because of the supporter br and the media exposure and pressure because I don’t know any different, only played at the one club.
“I know there is a lot more media, a lot more exposure. I have heard ‘Fly’ [McRae] say after the premiership when people spoke of back to back, let us enjoy this one first.
“And that was a good thing, they did that, but then pre-season starts, and you can’t be thinking about celebrating.
“From the little bits and pieces I have picked up, Wadey [conditioning coach Jarrod Wade] and ‘Fly’ set things in motion three years ago with the physical work and last year was not meant to be the pinnacle of things they wanted to implement from preparation and conditioning and fitness, so they are confident that even though that step has been taken things they planned are still being implemented.”
The further difficulty is true of every premier. By virtue of winning you become the benchmark against which other teams pit themselves.
“They look more closely at your team and organisation to see what you are doing right and try to replicate it and, in so doing, also work out ways to stop you. It’s a hunter-to-the-hunted change.
“You look at who you have got and what improvements there are in your players. Some players won’t improve because they are at their peak, but you need them to give you absolutely everything they have got, the same as the year before, but other guys can get better and need to get better.

“Jordy [De Goey], from all reports, is fitter than ever. Nick Daicos, it was a miracle he even got back to play in the finals, and he is now fit and going into his third season and only getting better.
“I also think ‘Fly’ is huge. He did it three times at Brisbane, so I think if anyone can do it [take the club back to the pinnacle again] he can.”

Back to back? As fans dream, Pies are just saying back to work

Nick Maxwell, captain of Collingwood’s 2010 flag team, knows the job ahead in trying to go back to back and manage the black-and-white army’s expectations.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Markfs]

you can write 20 books about it and they wont tell as much as the game today....and the matches in the next half dozen weeks.